January Teaching Workshop to feature Dr. Donaldo Macedo This year’s winter Teaching Enhancement Workshop will be held Thursday morning, January 11, from 9 a.m. to12 p.m., at the Timonium Graduate Center. The focus of this workshop will be "Eloquentia Perfecta" and will include a keynote address by the noted scholar Donaldo Macedo, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. After Professor Macedo’s talk there will be five different breakout sessions featuring members of our faculty and the Loyola community, as well as a nationally recognized leader in distance education. There will be panels on "Grade Inflation and Grading Practices" (Barbara Mallonee, Christopher Morrell, Jai Ryu, and Kenneth Small - all members of the Ad hoc Committee on Grading Practices at Loyola), "Students Struggling with Eloquentia Perfecta: How Faculty Can Assist Students with Disabilities to Fulfill the Educational Aim of Eloquentia Perfecta" (Pam Griffin-Smith, Janet Preis, and Elana Rock), and "Millennial Students and Helicopter Parents: Guiding the Journey Toward Academic Responsibility" (including Ilona McGuiness, Xavier Cole, Sharon Nell). There will also be two individual presentations: "In Search of Chesterton’s ‘Short, Hard Words’: Editing for Jargon in Academic and Professional Writing" (David Belz) and "Making Courses Competent: An Overview of the CADE (Competency Assessment in Distributed Education) Course Design Model" with Richard Vigilante, Executive Director of the Jesuit Distance Education Network (JesuitNET). Professor Donaldo Macedo is Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics, and Director of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Applied Linguistics Graduate Program. He has published widely, including co-authoring a number of books and articles with well-known thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Paolo Freire. Macedo’s focus, very much influenced by his work with Freire, is on methods of using social, reflective, and political action to break down structures and mechanisms of oppression. In his talk, co-sponsored by our Year of the City Coordinating Committee, Macedo will relate our own Jesuit Catholic emphasis on "eloquentia perfecta" with the problems of the underserved in Baltimore. A light breakfast will be available beforehand, and a lunch will be served after the morning sessions have ended. Please RSVP before Monday, January 8 to Ann Burke in the Office of Academic Affairs (Ext. 2400 or aburke@loyola.edu). |
