Resources & Links
Curriculum Mapping
PowerPoint from the presentation is here:
http://kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/resources/Curriculum mapping Presentation - kwantlen.ppt
And the Process Overview Diagram is here:
http://kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/resources/CurriculumEvol1revamp08.pdf
Peter Wolf from the University of Guelph has generously offered the following links to some of his terrific resources. Feel free to share!
The Handbook for Curriculum Assessment
http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/resources/pdfs/HbonCurriculumAssmt.pdf
A description of hiscentresSupport for Curriculum Work with a great process diagram.
http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/id/currdev/cdrntss.cfm
Assessment
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Overview
Handout from the seminar at Kwantlen with a few basic suggestions to get started.
Getting Started with Assessing Student Learning
Self Assessment of Teaching Instrument
http://kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/resources/Self-Assessment&CQI.pdf
Conference
Teaching with Conferences Event List
Educational and Technology conferences for Educators
http://kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/resources/Educational&TechnologyConferences.doc
Cooperative Learning
200 pages of cooperative and team based activities to promote student learning and retention.
Kwantlen Cooperative Learning Activities eBook
Emergency Response
Sample handout for Responding to Emergencies at Kwantlen
A good first day resource for your class.
Engagement
Richard Gale notes on Understanding and Engaging with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Essential & Employability Skills
List of Essential Skills at Kwantlen
List of Employability Skills by the Conference Board of Canada
Language
How to Pronounce East Asian Names
This audio-visual presentation was created by Mark O'Meara, an instructor in the School of Business and provides a (western) layman's guide to the pronunciation of Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese
Learning
Lecture is only one of at least 120 ways to help students learn and transfer their knowledge. This list is sorted through the lens of Howard Gardner's eight Multiple Intelligences. http://kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/resources/120_Ways_to_Teach_or_Learn.pdf
Problem Based Learning handout and PowerPoint
The Kolb Learning Style Inventory - Version 3.1 2005 Technical Specifications
http://kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/LSImanual2005.pdf
Peer
Fostering Faculty Collegiality
Reports & Books
2009 2010 The Centre Year in Review (TBL)
Background for the Centre of Academic Growth (TBL)
New Media Consortium Horizon Report 2007
Educating the Net Generation eBook from EduCause
EDUCAUSE has published its first Web-only book, "Educating the Net Generation," edited by Diana Oblinger, vice president of EDUCAUSE and director of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, and James Oblinger, chancellor of North Carolina State University. The e-book is available in PDF and HTML formats, with Web-only resources (further reading, video, podcasts, and useful links) listed on its home page. A file of the complete 267 page book is available for download. EDUCAUSE, 25 February 2005
ASCD ebook: Engaging the Whole Child
Teaching Portfolio
Notes on developing your Teaching Portfolio
Whether you use a paper based portfolio, an electronic templat, or full multimedia, this resource will get you started.
Technology
Wordle art (courtesy of http://www.wordle.net) around Multiple Intelligences: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/458843/Multiple_Intelligences
