GSC Faculty E-News for June 2018
High-Impact Strategies for Student Success

Our students appreciate that our faculty are subject matter experts and often active practitioners who create high-impact teaching and learning opportunities for student success.

What do those high-impact strategies look like at Granite State College?

Beginning in July, we're excited to be able to share real-world examples from fellow GSC faculty through a new monthly series in this e-newsletter called Three-Minute Thursdays, featuring video reflections and helpful tools to easily implement small practice changes that can have a big impact for our students.

These video reflections are just another example of how our innovative Peer Review process results in essential quality assessment and a dedicated community of teaching practitioners who share and innovate together.

We may live at a distance from one another and lead busy lives (like many of our students), yet when we come together for our students our connections are strong. This message was loud and clear at our recent Commencement Ceremony, and if you weren't able to attend I encourage you to check out a video of the ceremony at https://my.granite.edu/commencement .

Thank you for your dedication to our students, and here's to a great summer!
With regards,

Dr. Scott Stanley, Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs

Since 1985, Granite State College has presented select faculty with its annual Distinguished Faculty Award to acknowledges faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the teaching/learning process at Granite State College.

This award recognizes distinguished teaching and other notable achievements such as curriculum development, assessment of prior leaning, creating community connections, and mentoring. It's our pleasure to announce this year's recipients:
Elizabeth Gauffreau, M.A.
Michael Zaino, J.D.
Thank you, professors Gauffreau and Zaino, for your dedication to our students!
As faculty, our experience each time we teach sparks new ideas. But as active practitioners, there's often very little time to implement those ideas. So how can we focus on high-impact teaching strategies that benefit our students while also saving us a bit of time to work on additional changes?


We've all been there: the student who never logs in or shows up to class or those who only want to "get an A."

A recent article by Dr. Maryellen Weimer explores essential questions that helps us think about our approach to teaching challenging students.

 
GSC's Career Services offers a variety of workshops and supports for students. Work Experience programs, career exploration sessions, and resume and cover letter workshops are just a few of the offerings available. Select sessions make excellent class activities for students!
  
Explore the latest faculty outreach and news and share your good work with GSC!


As a reminder, the summer term at GSC now offers six-week and 10-week options for our students (eight-week options will no longer be offered).

This change also shifts GSC's Academic Calendar; to review these updates, please review the GSC Academic Calendar.

The Instructional Design Team is always available to help faculty with course design strategies.
GSC's Library & Information Commons is a powerful digital collection of resources and tools for both students and faculty:


  • The Faculty Services page provides key information and access to library services

Faculty at GSC have on-demand access two primary resources for essential information:

  • GSC's virtual Faculty Lounge in Moodle provides on-demand videos and forums for information sharing, as well sample course design strategies from fellow faculty members

  • The Faculty Center website includes information about professional development events, policies, procedures, and best practices in teaching and learning

“What does matter is teachers having a mind frame in which they see it as their role to evaluate their effect on learning.”

~ John Hattie
DID YOU KNOW?

Addenda to the College catalogs are now posted online. Once posted, these become the documents of record, so please be sure you are using the correct versions.