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So You Want To Be In Charge? Finding Or Becoming An Academic Library Leader, Melissa Jadlos
So You Want To Be In Charge? Finding Or Becoming An Academic Library Leader, Melissa Jadlos
Lavery Library Faculty/Staff Publications
The coming wave of retirements in libraries has created a need to identify and create a new generation of library leaders. This presentation looks at leadership styles and ways to identify leaders in your organization or in applicants as well as developing those skills and taking opportunities for yourself. The ideas presented are based on Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge, 4th edition 2007.
Unspoken Rules: Make Your Board's Implicit Rules Explicit Through A Customs Manual, Ronald Mendrick, Diane Reed, Michael Wischnowski
Unspoken Rules: Make Your Board's Implicit Rules Explicit Through A Customs Manual, Ronald Mendrick, Diane Reed, Michael Wischnowski
Education Faculty/Staff Publications
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Promoting Mathematical Communication And Community Via Blackboard, Kris H. Green, Erica L. Johnson
Promoting Mathematical Communication And Community Via Blackboard, Kris H. Green, Erica L. Johnson
Mathematical and Computing Sciences Faculty/Staff Publications
Major changes in mathematics pedagogy include writing as pedagogy and the role of community in learning. The classroom community is naturally extended by the use of online discussion boards. In this paper several models for student use of online discussion boards that have been successfully used to promote mathematical discourse are presented. Structured and unstructured examples that are easily adaptable and transportable to a variety of mathematics classroom settings are offered. These assignments facilitate student engagement and interaction outside of the classroom. Assessment, utility, and transferability are offered. Although the authors use the discussion boards provided by Blackboard, this particular …
A New Framework For Grading, Kris H. Green, W. Allen Emerson
A New Framework For Grading, Kris H. Green, W. Allen Emerson
Mathematical and Computing Sciences Faculty/Staff Publications
Grading is one of the least liked, least understood and least considered aspects of teaching. After years of work, we have developed a grading system that is quite different from traditional and reformed approaches to grading and which meaningfully incorporates and integrates the collection of evidence, the evaluation of evidence, and the reporting of judgments about that evidence. This system satisfies the requirements of good grading system and answers many of the problems faced by more traditional methods by substantially changing the way in which grade information is aggregated, resulting in a final course grade that aligns qualitative evaluation with …