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God’s Word, Your World, 2017-2018: Reflections to Share with Catholic Youth
No full textThose who work with Catholic teens know that they are a unique group with profound capabilities and tremendous challenges. It is hard to know how to approach teens, and as a result, many parishes wind up retaining a small group of core youth ministry members while the rest of the parish teens seem to disappear. How can parishes talk to teenagers, especially those who don’t seem to be listening? God’s Word, Your World! provides you with the ability to “speak teen,” communicating with all teens in your parish on their level. This CD-ROM contains one-page, Lectionary-based digital reproducible handouts for every Sunday and Holyday of Obligation from the first Sunday in September 2017 through the last Sunday in August, 2018. Each digital reproducible contains a Scripture reflection, a suggestion for action, and journaling questions. They can be printed out for handouts, e-mailed, blogged, put on a parish website, or shared on Facebook. This gives you a way to meet teens where they are and communicate about the things that they are facing in their daily lives.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1109/thumbnail.jp
2018 Eric Rego Big Idea Competition
No full textCongrats to Megan Russell — the 2018 Big Idea 1st place winner. Read about Megan and the other winners.
What is the Eric Rego Big Idea Competition? This competition is in honor of Eric Rego, an E-1 who graduated in 2006. Eric passed away in 2008. Students pitch a business idea for 90 seconds to a group of panelists that include Eric\u27s parents, a fellow cohort of Eric\u27s and two gentlemen Eric used to work for. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place take home cash prizes
The Drunkard\u27s Search: Student Evaluation in Assessing Teaching Effectiveness
Get PDFAs social scientists, we understand the problem of the Drunkard\u27s Search -- the lure and perils of using easy-to-obtain but irrelevant data -- yet we are employed by institutions that are clearly searching under the lamppost for data to use in employment decisions. Researchers from various disciplines have studied and lamented the biases inherent in student course evaluations. Studies have found that these evaluations show systematic bias against women and people of color. They also may mask poor teaching practices as they are better measures of popularity than teaching effectiveness. Each year another study is released, leading to momentary hand wringing about the weakness of course evaluations as a means of assessing faculty and warning against their use in tenure and promotion decisions. Rather than adopting alternative means of evaluating faculty teaching and thinking creatively about student feedback, administrators and faculty leaders default to these surveys, claiming there is no other way to collect data on teaching. These course surveys continue to be used despite the mounting evidence that they provide not only no evidence of teaching effectiveness, but bad evidence that does damage to faculty both directly and indirectly. In an effort to raise the profile of these discussions and push for tangible change, we offer a comprehensive literature review of the existing research on student course evaluations and their biases
The Effects of Tutoring on Self-Efficacy and Identity as a Scientist
No full textThe CSB/SJU Department of Chemistry has developed an extensive tutoring program for all foundational courses in the curriculum. Student access to tutoring is well known to contribute to academic and attitudinal gains, including improved grades and attitudes about self and field of study. Previous studies on the benefits for the tutor emphasize academic gains, but less is understood about the additional changes occurring in the students who tutor, particularly for under-represented students. There is some evidence that working as a tutor enables stronger feelings of self-efficacy and identity in the field. An increase in self-efficacy and identity as a scientist can be particularly important for the retention of under-represented groups in STEM.
In an effort to explore the impacts of tutoring beyond academic gains, the current study seeks to explore the impact of tutoring on achievement, self-efficacy, and identity as a scientist, among tutors and non-tutors in chemistry. We have explored how these changes occur in tutors and compare with a control group of students in an introductory chemistry class who are not involved in tutoring. An extension of the project included revising the tutoring materials and tutor training to include teaching metacognitive skills. Our goal is to ascertain how the change in tutoring impacted achievement, self-efficacy, and identity as a scientist, among tutors and non-tutors in chemistry. The results from these studies will be presented
Growing Still
Get PDFGrace Gnahn is a senior at CSB/SJU and will be graduating in May of 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in communication. She currently has a full time position as an Assistant House Supervisor of a group home for J and J Holmes. Aside from work and academics, she lives a life that is filled with music and art. Grace enjoys traveling around our country to attend music & art festivals. Photography is currently her biggest passion and she plans to make this a bigger part of her life after graduating
This House
Get PDFHolly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Big Muddy, The Cape Rock, New Ohio Review, and Gargoyle, and her published books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, Ugly Girl, and The Yellow Dot of a Daisy. She has been a featured presenter at Write On, Door County (WI), North Coast Redwoods Writers\u27 Conference (CA), and the Spirit Lake Poetry Series (MN). Her newest poetry collections, A Perfect Day for Semaphore (Finishing Line Press) and I\u27m in a Place Where Reason Went Missing (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.) will be out mid-2018
Angels
Get PDFChet Corey was born and raised in Minneapolis. Chet Corey’s poems have appeared in literary and religious journals since the mid-1960s, including Benedictines Magazine, Kansas Quarterly, Louisville Review, National Catholic Reporter, Review for Religious, South Dakota Review, and Windhover (U. of Mary-Hardin Baylor). Most recently poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Coe Review, Right Hand Pointing and Stoneboat. Chet and his wife Kathy live alongside Bush Lake in Bloomington, Minnesota