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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

Peer Observation Handbook

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