Olga Padilla-Falto's Group on Gen Ed Redesign: Thoughts on Themes and Competencies by Joanne Maguire https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1 en-us 2021-04-07 19:46:45 UTC 2025-11-07 16:09:57 UTC hello@padlet.com jmrobin2 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397051622 2021-04-08 17:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397051622 I think I don't really have enough information yet on how the themes and competencies work and how that will change our course objectives. Also I am not clear about how this will work with the gen. ed credit requirements https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397606153 2021-04-08 20:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397606153 Worries https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397610864 How does the themes approach impact skills like first-year writing?

How are transfer students impacted?

]]> 2021-04-08 20:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397610864 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397625050 I like these themes, especially sustainability]]> 2021-04-08 20:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397625050 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397629014 Framing it as preparing students to face the largest challenges of today's world (e.g. climate change, inequality)]]> 2021-04-08 20:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397629014 Faculty preparation https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397632628 How will faculty be prepared to deliver this new approach (themes and/or competencies/skills).]]> 2021-04-08 20:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397632628 Resources https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397635474 Who are the intended faculty for the courses? Full-time/tenured vs. Part-time non-TT]]> 2021-04-08 20:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397635474 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397638270 Competencies/Skills are defined and clearly important. Opportunity to update skills for what students should be prepared to do.]]> 2021-04-08 20:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397638270 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397642643 Offers opportunity to get away from GenEd as something to "get out of the way" and see it integrated into academic career.]]> 2021-04-08 20:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397642643 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397659981 Need to be integrated into majors, not just seen as something students do prior to the major.]]> 2021-04-08 20:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397659981 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397661618 Interesting, but will be harder to think through and implement]]> 2021-04-08 20:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397661618 Worry https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397665648 Where does this leave some of the departments/academic units that have come to rely on GenEd?]]> 2021-04-08 20:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397665648 Students https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397669223 What do we want to send our students out to be able to do?  Particularly given the high proportion of first generation students?  How do we help students to value the skills/competencies taught through GenEd and into upper division?]]> 2021-04-08 20:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397669223 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397676787 Themes are more difficult to comprehend- and not clear how we get students to connect the pieces.]]> 2021-04-08 20:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397676787 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397697366 Most potential for helping students to connect programs and content from around the university. Themes would be curated, interdisciplinary sets of courses.]]> 2021-04-08 20:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397697366 opadill1 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397869424 it can be incorporated throughout the major

]]> 2021-04-08 22:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397869424 opadill1 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397870763 should be incorporated into all classes]]> 2021-04-08 22:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397870763 opadill1 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397872692 worries with transfer students and how to determine equivalencies]]> 2021-04-08 22:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397872692 opadill1 https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397874778 making sure we keep the perspective of who are students are and what their limitations are, and determine what we would like them to have/be exposed to]]> 2021-04-08 22:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jmrobin2/pi1iod84mt43dsx1/wish/1397874778