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Announcements:
Make Use of the FDC Multipurpose Room (LIB 011)
The FDC is pleased to announce that key card access to the Faculty Development Center (LIB 011) is now available for all faculty. If the door is locked, you can use your AUS ID card to gain entry to the room. We hope that all faculty will feel free to go the Faculty Center to meet with one another informally over lunch, coffee, or simply to read the newspapers! A water cooler, coffee machine and supplies, and a fridge are available. There is also a computer and an LCD projector you can use.
Call for submission (sent on March 6,2008)
Teaching Success Stories
All Stories relevant to this call will be published on the FDC Website (www.aus.edu/fdc)
The Faculty Development Center would like to call on all AUS faculty to share their teaching success stories.This would be a great opportunity for all of us to learn from one another.Tell us about yourmethod, procedure, technique, an activity or a task that you have designed or adapted which has proved to be a great success in achieving any of the following objectives/teaching aspects:
- Establishing rapport with your students
- Motivating your students
- Assessing your students’ learning
- Improving your students interaction and class participation
- Promoting critical thinking skills
- Boosting students’ creativity and innovation
- Assigning group and individual projects
- Designing exams, tasks, and activities
- Teaching your students about academic integrity (e.g., how to avoid plagiarism)
- Selecting and adapting course materials
- Linking what students learn in the classroom to the outside world
- Evaluating students’ work
- Communicating your expectations
- Learning about students’ needs, communication styles, learning preferences, strengths, and weaknesses
- Creating trust, respect and appreciation between you and your students
- Dealing with classroom management issues
- Providing opportunities for speaking
- Providing opportunities for writing
- Any other aspects
Here is what to do:
- Tell us, in writing, what it is that you do/have done to accomplish any of the teaching/learning aspects mentioned above, which proved to be a success.
- Make a reference to the class(es) where the teaching takes place:
- Subject (e.g., physics, engineering, literature, writing, management, accounting, design, math, history, politics, philosophy, language, etc.)
- Students’ level (e.g., freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, mixed levels, or graduates)
- Write your account/narrative in a very simple way (you are writing to those who may wish to replicate your method in their classes)
- Your story can be as short as a paragraph, or as long as you want it to be
- Send your story as an email attachment to fdc@aus.edu with the subject ‘success story’
Hope to hear from you soon!
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