Classroom Assessment Techniques, Thomas A. Angelo and Patricia Cross

This handbook offers teachers at all levels of experience detailed, how-to advice on classroom assessment—from what it is and how it works to planning, implementing, and analyzing assessment projects. The authors illustrate their approach through twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects. Read more

Dates: September 13, 5-6 pm. (Organizational meeting)

Conveners: Stephane Booth, Associate Provost, & Jeffrey Pellegrino, fpdc

 

Teaching with Your Mouth Shut, Donald Finkel

In Teaching with Your Mouth Shut, Finkel proposes a . . . vision of teaching that is deeply democratic in its implications. Each chapter in this book presents a case study, a story, or a sustained image of a teaching situation—a set of "circumstances" that produces significant learning in students. Each makes sense of the title of the book in a particular way. Each enriches its meaning by one increment. The idea of "teaching with your mouth shut" is explored, exemplified, and varied to such an extent that it ultimately specifies a comprehensible approach to teaching—along with a host of concrete teaching possibilities. In the end, not only will your notion of good teaching be transformed, but so too your sense of what may be signified by the word "teaching" itself. More

Dates: September 18, September 25, October 2, October 9, 9-10:30 am.

Convener: Babacar M'Baye, English

 

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Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks. . . writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal. More

Dates: October 4, October 11, October 18, October 25, 3-4:30 pm.

Convener: Mary Beth Sullivan, English

 

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The Learning Paradigm College, John Tagg

The Learning Paradigm College presents a new lens through which faculty and administrators can see their own institutions and their own work. The book examines existing functional frameworks and offers a way to reenvision and recast many familiar aspects of college work and college life, so that readers may better understand their learners and move toward a framework that focuses on learning outcomes. Divided into five parts, the book introduces the Learning Paradigm, concentrates on understanding our learners, provides a framework for producing learning, discusses the six essential features of the Learning Paradigm college, and focuses on how to become a Learning Paradigm college. Read more

Dates: Tuesdays October 16, 23, 30 and November 13, 10-11 am

Conveners: Ray Craig & Chip Ingram

 

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Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing, Sharon Merriam, ed.

This book introduces systems of knowing and learning different from the Western educational tradition. This book contains chapters on Native American Indigenous Knowledge, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Maori, Latin American Perspectives and African Indigenous Knowledge, which acquaint readers with alternative understandings of learning. More

Dates: Wednesdays, October 24,31, November 7, 14, 12-1pm

Instructor: Joey Nicoletti, English

 

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