US UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH EVALUATION OF ADJUNCT OR TA INSTRUCTOR INSTRUCTOR'S NAME: CAGLE, B. SEMESTER: Spring 2014 CLASS VISITED: Form & Technique of Poetry COURSE: CRW 3311 SECTION: 004 DATE OF VISITATION: March 27, 2014 EVALUATOR’S NAME: DR. JAY HOPLER Classroom Visitation: Please rate the instructor from 1-5 in the following categories, with 5 indicating excellence. 02030 +O se O20 30 +0 s& 20 3) 40 20 30) +O 200 20) 30) 40 si Classroom atmosphere: Knowledge of course material: Ability to communicate material: Organization/classroom management: Facilitation of student participation: Rapport with students: SAAnAE Additional Comments: Instructor Cagle was present in the classroom well before the class began: she played music (8 nice touch—it set the lnid back cone well), prepared the classroom, and interacted with students. She began the class on time, 2-00pm. 17 students were in attendance, { student was lete to class. Instructor Cagle began the class with some announcements and reminders. She then went over a brief presentation she had prepared on how beginning waiters could go about getting thele work into print. The presentation was nicely put together, making good use of available classroom technology, and it was clear that the students got a great deal out of it. She then assigned seudents dates for upcoming presentations and alerted them to the presence of important course materials on Canvas, ‘The remainder of the class was run as a creative writing workshop. The week's assignment: write an imitation poem. Instructor Cagle put the students in a circle and satin the cicle with them. 3 poems were discussed. The author of each poem had his or her poem read to him or her so he ot she could hear how it sounded in someone else's voice. ‘Then the author read his or her own poem. Instructor Cagle opened each woricshop discussion by asking the class to comment on the things they thought each author was doing well. Approximately halfway through each. workshop discussion, the conversetion turned to the spe: the author could have done better. All critiques ‘were constructive and offered with the utmost respect. Instructor Cagle at all times had complete control of che classroom, Her comments oa the poems under consideration were thoughtful, insightful, and made it dear that she took her students’ work seriously. At the end of each workshop, the author of each poem was given a chance to ask and respond to questions. All of the workshop participants then handed back to the authors the critiqued poems (the students provided written feedback on the poems themselves) Class was dismissed at 3:0 Evaluator’s signatui Date: 3/27// 4