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Seven Principles
Workshop
Developed, used for/with Gannon University, May 18, 2007
The Basics
Ideas
for using technology to advance the seven principles
TLT Group Strategies for
faculty development around the seven principles
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Presentation University exercise
for faculty
workshop. See if faculty are already thinking in terms
of the seven principles, even if they've never heard of
them. (ordinarily subscriber-only but available for the
next few weeks for participants in this workshop. Copy
for your own use, if you like.)
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Using a (Flashlight Online) survey
to gather 7
principles LTAs from individuals, and then using e-mail
to send a series of them to all interested faculty.
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The 8th Principle: Useful thought
experiment and discussion activity. What could
be added as the 8th principle to make the complete list
more applicable to current experience and values at your
own institution?
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Other
Useful Discussion Questions about the Seven Principles
Redesigning a course around
the seven principles (blended/hybrid courses) by
shifting much of the presentation to homework (online
presentations, quizzes, discussion) in order to free course
time for more interaction, active learning, coaching,
collaboration, etc.
The seven principles when
used for program evaluation/assessment. Based in
part on the assumption that a program that does a better job
of implementing the seven principles will be more effective
(better learning outcomes, better retention) than programs
with comparable goals but lower levels of the seven
principles.
Other ideas for improving
teaching, incrementally
See
also:
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/icctl2007/workshop.htm
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From
TLT Group Online Workshop, April, 2007
Homework for Week 3
1. Survey: your LTAs for all
seven principles
2. How to foster
peer-peer sharing of teaching ideas among faculty teaching
similar courses
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In week 2 we talked
about the potential advantages of creating working
relationships of faculty peers who each teach the same
(or very similar) courses to the same (or similar) types
of students. Ideas for implementing the seven
principles are much easier, cheaper and less
time-consuming to share among such peers. Do you
see any such collaborations? What kinds of
collaborations would be seen as sufficiently rewarding
by faculty? How could we create more such
collaborations. Brainstorm with colleagues if you
have time, and send me your ideas (ehrmann@tltgroup.org)
3. How to use
assessment/evaluation to foster progress in some or all of
these seven directions?
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Workshop Goals
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Help
participants understand educational potential and
limitations of Seven Principles of Good Practice in
Undergrad Education
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Introduce Classic Seven Principles (Chickering
&
Gamson) and how they can usefully guide applications of
information technology (Ehrmann
&
Chickering). Discuss why the Seven Principles are still
so deeply respected by the few who know of them and why
so many others in higher education know so little about
them! Offer vehicles for introducing the Seven
Principles effectively NOW in ways likely to encourage
more widespread understanding of them and active use of
them.
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Introduce collections of instructional resources
organized to support and advance each of the specific
principles (e.g.,
TLT
Group's "library")
TLT
Group's library of brief teaching ideas, sorted by
Chickering
and
Gamson's
Seven
Principles of Good Practice. How to use the Collection.
How to add to it (or create your own). How to help
faculty find and use these ideas
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Examine conditions, situations where the Seven
Principles apply best, can be especially useful
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Examine conditions, situations where the Seven
Principles apply least, are
unlikely
to be useful
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Encourage participants to seriously consider a strategy
to harvest and rebroadcast such
LTAs
and/or to systematically publicize our collection to
local faculty.
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