 An e-publication of
the State of Washington's public two and four-year colleges &
universities.
Featured Website - With the inauguration this month, the Teaching with Documents, National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) Digital Classroom may be of interest to faculty
and students alike (see Inauguration Quiz this issue).
If you know of a site you would like us to highlight please email Anna Sue McNeill.
Bulletin Board - links to new and/or
updated information published in each issue of eWAG
Washington
State's public higher education assessment:
Faculty
Association for Community and Technical Colleges
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or join our mailing list; just email Anna
Sue McNeill, Editor.
Student
Art
Renewal
10" x 8" Linocut
Samantha Lowry
Mainsprings 1997
Yakima Valley CC
"Not
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted."
--Albert Einstein |
This Month in eWAG
 Moore's
Musings - A Developmental Perspective on the Theology of Assessment:
Moving from Received Belief to Creative Faith
This is a reprint of an
article from February 1999 that takes a look at the belief systems around assessment
through the lens of the Perry scheme of intellectual development, a
model in which Dr. Moore has a long-standing passion and around which he
has done quite a bit of work over the years. It’s a framework that’s
been around for almost a half-century now but that still has enormous
resonance for higher education in general and
teaching/learning/assessment issues in particular. [more]
 Creating
Effective Learning Environments: A Teaching & Learning
Conference - Proposals to present at the Pacific Northwest Higher Education Conference on Teaching and Learning
are due February 18, 2005. Conference strands
are:
- The Scholarship of Teaching &
Learning
- Institutional Assessment and Campus
Change
- Distance Learning/Instructional
Technologies
- Learning
Support Services.
Additional information and
online registration will be available in the February issue of eWAG!
The
Graduates Didn't Leave: In
May, graduating seniors hurriedly leave colleges and universities all over
the USA. That is what we expect, and
that usually happens. But
a group of students who graduated from Texas A&M in May of 2004 did
not pack up and leave. In fact they asked the teacher to allow them to
continue the work they had been doing for... [more]
Classroom
Strategy: Five Ways to Promote Deep Learning, Richard Felder, North
Carolina State University - The
scene is the AIChE student chapter lounge at a large southeastern
university. Three juniors--Michelle, Rob and Art--are studying for the
second quiz in the introductory transport course. Art got the high
grade in the class on the first quiz, Michelle was close behind him, and
Rob got 15 points below class average. They've been at it for over an
hour. [more]
Student Voices: Returning to eWAG is Student Voices, a look
at student work, that sometimes includes their thoughts on their
learning, their perspectives on assessment, etc. This issue features "WHY?"
a poem from a student in a Business Office Occupations class at Yakima Valley
College. Why? was first published in YVCC's 1997 Mainsprings, a
collection of work done by YVCC's students during that year.
Forging
New Partnerships: Adult and Developmental Education in Community Colleges
- The Council for
Advancement of Adult Literacy has released the final working paper in its
series on adult education/literacy and community colleges. The paper
examines a largely unexamined corner of the adult education
universe...[more]
Best
Practices in Community College Education Programs: Proposals to present at the Washington State Center for Careers in Education
2005 conference are due January 28, 2005. The conference goal is
to provide participants with examples of exemplary education programs to
replicate or adapt. Proposals are encouraged covering the range of education programs, from preparing preschool teachers to integrated ESL / ABE / content courses to transfer education for future
teachers and by partnerships (CC and pre-K-12, CC and 4-year
institution, CC and business, etc.).
Please click on the following links for additional information:
[Best Practices Flier] [Call for proposal] [Registration Form]
"Perhaps what is
most important is that extraordinary teachers see their primary task as
trying to prepare students for life. How they achieve this is by teaching
students many skills to go along with facts and by influencing the way
students see the world and their roles in it. An ultimate goal of master
teachers is that students develop their full potential to become honorable
and productive members of society."
--Fred Stephenson, author
of *Extraordinary Teachers*
Inauguration Quiz!
 On
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Digital
Classroom site (this issue's Featured Website). The site also
includes Lesson Plans with reproducible copies of primary documents,
teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and
National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular
connections.
Grade Level: High School, College
Content Area: Community Interest (Government/Politics), Education
(Curriculum), History & Social Studies (Government), History & Social
Studies (United States History) [Dewey #973] Application type: Lesson
Plans, Information Resources, Activities.
---Source: SBC Blue Web'n Weekly Update
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