CTW

CTW Designated Faculty and Consultants

CTW Faculty

Critical Thinking through Writing-designated instructors will work with Ambassadors to add CTW components to their syllabi and assignments, will teach the CTW courses, and will provide assessment data on the courses.  Below is a complete list of the responsibilities of these instructors.

Responsibilities of CTW-Designated Instructors

  • Receive preparation through department/major's CTW Ambassador
  • With input from ambassador, specify CTW component in all syllabi and assignments
  • With input from ambassador, specify how CTW component with be assessed and reported
  • Teach CTW course
  • Assess student learning outcomes related to CTW (if assigned)
  • Provide data on assessment of CTW learning outcomes (if assigned)

CTW Consultants

CTW consultants work with their respective courses as discipline-specific tutors.  Consultants must be graduate students studying the discipline with which they will be working. If a discipline cannot provide graduate students to work as CTW consultants, the CTW office will help ambassadors find a consultant from a related discipline.

Consultant Duties

CTW consultants perform the following duties:

  • Help students with drafts of CTW assignments, providing feedback and helping students learn to think critically about the material in the course
  • Meet with students to discuss course content knowledge
  • Work to improve student critical thinking skills within the discipline, helping them learn to think like a member of the discipline.
  • Work an average of 8 hours per week with their course
  • Attend at least one class meeting and may be expected to attend more
  • Familiarize themselves with course materials

CTW consultants are tutors and should not be expected or asked to grade or teach.

 

Guidelines for Receiving Consultant Support

To receive consultant support a course must meet the following criteria:

1. Your course has been identified to the General Education Subcommittee as a CTW course for your major.

2. Your course enrollment must exceed a 25:1 student teacher ratio (a minimum enrollment of 26). Courses may be considered for a consultant with a cap of 26, but the course must meet that cap in order to receive funds to support a consultant. Support may be withdrawn from courses that fail to meet the enrollment requirement.

3. CTW ambassadors may request additional assistance at a rate of one CTW consultant per additional 26 students (i.e. if your course has 52 students, you may request two CTW consultants, and if 78, you may request 3, and so on).

4. The College of Arts and Sciences has opted to limit CTW courses to enrollment of 25 students or less. Therefore, CTW courses offered in A & S degree programs are not eligible for CTW consultants.

Funding Information

Although CTW consultants work with their individual departments and are paid through their home departments, they are funded by the CTW initiative.  CTW consultants may be eligible for a tuition waiver as a result of their work with the initiative, but tuition waivers are handled at the departmental level, so ambassadors should check with their business managers before offering consultants a waiver for their work with the CTW course.

CTW consultants are paid $2000 per course per semester.