2009-10 Scholars Announced

The Center is pleased to name four new CATL Scholars for 2009-2010:

• Jessie Moore, English

• Ayesha Delpish, Mathematics;

• Brooke Barnett and Ken Calhoun, Communications.

> Read about their projects.

2008 POD

Conference

Session Highlights

Session Summary

Size Matters:

Implications for Program Assessment

 
Assessing our work is crucial to improving programs and services, and to building and maintaining institutional support. Assessment requires time and resources, both of which are limited in smaller programs and centers, where staff often serve multiple roles.

This session examined assessment issues faced by smaller programs and centers, such as defining purpose and expectations, involving the right people, doing the actual assessment, and using and communicating the results. The session also explored how assessment in small centers and programs can be informed by, and serve as models for, similar work at larger centers.

Winter Term Offerings

During Winter Term the Center offers reading groups, course development groups, individual consultations, and workshops. Reading groups will include articles on lecturing, leading discussions, and teaching thinking, and also a short, provocative book on mindful learning.

Reading Groups

• A discussion about

Teaching Thinking

by Elizabeth Minnich (2003)

• A discussion about

Peer Instruction: Engaging Students One-on-One, All at Once

by Catherine H. Crouch

and Eric Mazur (2007)

• A discussion about

The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways to Start

by Peter Frederick (1981)

• 2 meetings about

The Power of Mindful Learning

by Ellen Langer (1998)

Course Development

Working Group
CDWG is for faculty who are creating new or revising existing courses for the spring (or the future). This process involves interdisciplinary groups of faculty, usually 4 faculty per group.

Integrated Course Design Workshop
2 half-day workshops on January 12, hosted by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Greensboro College based on Dee Fink’s excellent book Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003).

> More about Winter Term

> Session Outline

> A Vision Beyond Measurement

> Evaluation Process Diagram

> Evaluation and Continuous

   Improvement (PDF)

> Evaluation and Continuous

   Improvement (PPT)

> Evaluation matrix

> The Elevator Speech

> Presenter institutions

> Principles of Good Practice

> Program Assessment Points

> Notes from the Session

Presented at POD & ISSOTL

ETLP: Using SoTL Inquiry to Connect High School and University Teachers

The Elon Teaching and Learning Project (ETLP) began with the question: What happens when teacher-scholars come together across disciplines and across teaching levels to create a collaborative community of inquiry?  This poster session describes observations of the project midway through its first year.

> ETLP Project Poster