20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of October 24th is How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items? The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week. For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the Bulletin or the email version of iDevelop.
More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-i-assess-my-students-critical-thinking-skills-with-objective-items-13727-1.html. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2016/08/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html. Looking for transcripts of past Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Please email ctli@northshore.edu with the session title and we can provide you with the transcript and supplementary materials.
Other Professional Development Opportunities
- Forum on Tolerance: Political Tolerance in a Time of Intolerance. NSCC’s 37th Forum on Tolerance will take place on October 27th and October 28th. The October 27th event is a night forum in the Lynn gym from 6:00pm to 8:45pm and will feature Dr. Wayne Burton as the keynote speaker along with a panel discussion featuring NSCC professors and an elected official as well as student perspectives. The October 28th event is a Danvers day forum from 10:30am to 12:30pm in DB 119 and will feature NSCC professors and students as well as a MA representative. The Danvers event is aligned with the 50 minutes class period so please feel free to bring your classes. More information is available at http://news.northshore.edu/blog/nsccs-37th-forum-on-tolerance-political-tolerance-in-a-time-of-intolerance/.
- Technology Across the Curriculum Grants. The Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) Committee invites all NSCC full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and professional teaching staff to submit applications to develop a TAC project in the spring of 2017 with implementation in the summer or fall of 2017. Fall application materials are now available and proposals are due by 11:59PM on Tuesday, November 15th. More information on the TAC Grants is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2016/10/technology-across-curriculum-grant.html.
- Assessing Critical Thinking Skills
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/educational-assessment/assessing-critical-thinking-skills/ - Teaching Critical Thinking: Some Practical Points
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/teaching-critical-thinking-practical-points/Tips to Reduce the Impact of Cheating in Online Assessment
http://facdevblog.niu.edu/onlinecheating
If you have any teaching resources that you would like to share with other NSCC faculty or know of any other professional development opportunities that NSCC faculty might be interested in, please feel free to send them to ctli@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcomimg issues of iDevelop.
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Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation
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