Fall 09

Advising for Student Success
8:30-10:30 am LIB 306

Presenter:  Linda Morgan - Advising & Testing Center
  Improve your effectiveness as an academic advisor by becoming familiar with the UAA student resources and technology that support your role as an academic advisor. 

Learn about:

• the various offices on campus that provide students academic support. 
• how to make use of UAOnline and DegreeWorks to dramatically improve your efficiency as an advisor. 
• Quick Facts 2010 (a faculty advising handbook) which will be distributed to all participants.

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Introduction to DegreeWorks
10:00 – 11:30 am GHH 103

Presenter:  John Allred, Office of the Registrar
Come learn about DegreeWorks, the new advising tool launched at UAA last semester for use by faculty, staff, and students. Learn how to assist students in reviewing their degree progress; investigate progress toward various programs using the “what-if” functions; create a multi-semester planner so your advisees know which options to choose at registration; use the “look ahead” function to help students understand your course suggestions; and begin using the “Notes” capabilities to organize advising notes that your colleagues and students can access online.

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Evaluating Student Work
8:30 - 10:00 am LIB 306

Presenter: Trish Jenkins

Your response to student work can improve or dampen student performance.  Trish Jenkins, Associate Professor of English and Writing Program Administrator at UAA will discuss techniques for responding to student work.   Drawing on her experience teaching composition and working closely with teaching assistants, Trish will describe Best Practices about how to design and use generic and specific grading rubrics and criteria. She will  answer questions about when to assign and how to respond to low stakes as well as high stakes assignments.   How to make decisions about which elements of grammar, mechanics, content should be assessed will also be discussed.   

This CAFE-Best Practices for New Faculty Session will take place 8:30-10:00am November 12 in LIB 306 on the Anchorage Campus or by eLive.    Use this link to enter the eLive session. http://137.229.141.215:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1250639016358   Log in using your own name. You do not need a password to join this session. If you experience problems with eLive, please call 786-4646 option one for more instructions.

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Celebrating New Faculty
8:30 - 10:00 am LIB 306

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 Nurturing & Nourishing New Faculty
8:30-10:30 am   LIB 306

All new faculty members are invited to attend "Nourishing and Nurturing New Faculty" on Friday, September 11 from 8:30 - 10:00 am in LIB 306 on the Anchorage Campus.  The event provides new faculty with an opportunity to strengthen newly formed peer networks, hear about some additional support resources, and learn from the experiences of second year faculty panelists. 

The event will begin with an informal gathering at 8:30am ( the nourishing), which will be followed by short presentations on additional resources and a panel of second year faculty offering guidance based on their experiences(the nurturing ).

 Classroom Techniques to Increase Student Participation
8:30-10:00 am LIB 306

Jackie Cason, Department of English professor, will demonstrate and lead a discussion about techniques from UAA/APU's Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education.  The Start Talking Handbook, edited by Kay Landis, with contributions from 44 UAA and APU faculty, administrators and staff is available at http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/handbook.cfm 

Explore techniques that can increase both student participation and awareness, and  invite students to bring their voices into the classroom. Join us for a lively discussion and demonstration of techniques you can use when planning for or when confronted with difficult or controversial topics in class.  Jackie Cason, a contributor to the handbook and an experienced leader of difficult dialogues, will introduce such methods as the five minute rule, hatful of quotes, and the use of rhetorical questions. This program is part of the Best Practices for New Faculty series and  is open to all faculty.