Training Documents: Reading Protocol and HOC/LOCs

Training Activity: Reading Protocol


1. Provide Facilitators with two short reading passages, perhaps sections from Schunk and Zimmerman. Provide a focus question for them to answer. Give them 10-15 minutes to read.

2. Inform facilitators Mentors will conduct reading studio with 3-4 facilitators. Note, what the mentor is asking, the feedback,

3. Reconvene- Ask FACILITATORS to discuss any strategies used in this exercise (or on other reading tasks) to deepen their interaction with the text. What worked for them?

4. As an entire group, discuss the facilitators' observations of reading protocol, as conducted by the mentors.

5. In their groups, facilitators will have a mock studio, with mentor as a student participant.

6. Mentor shoud debrief this smaller group.

7. Debrief- Whole group.

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Training Activity: HOC/LOC

1. Place Facilitators into pairs.

2. Facilitators will be handed two samples of the same essay- one with marks circling almost every spelling, grammar, sentence structure error (LOCs), one with questions focusing on HOCs.

Facilitators will be given around 5 minutes to read the essays.

3. Mentors will poll the Facilitators with this question. "If you were the writer of the essay, which version of the essay (LOC or HOC) would you want to receive back from your professor?"

Facilitators will explain their rationale.

4. Facilitators and Mentors will discuss the categories of HOCs (thesis focus, audience/purpose, development, organization) and LOCs (sentence structure, spelling, grammar, word choice)- Mentors will present theory that supports focusing on HOCs. Mentors will present questions that arise around HOCs

5. Facilitators will be split into groups of three or four. They will be given a category of HOC (thesis focus, audience/purpose, organization, development). They will write down questions they can pose (or a student may pose) to focus draw attention to a specific HOC (For example: Is the writer's purpose clear? Does the organization of the paper make sense?)

Groups will then brainstorm activities students can engage in to help with their particular HOC (outline, web, etc).

6. Groups will share their lists of questions and activities.

7. Tie this into seeing the bigger picture. Prepare and post an HOC/LOC document based on ideas generated during the workshop.

8. Groups will partcipate in a mock studio session using sample essays and ideas about HOCs that were generated during the workshop.