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An essay reading workshop, and
An essay structure workshop
Workshops
In each of these workshops, students submit a piece of work and then grade their peers’ submissions. leading up to their final essay. They then give feedback on work by a peer or peers. Giving feedback is primarily to assist students to focus on the assessment criteria and produce a better essay themselves.
As a tutor, you will also mark each submission , giving a reference score for each submission’s quality. Based on your mark, students get a second score, based on how accurately they marked their peers’ assessment. The aim of these workshops is to ‘build’ and give feedback to help them write a better final assessment. These workshops build towards the final essay. Thus in addition to the grade, your feedback on each submission is instrumental in helping helps your students write better essays. assessments. (Students must pass their Final Assessment to pass the unit.).
Some units will have additional workshops, unrelated to the major assessment, that focus on the exposition of material.
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Marking Weeks – The two weeks after Final Assessment Week, when you will need to grade and give feedback on all final assessments. During this period, you will have to submit grades to the Registrars.
Registrars will email you a spreadsheet to enter your grades on.
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3.4. Our students
Our students range in age and life stage from fresh out of high school to retired. They are located across Australia and around the world. In terms of academic background, they range from having completed only secondary education to education in different cultures to higher research degrees. Some are highly skilled in reading, writing, and thinking in the ways of Western academia, while others are strangers to such discourses and ways of thought. And some will be highly confident (for better or worse), while others will doubt their abilities and skills, or be overwhelmed by the work.
But all are brothers and sisters in the image of God and have been admitted to the DBT because we believe they have the ability to learn and to pass the course.
Enrolments
We are endeavouring to set our enrolment process so that students have an incentive to register early, so that we open no new classes after the start of O-Week. We may allow students to join classes that are not full until Until the end of Orientation Week, we may open a new class if we have too many students for one cohort. Until the end of Week 1. But no classes will start in Week 1, and any new students will commence by the end of Week 1. But no new classes will start after Orientation Week, and no new students will join any class after Week 1. , students may enrol in a class if there is room. After that, we will open no new classes and enrol no new students.
3.5. Our tutors (you!)
Please read the following alongside your Position Description from Moore People and Culture.
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Students who are in their first semester will need extra encouragement, and some will need help with technology and assessments. This includes all students in the Biblical Theology unit, and in any electives they choose that semester.
The DBT Tutor Coordinator will send through details each semester of students to keep an eye on because they may need extra support. Please monitor these students and their work throughout the semester.
Monitoring Monitor your students:
Keep an eye on all your students. Most will do fine, but a couple might fall behind on quizzes or suddenly disappear from any online engagement. Please follow up quickly with a personal message. Encourage your students to stay consistent in
Encourage them to stay up to date on their quizzes from Week 1 onwards, and their participation to participate in workshops and forums. Getting behind makes it harder for them to complete the course.
Low quiz scores may indicate a struggling studentstruggles. A gentle query may reveal important struggles. can be helpful.
If a student stops completing quizzes or otherwise ‘goes silent’ for more than a week, please make contact to ensure they are all right. follow up with a personal message.
If a student does not participate, submit work, or respond to your messages, please notify the Registrars and copy the DBT Tutor Coordinator.
Supporting your students:
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