Volume 3, Issue 10, October 2015
QEP’s Oktoberfest
Critical
Thinking
Corner...
Some may equate Oktoberfest just with Samuel Adams, but not anymore. The QEP has
started its own Oktoberfest. October is the month of “QEP endorsed” workshops.
North Campus is leading the way for teaching and learning this month by hosting
multiple workshops, and two of these have received the Gold Seal of Approval as
“QEP Endorsed Events.” In addition to the workshops at North Campus, two QEP
Certified Scholars will facilitate workshops on Central Campus. QEP Scholar Kisha King,
who also serves as an Honors College Coordinator, is facilitating a workshop titled,
Honors and the QEP, and Dr. Nathalie Franco is facilitating Metacognition: A Key to
Cultivating Critical Thinking. You definitely do not want to miss these workshops.
Ready to Use
Resources
October 22, 2015
North Campus
Facilitated by
Cristy Moran &
Victor Lawrence
Metacognition:
Honors and
the QEP
October 30, 2015
Central Campus
A Key to Cultivating
Critical Thinking
October 23, 2015
Central Campus
Facilitated by
Facilitated by
Kisha King
Dr. Nathalie Franco
Verb Tense Shift: Evaluated to Evaluating
Kyla Williams, Ph.D.
Scholar Reflection
Critical thinking is a mode of
thinking that improves a
thinker’s ability to analyze,
reconstruct, and access any
subject or problem. Critical
thinking for students should
entail students enhancing their
intellectual skills beyond rote
memorization. Improved
critical thinking provides
students with the ability to
examine, question, and
develop multiple solutions to
one problem.
Black Lives Matter: Building Upon
a Legacy of Service &
Culture of Completion
October 29, 2015 on North Campus
The QEP District Director, Dr. Barbara Rodriguez, had
Facilitated by
the opportunity to serve as the QEP Lead Evaluator for
Quakish Liner, Zakiya Odoi,
a SACSCOC Onsite Review Committee at Northwest
Jason Vinson, Jacob Skelton
Vista College in San Antonio, TX. As Broward College
stakeholders recall, we were evaluated by a SACSCOC team two years ago. Boy, time
flies by when you are having fun.
Dr. Rodriguez served with colleagues
representing the states of Florida
(Tallahassee Community College),
Kentucky, North Carolina, and South
Carolina. According to Dr. Rodriguez,
the experience was professionally and
personally rewarding. She looks
forward to another opportunity.
SACSCOC Onsite Review Committee & Northwest Vista College team
Next Month on North Campus
Workshop: Just QEP It! Creating Critical Thinkers
If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity. — Josh Lanyon
To learn more about the QEP, visit www.broward.edu/qep or to ask questions, email [email protected]
Broward College defines critical thinking as a process of evaluating information by questioning and testing assumptions,
accepting and rejecting arguments and/or perspectives, and applying reasoning to make informed decisions.