Assigment Portfolio

During the spring of 2006, the Teaching and Learning Committee and the Center for Teaching Excellence created a colloquium to support faculty in their efforts to include the Critical Encounters Focus for 2006-2007: HIV&AIDS into their syllabi. 

The first Critical Encounters in the Classroom Colloquium brought together eight individuals from across the three schools and various disciplines ? including full- and part-time faculty ? to create assignments for the larger Columbia College community through a Critical Encounters Web site.  Chosen from a number of applicants, this group of instructors has created a starting point for our pedagogical materials regarding HIV&AIDS.  Theses assignments, grouped by type, represent the kind of creative pedagogy that occurs here at Columbia College.

+    How can I become a part of Critical Encounters in the Classroom?

+     How can I add an assignment  that I have designed?

ASSIGNMENT PORTFOLIO CATEGORIES

+          Ice-Breakers

+          Writing

+          Performance

+          Visual

+          Digital

+          Other


To the Columbia College community:

The Critical Encounters Colloquium: Focus HIV&AIDS brought together a team of full- and part-time faculty members from many of the different departments at the college.  Our goal was to produce an HIV&AIDS assignment portfolio to post online for classroom use. 

We took a breath and dove into the fresh waters of new ideas, and created and re-created one assignment after another.  We addressed many concerns during our creative activity: How can we keep the students engaged while learning?  Will this assignment work for both science and film courses? 

It felt, at times, as if we were members of an undercover X-files team of specialists, spitting out creative edge to the point of exhaustion.

In the end, we were amazed by the assignments that came from this team of professional artists, from people who truly enjoy teaching.  The level of collaborative support, sharing and professionalism was exhilarating.  Cooperative inquiry?asking the ?what ifs? and the ?how abouts??led to some terrific assignment development.

Overall, we are proud of our work and thank both the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Teaching and Learning Committee for this opportunity.  We offer our support to all of our colleagues as they explore these assignment options.  Feel free to contact any member of the Colloquium and we look forward to hearing about the good work you are doing!

Respectfully,

Qween Roy-Wicks, English Chair

E. Hugh Manning, AEMM

Mimi Rolfing, Music

Eric Scholl, Television

Joe Steiff, Film

Heather Minges Wols, Science and Math