CETL Archives
Workshop Archive - Fall 2000
"Student Portfolios: A Systematic Approach to Portfolio Integration"
Facilitators: Bryan
Migyagishima, (LR & TS).
Date: Thurs., Nov.
16, 2000
Time: 10:00 a.m - 12:00 noon
Location:
Atwood - Glacier Room
Description: This workshop looks at a systematic evaluation of student expectations and projects for a class, with the result possibly being a student portfolio. Before requiring a student portfolio, faculty must ask themselves a number of questions, analyze their particular situation and course, and then determine whether a portfolio is feasible, based on their analysis. What is the student being asked to do for this class? Who "buys in" to this concept, the faculty member or the entire department? How extensive is the material to be covered? What type of material should be (and should not be) included in a portfolio? Is the portfolio evaluated, and if so, what criteria should be used? Is this a course-specific portfolio, or is it more an all-encompassing activity?
"Classroom Values: Identifying and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders"
Presenter: Dr.
George Farrah, SCSU Faculty Emeritus
Date: Wed.,
Nov. 29, 2000
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Atwood - Mississippi Room.
Description: One
aspiration of the University is to develop traits of leadership. Dr.
George Farrah has researched this topic for 25 years, and has been
able to identify students who were "high
risk." He has determined there are several ways of identifying those
students with leadership potential. Along with Farrah, Dr. Eugene
Perkins has explored individual students of rural or city background,
their social background, their awareness of the adolescent "angst",
and the value of congruency.
Faculty members will have a sharpened awareness of
their students' needs in terms of eight academic priorities - the
immediate versus the latent. In addition, via their personalized,
active, and dynamic mentoring to students, faculty will be able to
maximize talent, thus producing a difference in leadership. In the
long range, students involved in this type of mentoring will be encouraged
to develop skills, abilities and knowledge in terms of coping (dealing
with the unexpected); interacting (interpersonal relationships),
and applying (directly and smoothly using the skills of leadership).
"The MnSCU Learning by Doing Grants"
Facilitator: Dr. James Berg, Program Director
Date: Tue., Dec. 12, 2000
Time: 9:30 a.m.
- 10:45 a.m. & 11:00
a.m. -12:15 p.m.
Location: Miller Center Conference
Rooms 114/115
Description: MnSCU
and The Bush Foundation make available a substantial number of "Learning
by Doing" grants which support active learning.
During 1999-2000 MnSCU funded 51 projects in the system, including
technical, two-year, and four-year institutions. Think about how
one or more of your classes could be adapted to incorporate active
learning and consider applying for one of these grants. Jim
Berg, Program Director of Learning by Doing, will discuss the grant
options, guidelines for proposal submission, past projects which
received funding, and the "nuts and bolts" of submitting the proposal
application. He will also bring examples of previously funded projects,
including some from SCSU. Jerry Nolan, MnSCU CTL Technology Coordinator,
will share information about technology aspects of L.B.D. grants.
Additional information: http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/grants
