Greetings! Learning@Lehman offers a glance at recent perspectives in teaching and learning, posts reminders of this week’s faculty development opportunities, and describes a teaching strategy to increase student success.
Teaching and learning perspectives:
How Do You Measure a Good Teacher, Anyway:
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Do-You-Measure-a-Good/233904
The Uses of Ignorance
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Uses-of-Ignorance/233858
Increasing Student Engagement and Assessing the Value of an Online Collaboration Tool: The Case of VoiceThread
Faculty development activities:
Refugee Lives at Risk/Citizen Rights Denied: Frontline Stories from Greece, Uganda, Central America, and the Dominican Republic
Wednesday, November 4, 11-2, East Dining Room
Academic Works: Repository for Lehman Scholarship and Creative Work
(sponsored by the Leonard Lief Library)
Wednesday, November 4, 12:30-2 p.m., Leonard Lief Library
“Cultural Racism in the Obama Era” (sponsored by African and African American Studies)
Thursday, November 5, 12:30-2 p.m., Speech and Theatre
Thinking through Quality Questioning workshop
(please RSVP to gina.foster@lehman.cuny.edu)
Friday, November 6, 10-2, Carman B81
This week’s teaching strategy:
Empty Outlines: An empty outline provides the learner with a handout or screen document in which the organization of knowledge for a particular concept, skill, chapter, or course has been pre-determined by the instructor. Some of the information in the outline is deliberately omitted so that the learner can complete the outline using notes, text or other references, and memory, thus reinforcing what has been learned and the structure in which the instructor wants the learner to retain.
Questions? Comments? Stop by Old Gym 118 for more resources and discussion or email Gina Rae Foster <gina.foster@lehman.cuny.edu>
