UW Parkside
Campus Report
By Jim Robinson
1.) Brown Bag Lunches: Cover a wide range of topics related to teaching and learning from programmatic to pedagogical
2.) Teaching & Learning Strategies Sessions; Pedagogical based – this year some are related to Brown Bags to create a dual perspective thematic approach to a topic: e.g. best practices for Smartboard usage in the classroom
3.) Workshops – hands-on skills-based sessions typically with respect to attaining proficiency with technology e.g. this year some are related to Brown Bags to create a dual perspective thematic approach to a topic: Clicker usage in the classroom, Inserting Graphics in Word 2007
4.) Mini-Conferences: Address one topic in- depth (e.g. last year: UW-P NSSE data, SSI Reporting out)
5.) New Faculty Initiatives
- Reading Group: Committee on Teaching and Learning
- Sessions designed just for new faculty – T&LC
- Group Activities: Provost Office
- Tenure-Track Interest Group
6.) Peer-Visitor Program: colleagues pair up for informal classroom visit - debrief
7.) Strategic Success Initiative Reporting Out
- Projects of note: Summer Institute (funded for 09, OADD grant),
8.) T&L New Services for 2008: Pilots
- VCR -> Digital Video conversion
- document -> .pdf conversion (target audience: web-based curriculum e.g. D2L)
- Online data/survey collection
- Digital Video/Sound file type conversion
- Digital Video Editing (e.g. curriculum includes role play that was then posted to YouTube)
9.) Grants:
OPID – Conference Development, Lesson Study, UTLG
OADD –
Summer Institute
10.) Assessment:
- The Committee on Teaching and Learning has been looking into adding questions that refer to student learning to the end of the semester course evaluation forms
- The General Education Committee is beginning a review by department for all General
Education courses
11.) First Year Experience
- Freshman Read: effort to tie content to in-class curriculum where applicable
- Multiple year long activities