Tom Angelo

Faculty invited to teaching,
program-assessment workshops

An internationally renowned expert on teaching and program assessment will be on campus Nov. 1 and 2 to share his expertise with NAU faculty and graduate teaching assistants.

Tom Angelo, professor of higher education at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, has consulted at more than 250 colleges worldwide. His best-known publication is Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers with more than 75,000 copies in print.

His first faculty workshop will be from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the University Union Kaibab Room. The title is "Fostering Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: Practical, Research-based Strategies for Connecting Objectives, Teaching and Assessment to Strengthen Learning."

Angelo's second faculty workshop is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in the University Union Kaibab Room. The title is "Doing Program Assessment When Learning Matters Most: Seven Transformative Guidelines from Research and Best Practice."

A graduate teaching assistant workshop, "Pulling It All Together: Making Coursework Clear, Coherent, Connected and Consequential," is scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, also in the University Union Kaibab room.

Register online at www.nau.edu/facdev or call 523-9972.