April 2005 - Posts
While this week was set aside to provide Jan Arabas the opportunity to host a discussion of her SoTL research project on the Blog, this discussion is still free to continue in the days and weeks ahead. Thanks to Jan for making productive use of our collaborative
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This week the Copper Cluster Blog will be devoted to a discussion of Jan Arabas' interview study, "Teaching Drawing." In my study, I asked 25 teachers of beginning drawing to answer these questions: "What are the crucial lessons for beginners in drawing?
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Thanks to Jack Mino of Holyoke Community College for forwarding the following resources related to team teaching and learning communities. Use the links below to access the resources. Holyoke Community College Learning Communities Program Resources: Download
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The Educational Question of the Year has been chosen from a list of twelve possibilities by respondents to our online poll. While all the questions received at least one vote, several clearly were the most popular. Here's a list of the top five: In fourth
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Please join a discussion of teaching sponsored by MCC Carnegie member Jan Arabas during the week of April 25 through 29. The focus of this discussion will be an interview study I recently completed, in which I asked 25 teachers, "What are the crucial
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Teach Science the Way You Do Science The following article from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute website focuses on efforts to change the traditional way that science has been taught to undergraduates. Reformers suggest that faculty move away from
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A Faculty Development Project Northern Essex Community College's innovative TIC Online program was recently featured in NISOD's Innovation Abstracts . Building on their successful Teaching in Community program which focused on creating a supportive and
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Only a few days left to cast your vote! To participate in choosing the COPPER Blog's Educational Question of the Year simply click on the link and select one or more of the proposed questions from the online poll. Further information on this project is
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