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Creating, Adapting, and Implementing Course Evaluations
Tuesday, February 5
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Maryland Room
Marie Mount Hall
Campus wide student course evaluations are one
mechanism for feedback on teaching and learning in your courses. They
provide a useful and meaningful opportunity to gather student feedback
on your course. This CTE workshop will focus on what can be learned
from the campus's online course evaluations, and we will discuss ways
the fall course evaluations might be used to improve future courses.
We will also discuss additional strategies for collecting feedback
during the semester and developing individual course evaluations to
address specific course needs.
Civic Engagement and Leadership Opportunities
in Undergraduate Courses
Thursday, February 28
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Maryland Room
Marie Mount Hall
Presenters:
Barb Jacoby, Senior Scholar, Stamp Student Union, and Chair,
Coalition for Civic Engagement and Leadership
Linda Moghadam, Professor of Sociology
Join us for a presentation of a resource guide
for teaching civic engagement at
Maryland, produced by Professor of
Sociology Linda Moghadam and available via the CCEL website,
terpimpact.umd.edu. The guide, constructed from a broad survey of
campus faculty, includes a comprehensive catalog of opportunities for
teaching civic engagement, extant programs, and pedagogical guidance.
We will also survey the recent experiences of ENGL 101, which
currently includes civic engagement curricula in every section.
Teaching and Learning in Second Life
Wednesday, March 12
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Maryland Room
Marie Mount Hall
Presenters:
Don Heider, Associate Dean,
Philip
Merrill
College of Journalism
Kari Kraus, Department of English and
College of
Information Studies
Yuanyuan Li, CTE staff
Second Life (SL), is a multi-user virtual
environment platform that is emerging as a new educational landscape
in which users create personae and operate in a virtual world. It has
become part of higher education and higher education a part of SL.
This workshop will look at the ways two faculty members have made
Second Life part of their teaching. A general discussion of SL as an
emerging educational platform will follow, including pedagogical
implications, and challenges of using this innovation for e-learning.
Mock
Teaching:
Pedagogical Feedback for Graduate Teaching Assistants
Tuesday, March 25
4:00 - 7:00 PM
Maryland Room
Marie Mount Hall
Increasingly, universities are requiring job candidates to demonstrate
their teaching as part of the interview process. CTE is excited to
offer a three-hour session during which a limited number of graduate
teaching assistants will be provided the opportunity to demonstrate
their teaching for peers, CTE staff, and faculty. To help TAs improve
their teaching and be able to demonstrate enhanced teaching
effectiveness during the academic job search, each TA participant will
be provided with feedback on his or her mock teaching performance.
Look for further details and an RSVP form soon.
Distinguished Guest Presentation:
James Zull, Case Western Reserve University
Zull is author of The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the
Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning, and
Professor of Biology and Director of the
University
Center for Innovation in
Teaching and Education, at
Case
Western Reserve
University.
Wednesday, April 2
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Maryland Room
Marie Mount Hall
From The Art of Changing the Brain: Neuroscience tells
us that the products of the mind--thought, emotions, artistic
creation--are the result of the interactions of the biological brain
with our senses and the physical world: in short, that thinking and
learning are the products of a biological process. This realization,
that learning actually alters the brain by changing the number and
strength of synapses, offers a powerful foundation for rethinking
teaching practice and one's philosophy of teaching. James Zull invites
teachers in higher education or any other setting to accompany him in
his exploration of what scientists can tell us about the brain and to
discover how this knowledge can influence the practice of teaching. He
describes the brain in clear non-technical language and an engaging
conversational tone, highlighting its functions and parts and how they
interact, and always relating them to the real world of the classroom
and his own evolution as a teacher. |
