Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Mini Grant Proposals Deadline

If you haven't submitted your Mini-Grant Proposal, you want to do so right away. The Deadline for submission is, Monday, April 4th, 2011.

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On Course Workshop

If you were one of the lucky people to attend the On Course 1 Workshop on March 17 & 18, 2011, let us know what you thought.

Conference Articles

Several of you have attended Conferences this semester, and we need your articles. It would be nice to see yours in the April Student Success Newsletter.

Student Success Newsletter

Hopefully you are having a restful Spring Break. For your reading enjoyment, click on the link below and enjoy the March Student Success Newsletter.

Volume 3-Issue 6: March 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

USING “FAMILY GROUPS” IN PSYCH 48 – FAMILY THERAPY

By Janice Takahashi, Student Success/Student Learning Outcomes Coordinator, Professor
San Joaquin Delta College

Over the winter break I thought about how I could better teach and engage my students in the learning process. I was not satisfied with the depth of their learning, especially since most of these students were preparing for careers as paraprofessionals in counseling. In spite of the fact that there are individual reflective writing assignments, individual hands-on creative projects and contextualized examples of theoretical information presented in my lectures, learning was still on the surface. I thought about group work projects instead of individual projects, additional assignments and different ways of giving feedback and then I stopped. I realized that I was going about it in all the wrong ways.

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How Rubrics Help Students Learn

Some history professors at Utah State have mapped out learning objectives, creating a detailed scoring guide for student papers. Here is how three seniors who are history majors say they have used the rubrics, which spell out how the professor will judge their mastery of specific skills and knowledge.

By Kristin Murphy for The Chronicle for Higher Education, November 28, 2010

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