Teaching Excellence: Teaching Excellence:

Achieving Student Achieving Student Learning Through Learning Through Challenge & EngagementChallenge & EngagementHalyna Kornuta, Ed.D.Halyna Kornuta, Ed.D. Office of Assessment & Educational EffectivenessOffice of Assessment & Educational EffectivenessHenri Mondschein, M.A, M.L.S.Henri Mondschein, M.A, M.L.S. ISS/Pearson LibraryISS/Pearson Library

By the end of this CTL session, you will be By the end of this CTL session, you will be able to:able to:

Define Teaching ExcellenceDefine Teaching Excellence

Recognize focus on Student Challenge & Recognize focus on Student Challenge & EngagementEngagement

Describe ways to achieve teaching Describe ways to achieve teaching excellence by sharing strategies, excellence by sharing strategies, resources, research assignments and resources, research assignments and practical tips designed to increase practical tips designed to increase student challenge and engagement in student challenge and engagement in learninglearning

Today’s CTL SessionToday’s CTL Session

Teaching ExcellenceTeaching Excellence

1.1. What is teaching What is teaching excellence? excellence?

2.2. What does teaching What does teaching excellence look excellence look and/or sound like?and/or sound like?

Why challenge & Why challenge & engagement?engagement?

LinkagesLinkages

Teaching Excellence Teaching Excellence IndicatorsIndicators

Increasing Student Increasing Student Challenge & Challenge & EngagementEngagement

Engaging and Engaging and supporting all students supporting all students in learningin learning Resource Based Resource Based

LearningLearningUnderstanding and Understanding and organizing subject organizing subject matter for student matter for student learninglearning

Creating and Creating and maintaining effective maintaining effective environments for environments for student learningstudent learning

Campus Campus PartnershipsPartnerships

LinkagesLinkages

Teaching Excellence Teaching Excellence IndicatorsIndicators

Increasing Student Increasing Student Challenge & Challenge & EngagementEngagement

Planning instruction Planning instruction and designing learning and designing learning experiences for all experiences for all studentsstudents

Online Teaching Online Teaching ToolsTools

Assessing student Assessing student learninglearning

Assessment Assessment ResourcesResources

Developing as a Developing as a professional educatorprofessional educator

Professional Professional CollaborationCollaboration

Resource Based LearningResource Based Learning

Learning objects appeal to Millenials, Net Learning objects appeal to Millenials, Net Generation students, e.g. Generation students, e.g. http://libraries.stjohns.edu/ilt/ilt_home.http://libraries.stjohns.edu/ilt/ilt_home.htmlhtml

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(GEM)(GEM)

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Campus PartnershipsCampus Partnerships

Multidisciplinary partnershipsMultidisciplinary partnerships

-Collaborate on projects/assignments -Collaborate on projects/assignments

-English & Business-English & Business Faculty-Librarian partnershipsFaculty-Librarian partnerships

-Research skills & research assignments-Research skills & research assignments

-Avoiding plagiarism-Avoiding plagiarism

-Evaluating information-Evaluating information

-Using databases and library resources-Using databases and library resources

CLU Online Teaching Tools CLU Online Teaching Tools

ERes –Syllabi, ERes –Syllabi, assignments, readingsassignments, readings

WebCT –Online course WebCT –Online course contentcontent

ISS Online ISS Online ResourcesResources

Assessment ResourcesAssessment Resources

Determine student knowledge levelDetermine student knowledge level Provide learning outcomes for Provide learning outcomes for

students to accomplishstudents to accomplish Create learning checkpoint at end of Create learning checkpoint at end of

class sessionclass session Communicate expectations: RubricsCommunicate expectations: Rubrics Other assessment approaches?Other assessment approaches?

Professional Professional CollaborationCollaboration

Share successful Share successful assignments/learniassignments/learning resources ng resources

Merlot Merlot www.merlot.org www.merlot.org

This CTL session reviewed ways you can:This CTL session reviewed ways you can:

Define Teaching ExcellenceDefine Teaching Excellence Recognize focus on student engagementRecognize focus on student engagement

Describe ways to achieve teaching Describe ways to achieve teaching

excellence by sharing strategies, excellence by sharing strategies,

resources, research assignments and resources, research assignments and

practical tips designed to increase practical tips designed to increase

student challenge and engagement in student challenge and engagement in

learninglearning

In ReviewIn Review

Achieving Student Challenge Achieving Student Challenge & Engagement in Learning& Engagement in Learning

An invitation: An invitation: Try one strategy from this sessionTry one strategy from this session Share one strategy from this Share one strategy from this

session with a colleaguesession with a colleague

Teaching Excellence: Teaching Excellence:

Achieving Student Learning Through Achieving Student Learning Through Challenge & EngagementChallenge & Engagement

March 2006March 2006Written and produced byWritten and produced by

Halyna Kornuta, Ed.D.Halyna Kornuta, Ed.D.hkornuta@clunet.edu 3658hkornuta@clunet.edu 3658

Henri Mondschein, M.A, M.L.S.Henri Mondschein, M.A, M.L.S.mondsche@clunet.edu 3012mondsche@clunet.edu 3012