Welcome to the Kettering’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s (CETL) Activities and Updates Page!!

 

This webpage was opened on January 11, 2009 with the goal of continually informing the Kettering Community and others about the activites being conducted and the opportunitues being made available by CETL. This web site will be updated at least weekly so all members of the Kettering Community are encouraged to check it regularly.

Summaries and Updates on the following are included

 

Key Updates - February 20, 2009

Change Projects Update: Dan Apple President of Pacific Crest visited campus on February 24, 2009. Through meetings and conversations with the change project leaders. Project Updates are available.

The Best Practices Seminar Series of the First Two Year Transofrmation Project has been completed. We are now conducting the Systematic Survey. Please participate so that we can make this great university even better.


Cross Curricula Assessment Project the Quantiative Problem Solving Team has been established. We still need people interested in joining Hugh Stilley and Denise Stodola on the Communciation Across the Curriculum Team. Please contact Mark Palmer if you are interested.

CLO / PO Evaluation, Assessment and Continuous Improvement Project - following the successful information meeting held on Friday January 23 a white paper will be presented on this site on Wednesday February 25, 2009

More information available for the Teacher Scholar Institute to be held during 12th Week Winter Term- 13 Spots Remaining

 

Currently there are five focal areas being pursued. Please review them and get involved. These are


Individual Change Projects: One of the changes made this year was to encourage members of the Kettering Community to take on change projects and to assist them in any way possible. Dan Apple President of Pacific Crest Institute will be on campus monthly as a consultant to assist with this effort. The following projects are currently underway

Student Lead University Wide Assessment Forum - Austin Szelkowski
Increasing Mentoring Culminating With a Mentoring Institute - Christina Reid
Evaluating, Assessing and Enabling Professional Growth - Mark Palmer
Development and Validation of Performance Measures - Mohamed ElSayed
Leadership Across a Student's Experience at Kettering - W. L. Scheller

The consulting efforts will also assist with the other projects listed in the header.

First Two Year Transformation: One of last year's Shared Governance Initiatives focused on Transforming the First Two Year Experience at Kettering University. The proposal was approved and will involve all members of the Kettering Community. We hope to build an experience that others will want to emulate and secure significant funding to support these efforts.


The Best Practices Seminar Series has been completed, we have a lot of ideas on the table to consider. We are now systematically surveying the Kettering Community by asking Kettering faculty and staff to participate in a survey . "What would be the top ten things you would do if you had between $300,000 and $400,000 to make the first two years the best possible?".


Cross Curricula Assessment: In November the first of two Pacific Crest Institutes were held. This was the Assessment Institute. As a result of this teams are being created to enable the assessment of the following cross-curricular themes: communication and quantitative problem solving. Terri Lynch-Caris as part of her work in sustainability attended this institute and has developed a rubric for sustainability across the curriculum. This rubric and the method by which it was developed will serve as a guide for the beginning of these two efforts. Denise Stodola and Hugh Stilley of Liberal Studies have joined the communication team. Leszek Gawarecki, Ernest Fokoue, Nancy Ernst, and Yuri Sikorski have joined the quantitative problem solving team.  We need others who are passionate about these issues to get involved.


A more detailed description of the activities of the team - profile development has been written.


CLO / PO Evaluation, Assessment and Continuous Improvement Project : The goal of this project is to make evaluation more efficient so that faculty can focus on assessment and continuous improvement, enable research on evaluation methods,  enable research on improving the quality of assessment and continuous improvement, make Kettering a recognized leader in evaluation based assessment and assessment based continuous improvement, and establish a project team to write a proposal seeking between $150K and $350K.

The key goals of the project are now available


Teacher-Scholar Initiative: The Teacher-Scholar Model proposed by one of the Shared Governance Intitatives has been approved. The second Pacific Crest Institute to be held during 12th week Winter Term will focus on this. Participants will learn how to apply this model in their research and teaching. Efforts will focus on integrating research and teaching, publishing educational innovation and research, and securing funding for these activities. Please consider signing up. More detailed information is now available. If we get together early we can better set the direction of the Institute ensuring that it meets Kettering's needs and have a team together to work together to move Kettering forward.