Greetings from the CTL!

 

Upcoming Workshop: Assessing Student Learning
 

Active Learning Day!
 

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (Advisor to the Obama Administration/The White House) has announced October 25th will be “Active Learning Day" nationwide. We would like to demonstrate Boise State's commitment to quality undergraduate education and the broader implementation of active learning strategies by participating in this event.

Teaching faculty from across the country are being challenged to incorporate at least 10 minutes of active learning in their course on October 25^th. We would like you to join us in this effort by committing to use an active learning strategy for at least 10 minutes in your class on October 25^th. If you don’t teach on the 25^th, we encourage you to participate by incorporating 10 minutes of active learning in your class on the 24^th or 26^th instead.

Please help us document Boise State’s participation in this event by completing the linked google form.  If you would like to participate in Active Learning Day, but don’t have a particular active learning strategy in mind, I would be happy to talk with you about ideas.

For more information about Active Learning Day, please contact Brittnee Earl (brittneeearl@boisestate.edu).
 

 

Have a student that is falling behind? Use Academic Alert!
 

The Academic Alert referral service is a resource for faculty to request academic support for students who are struggling academically.  Following a referral, an academic advisor in the student’s college will reach out to the student via phone or email with the goal of scheduling an in-person meeting and/or connecting the student to support resources.  Examples of when to submit an academic alert include: missing an unreasonable amount of classes, notable poor performance, or low engagement in the classroom. For step by step instructions on how to submit an alert and the process that occurs once an alert is submitted please visit https://aae.boisestate.edu/academicalert/. If you would like to submit an academic alert please use this link: https://aae.boisestate.edu/early-alert-form/ . Students will be notified from whom and why the referral was made on their behalf. Any information you provide may be shared with the student. As such, observations should be objectively stated.

Ensuring student success is important to every faculty member, and by submitting this form, you are helping with the process. For any questions about Academic Alerts please call 208-426-3505  or email Karina Smith at karinasmith@boisestate.edu.

 

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Adjunct Spotlight: Vickie Gooch

Vickie Gooch is completing her 13th year of teaching in the Department of Criminal Justice at Boise State, but her relationship with the University extends back even further; she graduated from Boise State's program in Criminal Justice Administration in 1985. She currently teaches Criminalistics, but has also taught Contemporary Issues in American Policing, Introduction to the Criminal Justice System, Introduction to Policing, Theories of Justice and Criminal Law.

Vickie brings a lot of experience to her job as teacher; she has worked in policing for the last 36 years, the last 18 of which as a detective for the Idaho State Police. Combining her love of both professions is one of the things she likes most about teaching. "The thing I most enjoy about teaching is the energy of the students and their desire to not only learn, but apply their Criminal Justice degrees at some future point as practitioners in the system.   It is encouraging to see the potential in the classroom as it relates to that potential transferring to a system, a system  many of  us have professionally grown up in as well as continue to be employed.  Teaching brings me a balance between my policing career and the ability to give back to the CJ program where it all began for me in 1980."
 

 

 
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