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Volume 14, Number 01, G. William Hill Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 14, Number 01 of Reaching Through Teaching.

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 2001, New England Faculty Development Consortium

New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Jeff Halprin, Nichols College

Teaching Through Disaster - Matt Ouellett, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

From the Editor - Sue Barrett, Boston College

Connecticut College Responds to September 11 - Michael Reder, Connecticut College

Annual NEFDC Fall 2001 Conference; theme: Higher Education After Technology: Faculty Work In a Wired World; keynote speaker: Randy Bass, Georgetown University; Friday, November 16th, 2001, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

Spirit of Teaching - Bill Searle, Asnuntuck Community College

The Hope Photographs -Sue Barrett, Boston College

Board of Directors

Teaching In Action: Multicultural Education As The Highest Form Of Understanding, Christine A. Stanley

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

To enhance the multicultural understanding of students, this essay offers conceptions and suggestions relating to course and curricular change. We can indeed all practice multicultural teaching!

Cooperative Learning: May The Circle Be Unbroken, Barbara J. Millis

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Fueled by new discoveries in cognitive development and the thrust toward active learning in general, cooperative learning in higher education is now widely accepted and widely practiced.

Academic Service-Learning: Myths, Challenges, And Recommendations, Jeffrey Howard

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

This essay reviews the essential elements of curriculum-based service-learning – meaningful community service, enhanced student learning, and preparation for democratic citizenship – as well as myths, challenges, and recommendations associated with this pedagogy.

Exploring Student Expectations, Janet Gail Donald, James Wilkinson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

What do professors need to know about students to empower them as learners? We explore the dimensions of understanding students in terms of their goals, roles and the way they spend their time.

Teaching With Hospitality, John B. Bennett

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Fortunately, hospitality is practiced more than it is preached. A cardinal academic virtue, hospitality is essential in the classroom as well as in relationships with colleagues. This essay looks at why this is so.

Emotion Inthe Classroom, Edward Vela

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Theories of cognition give little attention to the role of emotion. Nevertheless, affect is intimately involved in learning. As educators we must understand emotional aspects of the learning environment.

Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters, John D. Knowlton

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Provenance: Donated by Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter in 1999. Ownership & Literary Rights: The Harriet Sweetser Letters are the physical property of the University of Southern Maine Library. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the creator or his legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Head of Special Collections. Cite as: Harriet Sweetser Letters, Special Collections, University of Southern Maine Libraries. Restrictions on access: This collection is open for research.

Integrating Learning Strategies Into Teaching, Terry Doyle

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Students often lack the strategies needed to effectively learn course content. Integrating the teaching of “learning how to learn” strategies into course content is the best way for students to be successful.

Classroom Asessment: Guidelines For Success, Thomas A. Angelo

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

This essay defines and gives examples of Classroom Assessment and Classroom Research and provides guidelines for faculty based upon 15 years of research and practice.

Transforming Technology Management Courses For Web Delivery, Wayne Wakeland

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper explores the ramifications of using web technology in teaching technology management courses, computer-based modeling and simulation courses in particular. The emphasis is on what works, but disappointments are also mentioned. Web technology is being used to supplant lectures with self-paced materials and lab exercises that enable students to take courses remotely and asynchronously. Web-based exams are also discussed.

Volume 13, Number 02, Don Forrester Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 13, Number 02 of Reaching Through Teaching.

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2000, New England Faculty Development Consortium

New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Matt Ouellet, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Adult Learning Theory Informs Authentic Assessment - Ellen L. Nuffer, Keene State College

News from Vermont: New Faculty Orientation - Thomas S. Edwards, Castelton College

Teaching for a Change Conference, June 12-14, 2000, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

News from Massachusetts: Using Technology to Promote Active Learning - Bill Heineman, Northern Essex Community College

Searching for Great Assignments - Jeffrey Halprin, Nichols College

Call for papers; Community College Journal of Research and Practice

News from Maine: Discussion as a Way of Teaching - James Berg, University of Maine

Virginia …

Higher Level Learning: A Taxonomy For Identifying Different Kinds Of Significant Learning, L. Dee Fink

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

An in-depth look at strategies for Higher Level Learning.

Helping Students (Better) Evaluate And Validate Www Resources, David L. Graf

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Faculty need strategies to assure that students can process information from the WWW responsibly. Such strategies include developing web-savvy assignments and requiring demonstration of critical review of the material.

The Legacy Of John Dewey, David Halliburton

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

John Dewey’s educational legacy embraces wide-ranging views on the relation of teaching to learning and to other key issues in education.

Fostering Students' Moral Development, Lion F. Gardiner

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

The development of students’ ethical behavior has been an aim of college faculty for centuries. This essay reviews research and ways of fostering principled ethical reasoning.

Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside Of Class, Graham Gibbs

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Shifting focus from teaching to Learning includes shifting attention from in-class to out-of-class learning activity. This essay offers strategies for understanding and controlling students’ outside learning activity.

Foundations Of Collaboration, Gail Goodyear Muir, Sally S. Blake

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Specific ideologies are forwarded by learning, socio-political, and religious theories using collaboration, consensus, and cooperation. Examination of the foundations of these processes reveals the values required of participants.

Creating An Inclusive Learning Environment, Terrie Nolinske

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Students bring differences relating to life experiences, attitudes, age, religion, discipline, and learning styles into the classroom. This essay offers strategies to promote diversity awareness and an inclusive learning environment.

Living Up To Expectations, Steven M. Richardson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

“Poor preparation” is often a symptom of mismatched expectations. By communicating expectations early and with a plan for offering help as needed, we can minimize these problems.

Volume 13, Number 01, Don Forrester Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 13, Number 01 of Reaching Through Teaching.

The Virtual University: Lessons From A Virtual Cross-Cultural Learning Situation In International Management, Mikael Søndergaard, Jeanette Lemmergaard, Paul Donnelly, Marta B. Cálas

Conference papers

This paper addresses some issues regarding virtual learning and the future of traditional universities. Specifically, it considers these issues by reflecting on the following: First, it focuses on the repercussions of information technologies for teaching and learning in "cross-cultural" courses. It critically assesses, via three recent examples, how these approaches influence teaching and learning in the context of international management courses. Second, drawing from the above examples, the paper reflects more broadly on the implications of these technologies: (1) for new forms of knowing and knowledge production; and (2) for the future of institutional conditions of universities.

Volume 12, Number 02, Don Forrester Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 12, Number 02 of Reaching Through Teaching.

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 1999, New England Faculty Development Consortium

New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange

Contents

Developing New and Junior Faculty Careers - Mary Deane Sorcinelli. University of Massachusetts, Amherst

From the President - Susan J. Pasquale, Harvard Medical School

2nd Annual NEFDC Faculty Development Roundup May 26, 1999 Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire

Review: Two very different books of teaching cases - Jeffrey Halprin, Nichols College

Board of Directors

Listening In The Classroom: A Two-Way Street, Elisa Carbone

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Listening to our students creates a supportive environment in which students feel respected. If students feel respected and valued, they will be less afraid to ask questions, express opinions, and share insights; and they will be more likely to listen to each other during discussions. This is an environment conducive to the enhancement of learning.

It is well worth taking the time to teach students how to improve their listening habits. Let them know about the differential between thought speed and speech speed. Encourage them to do mental summaries of your lecture while you re speaking. Have them act out …

The Nature Of Expertise: Implication For Teachers And Teaching, Ronald A. Smith, Richard G. Tiberius

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

How do teachers become experts at teaching-at helping their students become experts? In a culture dependent on high performance, teachers need to understand the nature of the expertise that their students want to acquire as well as the nature of their own expertise. How we view expertise determines the goals we set for our students, as well as the standards we use to inform and measure our own development as experts in teaching.

The Uses Of Uncertainty In The College Classroom, Virginia S. Lee

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Psychological research has corroborated the importance of uncertainty to learning at the psychophysiological level. Recent studies in brain dynamics have demonstrated that the brain manifests an inherent variability that increases with the presentation of new stimuli. This psychophysiological uncertainty plays a significant catalytic role in learning, It opens up the organism to experience, causing it to investigate the environment with enhanced receptivity, preparing it for different behavioral actions, and facilitating the central processing and encoding of information received from such renewed exploration. Searching, exploring, and trial-and-error behaviors indicate psychophysiological uncertainty and accompany the appearance of reorganization, stability, and progressive development …

Class In The Classroom, Lee Warren

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Class is an often invisible form of difference. Yet it is there all the time, affecting how and what students learn at every turn. It pervades the values and the purposes of colleges and universities. It contributes to determining the courses offered and the books read and discussed. Still, it is a diversity issue rarely acknowledged.