One-Day Seminars

For more than 30 years, Alverno College has been a leader in ability-based curriculum design and the assessment-as-learning approach to education. Alverno's curriculum requires all students to master, within the disciplines, what the faculty has developed as eight core abilities critical to the worlds of work, family and civic community. Those abilities include communication, analysis, problem solving, valuing in decision-making, social interaction, developing a global perspective, effective citizenship and aesthetic engagement.

Every year, hundreds of educators throughout the United States and the world visit Alverno to learn about its teaching methods. Attend one of these educator workshops to learn more about Alverno's principles and practices and how this approach can be adapted to your curriculum.

All workshops offer participants the experience of a dynamic, innovative, and hospitable institutional learning culture. Participants also interact and collaborate with educators from around the world.

Our day-long seminar, "A Day at Alverno: Teaching and Assessing Student Abilities," allows you to take a firsthand look at Alverno's ability-based curriculum. Meet and talk to the faculty, staff and students that make it work.

This comprehensive seminar is led by Alverno faculty, leading designers of student assessment and outcome-based education, and incorporates the successful principles and practices of Alverno's approach to education.

Workshop participants will:

Gain a better understanding of teaching, learning and assessment, and learn how to develop and implement similar practices at their institutions
Consider how to assess at many levels of practice - student, course, program and institution-wide
Engage in different learning formats including general presentations, small group sessions, and informal conversations that encourage discussion of specific educational issues.

Who Should Attend

Deans, administrators, faculty and department chairs who would like to find out more about ability-based curriculum design
Educators interested in rethinking their courses in terms of the outcomes (knowledge and abilities) that inform their discipline
School principals and administrators interested in curriculum design that integrates effective teaching of content with the development of student performance abilities
Nursing educators interested in incorporating ability-building teaching methods and performance assessment-as-learning into their classes

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Registration Fees:

The early-bird fee is $345 per person or $325 per person for two or more participants from the same institution. Fees include materials, continental breakfast, lunch, refreshment breaks and post-workshop reception.

Early-bird pricing is available through March 29, 2012. After March 29, the fee will be $400 per person or $380 for two or more participants.

SEMINAR REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE HERE

Off-campus Lodging

Room blocks have been arranged at local hotels. Please ask for the Alverno College Workshop rate when making your reservation.

CLARION HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER

5311 South Howell Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53207
(414) 481-2400
Fax: (414) 481-4471
www.clarionhotel.com/hotel-milwaukee

Rates: $84/night (Single or Double)

The Clarion, located in suburban Milwaukee, is near General Mitchell International Airport. It will provide free airport shuttle service as well as shuttle service to/from the Alverno campus at designated times.

Contact us:
Contact Alverno College Institute for Educational Outreach at:

(414) 382-6087
3400 South 43 Street
PO Box 343922
Milwaukee, WI 53234-3922
institute@alverno.edu

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