Faculty Member

School

Academic Year

Date

Dr. Andria Stokes

School of Education

2012-2013

5/9/12

GOALS

Objectives

Comments

Ratings

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Effectiveness in classroom teaching

Provides clear, accurate and current course syllabi.  Conducts well-organized courses.

Dr. Stokes revised her syllabi in order to follow the School of Education’s new template.  She added specificity in many areas to help the unit document information for accreditation purposes.  Her courses were well-organized.

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Plans class time and activities for effective learning and active student engagement

Students in all of Dr. Stokes’s courses mentioned engaging learning activities including, but not limited to, dancing, singing, games, role playing, small groups, and others.

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Uses a wide variety of teaching methods that are appropriate for the content of  courses

Dr. Stokes employed a wide variety of teaching strategies and modeled these in such a way that candidates could immediately take them into the classroom.  Students appreciated her innovative and creative approaches. They found the metacognitive and hands-on strategies she shared with them appropriate for the contemporary context of K-12 schools.

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Provides consistent and timely feedback to students to help them achieve objectives

Students indicated that Dr. Stokes was always available and willing to help.  She gave meaningful feedback and answered questions in a timely manner. 

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Students typically achieve the goals and objectives of the faculty member’s courses

Students reported feeling like Dr. Stokes was very interested in their success.  They indicated that she used many varied techniques to ensure that all candidates in the class were learning.

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Effectiveness with students

Engages students outside of class by attending some student events on campus

Dr. Stokes invited her students to attend RI, mind mapping and TEDX sessions with her.  Many of them did participate in these activities outside of class.

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Schedules, posts and keeps adequate and consistent office hours

Dr. Stokes posted her schedule on her office board.  As well, she made herself available to students almost non-stop via electronic communication.

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Provides accurate and thorough advising for students; helps students chart long-term plans; provides file notes and makes few advising errors

With the redesign elements soon launching, Dr. Stokes helped several candidates make decisions about whether or not to move forward to the new academic catalogue.  She contacted advisees who did not re-enroll and provided follow-up information about their situations.  Her advising is ever improving.

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Takes an active part in referring students of concern when needed; completes professional dispositions and writing center referrals when needed

Dr. Stokes made referrals for some teacher candidates in the fall.  She also helped identify candidates who needed work on professional dispositions.

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Effectiveness within the School of Education

Serves on appropriate school committees; contributes actively to School of Education and content area liaison faculty meetings

Dr. Stokes made an enormous contribution to the SOE by providing several Canvas training sessions for full-time and adjunct faculty members.  She served on the SOE Website Development Taskforce.  She presented information about the new technology strand at the Education Advisory Board meetings in both fall and spring. 

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Works in a collegial manner with School of Education faculty.  Supports school colleagues in both speech and action.

Dr. Stokes mentored an SOE faculty member who was trying her first on-line course.  She worked effectively with an SOE colleague in developing the connective threads between the field-based sequence courses and the paired technology courses.  She co-taught several class sessions with SOE colleagues to model co-teaching strategies for candidates.  She went out of her way to make herself available to colleagues in need of technology support.

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Meets due dates on reports, assessment data, and other pertinent paperwork.  Does a thorough job in preparing these items.

Dr. Stokes has been very busy this year with CTL, First Year Experience, Avila Advantage and other projects.  Nonetheless, she submitted most materials in a timely manner.

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Demonstrates commitment, initiative and leadership in achieving department goals and objectives

Dr. Stokes developed the new technology strand courses, helped with decisions on technology procurement, helped in preparing for the Angel to Canvas transition and furthered the co-teaching initiative.  All of these were key goals/objectives for the academic year within the unit.

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GOALS

Measurable Objectives

Examples of evidence of effectiveness

Ratings

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Effectiveness with colleagues

Serves on campus-wide committees and works cooperatively and collaboratively with colleagues across campus.  Supports colleagues in other areas of the university in both speech and action.

Dr. Stokes served on several university-wide committees including ACIR, the

Technology Committee and the Alternate Semester Task Force.  She worked collaboratively with colleagues across the campus on many Center for Transformational Learning projects. 

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Works cooperatively with and communicates clearly and effectively with the Dean

Dr. Stokes met with me nine times throughout the academic year to strategize and plan for technology integration in the unit.  She provided needed information for capital budget requests.  She sought input and feedback in preparing the Canvas trainings.  She communicated with me about several student issues so support could be offered to those candidates.

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Displays a positive attitude about constructive feedback and uses the feedback to strengthen performance

Dr. Stokes sought feedback about the Canvas trainings and used the suggestions to design the presentations.  She asked for feedback about the technology course objectives.  She surveyed and used the feedback provided by our SOE Advisory Board in adjusting curriculum for the new technology strand course. 

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Works as a problem solver in the School of Education and in other small group assignments

Andria jumped in and helped when needed.  She volunteered for the June SOAR advising.  She helped nearly everyone in the SOE with technology consultation.

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Effectiveness with professional development

Regularly engages in faculty development  opportunities offered at Avila University

Dr. Stokes organized and helped facilitate the Innovations in Lifelong Learning book study.  She planned and attended Dine and Discuss sessions offered through the CTL.  She developed bundles for and presented at the SOE Canvas trainings. 

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Regularly engages in faculty development opportunities offered through professional organizations, conferences, etc.

Dr. Stokes participated in sessions titled Building a Powerful Presentation and Who Owns the Learning.  She participated in the AERA Ninth Annual Brown Lecture in Educational Research Original Intent: Black Educators in an Elusive Quest for Justice. Additionally she took part in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Webinar: Raising Achievement in Culturally Diverse Student Populations and the Think Forward Webinar: Digitally Speaking.  She attended the AACU Renewal and SxSWEDU conferences.

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Engages in scholarly activities such as presenting at conferences, preparing papers, engaging in research

Dr. Stokes co-authored a book titled Powerful Learning Communities: A Guide to Developing Student, Faculty and Professional Learning Communities to Improve Student Success and Organizational Effectiveness as well as presented at the conferences listed above.  She is also working on several scholarly pursuits to benefit Avila University.

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Provides effective service to the internal and external communities consistent with the best principles of the discipline/profession

Dr. Stokes spoke with the ROMEO group about the CTL and community learning (MOOCs).  She consulted with Kookiedoodle Art Studio on Curriculum development and consulted with Sasone Jewish Special Needs Organization.

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Performance Summary:

   Classroom

    Students

        School

  Colleagues

Prof Develop

Overall

Mean Scores

         3.00

         2.74

          2.74

         2.74

            3.00

     2.86

Areas identified for future focus.

Dr. Stokes has so many diverse interests and projects going on that she is sometimes prone to over-commitment or to move quickly from one thing to another without fully developing the initial project.   However, what she is pursuing is always innovative and worthwhile.  I encourage her to seek balance and at times to prioritize because there will always be projects for later pursuits.

Other comments

Dr. Stokes has been very involved in the SOE technology initiatives.  Her well-rounded involvement included curriculum development, training, planning for budget considerations, mentoring and other things.  She spent a great deal of time in one-on-one training of colleagues.  They found this help vital to their professional development.  There is no way we would have been able to have the multiple Canvas trainings without her extensive work to prepare training bundles and demonstrations.  I know she is anxious to spend the majority of time on CTL work; however, I am grateful that she will be with us for one more year to launch the SOE technology strand. 

Dr. Stokes went through a successful tenure review this academic year.  I congratulate her on this accomplishment.  Her breadth and depth of professional work has increased substantially.

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Faculty Activity Report for current academic year completed?

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Faculty Goals Review for current academic year completed?

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Faculty Goals Form for next academic established?

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Title

Printed Name

Signature

Date

Faculty Member

                   Dr. Andria Stokes

Andria Stokes

5/9/13

School Dean

                   Dr. Karen Garber-Miller

Karen Garber-Miller

5/9/13