BYU Faculty Center Newsletter
This newsletter is distributed three or four times a year to all full- and part-time faculty members, instructors, and teaching assistants (a circulation of 3,500). The purpose of the newsletter is to discuss ideas on teaching, spotlight innovative teachers, and announce upcoming activities. Focus on Faculty Editor: Lynn Sorenson (422-7420) or lynn_sorenson@byu.edu
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Issues available online
Student Learning Outcomes (Lynn Sorenson)
Activities to Enhance Student Learning Based on Kolb’s Learning Dimensions
To Improve the University: When YOU are the Guest Lecturer
News and Resources from the Center for Instructional Design
Missed Expectations: Incivility in the Classroom (Steven M. Richardson)
Technology and Teaching: The Cart Before the Horse? (Trav D. Johnson)
To Curve or Not to Curve: Norm-Referenced vs. Criterion-Referenced Grading (Bryan Bradley)
Resources for Student Instructors
To Improve the University: A Great IDEA
Volume 13, No. 2 —Spring/Summer 2005
The Ordinary Elements of Scholarly Excellence (Kelly Patterson)
Communities of Practice
Reading Strategies to Increase Learning
Protecting Students' Academic Privacy
To Improve the University: Meaningful Maxims on Teaching and Learning (Terry Olson)
Midsemester Feedback
Paul Woodruff: The Silent Teacher
Tomorrow's Professor: A Valuable Resource
To Improve the University: Research: Mine, Yours, and Ours (Brandie Siegfried)
Diversity and Unity
A New Resource for Improving Tests: ExamStat (Bryan D. Bradley)
The Teaching Assistant as Coordinator of Teaching and Learning
(Hal Miller)
To Improve the University: 20/20 Hindsight (Donald K. Jarvis)
Reaching the Reluctant Learner
Teaching is What We Do (Karen A. Holbrook)
Remarks Before Marks (Shane O'Dea)
BYU Faculty Honored for Outstanding Achievement
To Improve the University: Y Halfway? (Galen L. Fletcher)
A Different Way to Think About Accountability: No Drive-by Teachers (Lee S. Shulman)
Welcome BYU-Idaho Readers!
BYU Faculty Center Welcomes Bryan Bradley, Faculty Development Coordinator for the Assessment of Student Learning
I Would Be a Purveyor of Mysteries, excerpt (William S. Bradshaw)
Faculty Flash: Dates to Remember (insert)
Workshop (insert)
Conquering the Crowded Classroom (David Whetten; Lynn Sorenson; Stacie Heaps) (continued on insert)
Understanding Understanding (Clark D. Webb) (insert)
Hats Off! Many Thanks! Hats Off! (insert)
Investing in Eternity (Craig D. Thulin)
The Value of a Faculty Center (Constance Ewing Cook; Mary Deane Sorcinelli; D. Lynn Sorenson)
Getting Students to Read (Don Norton)
Faculty Reading
Becoming a Barbarian
Learning-Centered Teaching at BYU
Student Ratings: Myths Vs. Research (Michael Theall)
To Improve the University: An Exercise in Abstraction (Mary McLeod Fischer)
Dissolving the Dichotomy (Terrance D. Olson)
What They Don't Know Can Hurt Them (Insert)
Under the Influence: A Reminder (Clark D. Webb)
Pointers For Balancing a Faculty Career (Gary M. Booth)
Virtues for Sustaining the Vocation to Teach
Questions to Guide Effective Team Teaching
Why More Isn ’t Less: The Case for Collaborative Teaching (Lynn Sorenson)
Focus at Your Fingertips
New Format, New Faces at the Faculty Center
Parting Shots: Russell Osguthorpe
Guest Speakers: Agony or Ecstasy (Lynn Sorenson)
Supporting Teaching and Learning Within the Disciplines
Faculty Flash: Dates to Remember
FAQs About Teaching Students with Disabilities
Building a Faithful and Faith-Filled University (Robin Hancock)
Active Learning in College Classrooms
BYU Faculty Center Teaching Gallery (Amy Gorgueiro)
New Course for Student Instructors: Effective Teaching
Thoughtful Teaching, Powerful Learning (Clark D. Webb)
The First Day of Class: Starting Well (Delivee Wright)
Campus Resources: The Reading Center (Nancy Christiansen)
More on...Starting Well
Copyrights, Fair Use, and You
Academic Discipleship (Van C. Gessel)
"Serve to Learn Better"
Principles of Good Practice in Service-Learning Pedagogy (Jeffrey Howard)
Making the Most of Office Hours
What We Don't Know (Don Norton)
Library Resources: Teaching and Learning Tools
Creating Effective Library Assignments
Great IDEA Gets Even Better
Better Endings: What To Do on the Last Day of Class
Guidelines for Evaluating Collaborative Learning (Trav D. Johnson)
Oaks on Fundamental Teaching Principles
Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport
Using Learning Groups: A Few “How-to’s” (Delivee Wright)
Culture, Privilege, and Cow’s Milk (Sheryl Grana)
Hirelings, Subversion, and the Permanent Possibilities of Truth (Harold J. Miller)
State Your Case: Planning Presentations
Whetten on "Building a Zion University"
Constructs of Delight and Drudgery (Marianne Pearson)
The Awakening of a Christian Scholar (Valerie M. Hudson)
Mountains and Mohammed Meet
Faculty Center: New Quarters and New Acquisitions
Whose Real World? (Michael Hogan)
Four R's of Effective Evaluation (Marilla D. Svinicki)
Scholarship Assessed
Reflections and Perceptions (Jay H. Naylor)
Discovering My Voice in the Academic World (Merinda Gurney)
1st place winner: "Excellence in Teaching" Conference Essay Contest Building Character in the Classroom (Michelle Olsen)
Instructional Web Sites
The Heart and the Method (D. Cecil Clark)
Memorization: "Regurgitation" or "Learning by Heart"? (Todd A. Britsch)
War of the Worlds: When Students' Conceptual Understanding Clashes with Reality (Diane F. Halpern)
Lessons from Exemplary Faculty
Crossing Boundaries (Elouise Bell)
Combining Religious Faith and Academic Excellence (Richard Robison)
Assuring Quality in the Classroom
Call for Proposals: Grants for Curriculum Development
One Student's Perspective on Teaching and Learning
Getting Philosophical About Teaching (Kenneth J. Zahorski)
In Order to Teach, All You Need to Know is Your Subject? (Marilla Svinicki)
Reflections on "Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments" (Lynn Clark Callister)
Of Monks' Cells and Wagon Trains, Excellence and Collegiality (Donald K. Jarvis)
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (created by Zelda Gamson and Arthur W. Chickering)
A Deadly Teaching Fallacy: Teaching is an Art, Not a Science (Marilla Svinicki)
Active Learning: Who Said It Was Easy? (Richard M. Felder)
Call for Proposals: Grants for Curriculum Development
Health Helps for International Travel
The "Teaching vs. Research" Debate (Gary R. Hooper)
Reflections on Collegial Mentoring (J. Bonner Ritchie)
A (Motion) Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
"Education for Eternity" Collection
The BYU Faculty Center: Your Resource to Enhancing Effectiveness
Masks! (Nancy Gill)
Volume 3, No. 2—Spring/Summer 1995
Competence Is What You Do When You Make a Mistake (Ronald Smith)
A Great IDEA for Evaluating Student Learning
Washington, D.C., Discount Housing for Faculty Research
The Trouble With Packets (Donald K. Jarvis)
BYU Teaching Partnership Program
Risky Business: Making Active Learning a Reality (Charles C. Bonwell)
Academic Midwifery (David Crandall)
Beware the N of One (Lynn Sorenson)
Sensing the Sacred Within the Secular (Connie L. Blakemore)
Research-Based Guidelines to Inform College Teaching and Improve Higher Learning (Thomas A. Angelo)
Citizenship Reconsidered (J. Bonner Ritchie)
High Risk Teaching (D. Cecil Clark)
Storytelling in the College Classroom (Jessica Taylor)
"There's Gotta Be a Better Way" (Tracking grades)
Knowledge and Belief Need to Be Demonstrated (Robert Speiser)
Call for Proposals: Grants for Curriculum Development
Talking Back to Texts (Kristine Hansen)
BYU Faces Future Faculty Shortages (An Interview with Clayne Pope)
Tips for Teachers: Encouraging Women's Class Participation
Sightings from My Rearview Mirror: Reflections on Thirty Years of Teaching (Elouise Bell)
Researching and Teaching: Another View (Lawrence Walters)
Active Learning and the First Day of Class
To Improve the University . . . with TQM (Heidi Skeen Bay)
To Be a Bridge (Marion Shumway)
Teaching: How Am I Doing (Lynn Sorenson)
A New Approach to Evaluating One's Teaching: BYU's Classroom Student Observer Program
Instructional Development Grants Awarded to BYU Professors
Arctic Bears and University Teaching (Clark Webb)
Teaching with the Spirit: A Broader Definition (Donald K. Jarvis)
The Faculty Center: What's in It for Me?
To Open Eyes (Norma Davis)