Center for Innovation in Teaching and
Learning
CLA WORKSHOP
Infusing Writing, Reading, and
Analytical Reasoning Skills
Throughout the Curriculum
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
You are invited to register for this
special workshop session
Eligibility- All full-time faculty
Date: October
4, 2008
Time: 8:30
am – 12: 30 pm
Venue:
Multipurpose Room,
Registration Deadline for Workshop: Monday,
September 22.
Compensation for Participating Faculty: $250
Purpose and Goals:
This workshop will introduce
faculty members to the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), which is an
assessment of student’s writing, reading, and analytical reasoning skills, with
the goal of helping faculty help students develop these skills throughout the
curriculum. Workshop participants will
·
Gain a general
understanding of the CLA and its role in assessment of learning outcomes at FSU;
·
Apply the
grading rubrics for writing, reading, and analytical reasoning to specific
student writings;
·
Develop
strategies for assessing student writing, reading, analytical reasoning skills
in their own disciplines.
Workshop Schedule:
8:30 am -
9:15 am Breakfast
9:15 am – 10:15 am Part I
10:15 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am Part II
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch and
discussion
Workshop Facilitators:
Dr. Dawn Wilson, Department
of Management and Interim Director of the MBA Program
Dr. Sonya Brown, Department
of English and Foreign Languages and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum
Compensation for Participants:
Participants will be paid
$250. (Participants must attend the
entire workshop to receive compensation.)
Call X1175 to register or email mlivings@uncfsu.edu
Registration Deadline for Workshop: Monday, September 22.
Seating is limited. Please register as
soon as possible!
Follow-up Activity:
Participants in this
workshop will be eligible to participate in another workshop on November 22 in
which they will develop a discipline-specific assessment of writing, reading, and
analytical reasoning skills for implementation in their classes in the spring
semester. Participants in the follow up
activity will be paid $1,000 each for participating in the workshop on November
22 and implementing the assessment in the spring semester.
This project is supported in part by a grant from the
Carnegie Corporation of