Scripting Collaborative Writing to Foster Student Learning and Student Resilience

Event Date & Time

Event Description

Online

This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025.

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Do you want your students to enjoy working together and producing collaborative texts that showcase their best work? Are you afraid of being “that instructor” who assigns collaborative work that students loathe — that they experience as inequitable, isolating, ineffective, or just plain miserable? This workshop introduces you to groundbreaking research on the benefits of using collaboration and collaborative writing to foster learning and to prevailing models and scripts you can use to support diverse students and foster student resilience. The workshop highlights many diverse collaborative scripts you can offer students — to help them survive and thrive when immersed in the inherent complexity of collaborative work — and invites you to learn, in turn, from students by asking them to share scripts from their own cultural and epistemic contexts. You will reflect on collaborative scripts you have used in the past and ‘try on’ new scripts to use in your own teaching contexts — and come away with resources you can use to design collaborative writing work that builds trust and supports learning among diverse students.

Facilitator:

• Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed, Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing and Media

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Note to Non-UBC Participants:

In order to register for this program, non-UBC faculty, staff, and students will need to create a UBC Basic CWL. To do this, please go to the CWL page and scroll down to the accordion tab that reads “Basic”. Follow the instructions there for creating and activating a Basic CWL, then please return to this page to register for the program.