This year, our format will encompass three different topical areas:
Institutional Assessment Informing Practice,The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Managing Incivility, Disruuptive Student Behaviors, and Campus Safety..
We will have a panel format for each of the strands.Each are defined below.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is a "systematic and thoughtful investigation of student learning for purposes of improving practice and student success,” with a major focus on making results public (like other scholarship) in order for others to critique and build upon. Topics might include:
Increasing student engagement in their own learning
Translating research on how people learn into instructional practice
Investigating the impact of new approaches to teaching and learning
Describing specific methodologies being used to collect evidence of student learning
Gathering and discussing actual student work as a basis for determining successful outcomes
Developing “rubrics” to assess various student learning outcomes
Constructing evidence to convince others that “deep learning” is being achieved
Using case studies and/or problem-based learning to develop critical thinking and inquiry skills
The wider issues of student learning and ongoing institutional improvement are critical and challenging, given the collective responsibility and collaboration required. This thread focuses on those larger issues of assessment. Topics might include:
Connecting assessment inquiries with meaningful changes in institutional practice
Using alternative assessments to support the learning styles of diverse student populations
Engaging a broad range of faculty (both full- and part-time) in the collective work needed to address college-wide outcomes
Designing effective plans for assessing learning at a program level or in an academic major
Using various self-assessment strategies to foster student reflection, explore perspectives on college-wide outcomes, and “make learning visible”
Incorporating meaningful assessment work into ongoing accreditation efforts
Innovative assessment that transforms curriculum
Student/faculty collaborations in course/program assessment
Developing assessment strategies/models for learning communities/group work
Recent incidents at college campuses across the country have brought a harsh spotlight on the complex and challenging issue of effectively dealing with students that exhibit behavioral problems as a result of mental illnesses and other underlying factors. Topics might include:
Defining the growing incivility and disruptive behavior exhibited by college students
Defining the rights of the disruptive student, faculty members and other class participants
Steps where Student Affairs professionals (counselors, police) can assist faculty to help resolve conflict to ensure the safety and security of all members of the community college campus community.
Proper verbal and written responses to angry students
Proper steps in disengaging classroom incivility
Balancing the inclusion of students who exhibit disruptive behaviors into the classroom as well as the college campus
Proposals due
Nomination of self or person to be involved in panel (limit to 250 words).
What important information would this person bring to the panel?
Notification will be made by June 20, 2006.