CAFE for the Week of Oct. 8-12

20-Minute Mentor: Can Service Learning Work in My Discipline?
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 
9-10 a.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 304


Please join us for a video and discussion on the key principles of service-learning, reflection and reciprocity; the benefits of service-learning for both students and communities; how to link activities to outcomes; the different types of service-learning; and how to assess outcomes and grade service-learning.

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Best Practices: New Faculty Book Group
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 11 a.m.-1 p.m
Gordon Hartlieb Hall, Room 105

Please join us for CAFE's New Faculty Book Group to discuss Robert Boice's well-received guidebook, Advice for New Faculty Members.

The book introduces the "most reliable research differentiating between new faculty who thrive and those who struggle. By following its practical, easy-to-use rules, new faculty can learn to teach with the highest levels of student approval, involvement and comprehension time--with only modest preparation time." The book offers similar suggestions for writing more prolifically with ease and quickly integrating into academic culture. Light lunch will be served.


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Making Learning Visible (SoTL) Book Group: A Beginning Exploration of Assessing and Documenting Your Teaching
Friday, Oct. 12, 9-10:30 a.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 304

This series of five sessions is for faculty interested in exploring how to assess, document and advance effective teaching and student learning.

Series Goals: 1. To advance faculty skills in assessing, documenting and demonstrating effective teaching strategies.
2. To provide peer consultation and university support to faculty working on teaching assessment and documentation project(s).



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Topics in Higher Education (THE) Book Group
Friday, Oct. 12, 10:30 a.m.-noon
Gordon Hartlieb Hall, Room 105

For more information, contact Shawnalee Whitney at sawhitney@uaa.alaska.edu.

Difficult Dialogues: Civility in America and in the Classroom
Friday, Oct. 12, 12-2 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307

What has happened to civility in America? How do the media influence the lack of civility? Does this lack of civility manifest itself in our classrooms? This session offers insights from well-known journalists participating in a national forum who consider the media's contribution to propagating demagoguery. Participants will also practice techniques to teach students so that classroom conversations are civil and productive and students value respectful discourse.

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Upcoming Faculty Development Events:

What Do Our First-Year Students Think? Want? Experience?
Tuesday, Oct. 16,
 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307



IDEA: How to Incorporate Your IDEA Results into your Faculty Evaluation Self-Reviews
Friday, Oct. 19,
 9-10 a.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 302A

For more information, visit the CAFE website or call (907) 786-4644.