September 26, 2010 First Year Seminar – Reflections after 1st IF Discussion The discussion began today formally (though last week we had a trial run). Flip charts & markers were used for the first time. Students were asked to identify the values...
September 26, 2010 My First Year Seminar – Groups & Plans My First Year Seminar class has 24 students this term. Nine are women; ten have immigrant or minority background. I organized the groups after two weeks on the basis of...
September 24, 2010 Teaching Communication Skills to Students– Resources If you click on the hyperlinks, the file will download onto your computer (check your Downloads file). Evaluation Rubrics -- Allow students to assess their communication skills Communications Exercise -- Provides an...
September 24, 2010 How are you setting up student groups in your IF class? For those of you teaching an IF sponsored course this Fall (2010) semester, we’d like you to post blog entries at least 4 times during the semester. We invite you...
August 25, 2010 Ia Natsvlishvili Uses the IF Discussion Process in her Classroom in Tbilisi, Georgia Ia Natsvlishvili was a participant in the 50-Hour Training Course in the IF Discussion Process that IF Fellows Mark Notturno and Ieva Notturno conducted in Washington DC last Spring for Junior Faculty...
August 4, 2010 We Are the Books our Students Read Most Closely How might educators teach students to engage as active participants and facilitators in student-centered discussions? How might contemporary higher education classrooms become places for the discovery and social construction of...
July 22, 2010 It’s the Facilitator When you think back on key moments in your life, what would you say has influenced your development more—special books, or special persons? When you think back on high...
June 7, 2010 Public Discussion Facilitators as Interpreters of Metaphors For a long while here at IF, there’s been quite a bit of internal debate as to how our reports should be written, how much detail they should engage,...
May 26, 2010 Wrap up and final reflections Hi folks, Sorry I’m once again so late posting my blog. We’re only just finishing the term – final grades are due today. I’m happy (and a little surprised, frankly) to...