Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share some info about an upcoming lecture at Purdue which may be of interest for fellow language teachers. The lecture is free of charge and will take place this Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 3:30-4:45 p.m. in LWSN, Room B-151.
The lecture is "Developing and Assessing Classroom Activities for a Messy World" and is being presented by Professor Heidi Diefes-Dux and DR. Matthew Verleger.
The following is a brief description of the lecture taken from their flyer:
"Students graduate into a messy world. Program objectives represent the discrete skills identified as being necessary to succeed in that messy world. Developing activities for the classroom that engage students in that messiness while still enabling faculty to adequately assess for those program objectives is hard. this conversation will present an open-ended problem development and assessment strategy that has been implemented and researched by the presenters for the past eight years to help students learn to solve problems in the messy world."
I will be attending the lecture and will post my thoughts on it later on Thursday. I hope to see some of you there!
The lecture is "Developing and Assessing Classroom Activities for a Messy World" and is being presented by Professor Heidi Diefes-Dux and DR. Matthew Verleger.
The following is a brief description of the lecture taken from their flyer:
"Students graduate into a messy world. Program objectives represent the discrete skills identified as being necessary to succeed in that messy world. Developing activities for the classroom that engage students in that messiness while still enabling faculty to adequately assess for those program objectives is hard. this conversation will present an open-ended problem development and assessment strategy that has been implemented and researched by the presenters for the past eight years to help students learn to solve problems in the messy world."
I will be attending the lecture and will post my thoughts on it later on Thursday. I hope to see some of you there!
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