Colleagues,

IDEA FORM FOR FACULTY EVALUATION AVAILABLE THIS SEMESTER

Any faculty member who would like to find out more about using the IDEA FORM (developed at Kansas State University) for developmental evaluation purposes should call or email Paul Jacobson as soon as possible to learn more about what the IDEA form might do for you and to see a copy of the actual form that you can use in one of your classes this semester at no cost to you or to your department. Results are usually back within a couple of weeks of administering the form. To learn more or to sign up to use it--Call Paul Jacobson. (David O'Connell in the College of Business has used this form for some research on his own teaching and can tell you about a range of possibilities for using IDEA either for self-assessment or for classroom research.)

PUBLICATION RECEIVED RECENTLY

COLLEGE TEACHING (54:2) arrived this week. It includes articles on civic responsibility and environmental issues, encouraging critical thinking, motivating students by correlating learning and corporate work settings, journal writing, interpersonal influences in large, lecture-based classes, collaborative learning in statistics classes. The Quick Fix focuses on enhancing understanding and interest through group discussion. The Center's copy of College Teaching is available through Paul Jacobson.

TEACHING CIRCLES MET THIS PAST WEEK

Both teaching circles met this past week; the strongest link on Tuesday and alternatives to lecturing met at ACCEL on Thursday. Thanks are in order to Bill Davis and Rick Reed, facilitators in the College for Professional Studies, for organizing the Thursday meeting at ACCEL.
Thanks also to the conveners of both circles--Carol Lyon, Jessica Gosnell, Christine Urish, and Nan Hayes.

CTE PERIODICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE

The Center subscribes to College Teaching and CHANGE: The Magazine of Higher Learning.  Back issues of both of these publications are in the Ambrose Room, 3rd floor of the library.
Three other publications subscribed to by the Center are available in several places on campus.  The Teaching Professor, The Professor in the Classroom and the National Teaching and Learning Forum are available as they arrive in three wall pocket locations: in the old snack bar area in Ambrose Hall, in the Cosgrove Hall private dining room near the drink dispenser, and in the coffee shop on Harrison St.-- as well as in ACCEL and through Allison Ambrose in the College of Business.
Back issues of these publications are kept in the Ambrose Room on the third floor of the Library along with the Center's book collection. Stop at the library director's office to have the Ambrose Room unlocked for you.

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Please contact any member o the CTE Advisory Committee with your suggestions or evaluations of our sponsored events, publications and programs. The members of the Center's advisory committee for the 2005-2006 school year are:

It's a beautiful day at the Center for Teaching Excellence!