Jan 14, 2019
Winter Conference was led this year by Georgetown University’s Dr. Randy Bass. Dr. Bass gave a talk in the morning entitled “Higher Education and the Future of Human Learning.” In his talk, he spoke of what education needs to look like as we move...
Dec 11, 2018
Instead, THIS THURSDAY, you can join your colleagues for a night of pizza, salad, motivational prizes, and good company as you dig into those final tests and essays. Join CIE, EMT and the Osterlin Library for The Long Night of Grading (or as Tom Gordon likes to call...
Nov 26, 2018
The end of the semester is in sight. We have two more weeks of class and then finals week, and we know that that means–GRADING! But you don’t have to grade alone. Instead, you can join your colleagues for a night of pizza, salad, motivational prizes, and good...
Nov 12, 2018
Last year, when my daughter was a freshman in college and having a really hard time, she would complain to me about everything. She was unable to see anything good about her college, her new city, her life far from home. So I pulled out a strategy I used to use when...
Nov 6, 2018
Last Friday’s Friday Forum focused on using reflection and metacognition in the classroom. We talked about using student reflection for two purposes: 1) instructor’s information–we can use student reflection to assess learning, pacing, and/or achievement of...
