Author: sehd
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CRC/InWorks Fellow Talks | First Talk This Wednesday!
Attached is a poster outlining the schedule for all the talks this academic year. The talks are given by the awardees of the CRC/Inworks fellowship over the course of the academic year. This year there are 8 fellows and four talks (2 fellows per). All faculty are invited to the informal Fellow’s Talk and Research…
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Faculty Grant-Writing Workshops
Register Here: http://www.ucdenver.edu/research/ORDE/Pages/FacultySeminar.aspx
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IN THE MEDIA: Zero Correlation Between Evaluations and Learning
A number of studies suggest that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable due to various kinds of biases against instructors. (Here’s one addressing gender.) Yet conventional wisdom remains that students learn best from highly rated instructors; tenure cases have even hinged on it. What if the data backing up conventional wisdom were off? A new…
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Early Alert Opens Today!
Dear Faculty, Please see the note below about our new Early Alert tool, Starfish. Starfish has many capabilities and one of them is an early alert system that allows instructors/professors to indicate when a student is struggling. This alert is then sent to their academic advisor who will reach out to the student and develop…
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FCQ Redesign Project
Hello Everyone, Please see message from Laura Goodwin and Joanne Addison below regarding FCQ redesign. ————————————————————————————- Hello CU Denver Faculty Members, A few weeks ago, Laura Goodwin and Joanne Addison sent the message (below) to all CU Denver faculty members, concerning the FCQ redesign project that will be undertaken on the Denver, Colorado Springs, and…
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Ideology Not Evidence: What We (Don’t) Know about Independent Teacher Preparation Programs
BOULDER, CO (September 8, 2016) – Advocacy groups and self-proclaimed social entrepreneurs are working aggressively to deregulate the preparation of teachers and to expand independent, alternative routes into teaching. The policy push is so powerful that it raises a real possibility that the nation may dismantle its university system of teacher education and replace much…
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Curious Teacher Final Scavenger Hunt
The Curious Teachers Learning Community (undergraduate students from the initial teacher licensure early field experience courses) kicked off the year living the question, “How do we cultivate and sustain a stance of inquiry and curiosity as teachers so that we learn alongside children and continue to grow as learners?” with a campus scavenger hunt where…
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2016 LATINO POLICY SYMPOSIUM
Join us for the 2016 Latino Policy Symposium on Friday, October 7. This year’s event will focus on education and what educators are doing to ensure the success of Latino/a students and graduates. This event, held in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, is co-hosted by the DU Latino Alumni Affinity group and CU Boulder Latino…
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ARTICLE | Political meddling in teacher education needs to stop
Teacher education is a highly scrutinised area. Australia, for example, has had a steady stream of reviews over the past 25 years. These reviews usually examine the available research literature (mostly as it is filtered through reports by think-tanks and various multinationals and global organisations) and set up mechanisms for sampling professional, political and public…