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What's New for Teachers at Fordham?
Updated every semester. Last updated: February 2008
Written & updated by Dr. Toulouse.
A portrait emerges of the first 21st century generation
Are we ready for digital natives and multitaskers who expect nomadic connectivity, 24x7?
Millennial behaviors and demographics
Essay summarizing research by Richard Sweeney, Univerisity Librarian, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ. 2006.
"They are a huge generation of impatient, experiential learners, digital natives, multitaskers, and gamers who love the flat, networked world and expect nomadic connectivity, 24x7. More importantly they are demanding consumers who expect more selectivity, personalization and customization in their products and services. They are the Millennials (a.k.a. NextGen, GenY, C Generation, M Generation, and Echo Boomers), the generation born 1979 though 1994."
The Millennials
Streaming video of a talk given by Richard Sweeney at Fordham's Annual Technology Conference on May 22, 2007. (43 minutes)
New options and old: service learning and the core curriculum
Find out about service learning and review the old core curriculum that is now under revision
Service learning
The Community Service Office writes:
"The central idea with service-learning is that students are testing the concepts of their courses (e.g. in the humanities) or practicing the skills of a course (e.g. languages or sciences) through experience in the community. The community service office aids students in finding a site appropriate to a particular course and establishing contact for volunteer placement."
The Core Curriculum
This page at Rose Hill gives course descriptions of the courses in the Core Curriculum.
Pearls of wisdom from the Faculty Handbook
Look at this list and blush. Which rule do you think faculty most honor in the breach? Could it be number 4?
Fordham University Faculty Handbook
The Handbook is written in clear plain English and is the touchstone for teaching at Fordham. This semester's highlighted gems are:
1. When are grades due? 3.1 "Semester grades are due within three (3) calendar days of the final examination date in the Fall semester and within two (2) calendar days of the final examination in the Spring semester."
2. What should happen when you have to miss a class? 4.5 "When a class must be canceled due to illness or another unavoidable reason, the Chair of the Department and the Dean should be notified as soon as possible. If you miss a class meeting, please try to provide for make-up time for that missed class. The time can be made up either through an additional class meeting or through the addition of extra time to a series of class meetings."
3. Is there a limit on the number of videos you can show? 4.6 "In appropriate courses, two or three hours during regularly scheduled class meetings per semester may be reasonably devoted to viewing in-class videos or films. However, faculty are required to be present for the full time during which such videos or films are shown. Any faculty who wish to go beyond this are advised to discuss the matter with the Chair or Associate Chair of his or her department."
4. How should you leave the classroom? 9.3.3 "As a matter of professional courtesy, the classroom should be left in its original configuration." In other words, please clean the board for the incoming professor!
5. What do students want out class? 9.4 "Do not mistake personality for good teaching technique. While some personality can be used to get over the dry spots, there is nothing like a well organized lecture/discussion to put life into a classroom."
The teacher's challenge
"Applying, then, the Ignatian paradigm to the teacher-learner relationship in Jesuit education, it is the teacher's primary role to facilitate the growing relationship of the learner with truth, particularly in the matter of the subject being studied under the guiding influence of the teacher. The teacher creates the conditions, lays the foundations and provides the opportunities for the continual interplay of the student's EXPERIENCE, REFLECTION and ACTION to occur."
— The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, from St. Aloysius College, Sydney, Australia.
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