May Institute 2009

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Integrated Course Design (Fink)

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Revised Schedule May 19 only

"Theirs, Mine and Ours: Meeting Collective Objectives through Comprehensive Assessment"

Tuesday May 19
9:00 am – 4:00 pm including coffee and lunch

Followed by the Finger Lakes Project, Thursday May 21 and Friday May 22
Clark Lounge, Ithaca College Campus Center

Register online here

Presented by the Ithaca College Faculty Learning Community and the Center for Faculty Excellence; supported by the Office of the Provost

Why is this good for the College?
It will increase faculty capacity to build and carry out assessment plans that are

• Authentic to measure learning outcomes including institutional priorities such as diversity- related goals
• Effective to guide individual and departmental actions
• Efficient to carry out as part of regular work, using tools such as rubrics
• Productive for individual or collaborative scholarship in teaching and learning. (SoTL)
  

Why is it good for ME?
Are you any or all of these?

• Charged with your department's assessment plan?
• Designing or redesigning learning objectives for your own courses?
• Making your grading more efficient and effective?
• Using assessment as a form of scholarship?

I will be more able to:

• Interpret departmental learning objectives in relation to specific courses I teach
• Devise assignments and grading strategies to measure particular objectives
• Integrate diversity issues in course design and program assessment
• Engage in scholarly projects as part of my assessment work

Sessions: Participants can select any or all of the independent but linked interactive sessions
please download pdf program for a color-coded version.

Tuesday May 19

• But my department did our plan …. now we have to do even harder objectives?

  • Designing and assessing significant learning: using L. Dee Fink’s typology of goals for significant learning to frame measurable objectives and useful assignments

• But my courses aren’t about diversity!

  • Framing objectives and assessments about attitude change

Format: Half-day sessions with breakfast and lunch included. Each session features:

• Panel of faculty who describe their work in the topic area
  • Each panel represents a focus area for course design and assessment
    • theoretical and first steps
    • individual course perspective
    • department/institutional perspective
• Each panelist facilitates a small-group discussion among those sharing the focus area       

 Faculty Learning Community:

Margie Arnold, Recreation and Leisure Studies
Danette Johnson, Speech Communication
Susanne Morgan, Sociology
Pat Spencer, Writing
John Sigg, Exercise and Sports Sciences

 Registration

Please register and indicate the sessions you plan to attend. You are welcome to join for lunch before the afternoon session if you wish. You can register online here