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2015 Fall Faculty Conference: Cultivating Curiosity: Teaching As A Vocation, Academic Affairs
2015 Fall Faculty Conference: Cultivating Curiosity: Teaching As A Vocation, Academic Affairs
Fall Faculty Conference
The 2015 Fall Faculty Conference featured teaching showcases by Sarah Bouchard (Biology and Earth Science), Jeff Demas (Communication), John Kengla (Arts & Sciences), Gayle Walker (Music), and Paul Wendel (Education).
There were also breakout sessions hosted by Colin Saunders with Kay Ball and Clare Kilbane and Jackie Haverkamp and Paul Longenecker and T. G. Gerckens and Eric Lloyd, Anna Young, Joan Esson, Paul Wendel Kathryn Plank, Jean Kelly, Carrie Scheckelhoff, Jeff Smith, Erica Womack, Rares Piloiu, Amy Parsons, Jessica Crossfield McIntosh, Beth Daugherty, Andrew Mills, Dee Knoblauch, Kristin Bourdage, Patti Wilson, Kristy Drobney, Nate Parsell, and Deanna Heerman.
2015 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: General Education, Academic Affairs
2015 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: General Education, Academic Affairs
Spring Great Expectation Faculty Conference
The 2015 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference features a keynote speech by Kathleen Blake Yancey. Kathleen Blake Yancey is Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. A (past) president of several scholarly organizations--among them the National Council of Teachers of English and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA)--she co-founded and co-edited Assessing Writing for seven years, and she just stepped down from her five-year term as Editor of College Composition and Communication. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and twelve books—including Portfolios in the Writing Classroom; Delivering College Composition: …
You're And Your, Stella Rich
You're And Your, Stella Rich
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This poster was created by a UNE teacher education candidate for use in a mini-lesson on the words Your and You’re, which students often confuse. During the lesson, students were given the rule for when to use each of the words correctly and the tip that when using “you’re” they can substitute you are in place of the word and when using “your” they can substitute the word my in its place to see what makes sense. After students went over the words they were each given either “your” or “you’re” on a star and asked to Velcro the …
Then Or Than?, Jamie Buyak
Then Or Than?, Jamie Buyak
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This poster was created by a UNE teacher education candidate for use in a mini-lesson on the words Then and Than, which students often confuse. During the lesson, students learned the rule for when to use each word correctly and this trick to help: use THEN when referring to time (both “then” and “time” contain the letter e) and THAN when comparing things (both “than” and “compare” contain the letter a). Once students learned the rule they were each given the words then and than and a sentence was presented. Students were asked to come up and Velcro the …
Prefixes, Christine Beecher
Prefixes, Christine Beecher
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This poster was created by a UNE teacher education candidate for use in a mini-lesson on Prefixes. During the lesson, students first were taught what prefixes are and how they are combined with a root word to alter the meaning of the root word. Students then were each given index cards—some with prefixes and some with root words. They had to match up their prefix with someone else’s root word to make a new word and then share this with the group. Certain common prefixes such as un, dis, pre, non, re, ex, mis, bi and con were emphasized. …
Synonyms, Saige Sturvist
Synonyms, Saige Sturvist
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This poster was created by a UNE teacher education candidate for use in a mini-lesson on Synonyms. During the lesson, the teacher first explained what synonyms were and gave some examples. Students then were given some predetermined words and were asked to match their word (written on an orange straw) with its synonym written on the outside of a cup. They were asked to put the word in the cup with the related synonym. To conclude the lesson, students generated their own words that matched a word on a synonym cup and the teacher challenged the students to come …
The Race Controversy In Amerian Education, Lillian Dowdell Drakeford
The Race Controversy In Amerian Education, Lillian Dowdell Drakeford
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From the Publisher:
"In this unique two-volume work, expert scholars and practitioners examine race and racism in public education, tackling controversial educational issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline, charter schools, school funding, affirmative action, and racialized curircula."
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About the Editor:
This 2-volume book from the Praeger series, Racism in American Institutions, is edited by Dr. Lillian Dowdell Drakeford, a 2010 graduate of the PhD Program in Leadership and Change at …