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Assistance to Faculty in ...

• Aligning, writing, and assessing standards-based, student-centered
  curriculum
• Developing and using alternative assessments and rubrics
  (performance-based tasks, authentic tasks, portfolios)
• Identifying, teaching to, and assessing for performance-based
  competencies
• Designing, implementing, and analyzing action research projects
• Facilitating students' development of skills in collaboration, information literacy, application, higher-order thinking, critical-thinking, and problem-solving
• Identifying and implementing subject-specific instructional strategies, such as heuristics and problem-solving in mathematics; inquiry and the Learning Cycle in science; case studies, mock trials, and decision-making in social studies
• Improving constructed-response test scores by facilitating reading and writing across the curriculum
• Using authentic problems and projects to integrate the curriculum
• Increasing student motivation by enhancing real-world connections
• Bringing high-end, broad-spectrum Internet and other instructional
  technologies into their classrooms