Wednesday, October 28, 2009
October 14, 2009, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
Present: Chris Cobb, Janet Fore, Kitty Green, Joe Incandela, Michael Kramer, Nancy Nekvasil, Don Paetkau, Laurel Thomas
Guest: Jessica Ickes
The minute of the previous meeting were approved.
Joe observed that we have encountered a lack of understanding that departments can be represented in any arm of the cross.
Joe announced the site visit, to occur November 12, planned by the Internationalization Lab Team. Team co-chairs Jill Vihtelic and Tom Fogle want the site review team to discuss LO3 with members of our committee from 9:15-10:30 on that day.
Planning for the next Gen Ed Lunch, to take place October 28:
The lunch will cover the Critical Thinking Seminar and make references back to the previous lunch about skills. We examined the Critical Thinking rubric and discussed what we should do with the rubric. It was suggested that we present an excerpted example from the AACU rubric, perhaps one row, to enable participants to see the expanse from benchmark to capstone, and to show that we are thinking developmentally about critical thinking.
In an effort to educate and calm, we’re presenting the package of skills that the Critical Thinking Seminar will be dealing with. The committee discussed the possibility of the CTS being fit into a major course, into LO3, or whether it should be paired with the W course and targeted as focusing on Information Literacy.
A discussion about skills followed, centering around the question of how/if skills without obvious disciplinary homes should be incorporated into the Critical Thinking Seminar. If these are the major skills, the W follows critical thinking into the practice of writing. In the same way, the Critical Thinking Seminar follows critical thinking into other forms of communication (Oral Competency) and evaluation of information (Information Literacy).
With this approach, Media Literacy is the only other skill that can’t be easily placed in a “slot.” Could it fit in history (historical awareness), literature, communications, cultures (sociology, etc)?
A suggestion was made that Technological Literacy be addressed within the major, where the technological demands for each discipline can be more effectively taught.
Ultimately, we thought it a bad idea to present at the lunch a dispersal of the twelve skills into various departments, as that would inevitably leave some out. We thought it better to insert the skills into the various slots around the arms of the cross, as that would prevent our adding to the lists of outcomes. We thought that most of the skills are already integrated into the slots around the arms of the cross, though we might need to reword some of them to account for the phrasing in the skills outcomes most recently developed.
At some point, we will need a rubric for each skill. At this point, Kitty was asked if she would speak about rubrics at the lunch. Michael will talk about oral competence, and Catherine Pellegrino will speak about information literacy. Joe will introduce the topic of critical thinking and go back to what we heard at the last lunch to report on the committee’s discussions since the end of September. We want to communicate the message that we have learned from the previous lunch and have attempted to take account of what we learned then. We will end the lunch with table discussions about incorporating oral competence and information literacy into Critical Thinking Seminars.
Guest: Jessica Ickes
The minute of the previous meeting were approved.
Joe observed that we have encountered a lack of understanding that departments can be represented in any arm of the cross.
Joe announced the site visit, to occur November 12, planned by the Internationalization Lab Team. Team co-chairs Jill Vihtelic and Tom Fogle want the site review team to discuss LO3 with members of our committee from 9:15-10:30 on that day.
Planning for the next Gen Ed Lunch, to take place October 28:
The lunch will cover the Critical Thinking Seminar and make references back to the previous lunch about skills. We examined the Critical Thinking rubric and discussed what we should do with the rubric. It was suggested that we present an excerpted example from the AACU rubric, perhaps one row, to enable participants to see the expanse from benchmark to capstone, and to show that we are thinking developmentally about critical thinking.
In an effort to educate and calm, we’re presenting the package of skills that the Critical Thinking Seminar will be dealing with. The committee discussed the possibility of the CTS being fit into a major course, into LO3, or whether it should be paired with the W course and targeted as focusing on Information Literacy.
A discussion about skills followed, centering around the question of how/if skills without obvious disciplinary homes should be incorporated into the Critical Thinking Seminar. If these are the major skills, the W follows critical thinking into the practice of writing. In the same way, the Critical Thinking Seminar follows critical thinking into other forms of communication (Oral Competency) and evaluation of information (Information Literacy).
With this approach, Media Literacy is the only other skill that can’t be easily placed in a “slot.” Could it fit in history (historical awareness), literature, communications, cultures (sociology, etc)?
A suggestion was made that Technological Literacy be addressed within the major, where the technological demands for each discipline can be more effectively taught.
Ultimately, we thought it a bad idea to present at the lunch a dispersal of the twelve skills into various departments, as that would inevitably leave some out. We thought it better to insert the skills into the various slots around the arms of the cross, as that would prevent our adding to the lists of outcomes. We thought that most of the skills are already integrated into the slots around the arms of the cross, though we might need to reword some of them to account for the phrasing in the skills outcomes most recently developed.
At some point, we will need a rubric for each skill. At this point, Kitty was asked if she would speak about rubrics at the lunch. Michael will talk about oral competence, and Catherine Pellegrino will speak about information literacy. Joe will introduce the topic of critical thinking and go back to what we heard at the last lunch to report on the committee’s discussions since the end of September. We want to communicate the message that we have learned from the previous lunch and have attempted to take account of what we learned then. We will end the lunch with table discussions about incorporating oral competence and information literacy into Critical Thinking Seminars.
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