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. To reserve the outdoor classroom pictured above, call Libby Newman at 837-8233.  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

Outdoor Learning and Faculty Support Center BAB 202 Box C-77 Alpine, Texas 79832 (432) 837-8233 Libby Newman, Support Specialist Inst. Effectiveness

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)
• "Better Research Basics, One Sentence at a Time" by Barney Nelson and Scarlet Clouse
• 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
• Cooperative Learning
• Case-Based Teaching
• Documenting Critical Thinking
• Experiential Learning
• Problem-Based Learning
• Team-Based Learning