Team/Committee Members who Care

If you can't find a team that cares, they're not going to be able to mentor you very well. Go somewhere else.

3+1+1+?: Three committee members from the department, one from another department, and you can even put one from a random place, some expert in the field- a content expert.

Get your readers hoooked enough that they'll keep reading it.

Anne's Project

• Problem: Curriculum & general content has stayed about 95% the same over the last 30 years. The textbook changes every two years. (Changes objectives, resources, common vocab, etc.)
• The content for this course used to be covered with three credits, and now it's covered in two credits.
• We have taken additional responsibility in covering assessment topics not adequately covered in student assessment course.
• Some faculty people want to steer away from a textbook altogether

Real problem: Students are not applying the theories they learn into the classroom. Research is not informing practice.

My experience: there are principles and skills involved in applying theories. You learn the theories, but then you have to teach the specific skills by explaining them, demonstrating them (guided observation), then practicing them (evaluation with specific criteria), and testing them (real-world implementation).