{"id":11953,"date":"2022-08-02T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/?page_id=11953"},"modified":"2023-03-23T22:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T22:11:19","slug":"moderators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/moderators\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderators"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11953\" class=\"elementor elementor-11953\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-60da1437 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"60da1437\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ba463a9\" data-id=\"ba463a9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ee04764 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ee04764\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 08-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h1>Faculty Moderators<\/h1><p>While a chair will introduce each session and its participants, moderators are responsible for facilitating the Q &amp; A at the end of the sessions. The faculty moderators\u2019 tasks look very much like the work they do in the classroom: fostering discussion that leads to deeper understanding of the works. Moderators allow convention attendees\u2014both those in the audience and the presenters, whom they should encourage to ask questions of each other\u2014to dictate the direction of the discussion. Because sessions are limited to 75 minutes, moderators also keep time so that no participant exceeds the 15-minute time limit.<\/p><p>Moderators for regular paper sessions are usually faculty members, since alumni members are eligible as presenters in those sessions. Alumni or faculty can serve as moderators of roundtables. The concurrent schedule will include the moderators for each session. The concurrent schedule will be posted on this website after February 23.<\/p><ul><li>Well before your assigned session, check the time and location for your session (available in mid February on the <a href=\"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/presentations-2\/\">Presentation Overview web page<\/a> and on the app). Last-minute changes to the schedule will be posted near the registration table.<\/li><li>Arrive at your session five minutes prior to the beginning of the session.<\/li><li>Before the session begins, introduce yourself to the chair and the presenters, check to see if all of them have arrived, and help your chair begin the session on time.<\/li><li>Remind presenters that they have up to 15 minutes. Keep track of the time and, if needed, gently remind presenters when there is only a minute or two left.<\/li><li>As time permits, facilitate a discussion of the works with the presenters, the chair, and the audience. If the audience hesitates, be willing to step in with your own question(s), but yield the floor to session attendees and the presenters. If possible, make sure that each presenter is involved in the discussion even if you have to direct a question to them.<\/li><li>Intervene if an audience member is dominating the discussion or is being rude or inappropriate. You are the \u201csafety net\u201d for the often nervous first-time presenters.<\/li><li>Conclude the session by thanking the attendees and by asking for another round of applause for the presenters.<\/li><li>If the chair does not arrive, please take on the duties of the chair. At your next opportunity, inform the staff at the registration table about the missing chair.<\/li><\/ul><h3>Strategies for Constructing Discussion Questions<\/h3><ul type=\"disc\"><li>Listen for questions that the presenter\u2019s work poses.<\/li><li>Listen for key concepts and key words and use them in questions.<\/li><li>Listen for the larger issues the work addresses and ask about the connection.<\/li><li>Draw connections among and between presenters\u2019 works.<\/li><li>Draw on your own experience and knowledge related to the presentation subject matter.<\/li><li>Ask what or who inspired or motivated the presenter to write that work or to write about that subject matter (Class? Teacher? Dream? Event?).<\/li><li>Ask what authors influence the presenter\u2019s writing.<\/li><li>Ask what works of literature influence the presenter\u2019s writing.<\/li><li>Ask presenter to explain their use of ___________in the work (symbolism, point of view, metaphor, dialogue, etc.).<\/li><li>Ask what prompted the presenter to take that approach or to look at the subject matter in that way.<\/li><li>Ask the presenter to describe their writing process.<\/li><li>Ask presenters if they have any questions in mind that they are hoping to hear from their audience and ask them to respond to those questions.<\/li><\/ul><div><h4 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.625; color: #101010; font-size: 18px; word-break: break-word; letter-spacing: -0.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">A Reminder to All Attendees<\/h4><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; color: #2c6882; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Help your colleagues to remember: do not enter or exit a room while a presenter is at the podium; wait until the applause between presenters for your cue to leave or enter.<\/em><\/p><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Moderators While a chair will introduce each session and its participants, moderators are responsible for facilitating the Q &amp; A at the end of the sessions. The faculty moderators\u2019 tasks look very much like the work they do in the classroom: fostering discussion that leads to deeper understanding of the works. 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