Last week we received my kid’s first report card from his new school and we had our first parent-teacher conference. So you all know, Mac is 3 and 11/12ths years old and he is in preschool. So this is all new to us. The report card and the conference have me thinking about assessment (of [...]
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Is He Learning?
Posted in Assessment, Education, Learning, Preschool, tagged Assessment, education, kids, Learning, preschool on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Liberating For Learning
Posted in Assessment, Assessment Leadership Academy, Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Students, Teaching, tagged Assessment, education, facultydevelopment, highereducation, Learning, PLA, Students, Teaching on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I continue to work through and ponder the readings for the Assessment Leadership Academy I am participating in, and as I talk with my colleagues about assessment, the conundrum of grading keeps surfacing. The key question seems to be: What is the relationship between grading and assessment? I recently responded to an AALHE blog [...]
Think Again
Posted in Critical Thinking, Education, Learning, Liberal Arts, reading, Reflection, Writing, tagged criticalthinking, dialogue, education, Learning, liberalarts, reading, reflection, Writing on March 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! Apparently there’s now an app for critical thinking! Read all about it here: Critical Thinking: There’s An App For That Ditch your Liberal Arts education – who needs it? And hey – you no longer need to engage in dialogue or reflection with others — what a waste of your time! And [...]
Nor Did Your Computer
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Life, Reflection, Teaching, Work, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, Learning, reflection, Teaching, time, Work on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week was the final week of Spring term, and as so often happens, a lot of the work of teaching carries over into this week. What appropriate timing, then, for me to find this lovely gem from Indexed. To my students: there may be a lesson here. I’m just sayin’.
My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
This Gives Me The HeeBeeJeeBee’s
Posted in Employment, Higher Education, PLA, Professional Development, tagged Assessment, education, Employment, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, PLA, reflection on June 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Wal-Mart has announced that it is going to offer its workers support for a college degree program. Ordinarily, most of us in higher ed would say “Great! More employers should recognize that helping their employees pay for and earn a degree is an investment; it is a Good Thing to do for the employee and [...]
Let Your Experiences Teach You, Not Define You
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Obama, reflection on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Earlier today, Obama gave a speech to America’s schoolchildren. My kid isn’t old enough for Obama’s words to be inspirational (unless Obama happens to be driving a trash truck and happily honking at toddlers while passing out balloons, bubbles, and chocolate milk), but I am. And even though Obama’s speech is geared toward children, there [...]
She’s Ready For What’s Next
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, education, knowledge, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Congrats to Debra Giannini! Debra just completed her 15-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio. Debra is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Psychology and Expressive Therapies. The topics she wrote for are: BIO 165 – Alternatives in Health and Healing BIO 167 – Nutritional Science CHS 354 – Environment, Culture, and Food CCM 342 – [...]
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