Center for Faculty Development
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This fall, our lunch workshop strand will address classroom assessment from meaningful assessment of ourselves to effective evaluation of our students’ work. Other special topics workshops will be announced later in the semester.

• How to sign-up: Sign up for workshop dates by emailing daviss@cofc.edu so that we may prepare sufficient materials for the group. You will receive a confirmation email.

• Refreshments: We will provide soft drinks, water, dessert, etc. since our assessment workshops will be during lunch hours. Please bring your lunch.
• Reminders: Please mark your calendars when you have signed up for a workshop. Reminders will be emailed the week of the workshop.

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• M, Sept 10 1:15-2:30 & T, Sept 11
  12:15-1:30
  Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
  ASSESSING OURSELVES: PEER COACHING

  Peer coaching is a non-threatening assessment method in which two faculty members who trust one another observe each other on meaningful, pre-selected criteria.  Bring a friend with whom you wish to peer coach. If you don’t have a partner, join us anyway and learn about the process.

• M Sept 24 1:15-2:30 & T Sept 25 12:15-1:30
  Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
  ASSESSING OUR TEACHING: MOVING FROM TEACHER-CENTERED OR TO STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING

  Want to learn some strategies to support student engagement in your subject? We will discuss some ways we can move beyond the lecture to methods that promote student interaction and active student participation in learning.

• M Oct 8 1:15-2:30 & T Oct 9 12:15-1:30
  Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
  ASSESSING OUR QUESTIONING: FOSTERING CRITICAL THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM

  Want students to engage in higher levels of thinking during classroom discussions and tests? We will look at just what entails critical thinking in terms of the questions we ask in class and on our tests. Additionally, we will examine some oral and written questioning techniques. Bring your ideas to share.

• M Oct 22 1:15-2:30 & T Oct 23 12:15-1:30
  Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
  ASSESSING STUDENT WRITING: HANDING THE PAPER LOAD

  Want to use more writing in your course but don’t feel like you have time to grade all those papers? We will share various methods for evaluating student writing including ideas for using writing successfully in large classes.  Bring typical writing assignments or topics.

• M Nov  12 1:15-2:30 & T Nov 13 12:15-1:30
  Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
  ASSESSING STUDENT PERFORMANCE: DESIGNING RUBRICS

  Rubrics enable us to provide students the criteria by which their assignments will be assessed so that they can self-evaluate their own work and peer review that of others.   Bring course assignments or topics.

• M Nov 26 1:15-2:30
  Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
  REAKING THE GOOGLE HABIT:  INTRODUCING LIBRARY E-BOOKS AND ONLINE DATABASES FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH

  Sheila Seaman from Addlestone Library will help us kick the Google habit and go to more efficient and productive ways of conducting academic research. Don’t miss this one!

Sara Calhoun Davis, Ph. D.
Director, Center for Faculty Development
College of Charleston
daviss@cofc.edu
www.cofc.edu/~cfd