Interested in signing-up for Faculty Workshops in December?
  - Click on the tabs to your left to RSVP, then
  - Click on the Winter Workshop Brochure to your right for further
     information.

Workshop Information At-a-Glance:

• New Faculty Workshop (December 1-4, 2009)

  We look forward to challenging and exciting conversations focused on important issues about teaching in higher education and teaching at Carleton specifically.  Included in this workshop for new faculty will be:

  - Activities and discussions related to common issues in learning and teaching.

   - “Real” teaching situations to respond to, drawn from class sessions recorded this fall term

  - New faculty volunteers will teach a 15 to 20 minute “lesson” from the perspective of his or her discipline. The rest of us will be "students."  By being ourselves we will probably resemble the disparities of ability, preparation, and of learning styles and "cultures" that typically exist in our classes. 

  - Discussions of interest as suggested by new faculty which will include writing recommendation letters, leading discussions, creating effective writing assignments, and balancing workload, among other things.

  Our goals for the workshop include the following:

  • to help place the term you just experienced into context
  • to enhance your confidence and empowerment in experimenting with pedagogy
  • to develop a network of colleagues with whom you can talk about teaching and professional issues
  • to leave with some concrete ideas and practices that you can try out next term

          Contact people: Chico Zimmerman, LTC Coordinator or
                                        Charlene Hamblin, Assistant to the Coordinator

• Assess We Can! (December 1-3, 2009)

  An interactive workshop to help departments and programs develop simple and sustainable assessment plans, contribute to assessing institutional learning outcomes and examine results of recent campus-wide surveys of students, faculty and alumni that are relevant to program and department assessment. Carleton's Institutional Assessment Plan
  Contact person: Mary Savina. 

• Argument & Inquiry Seminars: Course and Assignment Considerations and Design (December 7-9, 2009)

  Explore the potential challenges and opportunities of the A and I Seminars. This workshop will address possible approaches, and participants will work on course designs or specific assignments appropriate for these new seminars. QuIRK (Carleton's Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge Initiative) 
  Contact people: Susannah Ottaway and Carol Rutz.

• Developing ACE at Carleton (December 10-11, 2009)

  This workshop will help you build your skills doing ACE in the classroom and to connect with others with similar interests in and outside of the college. Throughout the workshop we will ask the question of how numbers or quantitative reasoning are relevant to your projects and what kinds of data and information you are working with or wish that you had available for you and your students.  ACE (Academic Civic Engagement) 
  Contact person: Adrienne Falcón. 

• Looking to Learn: Visual Assignments Across the Curriculum (December 7-9, 2009)

  What does your discipline look at in order to learn?  How do you understand or analyze what you see? How can you use images to make arguments?  How can you teach your students the necessary skills or technologies to create effective visual products?  As we develop our new curriculum, as the internet and innovative digital technologies become more central to every discipline, we recognize that visual skills are essential.  Across the college, colleagues are exploring new visual pedagogies that provide opportunities for students to learn to use, analyze, create, and evaluate visual images and objects.

  The first Visualizing the Liberal Arts (Viz) workshop will explore the rich possibilities for designing visual arguments, assignments and teaching strategies. Over the three days of the workshop, we will explore how different disciplines might use visual learning, examine colleagues’ examples of exciting visual pedagogies, design and refine our own visual assignments, and evaluate visual products to see how our disciplines understand and interpret visual objects.  Participants will consider examples of innovative assignments from a variety of disciplines, explore the support structures available to faculty, and discuss copyright, assessment, and other questions. In consultation with a project team of faculty colleagues and academic support professionals, each workshop participant will design a visual assignment for a future course.

  Participants can apply for a follow-up stipend to continue their work, consulting with a colleague or support staff as they implement new visual course materials and assignments and assess the results.  In addition, they will be encouraged to apply for Viz curricular grants for Summer ’10 to develop a course or revise an existing course to incorporate visual materials.  Contact people: Susan Jaret McKinstry and Victoria Morse.