Perhaps only those few blog readers who visit here, and who are familiar with the rigours and trials of academic administration, will understand my need to give poetic form to a process that, like algae on a too shaded pond, at times can threaten to take over your life and suffocate vitality and freshness. Yet the process of validation, which confirms the quality of the courses we offer at the College, is necessary and an important public statement of confidence, and for that reason we are content to fulfil the obligations that must underlie such approval. We’ve just been given such a statement of confidence, and have come through the process with a high level of affirmation.
So as always, on a 5 x 7 x 5 Haiku form, I seek through disciplined word and thought, to impose control, and bring all parts of my life (including academic admin!), into the sphere of faith and following after Jesus. If we are faithful in the details, we might be trusted with the big picture, huh?
Validation Haiku
Module Descriptors
Calcify the intellect
with Learning Outcomes.
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Documentation
Keeps Quality Enhancement
Staff – reassured.
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Benchmarks are not the
backside impressions left by
hardwood park benches.
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The Beatitudes
and the Sermon on the Mount,
real learning outcomes!
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To be loved by God,
to follow after Jesus,
that’s validation!
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