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Upcoming Faculty Advancement Series Events — Tuesday, February 26, 2008; 2:30 pm-3:30 pm Facilitator: Dr. André Oberlé (CTLE) One way to increase your effectiveness as a teacher is to consider that students learn more readily and retain much more if you incorporate active learning techniques. Active students remember and understand significantly more than their passive counterparts and perform bette r. Participants we will look at simple and practical ways to engage students in active learning, regardless of the class size. Refreshements will be served! Click Here to Register for the Event
— Thursday, February 28, 2008; 11:30 am-1:00 pm &nb sp; Developmental Use of Course Evaluations Facilitators: Dr. Marian Farrell (Nursing), Dr. Anthony Ferzola (Mathematics); Faculty Liaisons to the CTLE Please join the CTLE for a workshop that focuses on how faculty can use course evaluation results to enhance their teaching skills. The presentation and discussion will look at how to interpret student feedback on multiple-choice questions and open-ended comments. All faculty members are invited. A light lunch will be served. Click Here to Register for the Event — Thursday, March 6, 2008; 11:30 am-1:00 pm Designing Multiple-Choice Questions Facilitator: Eugeniu Grigorescu (CTLE) As the most versatile of all the objective types of items, multiple-choice questions are employed often in educational assessment. Crafting good questions with plausible distractors and homogenous alternatives requires skill and practice. An item analysis presents information provides clues regarding difficulty, discrimination, and coverage of learning targets. This presentation provides theoretical approaches and practical examples of generating and interpreting the results of multiple-choice questions. A light lunch will be served. Click Here to Register for the Event — Thursday, March 13, 2008; 11:30 am-1:00 pm Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Raising Awareness for Invisible Disabilities. Facilitators: Dr.Tom Smith, Bob Liskovicz (Counseling), Mary Ellen Pichiarello (CTLE), Jim Muniz (CTLE) Students in your classrooms may have hidden disabilities. How do you know? How do you deal with this? We hope to answer some of these questions at our workshop. A light lunch will be served. Click Here to Register for the Event — Wednesday, March 26, 2008; 2:30 pm-3:30 pm Facilitator: Dr. André Oberlé (CTLE) The old adage says: “We le arn from our mistakes.” There is conclusive evidence that students learn better and get a deeper understanding of the subject matter and the process of investigation if they have received consistently meaningful feedback from their instructor. Not only do students learn better, but their satisfaction with the learning in a course increases dramatically. This workshop will explore how we can turn grading into a formative exercise. Refreshment will be served. Click Here to Register for the Event
— Thursday, April 10, 2008; 11:30 am-1:00 pm Facilitator: Dr. David Liskov (Staff Psychiatrist), Dr. Tom S mith & Bob Liskowicz (Counselling) Dr. David Liskov will present a brief overview on a variety of psychotropic medications. He will also be having an open forum discussion on how psychotropic medications are being used by the college population. Emphasis will be placed on medication management, accommodations, and a team-based approach to help college students succeed. A light lunch will be served. Click Here to Register for the Event —Thursday, May 1, 2008; 11:30 am-1:00 pm Facilitator: Dr. Barry Joe (Brock University) Young people communicate continuously. You see them texting and talking on their cell phones; you see them immersed in virtual worlds on the computer. This workshop will look at some of the aspects of social networking—such as blogs, wikis, Facebook, Google Docs—and explore how these media could be harnessed to enhance teaching and learning. There will be a hands-on component to this workshop. A light lunch will be served. Click Here to Register for the Event —Thursday, May 22, 2008; 11:30am-1:00 pm Speaker: Linda G. Mesavage, ATP Pennsylvania's Higher Education Assistive Technology(HEAT) Lending Program, a component of Pennslyvania's Assistive Technology Lending Library, provides free loans of assistive technology to students with disabilities attending any of Pennsylvania's post-secondary schools. Specialized equipment may be borrowed for up to one entire semester(16 weeks). HEAT is funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Click Here to Register for the Event
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