Sul Ross State University
A Member of the Texas State University System

Faculty Support

The goal of the Faculty Support Center is to coordinate Faculty Seminars, Pilots of Engagement, activities related to outdoor learning, help facilitate field trips and student travel, and create an atmosphere to allow collaboration across disciplines.

Learning Contracts:

• Instructions for Syllabi
• Requests for Spring 2011

Sample Materials for Planning a Retreat (Kathy Stein, Director, Academic Center for Excellence)

• Retreat Report
• Retreat Agenda
• Sample Activity Report

Faculty Support:

• Opportunities for national teaching conferences, workshops, and symposia
• Links to discussion boards, strategies, tips, forms, announcements, and video seminars online
• "Baby Steps Toward Critical Thinking" by Dr. Kathy Stein (PowerPoint)
• Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) Testing Information
  • Break-An-Argument Sample Prompts
  • Sample Performance Task

Faculty Support Library:

Copies of The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools are available to give away. Please call 8233 to request one. See a section of the guide online: The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools

• Instructional Materials (available for checkout in ACR 102)
• New QEP Library Books
• Dweck's Article on Praise
• "How to Motivate Students by Dweck"

Faculty Learning Tools:

• Active Learning
  www.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/Active/
• Cooperative Learning
  http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm
• Case-Based Teaching
  http://tlt.its/psu.edu/suggestions/cases
• Documenting Critical Thinking
  http://www.insightassessment.com/9teachtips.html#youget
• Experiential Learning
  http://wilderdom.com/experiential/
  www.experientiallearning.ucdavis.edu/why-el.shtml
• Problem-Based Learning
  www.pbl.uci.edu/whatispbl.html
• Team-Based Learning
  http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/?page_id=7