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Thursday, May 2, 2013
EDUCAUSE: Two Opportunities to Grow Your Leadership and Management Skills This July
8th Institute for New Faculty Developers, to be held June 24-28, 2013
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CHEA 2013 Summer Workshop
 Council for Higher Education Accreditation One Dupont Circle NW Suite 510 Washington, DC 20036 (tel) 202-955-6126 (fax) 202-955-6129 chea@chea.org  |
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Sessions addressing topics ranging from the U.S. Department of Education's completion and innovation agendas to the growing role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Speakers including Martha Kanter, Under Secretary of Education; Diana Oblinger, President of Educause; Chari Leader Kelley, Vice President of LearningCounts.org; Heather Mariger and Cynthia Rowland of the National Center on Disabilities and Access to Education; and Michael Goldstein, Co-Practice Leader for Higher Education with Dow Lohnes. Opportunities to meet with colleagues who share your interest in accreditation. View the preliminary program, then click here to register. Make your plans now to be with us in Washington!
A national advocate and
institutional voice for self-regulation of academic quality through
accreditation, CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and
universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting
organizations. For more information, visit CHEA's Website at www.chea.org.
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Diverse Issues in Higher Education: HBCU Deans of Education Rethinking How to Make Teaching a Major Attraction
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
April 29, 2013
HBCU
Deans of Education Rethinking How to Make Teaching a Major Attraction
by Lydia Lum
by Lydia Lum
One of Dr. Lillian Poats’ pet initiatives as
dean of Texas Southern University’s College of Education is a book club in
which students, faculty and staff read an agreed-upon book about urban
education or minority school children and informally meet to discuss it.
“What’s great is that the book club has
gotten us talking to each other instead of each of us going into our offices
and closing our doors,” Poats said. “This has started a dialogue around our
students and helps them better understand what it means to become a teacher
working with minorities.”
Another successful TSU strategy in recent
years, Poats said, has been group training in mobile technology for faculty who
were not yet using smartphones and tablet computers. “Some faculty have
grandchildren who could work phones and iPads, so we needed to get the faculty
up to speed,” she said.
Poats’ remarks came during a workshop at the
annual American Educational Research Association conference. The TSU dean spoke
at a workshop titled, “A Dialogue with Deans of Education at HBCUs.” During
that session, she and Dr. Marshá Horton, education dean at Virginia Union
University, shared some of their best practices.
Horton said she frequently steers students
to the university’s career services office to apply for one of the myriad
internships ranging from McDonald’s to the White House. Because college
students in her state cannot major in education, they instead major in
interdisciplinary studies and focus on a specific content area.
As education dean for only a year, Horton
adopted this motto: “It’s All About SWAG.” The acronym stands for “Students
With Academic Greatness” and incentivizes young people to strive for good
grades by rewarding them with signed certificates from Horton if they earn a
3.2 grade point average. So far, at least 10 percent of her students have
qualified, she said.
Horton noted that her impetus for “SWAG”
came from a similar practice at Albany State University, “so I’m not ashamed to
borrow and share ideas.” Nodding at Poats, she voiced her willingness to launch
an informal book club at Virginia Union, too, as audience members at the
workshop laughed.
Devoted to the scientific study of
education, AERA boasts more than 25,000 members. With a conference theme of
“Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis,” the San Francisco
event drew about 14,000 scholars and national thought leaders. For five days,
they are examining a cornucopia of topics as diverse as rural education, queer
studies, Catholic education, indigenous peoples of the Americas and charter
school research and evaluation.
The HBCU education deans workshop was part
of a slate under “Research Focus on Black Education.”
Poats said she spends substantial amounts of
time painstakingly recruiting students to major in education “because they
perceive other majors, like business, will be more prestigious.”
She has also managed to provide some
financial support for faculty travel to professional conferences to present
papers. Such support is key to encouraging their scholarly growth, Poats says,
because their teaching load is frequently four or five classes at a time, “so
they’re already struggling for time to write a paper of their own.”
The Houston-based TSU has 58 faculty members
in its education school, including 6 tenured and tenure-track faculty members
whom Poats hired in the past year. She also hired a visiting professor to
specifically work with students in order to improve their performances on the
required licensing exams to become teachers.
Poats said she doesn’t believe the
shortcomings in her department vary much from those of her counterparts at
traditionally White universities, “except for money, because we certainly do
more with less.” As an example, doctoral fellows at TSU teach courses alongside
the full-time faculty, rather than merely conducting research.
Meanwhile, her book club initiative, which
isn’t mandatory to join, but nonetheless has drawn a wide following, has
supplemented classroom learning and clinical experiences as student teachers.
Book selections thus far have included Dr. Gloria Ladson Billings’ Dreamkeepers
and Dr. Lisa Delpit’s Other People’s Children.
In the 1980s, TSU officials determined that
its education school should focus on preparing teachers for urban communities,
Poats said, “so we make sure that when they go into the inner city, they’re not
in shock.”
Very few of Houston’s urban schools remain
majority-Black and have grown increasingly Mexican-American, South American and
Vietnamese, she said.
Because some TSU students grew up in suburbs
rather than in urban neighborhoods, “we need to work with them even more,”
Poats said.
Dr. Chance Lewis, the Belk distinguished
professor of urban education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
said he suggested convening the workshop featuring Poats and Horton because
HBCUs still produce more than 50 percent of teachers of color in this country.
Furthermore, of the 20 institutions around
the country that produce the most African-American teachers, nine are HBCUs,
such as Bethune-Cookman College, Mississippi Valley State University and
Fayetteville State University, Lewis said.
At least one panelist at another AERA
conference workshop agreed with Lewis and the education deans.
Dr. Kimberley Freeman, an associate
professor in educational psychology at Howard University, conducted a two-year
study at two public HBCUs in which she examined the education of science and
math teachers, especially how college culture and curriculum resulted in
program effectiveness. Freeman shared her findings at a workshop titled,
“Public Schools, Universities and Leadership Positions for STEM People of
Color.”
Based on classroom observation and
interviews of faculty and focus groups of students, Freeman found that the
nurturing, family-like atmosphere at HBCUs was one of the most commonly cited
pluses. Students gave high marks to teachers willing to use multiple pedagogies
rather than merely lecture. Students also valued the early-career field
experiences in schools so they could connect course work to practice, Freeman
said, adding, “HBCUs can lead the nation” in producing minority science
and math teachers.
Registration now open for 2013 AAUP-CBC Summer Institute - the premier resource for developing the faculty voice on campus
Registration is open for the 2013 Summer Institute!
The Summer Institute is the premier resource for developing the faculty voice on campus. This intensive, four-day series of workshops and seminars will prepare you to organize your colleagues, stand up for academic freedom, and advocate for research and teaching as the core priority of higher education.
The 2013 Summer
Institute will include workshops on:
- organizing your colleagues
- organizing new collective bargaining chapters
- strengthening shared governance and academic freedom
protections on campus
- analyzing institutions’ audited financial statements
- bargaining and administering contracts
- building active, influential chapters and state
conferences
- creating successful contract campaigns
- using communications to mobilize your members
- addressing sexual assault on campus through policy and
procedures
- protecting intellectual property and evaluating on-line
education
- building diversity in AAUP leadership
- developing key contract language
- building coalitions on campus
- planning creative mass actions in support of your
issues, and more.
To register and read more, visit: http://www.aaupcbc.org/event/2013-aaup-cbc-summer-institute
TLT Group FREE TGIF Webinar: Designing Your Courses for Significant Learning vs Covering the Content
Seventeenth issue,
Volume
Six
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TLT Group TGIF 4.30.2013  |
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From
TLT Group World Headquarters
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Three
TLT initiatives:
DESIGNATED LEARNER: the experiment continues on
May 1st. with Animoto: see info
below. Join in the fun as we continue to test out this instructional
strategy and learn a new application along the way. This time it’s
Animoto.
SILVER CLOUDIANS TRANSITION TO
ONLINE TEACHING:
We will explore these questions on May 10th. and are looking for folks
willing to share their responses to these questions. Contact Beth Dailey,
dailey@tltgroup.org if
you would like to contribute.
SEVEN FUTURES OF AMERICAN EDUCATION MOOCOW: Dee Fink will be applying his instructional design approach to our planning effort. This will begin on May 3 and continue on May 8th. You are welcome to be a part of the planning. The MOOCOW begins on May 17th. |
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Members Only Exchange
Online MOOC Fishbowl Planning Session with Dee Fink
(This session is free to
TLT Group Members Fee to others)
May
8, 2013 2:00pm Eastern Time
Social
Media Tools/Designated Learner Experiment:
Online Introductions Using Animoto May 1, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here
Leaders: Featuring Beth Kiggins and Denise Hyde with
Steve
Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others
Penny Kuckkahn introduced
us to Animoto by sharing an introduction she created. Now we will
learn how to create our own.
We will use the Designated
Learner instructional strategy. This link will take you to what we
are learning about the Designated Learner instructional strategy. We will add
to this based on your input during the session.
Prior
to the session, participants are asked to:
Set up a free Animoto
account
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Navigate to the bottom of the screen, under Animoto
For, click
Education
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Read the information
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Click Apply Now
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If you are not signed in, you will need to do so (or
create a new account)
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Complete the form
Select a few images,
text and/or a short video clip that you plan to use in your
self-introduction.
You are encouraged to have
a working USB headset and/or desk USB microphone so you can participate via
voice as well as chat.
During
the session you will have the option to watch or follow along.
This session is
free to TLT Group Individual Members. ($75 to others
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Designing Your Courses for Significant Learning vs Covering
the Content
May 3, 2013
2:00-3:00 pm ET - free to all.
“Creating
Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College
Courses” was first published in 2003. A lot has happened and things have
changed over the past 10 years. Dee Fink will share lessons learned, provide examples and
solicit examples and input from you.
Up-coming FridayLive! schedule:
May
10 Transitioning
to Online Teaching - What are 7 things a new online teacher needs to know?
May
17 First
session of the MOOCOW
May 24 Putting EAT (Experience,
Apply, Teach) to the Test. Trey Mireles, Psychology instructor, Madison
College
June 7 Social Collaboration in
the Classroom: Student Sharing Strategies
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 MOOCs Round Three The learning continues.... |
MOOCOW (Massive Open Online Course Or Whatever)
The Seven Futures of American Education MOOC will begin on May
17th. The planning continues but here is where we are at at the moment.
Description
MOOCow based on book: The Seven
Futures of American Education: Improving Learning & Teaching in a
Screen-Captured World, by John Sener
During the MOOCOW, scenarios likely to shape
the future of education will be explored: Free Market Rules, Free Learning
Rules, Standards Rule, Cyberdystopia, Steady As She Goes. Much time will be
spent in exploring how we might improve education by cyberizing it. When describing, promoting
this MOOCow, we will try to be explicit in EXCLUDING some elements from 7Fs
book
4 Synch
Events ... over what period?
Objectives
help you and
us achieve one or more of the following objectives:
THIS
"COURSE" - MOOCow - MODEL IDEAS FROM 7Fs Book?
Offer structure for those who want it, unstructured for
those who want to create their own....Offer very
small number of planned paths through the MOOCow
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