Overview of Faculty Senate Committee on Teaching and Advisement Activities:

Annual Report 2004-2005

Teaching Workshops
Coming Up: 2nd workshop, Fall 2005
Wednesday November 9, 1:00-2:00 pm in UC211/212
"An overview of universal design in teaching"
Carol Phelan (Office of Disability Support Services) and Susan Spencer (Learning Disabilities Program

1st workshop, Fall 2005:
October 24, 1.00-2:15 pm, Science 321. "Teaching writing and the Writer's Handbook"
(streaming video available soon).
February 14, 2005:"Teaching and its place at Adelphi: The weight of teaching, tenure and promotion"
November 29, 2005:"Teaching writing in your classes"
November 3, 2004: "Teaching the Student with Specific Learning Disabilities"
October 20, 2004: "Teachings skills of highly effective teachers"
April 14, 2004: "Questions and Assessments"
- see also Kris Fresonke's handout on "Writing a good essay question"
February 25, 2004: "Real Writing"
- see also the handout for this session on "Progressive Assignments" (PDF format)

...Links lead to web video clips of the corresponding workshops.
Previous teaching workshops...

Committee Meetings (Held in Science 106)
October 31, 12-1 pm
October 3, 12-1 pm,
September 19, 1-2:15 pm
January 24, 2005

Brown-bag lunches & discussions on teaching

Coming up: Wednesday, November 16, 1-2:15 pm in Science 106:
Susan Weisser (Dept. of English) will lead a discussion on the topic of her article in Academe (Jan/Feb. 2005), "Believing in yourself as classroom culture"

Brown-bag lunch discussion on teaching:
Wednesday November 30, 12-1 pm in UC215.
Special guest Provost Marcia Welsh.

Join the campaign to promote discussion of teaching at Adelphi! At its Feb. 9, 2004 meeting, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution that urges each unit (department or school) of the university to devote at least one faculty meeting a year to a discussion of teaching. In order to be effective, this resolution needs to be implemented. You can do the following:

-Encourage your department or school to schedule such a meeting soon.

-Submit ideas for topics to discuss to your department chair or school dean.

-Submit these ideas also to our Committee—we plan to distribute a list to the university to give
departments and schools some starting ideas for their discussions.

Here are some useful links to information about teaching:
Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Texas-Austin
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/
has many helpful ideas, including a useful manual on "Preparing for Peer Observation".

Best Practices in Higher Education, a collection of articles and links about good teaching practices from the University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/cte/bestpract.htm

Teaching and Learning Links, from Northwestern University
http://teach.northwestern.edu/

This recent article from the chronicle of Higher Education includes many straightforward and worthwhile tips for better teaching.
http://cstl.syr.edu/Cstl/T-L/TFBT.htm

Peer Observations:

The Teaching & Advisement Committee, as part of our effort to strengthen the teaching community on campus, makes available the following list of faculty who are willing to be observed by their Adelphi faculty colleagues interested in seeing how others teach. This program is voluntary. Please contact a faculty member on the list to make arrangements before visiting a class. In addition to this being simple courtesy, the faculty member may have a particular class that he or she recommends to visit or a particular day that is not appropriate because an exam is being given.

Advising Information
Good advising by knowledgeable and caring faculty helps our students and creates a special environment at Adelphi. The following are links that may be useful for faculty as they advise students. You may

1. Who to contact with questions (and useful Web pages)
2. Information on requirements for majors and minors
3. Information for pre-professional preparation

1. Who to contact with questions (and useful Web pages)

For general academic questions
Office of Academic Services and Retention
http://academics.adelphi.edu/asr/index.php
Contacts
Lester Baltimore, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
303 Levermore Hall______877-3142_______baltimor@adelphi.edu

Debra Kyriacou, Manager of Academic Systems
303 Levermore Hall______ 877-3152_______ kyriacou@adelphi.edu

Erin Raia, Director of Pre-professional Advisement and Fellowships
303 Levermore Hall_______877-3140_______mckeon@adelphi.edu

Cynthia Demetriou, Manager of Advisement Systems
303 Levermore Hall_______877-3158_______demetriou@adelphi.edu

Lisa Spitalny Coordinator of Academic Services
303 Levermore Hall_______877-3488_______spitalny@adelphi.edu

College of Arts & Sciences
http://academics.adelphi.edu/artsci
Contact
Ruth McShane, COAS Dean's Office
127 Science Building______ 877-4121________mcshane@adelphi.edu

General Education
Undergraduate General Education Program
http://academics.adelphi.edu/gened/
Contact
Charles Shopsis, COAS Dean's Office
123 Science Building_____877-4140_______shopsis@adelphi.edu

Student Counseling Service
Deborah Ramirez, Director
310 University Center_____877-3646 or 877-3145_____ fax 877-3139
http://students.adelphi.edu/sa/scc/

Office of Disability Support Services
Contact
Carol Phelan, Coordinator Disability Support Services
310 University Center_____877-3145_____SCC@adelphi.edu
http://students.adelphi.edu/sa/dss/

Center for Career Development
http://students.adelphi.edu/career/

For students in the Learning Disabilities Program
http://academics.adelphi.edu/ldprog/

For students in the Honors College
http://academics.adelphi.edu/honcol/curriculum2.php

Wondering which courses and professors to recommend to your advisees? Check out the results of the Course Evaluation Surveys completed by students for many courses in recent semesters. Results for the last academic year are now available ON-LINE through e-campus: log on to e-campus, select the Academic tab, and then select "Course Evaluations".Results from other years are available in white binders in your dean's office and at the Reserve Desk of Swirbul Library. Recommend to your advisees that they use this resource to help them in their course selections.

2. Information on requirements for majors and minors

For all majors and minors in the College of Arts & Sciences
http://academics.adelphi.edu/artsci/

For majors and minors in the School of Business
http://academics.adelphi.edu/mgtbus/

For majors in the School of Education
http://academics.adelphi.edu/edu/index.php

For undergraduate majors in the School of Nursing
http://nursing.adelphi.edu/undergraduate/

For majors in the School of Social Work
http://academics.adelphi.edu/swk/

For undergraduate majors and minors in Psychology
Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies
http://academics.adelphi.edu/derner

Academic Adelphi online
http://academics.adelphi.edu/handbooks/


3. Information for pre-professional preparation

Pre-law
http://academics.adelphi.edu/artsci/prelaw/index.php

Pre-medicine
http://academics.adelphi.edu/artsci/premed/index.php

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