Southeast PRISM Higher Education
Institute
AASU Roundtable
Forums
One of the PRISM project's many
interconnected strategies is the formation of a PRISM
Higher Education Institute. In
particular, this Institute is the realization of Strategy Four.
The Higher Ed Institute is meant to support faculty endeavors to
improve the teaching and learning of undergraduate science and mathematics.
Our PRISM Institute goal is to share what is working in our classrooms,
study educational research topics, and work on designing and implementing
educational research projects in our science and mathematics classes.
Southeast PRISM Institute members receive full support to attend
two annual statewide conferences, attend monthly round table forums
on campus and participate in the development of regional educational
research projects. Some documents which define the Statewide and
Regional Institutes are: Strategy
Four one-pager, Statewide
Institute Defining Document, Regional
Institute Summary, and the current Southeast
Regional Institute Plan.
- Statewide PRISM Higher Education
Institute Meeting: All AASU and CGCC STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics) or Education faculty with interest
in improving undergraduate science and math education are welcome
to participate in these biannual Teaching & Learning conferences.
All participants are fully funded by the state PRISM grant. Interested
faculty should contact Sabrina Hessinger at 921-2059 or hessina@mail.armstrong.edu.
Find information from past and upcoming Statewide Institute meetings
below.
- PRISM Higher Education Institute Launch, April 2004, Atlanta
- PRISM Higher Education Institute, October 2004, Atlanta
- PRISM Higher Education Institute, February 2005, Savannah
- PRISM Higher Education Institute, October 2005, Marietta
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- Southeast Regional PRISM Teaching
& Learning Round Table: One goal of the PRISM Institute
is to engage faculty from across colleges in collaborations and
research projects which result in improved teaching and learning
in college level science and math courses. We have reestablished
a luncheon forum, "PRISM Higher Education Institute Teaching
and Learning Round Table," in collaboration with the AASU
Office of Faculty Development. We use this round table discussion
to delve deeper into the topics which are presented at the statewide
Institute meetings. In this way we share what we learned at the
statewide meeting with our campus colleagues, we discuss these
topics in the context of our own courses, and we collaboratively
generate ideas for implementing what we learned in our own classrooms.
Through our regional Round Table discussions, the Southeast PRISM
Higher Education Institute seeks to pull together and support
faculty at AASU and CGCC with interest in:
- Engaging in collaborative research with K-12 schools
- Engaging in research projects which seek to improve the content
and delivery of college level courses.
- Engaging in departmental discussions about improving content
and delivery of college level courses.
- Working collaboratively across disciplines and across colleges
toward the common goal of improving K-16 science and math education.
Official flyers will come through the office of Faculty development.
The following is a list of past session descriptions as well as
dates for upcoming discussions.
- March 23, 2007, "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Ideas and Examples from across Colleges"
- October 21, 2004, "How
People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice"
- November 18, 2004, "How
Student Misconceptions Affect Learning"
- April 20, 2005, "Designing
Action Research Projects"
- September 16, 2005, "Support
Network for Teaching and Learning Projects"
- October 21, 2005, "Interdisciplinary
Teaching & Curricula"
- November 18, 2005, "A
Presentation Smorgasbord of Interdisciplinary Projects by AASU
Faculty"
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