Red circle logo reading Wring at LaGuardia: Foundation & Transformation

Teaching Writing at LaGuardia


Tag: deceleration

  • Red and White Bull's Eye with text deceleration slow and focused

    Deceleration: Applying Past Knowledge (Activity) by Lalit Bajaj

    What do I already know about writing? What assumptions do I have about writing in college? What have I learned about college writing that I didn’t know before?

    |

  • Red and White Bull's Eye with text deceleration slow and focused

    Deceleration: 10-Minute Exercise–A Noteworthy Experience (Activity) by Lalit Bajaj

    Directions: When you entered college, what was one noteworthy (important to you) experience you had? What did you learn from this experience? This experience doesn’t need to be big, but it does have to be an experience that taught you something. The experience can be as simple as meeting a fellow student or going to the…

    |

  • Red and White Bull's Eye with text deceleration slow and focused

    Deceleration and Habits of Mind in ENA 101 by Lalit Bajaj

                 While progress in the writing is an integral part of a student’s success in ENA 101, there is some connection of a student’s mastery of the writing process with how they would potentially advance to that mastery, using “Habits of Mind.” According to Arthur L Costa and Bena Kallick, in Habits of Mind: A Developmental…

    |

  • Thumbnail of the ENA 101 Framework Graphic

    Teaching With the ENA 101 Framework

    The ENA 101 Framework Click below to download a copy of the ENA 101 Framework visual. History of ENA 101 and the Development of LaGuardia’s ENA 101 Framework ENA 101 at LaGuardia began in 2010-2011, guided by Heidi Johnsen, who developed the first iteration of the course based on the national model of acceleration introduced…

    |

  • Red and White Bull's Eye with text deceleration slow and focused

    Introduction to Deceleration & Habits of Mind for Faculty by Rochell Isaac

    Deceleration and Habits of Mind: Accessing the Cognitive Domain in ENA 101 Rochell Isaac A fallacy around the pedagogy of Accelerated learning is that instructors need to do more with less and at a faster pace which naturally leads to less academic rigor. Our ENA 101 course at LaGuardia— a co-requisite model of acceleration—is designed…

    |

  • Black Text Reading ENA 101 Course Resources with yellow, red, and blue paintbrush stripe

    ENA 101–Composition I Accelerated

    Course Description 3 credits; 7 hoursFulfills “Pathways: Required Core” In this course students write coherent essays in varied academic formats, both in and out of class, responding to culturally diverse materials and using appropriate technology. Studentsin this course will fulfill all stated objectives of English 101. Three additional hours each week support students with lower…

    |