Please Note: These are Brown Bag seminars.

Please feel free to bring your own lunch or dinner. Beverages will be provided.

 

Overview of Student Cognition

Tuesday, September 8, 5-7pm

This seminar will provide an introduction to psychological models of how students learn. We will discuss effective strategies for students to acquire facts, concepts, principles and skills and for instructors to facilitate this learning with examples, practice, and feedback. This seminar counts as a core seminar toward the Documentation of Teaching Development program.

 

Teaching Large Classes

Tuesday, September 15, 5-7pm

Large classes present an array of unique challenges even for experienced instructors. In this seminar we will focus in particular on building rapport with students, engaging them, assessing their collective learning, and containing disruptive behaviors. We will develop creative strategies to accomplish these goals and contain the total time commitment on the instructor’s side.

 

Working Well with Small Groups

Tuesday, September 22, 12-2pm

Supervising students working in small groups requires a number of skills: ways to keep students focused on work, ways to get them to cooperate rather than compete, show off or withdraw into watching others do the work, and ways to provide both individual and group instruction effectively. Participants in the seminar will discuss successful strategies to accomplish those goals. We will also address the issue of assessing and grading group work..

 

Promoting Meaningful and Engaged Knowledge through Service Learning

Tuesday, September 29, 12-2pm

Many students need complain that they don’t see the relevance of what they are learning in class to the problems of the real world. Research confirms that learning is more meaningful and personal when it has an immediate application. For these reasons, a national movement has emerged over the past years advocating that students apply their developing skills to problems in the community – service learning. In this seminar we will explore the advantages and challenges of this approach, as well as concrete examples from successful courses.

 

Crafting a Teaching Statement

Tuesday, October 6, 5-7pm

Teaching statements are now required in most applications for faculty positions, but they can also provide a powerful opportunity to reflect on our teaching practice and set goals for our development as educators. In this seminar, we will explore ways to articulate your teaching philosophy through simple writing exercises, and look at sample models from various disciplines. Follow-up individual consultations are also available.

 

Reflecting on Your Teaching Style: Microteaching Workshop

Tuesday, October 13, 4:30-7:30pm

The goals of this session are to enable you to see how your teaching comes across to others and reflect on how others may approach similar tasks. Participants will teach a brief 5-minute lesson and receive feedback on their teaching in order to facilitate reflection on different teaching styles. Presentations in this session, along with an individual follow-up appointment to review the lesson on videotape, may count as an observation for the Documentation of Teaching Development program.

 

Women in the Classroom

Tuesday, October 20, 12-2pm

This seminar will help you understand some of the factors which can create a chilly classroom climate for women, affecting their learning and their ability to speak with confidence and authority, both as students and as instructors. Using video vignettes as a springboard for discussion, we will analyze classroom dynamics and identify inclusive teaching strategies.

 

Conducting Productive and Engaging Discussions

Tuesday, November 3, 5-7pm

Discussions can be rich opportunities for students to test their ideas, compare views with others, work collectively to address problems or issues, and receive feedback as they develop new analytical skills. In this seminar we will discuss how instructors can prepare themselves and their students to create productive discussions. This seminar counts as a core seminar toward the Documentation of Teaching Development program.

 

Promoting Deeper Learning through Meaningful Engagement

Tuesday, November 10, 5-7pm

Educational research unanimously asserts that active, meaningful engagement helps students construct their knowledge, leading to better understanding of the material and improved recall and application. In this seminar, we will review some of that research and then focus on practical activities and assessments that make students more active in and out of the classroom and extend their learning. MThis seminar counts as a core seminar toward the Documentation of Teaching Development Program.

 

Understanding and Supporting Student Development

Tuesday,November 17, 12-2pm

During the college years, students undergo momentous changes, which affect their own learning experience as well as the overall classroom climate. This seminar will provide an overview of student development across intellectual, social, and emotional dimensions, and explore pedagogical strategies that support student growth. This seminar counts as a core seminar toward the Documentation of Teaching Development program.

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