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Enoch Hale

Home · The Praxis Network - 0 views

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    "Praxis Network programs are allied but differently-inflected humanities education initiatives, mainly focused on graduate training, and all engaged in rethinking pedagogy and campus partnerships in relation to the digital. Among other elements, the initiatives emphasize new models of methodological training and collaborative research. Each program exists within a particular ecosystem of disciplinary expectations, institutional needs, available resources, leadership styles, and specific challenges."
Yin Wah Kreher

Cross-Training for the Brain | Vitae - 1 views

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    "What we have traditionally referred to as the "core curriculum" in reality is nothing less than cross-training for the brain."
Jonathan Becker

Hook and Eye: Professionalization and the Skillz to Pay the Bills - 0 views

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    "We can do better by our students. The number one thing would be to inculcate the idea of the university *as* a workplace, and all of us as professionals in it. And of course, many professors (me!) need a lot more training in the mechanics of the workplace than we ever get. The next, and much easier thing, would be to offer opportunities to acquire basic workplace technical skills: using software, running meetings, emailing like a grownup, navigating the org chart."
Robin Hurst

Planning & Evaluating - 0 views

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    This is a government website, but does provide insight into planning and evaluating training.
Tom Woodward

dy/dan » Blog Archive » [Fake World] Culture Beats Curriculum - 0 views

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    "If your students worship grades, they won't complete assignments without knowing how many points it's worth. If they worship stickers and candy, they won't work without the promise of those prizes. If you say a prayer to the "real world" every time you sit down to plan your math lessons, you and your students will never have enough real world, never feel you have enough connection to jobs and solar panels and trains leaving Chicago and things made of stuff. If you instead say a prayer to the atomic sensation of being puzzled and the catharsis that comes from being unpuzzled, you will never get enough of being puzzled and unpuzzled."
Robin Hurst

training programme evaluation - training measurement techniques, examples, tips - learning and development measurement and assessment - 1 views

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    Evaluation is such an important part of designing and developing programs for adult learners. This site may be helpful.
Robin Hurst

http://www.ispi.org/pdf/suggestedReading/Miller_Osinski.pdf - 0 views

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    This is an old paper regarding needs assessment, but may be helpful if you are designing non-credit training programs
Yin Wah Kreher

Johns Hopkins University School of Education Music and Learning: Integrating Music in the Classroom - 1 views

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    The following pages give you suggestions for when and how to use music during your teaching or training. With these techniques, you, the teacher, can orchestrate a classroom environment that is rich and resonant-- and provide learners with a symphony of learning opportunities and a sound education!
sanamuah

Learning How to Practice Medicine-Virtually - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "virtual students will visit the campus on occasion for "intense immersions" to learn skills such as, say, suturing wounds. Online students would visit the campus during the first week or two of the program as well as at the end of their first year to learn clinical skills-training that for on-campus students happens over the course of the year. The online students would also visit the campus at the end of the clinical year to do testing and have the option of doing a rotation at the Yale New Haven Hospital, according to Van Rhee."
Tom Woodward

How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development | Psychology Today - 0 views

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    "Intellectual skills, in contrast, have to do with a person's ways of reasoning, hypothesizing, exploring, understanding, and, in general, making sense of the world.  Every child is, by nature, an intellectual being--a curious, sense-making person, who is continuously seeking to understand his or her physical and social environments.  Each child is born with such skills and develops them further, in his or her own ways, through observing, exploring, playing, and questioning.  Attempts to teach intellectual skills directly inevitably fail, because each child must develop them in his or her own way, through his or her own self-initiated activities.  But adults can influence that development through the environments they provide.  "
anonymous

How Faculty Learn To Teach Online: What Administrators Need to Know - 6 views

  • Participants overwhelmingly found smaller and more focused professional development opportunities were much more helpful than those offered on a broad level.
  • professional development sessions offered at the university level, while well intentioned, did not allow for tailoring to their specific or individual needs. The sessions were often too generic and provided too much information and often did not address the questions they had about content and structure.
  • ven more valuable than organized training sessions were informal small-group or one-on-one tutoring or mentoring sessions between inexperienced and experienced online instructors.
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  • The general consensus was professional development and support should be offered through a variety of different channels.
  • participants agreed that professional development should focus on curriculum development and the pedagogy of online teaching, in addition to technology tools.
  • the development of informal networks and contacts helped participants learn to teach online, and also to continually improve their online teaching.
  • Opportunities for self-directed learning should be made available to instructors, as well.
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    This could be a checklist for ALL professional development across education and, I suspect, other fields as well. Personalized, customized, sustained.
Enoch Hale

New effort aims to standardize faculty-driven review of student work | InsideHigherEd - 0 views

  • Campbell also said that the project will be much more significant if it ultimately shows whether students' skills improve over time. "If you don't have some kind of comparison of change, showing what they could do when they came in and when they left," she said, "it may do exactly what the rankings do: reinforce the reality that great students produce great work, and great institutions have great students."
  • Arum said the AAC&U/SHEEO approach has the potential to be one of "multiple indicators" that higher education institutions and policy makers eventually embrace to understand student learning. "No one measure is going to be sufficient to capture student learning performance outcomes," he said. "Responsible parties know there's a place for multiple measures, multiple approaches." Campbell, of Teachers College, agrees that "because [student learning] is such a complicated issue, any one method is going to have complications and potential limitations"
  • The Results The faculty participants scored the thousands of samples of work (which all came from students who had completed at least 75 percent of their course work) in three key learning outcome areas: critical thinking, written communication and quantitative literacy. Like several other recent studies of student learning, including Academically Adrift, the results are not particularly heartening. A few examples: Fewer than a third of student assignments from four-year institutions earned a score of three or four on the four-point rubric for the critical thinking skill of "using evidence to investigate a point of view or reach a conclusion." Nearly four in 10 work samples from four-year colleges scored a zero or one on how well students "analyzed the influence of context and assumptions" to draw conclusions. While nearly half of student work from two-year colleges earned a three or four on "content development" in written communication, only about a third scored that high on their use of sources and evidence. Fewer than half of the work from four-year colleges and a third of student work from two-year colleges scored a three or four on making judgments and drawing "appropriate conclusions based on quantitative analysis of data."
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  • After her training in using the VALUE rubrics, Mullaney gathered nine faculty members on her campus to be the core of the two-year college's project group. They were previously unfamiliar with the rubrics, she says, but together they "went through them with a fine-toothed comb" and agreed "that these rubrics do represent an accurate way to assess these skills." The professors brought in their own (and their colleagues') assignments to see how well (or poorly) they aligned with the rubrics, Mullaney said. "Sometimes their assignments were missing things, but they could easily add them in and make them better." The last step of the process at the institutional level, she said, was gathering a representative sample of student work, so that it came from all of CCRI's four campuses and 18 different disciplines, and mirrored the gender, racial and ethnic demographics and age of the community college's student body. Similar efforts went on at the other 60-odd campuses.
  • "I might have thought so before, but through this process our faculty has really connected with the idea that this is about student learning," she said. "When they see areas of weakness, I think they'll say, 'Wow, OK, how can we address this? What kinds of teaching strategies can we use?'"
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    Assessment: What are students really learning?
Yin Wah Kreher

Can Students Have Too Much Tech? - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • “Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,” the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower grades in younger children.In fact, the students’ academic scores dropped and remained depressed for as long as the researchers kept tabs on them. What’s worse, the weaker students (boys, African-Americans) were more adversely affected than the rest. When their computers arrived, their reading scores fell off a cliff.
  • One Laptop Per Child
  • Babies born to low-income parents spend at least 40 percent of their waking hours in front of a screen — more than twice the time spent by middle-class babies. They also get far less cuddling and bantering over family meals than do more privileged children. The give-and-take of these interactions is what predicts robust vocabularies and school success. Apps and videos don’t.
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  • We don’t know why this is, but we can speculate. With no adults to supervise them, many kids used their networked devices not for schoolwork, but to play games, troll social media and download entertainment. (And why not? Given their druthers, most adults would do the same.)
  • But the program didn’t live up to the ballyhoo.
  • it is worth the investment only when it’s perfectly suited to the task, in science simulations, for example, or to teach students with learning disabilities.
  • technology can work only when it is deployed as a tool by a terrific, highly trained teacher.
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    link to ECAR findings
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