James Bankhead, music, talk with Dr. James Eison,
CELT distinguished lecturer, at the CELT picnic.
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Eugenio Frongia, Foreign Languages and Literatures,
James Bankhead, music, talk with Dr. James Eison, CELT distinguished lecturer, at the CELT picnic. (photo KM) |
Guest presenter Dr. James Eison, author, lecturer, and psychologist, presented interactive workshops on active learning and on teaching portfolios. Staff Council and CELT joined together to present a much-requested session on time management, featuring Chico consultant, Jan Hannis. And, for the first time, the general session following the annual CELT picnic featured presentations by both the Outstanding Academic Adviser recipient (Paul Persons of Political Science) and the Outstanding Teacher Award recipient (Dale Steiner of History). A videotape of the session with Drs. Persons and Steiner is available from CELT.
Conference sessions included research reports as well as how-to sessions. Research reports focused on eating for thinking, information literacy for freshmen, cultural expectations of teaching and learning, alternatives to the SEFs, electronic portfolio development, drug and alcohol abuse at CSU, Chico, issues and concerns about graduate-teaching programs, and the agony and ecstasy of student mentoring.
How-to sessions included how to prepare students to work collaboratively in the human services professions, how to serve the needs of students with disabling conditions, how to share teaching experiences and students with other faculty, how to teach core information competencies and basic business sources and concepts to undergraduates, how to provide flexibility in class scheduling, how to use dynamic simulation models to enhance learning, how to address HIV/AIDS in the "classroom," how to incorporate community service-learning in the curriculum, and how to add animation, such as audio files and movies, to PowerPoint presentations.
The Chico-Enterprise Record published a half-page article on Dr. Cindy Wolff's session on "Eating for Thinking" (September 23, 1998, page 1B). A copy of that article, handouts and supplementary readings from Dr. Eison's sessions, and information on allof the other sessions are available from the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.
Next year's CELT Conference is September 23 and 24.
The Fifth Annual CELT Conference on Excellence in Learning and Teaching is scheduled for September 23 and 24, 1999. All faculty, staff, and students are invited to send in proposals. Proposal guidelines will be published shortly. The CELT Advisory Committee welcomes suggestions for speakers, topics, and format for next year's conference. Send suggestions to CELT at zip 110, or phone 898-6101.
Marilyn Winzenz, Assistant to the Provost and Coordinator of CELT