Upcoming Professional Development: March & Forward
Professional Development Director
Tris Utschig
March 8, 5:00-6:30pm Eastern
Engaging Students in Asynchronous Learning Environments
Facilitators: David Leasure, Grace Onodipe, and Ingrid Ulbrich
There is a gap between traditional face-to-face instruction and asynchronous online instruction that requires mindful attention to motivation, active participation, and commitment to learning ownership.....
Mentoring Skills Performance Measure Development Institute
We will hold a two-day Institute to develop measures for specific mentoring skills that support self-growth. These skills are useful for accelerating growth when mentoring others as well as ourselves. Look for more details soon.
We hope you are excited about the theme for this year’s gathering: “Closing the Gap”. As members of the Academy we are all dedicated to the success of our students and their continued growth and development both as students and as members of our society. Much rests on our efforts to make this happen, so plan to join us for this idea-filled event June 9th and 10th, 2023.
I’m setting criteria to strengthen self-assessment and decrease self-evaluation
President
Ingrid Ulbrich
As Process Educators, we think a lot about assessment and self-assessment. And hopefully we don’t just think about them, but we do them, too!
When I think about self-assessment, my mind goes immediately to SII assessment, and I’m ready to start thinking about Strengths, areas of Improvement, and Insights. But I’m forgetting some critical steps in the process that come before SII – things like developing criteria and measures!
And what I’ve learned lately about being a self-evaluator-who’s-working-to-become-a-self-assessor is that skipping setting criteria is really holding me back. So I’ve been working on this skill during my weekly self-growth work. And this practice is really helping me shift out of my self-evaluative thinking!
Did you know you can target more than just the lowest level of learner knowledge with multiple choice questions? George has put together a PE Knowledge Quiz to not only let you see how much you know, but to show what can be done with the humble multiple choice quiz...
The next board meeting is scheduled for March 28 @ 5:30pm EST.
Other Spring Board Meetings will occur on April 25th and May 23rd at 5:30 PM; all board meetings are now 90 minutes in length. All are invited to attend! The Zoom information is available on the Member’s Site.
