Welcome back to those returning and WELCOME! to those new
faculty starting at SAU this semester.
considering the work of Dr. Delaney Kirk, about whom you can
find out more here: http://www.delaneykirk.com/2006/08/index.html
We will meet each month on Tuesdays at NOON in the faculty
dining room. Feel free to bring your lunch or purchase
something in the cafeteria.
Tuesday October 17, 2006 - noon (an exchange faculty from
Netherlands will join our group this day)
SOME BOOKS RECEIVED OVER THE SUMMER
Barbara E. Walvoord and V.J. Anderson, Effective Grading:
A Tool for Learning and Assessment (Forward by Tom Angelo). San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. Includes chapters on managing the
grading process, making assignments worth grading, establishing
criteria and standards for grading, calculating grades, making
grading more time efficient, and using the grading process to
improve teaching.
Maryellen Weimer, Learner-Centered Teaching; Five Key
Changes to Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002. The five
changes are: the balance of power, the function of content, the
role of the teacher, the responsibility for learning and the
purpose and processes of evaluation. This book comes very highly
recommended.
Both of these books should be available in the CTE's book
collection in the Ambrose Room (library, third floor) very soon.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED RECENTLY
College Teaching
(vol. 54:3) arrived recently and contains several articles
that might be of interest to some of us. "The Chilly
Classroom: Beyond Gender," "Interdisciplinary Team
Teaching," "An Alternative Professional Development
Program," "The College Classroom as a Community." A copy is
available through Paul Jacobson. "The Quick Fix" in this
number concerns an unexpected benefit of formative student
evaluations. This short (1 page) contribution describes
several interesting benefits and results of using a
self-developed feedback form for class use. It's worth a
look.
The Teaching Professor (20:7) deals with 7 strategies for
enlisting experts, using diversity-related content in courses, a
case study of teaching problem solving, small group discussion
tasks, strategies to enhance video use in the college classroom,
a short article on how to balance the demands of both making
courses challenging and accessible at the same time. Copies of
this number are in the 3 wall pockets and at ACCEL.
WELCOME TO MICHAEL PUTHOFF
Dr. Michael Puthoff of the Physical Therapy Department has
joined the advisory board of the Center representing the College
of Education and Health Sciences. Michael will also be
maintaining the Center's web site, a great relief to the rest of
us on the board, we escapees from a previous millennium.
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 of 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 2006-2007 school year are:
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