
Spring has arrived at MSU!
MSU is a Carnegie CASTL Leadership Institution, which collaborates with several other universities to sponsor the annual CASTL Summer Institute to Develop Scholars of Teaching and Learning.
Member of the American Democracy Project
SESSIONS COMING UP SOON AND UNDER DEVELOPMENT:
NCAT Course Design
Student Motivation Techniques for the College Instructor
Service Learning
Using Remote Sensing for Instruction
Elluminate for Teaching
Visual Imaging Tools and Processes
The Student View of My Space and other Internet Tools
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"In teaching as in carpentry, the selection of tools depends on the task at hand and the materials one is working with. Books and lectures can be wonderfully efficient modes of transmitting new information for learning, exciting the imagination, and honing students' critical faculties- but one would choose other kinds of activities to elicit from students their preconceptions and level of understanding, or to help them see the power of using meta-cognitive strategies to monitor their learning. Hands-on experiments can be a powerful way to ground emergent knowledge, but they do not alone evoke the underlying conceptual understandings that aid generalization. There is no universal best teaching practice."
John Bransford, Ann Brown, Rodney Cocking
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CASTL Review Team reviewing proposals for the Summer 2008 Institute for Mentoring Scholars of Teaching and Learning
SYLLABUS INFORMATION - Click here for suggested and required syllabus content.
Provost's Dinner for New Faculty
(Photos by L Albert, Collage by Colonel LR Hughes,)
An Intro to Service Learning and Civic Engagement
by the American Psychological Association
Grant Opportunity: Grant Programs from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Faculty Participate in Training to Use Blackboard Course Management System

Student Engagement Session
New Faculty Orientation,
August 9 and 10, 2007.
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