"Tenacious Reflection," with Dr. Amy Hodges Hamilton, University Capstone Coordinator, Belmont University.
This presentation included discussion of Belmont's capstone course as it relates to Gen Ed, the SLOs they use, an overview of the types of assignments used, and examples of student work. Dr. Hamilton's work can inform the Integrative Experience on our campus.
Zoom Recording coming soon.
"Grand Challenges at URI: The Good, the Bad, and the Exciting Opportunity!" with Rachel DiCioccio, University of Rhode Island
PowerPoint: Grand Challenges at URI: The Good, the Bad, and the Exciting Opportunity!
Zoom Recording of Event; Passcode: V7+C5+^I
URI Grand Challenge (Web Page)
Sample Syllabus for a Grand Challenge course: TMD 103G: Textiles, Fashion and Sustainability
"Teaching First Year Seminars at Goucher College: Reflections and Insights" with Germán Mora & Kendall Kennison, Goucher College
PDF of the PowerPoint: "Teaching First Year Seminars at Goucher College: Reflections and Insights"
Zoom Recording of Event Part I
Zoom Recording of Event Part II
"The Vertical Writing Model" with Beth Carroll, Appalachian State University
Zoom Recording of Event Passcode: 3BY4u?g@
In 2009, Appalachian State faculty revised their general education program to include a vertical writing curriculum, taught by composition faculty and by faculty in the disciplines, and supported by the Writing Across the Curriculum program. Based on best practices from WAC and writing scholarship, the vertical writing curriculum was awarded the CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence and recognized as a model for integrating writing in general education and disciplinary curricular systems. This presentation will describe the structure and development of the vertical writing model, as well as our findings from assessment of the curriculum over the past twelve years.
"Current Trends in Liberal Education Curricular Design: Exploring Rationales and Implications" with Paul Hanstedt of Washington & Lee University
This presentation provides a quick but comprehensive look at current trends in liberal education curricular design—the causes for these trends, and some of the consequences and benefits for front-line faculty and their students. Attendees will leave with a clear sense of what's happening across the country--and around the world--and how some of these ideas might relate to the conversation at Westfield State.
Paul Hanstedt has been thinking and writing about general education for the last two decades beginning with his work in the classroom and extending to a Fulbright in Hong Kong. His book General Education Essentials (2012) has just been accepted for a second edition and he's worked with dozens of campuses across the U.S. and in Asia. He is also the author of Creating Wicked Students, and the recipient of several teaching awards including, most recently, the CASE-Carnegie 2014 Virginia Professor of the Year.
Two publications of Dr. Hanstedt's:
Way That Treats Them as Uninterested, Unintellectual and Incapable."
"The Many Benefits of Project-Based Learning" Presented by Kris Wobbe of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Through this interactive workshop you will see examples of integrative projects that not only provide avenues to learning content, but also develop important professional skills such as teamwork, communication, problem solving and presenting. You will hear of the benefits project-based learning can provide to students, faculty and their institutions. WPI has over 50 years of project-based learning experience, Join and learn from their experience and have a chance to envision how you might adapt or adopt ideas, activities and assessments for your own courses.
"Crafting Learning Goals and Identifying Common Ground: Building Faculty Consensus" Presented by Cynthia Bair Van Dam and Brad Knight of American University Zoom Recording of Event
Is it possible to design and implement a general education program that students will appreciate and faculty can enjoy? This session will introduce American University’s new core curriculum. The AU Core is an inquiry-based and scaffolded curriculum that begins with a first-year experience and foundational skills, highlights essential habits of mind, then integrates these skills and habits with the student's major, culminating in a capstone. But how did we get from a distribution requirement to an integrative curriculum? How did we review and approve over 500 new courses and widespread faculty, staff, and student participation? Moreover, how did we pull this off with a shoe-string budget and without disrupting faculty lines? Come join us as we share our approach toward reimagining general education and the lessons we learned along the way.
"Telling Our Story of General Education Reform." (Zoom Recording) Presented by Heather Lettner-Rust, Writing and Rhetoric Coordinator and Director of Civitae with Sharon Emerson-Stonnell, Professor of Mathematics of Longwood University
If you missed the Virtual Q&A Session with Drs. Emerson-Stonnell and Lettner-Rust from Longwood University, please take time to review the Zoom Recording.
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Program Name: The Civitae Curriculum (implemented 2018) 4574 undergrads Gen Ed director Heather Lettner-Rust and gen ed reform committee director Sharon Emerson-Stonnell |
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