Monday, September 6
Labor Day Holiday - No Classes
Tuesday, September 7
11:00 AM - Farmer's Market
College Center Lobby
11:30 - 11:50 AM - Reflections - Tim Ballard, Coordinator of Inter-Varsity
Ascension Chapel, 2nd Floor, Founders Hall
4:00 PM - Food Reads
Tredway Library
Wednesday, September 8
9:30 - 10:30 AM - Coffee and Conversation
Community Engagement Center, Sorensen Hall
12:00 - 1:00 PM - Bible Study with Pastor Priggie "Teachable Moments"
Bring a Bible, or one will be provided. Bring your lunch, if you wish
Chicago Room, College Center
9:30 PM - Evening Prayer & Holy Communion
Ascension Chapel, 2nd floor, Founders Hall
Thursday, September 9
10:30 - 11:30 AM - Convocation: "Bottlemania" author, Elizabeth Royte, explores the question, "Your're drinking What? Bottled water or tap..what's the difference and why should we care?"
Centennial Hall
11:30 - 12:30 - Faculty Senate Meeting
Hanson Science 102
Friday, September 10
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM - Women's and Gender Studies Center Open House
Old Main 225
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Pickin' & Pullin' Fridays at Augie Acres
6th Avenue between 32nd and 35th Street (up the hill west of Carver Center)
4:00 - 5:00 PM - Friday Conversations: "From Pilot to Passage: Mapping the Next Steps for the IDEA Center SRI"
3:30 PM - refreshments
Wilson Center
Child care available: contact Mary Koski
4:00 PM - Family Weekend
For more information visit http://www.augustana.edu/x14959.xml
Saturday, September 11
12:30 - 2:00 PM - Community Engagement Center Open House
Centennial Hall parking lot
Sunday, September 12
10:30 AM - Sunday Morning Worship
Ascension Chapel, 2nd Floor, Founders Hall
5:00 PM - Sunday Catholic Mass
Ascension Chapel, 2nd Floor, Founders Hall
Volume 8, Issue 3 - September 7, 2010ACTL
Greetings from the Center for Teaching and Learning.
I hope you had a restful Labor Day weekend.
I want to thank those of you who took the time to complete the Faculty Needs Assessment survey--all 120 of you! The results are very useful for both ACTL and Academic Affairs as we plan our activities for the year. While the results of the entire survey will soon be available at the ACTL moodle site, here is an overview of the results:
| Opportunity |
Very Interested/
Interested
|
Curious |
Slightly
Curious/Not
|
Blank
|
| Incorporating active learning strategies |
89 |
16 |
14 |
1
|
Designing effective classroom
assessment techniques |
83 |
23 |
13 |
1 |
| Using technology to enhance learning |
71 |
22 |
26 |
1 |
| Course design and curriculum development |
70 |
22 |
25 |
3 |
| Exploring student motivation theories |
61 |
30 |
28 |
1 |
Designing interdisciplinary courses/
team-teaching strategies |
57 |
28 |
33 |
2 |
Mentoring individual and small group
student research projects |
55 |
29 |
33 |
3 |
Exploring learning theories and/or
learning styles |
54 |
30 |
34 |
2 |
Designing service learning activiites to
promote civic engagement |
51 |
32 |
35 |
2 |
Incorporating writing across
the curriculum |
49 |
29 |
40 |
2 |
Incorporating speaking across
the curriculum |
44 |
31 |
45 |
0 |
| Designing online course materials |
39 |
28 |
53 |
0 |
Incorporating quantitative reasoning
across the curriculum |
32 |
26 |
60 |
2 |
| Videotaping a course for self-assessment |
29 |
28 |
61 |
2 |
| Videotaping a course for peer review |
19 |
28 |
71 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Watch your email for announcements of workshops based on these results!
Jon Clauss
Augustana Center for Teaching and Learning
