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Teaching Support
Resource Center for Instructional Development
The Resource Center (RCID) staff consists of Peggy Woods, Assistant Director of the Writing Program, a graduate assistant technology coordinator, and four veteran TOs who serve as teaching mentors. As the name implies, the Resource Center serves as a resource for all teachers—new and veteran—within the Writing Program. The RCID staff foster mentoring relationships with all teachers, making themselves available to answer questions, discuss concerns, and act as a sounding board for possible classroom exercises. The technology coordinator provides support to all teachers on uses of technology in the classroom. As a part of our teacher-training program, the four Resource Center mentors work closely with a Course Director group of new TOs. They also visit the classes of new teachers during the Fall semester and videotape them in the Spring. In addition, the Resource Center collects and maintains our online teaching files.
Computer Lab
Funded jointly by the English Department and the Writing Program, a computer lab for use by English TAs and Writing Program TOs / lecturers is located in Bartlett 307A. The lab consists of Dell PCs and Macs, internet-connected and fully loaded with standard OIT software. A printer station and UCard reader, connected to the University’s pay-for-print system, is also provided. Login instructions are posted on the wall above each station. The lab is open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, though it may occasionally be closed for tech-related workshops and other events.
Resource Center Room
Located in Bartlett 308, the Resource Center Room is a gathering place for all members of our teaching staff. As well as containing comfortable furniture, there are examples of student work, files of exercises, and fellow teachers.
The Gibson Library
The Gibson Library, located in Bartlett 303A, contains materials related to the teaching of writing, as well as composition theory and rhetoric. The library holdings include several hundred books that may be borrowed for a semester and a dozen journals that may be borrowed for a week. Please return all materials borrowed from the library to the Writing Program office in Bartlett 305.
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