The Center for Effective Teaching (CET) is offering three workshops this week that cover advisement, evaluating websites, and BlackBoard. To register for any of these workshops, please visit the CET calendar and click on the workshop title.
Helping Students Clarify their Dreams: Advising the Foreclosed Student
The term foreclosed is sometimes used to describe students with unexplored yet confident and committed future plans. They may be identified as such because they have bound themselves to a single choice with very limited research into their interests, strengths, and abilities or of program and career options. When students are not succeeding in their program of study, advisors often have the responsibility of talking with them about making a change.
Foreclosed students, who are deeply invested in their program of study but chose that major without exploring other options, are often resistant and defensive when told they are not succeeding. How do advisors have this conversation without killing the dream?
In this 60-minute NACADA videocast presentation, presenters address how to recognize the foreclosed student and how to have the difficult conversation of redefining their academic path so that they can still achieve “dream” career goals. They discuss how to recognize when a student is foreclosed on a major and/or career choice based on subtle cues or statements behind why they are pursuing that major/career. They share practical tools and techniques that are grounded in student identity theory, motivational interviewing, and career development theory.
When: Wednesday, March 1 from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Where: BTC Meeting Room 1
Facilitator: Karen Ferrer-Muniz
Certificate Credit: Academic Advising
Category: Advising Special Groups
Website Evaluation
Is an organization website (with a .org domain) always better than a commercial website (with a .com domain)? How is the quality of a website determined? Evaluate the website through the CRAP test! Through the discovery of the CRAP acronym, this workshop will help anyone evaluate a website based on a criteria. Participants are encouraged to a website for evaluation.
When: Thursday, March 2 from 3 to 3:45 p.m.
Where: Marvin Library 010
Instructor: Cynthia Koman
Certificate Credit: Teaching & Learning
Category: Integrating Instructional Technology
Monitoring Student Success: Running Reports and Using the Blackboard Learn Retention Center (NEW)
This 90-minute webinar will show participants the different Blackboard Course Reports that are available in courses. We will cover each report type and the information that it provides. We will discuss how to read the reports for data on course access and when users have accessed different course content material.
Going further into monitoring student progress, we will talk about the Retention Center. The Blackboard Retention Center is used to monitor users using specific criteria including course access, activity, grades, and submissions. Instructors will be encouraged to share their ideas on how they monitor students and how the retention center can be used in these ways.
Learning Outcomes:
Users will be able to open and run reports to show data.
Users will be able to share and discuss criteria to monitor students in their courses
Users will be able to set up their own Retention Center for their specific course use.
When: Friday, March 3 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: BTC Meeting Room 2
Facilitators: Elissa M. Baker, Linda K. Ryder, and Michael Such
Certificate Credit: Teaching & Learning
Category: Classroom Management OR Integrating Instructional Technology
Published: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:45:42 +0000 by a.podlaski