TLC: What's New?
Inspiration, Updates, Workshops and More...
Come teach in The Studio - applications being accepted through Friday, April 30.
What is The Studio?studio applicationThe Studio is an experimental classroom and laboratory intended to promote scholarly reflection, which leads to the improvement of learning and teaching. It is a place where faculty can try new instructional methods and share their experiences with other faculty in a collaborative and supportive setting. The Studio provides a space for creative learning and teaching, and resources to support participants as they actively investigate the effectiveness of their course and widen their repertoire of teaching and learning strategies.
What will I have to do?
1. Actively participate in regular meetings with the Studio Teaching Lab (for example, two hours, every two weeks)
2. Provide a plan for gaining feedback from students
3. Be willing to be inquisitive, innovative and flexible in my teaching
I need more information or need to chat about my ideas.
Great! Contact either Paul Marshall or Sara Frizelle for more information or to chat about ideas.
Or better yet, join us for an open house! Date and time to be determined.
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All applications are due to Paul Marshall or Sara Frizelle, no later than Friday, April 30 @ 5pm.
Pacific Northwest Assessment, Teaching and Learning Conference presentation Power Point.
Extraordinary Works On Campus:
Winter Retreat Update:
The 2010 Winter College Retreat Art Project.
Each year, for the past three years, participants in the annual college retreat have created works of art. The 2008 retreat participants created a beautiful woven tapestry. 2009 participants created quilt panels that are being sewn into a quilt. 2010 participant created a large painting representing sustainability. You can view this painting in Gray Wolf 212. The tapestry and quilt will be available for viewing in the near future.
Many of the Retreat Power Point presentations are available here:
Sustainability: From Intention to Action - Self, Curriculum, Community Pamela Pape-Lindstrom
Evolution of theTerm Sustainability Jean MacGregor
Global Ethnobotany Fayla Schwartz
Greening Your Class Chris Quarles
Sustaining our Population: Basic Skills and Adult Education Trish Davies, John Bruemmer, Nina Benedetti
The Triple Bottom Line Miguel Hernandez
Solid Gold Hits Aledgy Carrillo-Martin, Trish Davies, Christine Kerlin, Pheo Martin
Easy Bean Soup Nancy Vandenberg
Great Books on Teaching
Two new and interesting books on various aspects of teaching and learning have recently crossed my desk. (Available in the EvCC Library)
"How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. 
John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, editors. National Academy Press. This book was the center piece of last years Instructional Technology Teaching Lab. Your colleagues loved the book and found the research compelling and informative.
Teach Like A Champion: 49 echniques that put students on the path to college, Doug Lemov"Great art relies on the mastery and application of foundational skills, learned through diligent study. You learn to strike a chisel with a mallet. You refine the skill with time, learing at what angle to strike and how hard to drive the chisel.......this book is about the tools of the teaching craft."
Barriers and Promises in STEM Reform, Melissa H. Dancy, Johnson C. Smith University Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University
Not a book, but a exceptionally interesting research report was recently sent ot our TLC from the Center for Instructional Design and Research and the University of Washington. The survey of STEM Research (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) offers useful ideas about how to apply best practices in teaching research to our everyday curriculum.
Workshops/Retreats
Great Local Conference!
12th Annual National Summer Institute on Learning Communities at the Evergreen State College.
June 27 - July 1, 2010 (application deadline: December 9, 09) -- This summer institute and many other Washington Center activities are all available at their web site. The Wash. Center always provides cutting edge, interesting and practical/applicable training.
Washington Courage and Renewal
"The Politics of the Broken Hearted: Opening the Heart of American Democracy. A national conference with Parker J. Palmer on holding tension creatively in personal, professional and public life. West Coast: May 20-23 2010 Bainbridge Island, Wa -- East Coast October 21-24 Venue TBD
National Conferences:
Though prohibitions on out-of-state travel are back in force. I believe travel to Portland is acceptable under the new regulations.
“Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities”, The second annual conference will be held in Portland Or. May 20-22.
The Teaching Professor Conference , is well known as a conference dedicated to teaching and learning. This year the conference is May 21 - 23, 2010 in Cambridge, MA. . I would be willing to bet you come back a better teacher after attending this conference.
International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence , May 30 - June 2, 2010. Austin, TX.
This too is an excellent conference. Community College Teachers, Administrators and Staff from around the world attend this annual event.
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