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We have repeated the exchange, making the groups
smaller (four to six students in all). With the noise
level in mind, we allowed one-half of the students to
meet in one classroom and one-half in the other. For
the future, we are considering journal exchanges or
making one-to-one student matches for more intensive
interviews. We are excited about the possibilities for
long-term cooperation and integration between ESL
and regular curriculum classes. Certainly this experi-
ment could be a model for similar exchanges in other
sociology classes, as well as political science, English,
economics...and the list goes on.

Mary Beth Collins, Instructor, Behavioral & Social
Sciences
Karen Stanley, Instructor, English & Foreign Language

For further information, contact the authors at Central
Piedmont Community College, P.O. Box 35009, Char-
lotte, NC 28235.

 

PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THE
1991 INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON TEACHING
EXCELLENCE AND CONFER-

ENCE OF ADMINISTRATORS.

 

May 19-22
Austin, Texas

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Excellence In Teaching Retreat

Teaching retreats are opportunities to celebrate great
teaching, swap and steal ideas, and focus on direct
service to students. Guilford Technical Community
College’s Excellence in Teaching Retreat—involving
faculty, staff, and administrators—is an annual 1-1/2
day opportunity to tap the teaching experiences and
resources of their colleagues. [In the event there is a
cancellation, one “hand-picked” student—who has a
strong interest in pursuing a teaching career—is
selected to attend.]

Soe doce

First, participants share teaching problems (both
solved and unsolved) in two very brief papers that they
have written prior to the retreat. Facilitators identify
the issues of vital importance to the entire group. They
then organize topical workshops on specific educa-
tional issues in which participants (1) share informa-
tion and (2) move on to creative ways of thinking about
the topic.

Based on The Great Teachers’ Seminar (Garrison
and Gottshall), the Excellence in Teaching Retreat
serves as an important staff development activity.
Among the reasons cited for its success: the content is
not planned; no guest lecturers or experts of any kind
are used; there are no specific expectations beyond
individual benefits; the participants are inexhaustible
resources; and everyone is both teaching and learning.
Participants leave the seminar with a renewed enthusi-
asm for teaching and innovative ideas for the class-
room.

Lundee Amos, Director of Educational and Faculty/Staff
Development

For further information, contact the author at Guilford
Technical College, P.O. Box 309, Jamestown, NC 27282.

 

Suanne D. Roueche, Editor

January 18, 1991, Vol. XIll, No. 1

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