Attached to this email is a report on a Survey of High School Student Engagement.  Thanks to Dick Staley and Joanne Curran for passing it to me. I would like to get a discussion about this report going at a future TB (next semester).  So please, if you get a chance, look it over and take a note or two of what we can learn about our own students from this.  For example, I hear faculty talk about our student’s reading habits.  This report indicates that 80% of High School students spend less than 3 hours per week reading.  Perhaps expecting them to read 5 or more hours per week is unrealistic given their habits? (Did I really just write that!?)  

As a reminder, the last TB of the semester is Dec. 1 at 8 am in Morris Hall.  The topic is Giving Exams Demonstrating Student Understanding.  For ideas on how to do this see http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/sectionlists/sect22.html.  Bring your good and bad exam ideas with you and share them with others.  Hope to see you there.

Have a happy Thanksgiving break and in the spirit of acronyms remember this holiday break, “Truly you are the key.”
 


Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820

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"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"