On Friday, October 29th UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Chinese Dr. George Yang met with certified Chinese Instructors for their annual professional development conference. Dr. Yang spoke to the group about assessments, the connection between high school and college courses, and other issues.

Later in the morning, Prof. Cecilia Chang, Williams College shared her talk with the group “From Instruction to Assessment: Best Practices in Enhancing Test Performance for Free Response Questions of the AP Chinese Exam” and instructors discussed how these best practices can be applied to their UConn Chinese courses.

UConn Chinese courses offered through ECE.

On Wednesday, October 27th  UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Economics Dr. Natalia Smirnova met with certified Economics Instructors for their annual professional development conference. Dr. Smirnova spoke to the group about ECE Accreditation Requirements “What you need to know about course comparability: syllabus, assessment, and grading”. Later Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Senior Economic Education Specialist from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis spoke to the group about “Highlighting Diversity and Inclusion with FRED® Data”.

After a short break, the group reconvened to hear from Scott A. Wolla, Economic Education Coordinator at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis share his talk “Monetary Policy Has Changed. Has Your Instruction?”.  Finally the group heard from UConn’s Sheila A. Lafferty, Information Literacy & Social Sciences Librarian who shared information with the instructors about UConn’s Library Resources.

For more information about the day see Dr. Smirnova's blog.

UConn Economics courses offered through ECE.