Teaching Excellence:
Achieving Student Learning
Through Challenge &
Engagement
Halyna Kornuta, Ed.D.
Office of Assessment & Educational Effectiveness
Henri Mondschein, M.A, M.L.S.
ISS/Pearson Library
Today’s CTL Session
By the end of this CTL session, you will be able
to:
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Define Teaching Excellence
Recognize focus on Student Challenge &
Engagement
Describe ways to achieve teaching excellence
by sharing strategies, resources, research
assignments and practical tips designed to
increase student challenge and engagement
in learning
Teaching Excellence
1.
What is teaching
excellence?
2.
What does teaching
excellence look and/or
sound like?
Why challenge & engagement?
Linkages
Teaching Excellence
Indicators
Engaging and supporting
all students in learning
Understanding and
organizing subject matter
for student learning
Creating and maintaining
effective environments for
student learning
Increasing Student
Challenge & Engagement
Resource Based
Learning
Campus
Partnerships
Linkages
Teaching Excellence
Indicators
Planning instruction and
designing learning
experiences for all
students
Assessing student learning
Developing as a
professional educator
Increasing Student
Challenge & Engagement
Online Teaching
Tools
Assessment
Resources
Professional
Collaboration
Resource Based Learning
Learning objects appeal to Millenials, Net
Generation students, e.g.
http://libraries.stjohns.edu/ilt/ilt_home.html
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http://www.wisc-online.com/index.htm
http://www.ilumina-dlib.org/
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
http://www.thegateway.org/
Campus Partnerships
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Multidisciplinary partnerships
-Collaborate on projects/assignments
-English & Business
Faculty-Librarian partnerships
-Research skills & research assignments
-Avoiding plagiarism
-Evaluating information
-Using databases and library resources
CLU Online Teaching Tools
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ERes –Syllabi, assignments,
readings
WebCT –Online course
content
ISS Online Resources
Assessment Resources
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Determine student knowledge level
Provide learning outcomes for
students to accomplish
Create learning checkpoint at end of
class session
Communicate expectations: Rubrics
Other assessment approaches?
Professional Collaboration
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Share successful
assignments/learning
resources
Merlot
www.merlot.org
In Review
This CTL session reviewed ways you can:
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Define Teaching Excellence
Recognize focus on student engagement
Describe ways to achieve teaching excellence
by sharing strategies, resources, research
assignments and practical tips designed to
increase student challenge and engagement
in learning
Achieving Student Challenge &
Engagement in Learning
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An invitation:
Try one strategy from this session
Share one strategy from this session
with a colleague
Teaching Excellence:
Achieving Student Learning Through
Challenge & Engagement
March 2006
Written and produced by
Halyna Kornuta, Ed.D.
hkornuta@clunet.edu
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Henri Mondschein, M.A, M.L.S.
mondsche@clunet.edu
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