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Making Learning Visible
 

Assessing, Documenting, and Advancing Teaching

(The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning)

Do you want to:

  • advance your teaching?

  • demonstrate and document your effectiveness as an instructor in your promotion and tenure portfolio?

  • more fully engage your students?

  • assess and understand what classroom strategies are most likely to help students meet course outcomes?

  • conduct and publish pedagogic research in your discipline?

The Making Learning Visible Series is designed to help faculty assess the efficacy of classroom strategies, document the effectiveness of their teaching, share effective strategies with peers, and demonstrate exemplary teaching in the promotion and tenure portfolio.

There will be two Making Learning Visible Series:

 
 
 

Making Learning Visible: 

A Beginning Exploration of Assessing and Documenting your Teaching

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This series of five sessions is for faculty interested in exploring how to assess, document, and advance effective teaching and student learning. 

The series is centered on discussion of the book Inquiry into the College Classroom:  A journey toward scholarly teaching by Paul Savory, Amy Nelson Burnett, and Amy Goodburn.
The publisher describes this book as a practical how-to-guide and “an invaluable resource for planning and conducting classroom research-formulating questions and hypotheses, defining a data collection methodology, collecting data, measuring the impact, and documenting the results.  Inquiry into the College Classroom is filled with richly illustrative examples that highlight how university faculty from a range of academic disciplines have performed scholarly inquiries in their teaching."



Series Goals: 

1. To advance faculty skills in assessing, documenting, and demonstrating effective teaching strategies.

2. To provide peer consultation and University support to faculty working on teaching assessment and documentation project(s).


Days & Times:  Fridays, 9:00am - 10:00am 

Dates:   2/3, 2/17, 3/2, 3/30, 4/13

Location:  LIB 304 (CAFE Conference Room, third floor of the Library next to the Dean's office)


Convener:   

Audio-conferencing is available for most events.  Please email request to Liisa at liisa@uaa.alaska.edu at least 48 hours in advance.

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Making Learning Visible:  Portfolio Development

  Making Learning Visible"Teaching university-level courses is a form of serious intellectual work that can be as challenging and demanding as discovery research. When teaching is undertaken as a form of inquiry into the impact a course has on student understanding, the quality and depth of this work can be revealed through writing that reflects the relation between the process of teaching and its results." (Bernstein, p. 215).

How do you know if you are an effective teacher? The Making Learning Visible portfolio development series offers faculty the opportunity to produce evidence of teaching effectiveness that goes beyond IDEA survey results. Findings can be used as evidence of scholarly teaching in promotion and tenure reviews.

We have scheduled 4 sessions this fall for faculty interested in creating and implementing a classroom inquiry plan.  Faculty will have the opportunity to place a course portfolio documenting the inquiry on a CAFE maintained website (http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/portfolios/index.cfm) to share with UAA colleagues and beyond.

Together we will explore the processes of:

·           Developing a hypothesis for the inquiry (what do you want to change or introduce in a class and what impact will it have on student learning?)

·           Creating an investigative plan (what evidence will you collect to determine the impact of the change?)

·           Submitting your inquiry plan for IRB approval

·           Sharing the results of your inquiry on-line, at professional conferences, or in discipline specific pedagogy journals

·           Using the classroom inquiry process to document efforts to improve teaching and student learning for inclusion in your faculty review file.

Days & Times:  Friday's, 8:30am - 10:30am

Location:  GHH 103

Dates:   2/3, 2/17, 3/2, 3/23

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Registration required. Please take a moment to register for the series below.

 
Making Learning Visible: A beginning dialogue book discussion group    
Making Learning Visible:  Portfolio Develpment