Curriculum
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The CEITL team identified five broad categories for our curriculum: understanding student characteristics, facilitating student learning, assessment, technology, and special topics. We plan to offer programming to address the goals for each area over a three-year cycle.
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[edit] Understanding Student Characteristics
Faculty members will recognize and address cultural attitudes that effect learning and educational success, including
- Racial and ethnic influences
- Socio-economic situations and influences
- The First Year Experience and where students are in their education
- Sex, gender, and sexual orientation
- Disabilities
Faculty members will identify learner characteristics, including
- Multiple Intelligences
- Learning styles
- Approaches to learning
- Cognitive styles
- Motivation
[edit] Facilitating Student Learning
Faculty will
- Incorporate active learning, service learning, and experiential learning in courses
- Manage student behavior in the classroom
- Motivate students
- Teach across disciplinary skills
- Sequence course material appropriately
- Identify and address barriers to student learning
- Facilitate instruction based on learning styles and multiple intelligences.
[edit] Assessment
Faculty will
- Differentiate between formative and summative assessment
- Distinguish assessment from evaluation
- Understand the difference between a learning objective and a learning outcome
- Know why assessment is done
- Identify appropriate assessment tools
- Plan and implement assessment
- Understand the assessment outcomes
- Correlate assessment with learning objectives
- Use a variety of assessment measures
[edit] Technology
Faculty will use technology to
- Develop learning materials
- Present information
- Facilitate communication and collaboration
- Assess student learning
- Conduct research
- Maintain records
- Perform administrative functions by interacting with our student information system (CARS)
- Stay current with developments in their technology
[edit] Special Topics
The special topics category is reserved for those topics that do not fit in any of the four other curriculum categories. Examples include:
- How to deal with stress.
- How to prepare for retirement.
- How to be an effective listener.
- How to be an effective participant at meetings.
- How to write a successful self-evaluation.
