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Nefdc Exchange, Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2009, New England Faculty Development Consortium
Nefdc Exchange, Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2009, New England Faculty Development Consortium
NEFDC Exchange
Contents
Message from the President: A Reflection of a Different Light - Tom Thibodeau, New England Institute of Technology
From the editors - Jeanne Albert, Donna Qualters, and Naomi Migliacci
New England Faculty Development Consortium Fall 2009 Conference, November 13, 2009, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; theme: When Questioning is the Answer: Reflective Practice for College Faculty; keynote presentation by Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas
Excerpt from Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, 1995 by Stephen Brookfield
NEFDC Fall 2009 Conference Agenda
Connecting with others
Contemplative and Transformative Pedagogy - Arthur Zajonc, Amherst College
SAVE the date! NEFDC 2010 Spring …
Western Guide To Curriculum Review, Margaret Mcnay
Western Guide To Curriculum Review, Margaret Mcnay
Purple Guides
The Curriculum Review guide offers ideas about how to get started on the review process—questions to ask at the beginning of and during the process, suggestions about information to be gathered and how, issues to think about as you decide what to include in the curriculum, and ideas about how to teach the curriculum involving new and alternative pedagogies.
Faculty Achievements, 2008-2009, Otterbein University
Faculty Achievements, 2008-2009, Otterbein University
Faculty Achievement Reports
No abstract provided.
Western Guide To Mentoring Graduate Students Across Cultures, Nanda Dimitrov
Western Guide To Mentoring Graduate Students Across Cultures, Nanda Dimitrov
Purple Guides
The Western Guide to Mentoring Graduate Students Across Cultures is a handbook for graduate supervisors who work with students from cultures around the world. The guide addresses the most frequently occurring challenges in supervision across cultures and includes concrete mentoring strategies and case studies to help supervisors promote independence and initiative in their mentees, bridge power differences in the relationship, set boundaries, communicate effectively and support their students in the transition to Canadian academia.
Nefdc Exchange, Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2009, New England Faculty Development Consortium
Nefdc Exchange, Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2009, New England Faculty Development Consortium
NEFDC Exchange
Contents
Message from the President: Where We've Been, Where We're Going - Judy Miller, Clark University
From the editors - Jeanne Albert, Donna Qualters, and Naomi Magliacci
NEFDC 2009 Spring Conference, Friday, May 29, 2009; theme: Connecting the .edus: Using Technology to Connect with Our Students; keynote speaker: Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech
Online Teaching: Field-Tested Principles of Pedagogy and Practice - Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Krista Terry, Radford University, and Stephanie Scheer, University of Virginia
Spring 2009 Conference Agenda, Friday, May 29, 2009, Middlebury College, Dartmouth College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, New England Institute of Technology, and University of Connecticut
Connecting …
Assessment Practices: Student’S And Teachers’ Perceptions Of Classroom Assessment, Sayed Ahmad Javid Mussawy
Assessment Practices: Student’S And Teachers’ Perceptions Of Classroom Assessment, Sayed Ahmad Javid Mussawy
Master's Capstone Projects
The primary aim of this study is to explore pre-service teachers’ perceptions of classroom assessment. A secondary purpose is to explore the faculty members’ perceptions of classroom assessment and their expectations of students’ learning. This study examines what assessment approaches are being used in Baghlan Higher Education Institution, School of Education. In addition, the investigator was interested in learning the extent to which assessment results were used to improve students’ learning and classroom instruction.
Facing The Challenge Of Quality In Mexican Private Higher Education: A Study Of Three Cases, Gus Gregorutti
Facing The Challenge Of Quality In Mexican Private Higher Education: A Study Of Three Cases, Gus Gregorutti
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Working Toward A Third Space In The Teaching Of Elementary Mathematics, Ryan Flessner
Working Toward A Third Space In The Teaching Of Elementary Mathematics, Ryan Flessner
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
Building on work in the area of third space theory, this study documents one teacher’s efforts to create third spaces in an elementary mathematics classroom. In an attempt to link the worlds of theory and practice, I examine how the work of other theorists and researchers – inside and outside the field of education – can create new lenses for classroom practitioners. In addition, the article provides evidence that third spaces may be more difficult to realize than others have described. Rather than forcing a third space to emerge, what this study finds more important is creating an environment that …
Best Practices In Using Student Response Systems (Srs), Sarah Grison, Robert Bartsch
Best Practices In Using Student Response Systems (Srs), Sarah Grison, Robert Bartsch
Psychology Faculty
These slides are from a workshop describing the various types of student response systems, the benefits of using SRS over other response methods, and the best practices for SRS to improve student learning. Guidance on implementing SRS and supporting resources for improving pedagogy are also included.
Orienting Students To An “Inside-Out Course”: Establishing A Classroom Culture Of Interactive, Cooperative Learning, Karlene Ferrante
Orienting Students To An “Inside-Out Course”: Establishing A Classroom Culture Of Interactive, Cooperative Learning, Karlene Ferrante
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
I have developed a course in communication theories that foregrounds active learning, with structured opportunities for support. The result is an “Inside-Out Course” in which students are required to turn in a “ticket” for entry to class— usually a concept map of the reading. Since the first exposure to material is through homework, class time is used for quick overviews and learning activities designed by student teaching teams. Students are motivated to create good concept maps for tickets, since they are allowed to use those maps for the case study exams, taken with open notes. Assessments require students to select …
Anatomy Of A Scientific Explanation, Cassandra Volpe Horii
Anatomy Of A Scientific Explanation, Cassandra Volpe Horii
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
“If I’m going to explain this theory, the question is, are you going to understand it? Will you understand the theory?” - -Richard Feynman, 1979 Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures
In this way, Richard Feynman, recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics and renowned teacher, author, and bongo player, introduced scientific explanation as an interesting problem with understanding as its testable outcome. Making quantum mechanics understandable to an audience of non-specialists is no easy task. Feynman had his audience in stitches, on this occasion, after noting that advanced graduate students in physics often “do not understand it either, and that’s …
Non-Science For Majors: Reforming Courses, Programs, And Pedagogy, Jennifer Frederick
Non-Science For Majors: Reforming Courses, Programs, And Pedagogy, Jennifer Frederick
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Scientific advances fill news headlines and find audiences in popular movies, legislative bodies, and courtrooms, suggesting that society is broadly engaged by scientific issues. Science students typically learn concepts and methods that ignore the social and cultural foreground as well as religious and ethical implications of science practice. These excluded factors often reappear in scientific developments such as genetic engineering of herbicide-resistant plants, environmental effects of chemical and biological waste management strategies, and medical and health implications of sequencing the human genome. Though today’s science professors are already burdened by expanded content from introductory to advanced courses, now more than …
Making Sure That Peer Review Of Teaching Works For You, Nancy Van Note Chism
Making Sure That Peer Review Of Teaching Works For You, Nancy Van Note Chism
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Peer review of teaching: A hastily arranged visit to the classroom of a faculty member in desperate need of quick testimony on teaching effectiveness, resulting in a bland letter stating that the class is interesting and students seem engaged.
Given this prevailing practice in peer review of teaching, no wonder most faculty members fail to see its inherent usefulness. To many, this limited view and practice have rendered it a necessary evil, only to be used under duress. This essay seeks to expand both definition and practice. Let’s begin with another definition:
Peer review of teaching: Collegial efforts to understand …
Beyond Student Ratings: “A Whole New World, A New Fantastic Point Of View”, Ronald A. Berk
Beyond Student Ratings: “A Whole New World, A New Fantastic Point Of View”, Ronald A. Berk
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Unfortunately, student ratings have dominated as the primary and, frequently, only measure of teaching performance at colleges and universities for the past four decades (Seldin, 2006). In fact, the evaluation of teaching has been in a metaphorical cul-de-sac with student ratings as the universal barometer. Only recently has there been a trend toward augmenting those ratings with other data sources to broaden and deepen the evidence base (Arreola, 2007; Berk, 2006b; Braskamp and Ory, 1994; Centra, 1993; Knapper and Cranton, 2001; Seldin, 2006).
Although much has been learned over the 60-year history of faculty evaluation and the 50-year his- tory …
It Takes Discipline: Learning In A World Without Boundaries, Stephen Healey
It Takes Discipline: Learning In A World Without Boundaries, Stephen Healey
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
As Plato suggested, pedagogy is inextricably related to the polis. The learner and teacher are constituted by social, political, and economic bounds, and yet the twenty-first century polis is increasingly a world without boundaries. This is a perilous and exciting time to teach and learn. As agents of terror have shown, political boundaries are uncomfortably permeable. Economically, culturally, and religiously, globalization has reduced the power of nation-states and threatened erasure of their boundaries. Isolated identities—nationalistic, religious, linguistic, sexual— are under siege. Nothing is immune from alteration by these large-scale forces. Plato’s insight is that the pressures and possibilities, which determine …
"How Did I Spend Two Hours Grading This Paper?!" Responding To Student Writing Without Losing Your Life, Eric Lemay
"How Did I Spend Two Hours Grading This Paper?!" Responding To Student Writing Without Losing Your Life, Eric Lemay
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
The specific critical moves and writing conventions of your discipline probably differ from mine, but your discipline certainly has them and when teaching them to students becomes your aim, your responses to their writing will take less time and be more effective. No longer will you have to transform novice papers into expert ideas. Instead, you can focus on the novices themselves. You can use their writing to teach them the next thing they need to know as novice historians, philosophers, or anthropologists. Given that they’re novices and you’re an expert, that thing is almost always obvious to you, although …