QuIRK's Professional Development Curriculum
"Faculty in all disciplines need significant professional support in order for them to enhance the role of quantitative [reasoning] in their courses."
-National Council on Education and the Disciplines, Mathematics Association of America, and Mathematical Sciences Education Board Forum on Quantitative Literacy
Awareness-Raising Campus Lectures
QuIRK-sponsored campus speakers exemplifying effective QR in varied disciplines.
Professional Development Workshops
(from our website's For Carleton Faculty module)
QuIRK-sponsored workshops to help faculty better understand QR and to encourage the creation of effective QR assignments throughout the curriculum. We are especially interested in encouraging QR assignments that require written arguments.
Sharing Best Teaching Practice at Carleton's Learning and Teaching Center (LTC)
(from our website's For Carleton Faculty module)
At LTC brown-bag seminars QuIRK shares assessment findings and QR teaching tips generated by courses and assignments revised by initiative participants.