This area of the site will serve as an archive for this semester and future years of mentoring. Most of these documents were distributed in our meetings.

Final Exams Archive
This page should direct you to everything you would ever need to know about the final exam, including the Final Exam Memo and a number of sample exam questions.

End of Semester Checklist Memo
You will all receive this memo in your College Avenue boxes and by e-mail. It gives very detailed instructions on the final days of the semester, covering everything from final evaluations to final office hours.

Determining Final Grades
You will receive this memo by e-mail. It describes our principles and normal practices in determining final grades.

Mid-semester Reflections
Exercises to get students to reflect on their work thus far, including the midterm self-assessment exercise and institutional autobiography.

Assignment Sequence Two Peer Review Sheet
A guide-sheet for reviewing our colleague's second sequence.

Mentoring Syllabus
My first-meeting handout of what we will be doing this term.

Small Group Activities
A complete set of activities for you to use with Assignment #2.

Argument to Project (updated for Kaldor / Schlosser)
A revised version of Barclay Barrios's distinction between responding to the text and trying to beat it in a debate.

Writing Program Expectations
The basic things we expect of 101 teachers.

Mentoring Forum Exercise
An exercise to get you to look at our forums.

Basic Formatting
Kate Briggs's one-page list of to-do's for students.

Benefits to Working at Rutgers
Some of the perks of working at the University.

Why Use Technology for Teaching?
A case for trying out computer classrooms, forums, etc.

Student Comments About Forums
Comments from students on evaluations in a class where forums were used intensively.

Sample Assignments for the 101 Cross-Section Forum
Some things your students could do in our 101 forum.

Thesis Exercise for the Forum
A sample exercise to do in the forum, for identifying the thesis.

Advice on Forum Assignments and Activities
Basic advice on using forums to improve work in the classroom.

Sample Forums
Sample question and responses from a class forum.

Midterm Self Assessment
An exercise to get students to examine their progress at midterm.

Studenting Skills
A list of good skills students should practice (from Sina Queyras)

Student FAQs
A set of questions and answers I wrote up for dorm presentations to students.

More to come.