University of Wisconsin - Stout

Summer Institute - Year 2

1. Student -Centered Learning/Teaching Institute intended to enable participants to:
  • Define student engagement
  • Explore the components of student engagement as a classroom component
  • Develop and integrate student engagement strategies into learning experiences
  • Develop assessment strategies to evaluate student engagement learning experiences
Image from the Student-Centered Learning Institute
2. Writing to Learn Institute: “Strategies for Classrooms Across the Curriculum” Intended as a means for participants to:
  • Explore the concept of “writing to learn” in discipline-specific contexts
  • Learn effective strategies for designing successful, engaging writing assignments
  • Learn effective strategies for formatively and summatively assessing student writing
  • Investigate the role of campus and electronic resources (e.g. the UW-Stout Writing Center, D2L, and e-portfolios) in the writing-to-learn process
  • Develop a repertoire and/or sequence of discipline-based writing-to-learn assignments
3. Assessment Institute Intended for Department chairs, Program directors and core instructors in programs. Our guest Facilitator was Barbara Walvoord, University of Notre Dame. The workshop goals were to:
  • Review current “assessment in major” plans
  • Create new strategies and methods for their programs. Emphasis will be placed on making program assessment manageable and valuable for students, instructors and program directors.
  • Plan and development assessment electronic portfolio
Image of Barbara Walvoord presenting to the 2006 Assessment Institute
The University of Wisconsin-Stout gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education Title III Grant in the development of the content for this Web site.