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The 2012 August Teaching Enrichment Series (ATES) will be held on Tuesday, August 28, and Wednesday, August 29. Concurrent workshops will be held each day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For those who would like to participate, but are unable to attend in person, several of the workshops will be broadcast via UM Connect.
2012 August Teaching Enrichment Series poster (pdf)
Presenter: Paul Ching, Center for Teaching and Learning
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Presenter: Paul Ching, Center for Teaching and Learning
In this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to develop and practice strategies that will enable them to address those first day concerns and qualms with confidence. The workshop will address these concerns and more: What are your options for introducing the course in a way that will both motivate student involvement and clarify course expectations? How will you learn about students' expectations and background knowledge in order to connect and engage with them beyond the first day? Why is it important to plan now for sustaining a positive classroom climate throughout the semester? Participants will be able to discuss and review many strategies as well as discuss and plan for their first day of classes.
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Presenters: Farhad Anklesaria, Cristina Lopez, Kem Saichaie, Kim Wilcox, The Collaborative for Academic Technology Innovation, OIT
Isn't there some tool that is more flexible than a PowerPoint presentation? How can I broadcast my review session from home? How can I incorporate social media into my assignments? These are some of the questions we'll try to answer. New learning technologies are emerging all the time, and it’s difficult to keep up with the wealth of new opportunities these tools afford us. Let us introduce you to a few new instructional technologies.
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Join our panelists as they discuss their disciplinary perspectives on teaching and learning. The panelists will discuss their answers to the following questions:
From your disciplinary perspective, what should people know about learning?
What are common misconceptions about learning from your perspective?
Based on what you know about learning, would advice would you give about teaching practices?
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Presenters: Deb Wingert and Colleen Meyers, Center for Teaching and Learning
Are you concerned about discussions that get out of control? Students that talk too much or too little? Discussions that take too much of your class time? Join us for this highly interactive session to expand your repertoire of basic discussion tips, strategies, and tools guaranteed to actively engage students representing diverse background and knowledge levels in your class. This workshop is designed for faculty, staff, and TAs who instruct undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline in any instructional setting (lab, recitation, clinic, seminar, large class, or small class).
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Presenters: Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Baepler, Cristina Lopez, Kem Saichaie, Kim Wilcox, The Collaborative for Academic Technology Innovation, OIT
Isn't there some tool that is more flexible than a PowerPoint presentation? How can I broadcast my review session from home? How can I incorporate social media into my assignments? These are some of the questions we'll try to answer. New learning technologies are emerging all the time, and it’s difficult to keep up with the wealth of new opportunities these tools afford us. Let us introduce you to a few new instructional technologies. We'll look at such tools as VoiceThread, Prezi, and Google Moderator.
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Presenter: Pamela Flash, Center for Writing.
In this session, time-pressed instructors will become familiar with the five-minute writing workshop. These brief, interactive activities offered at the start or close of class sessions, engage students in focused, context-relevant, interactive instruction related to key trouble-areas. Whether the workshops are focused on stylistic issues (like wordiness), or focus issues (like redundancy or an unworkable thesis/hypothesis), or usage issues (like sentence fragments or citation formats), they enable instructors from across the curriculum to save the time they would otherwise spend writing duplicate comments on multiple student papers/projects.
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Presenter: Anita Gonzales, Center for Teaching and Learning.
Students from all disciplines are asked to "think critically" about their subjects, but do they know what instructors are seeking? Although critical thinking is highly regarded in academia and the work place, how do instructors design learning activities and assess this elusive goal? In this workshop, participants will define critical thinking within the context of their respective disciplines, map learning activities that cultivate critical thinking, and consider methods to assess critical thinking. Participants should come to this workshop with a syllabus for a course they are or will be teaching (or an outline or an idea for such a course).
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Presenters: Jeff Lindgren, Kate Martin, Elena Stetsenko, Center for Teaching and Learning.
This session will showcase several quick and non-graded ways for you and your students to find out and reflect upon the learning taking place in your course. Using a modified “speed-dating” format, participants will rotate in small groups among three topic tables. At one table, you will learn how to use a mobile-device survey tool called Chime In. At another, you will learn about a series of quick pencil-and-paper ways (called Classroom Assessment Techniques or CATS) to check in with students about their learning. At the last table, you will learn about a 20-minute guided process to gain consensus feedback from students early in the term, helping you make a good course even better.
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Presenter: Christina Petersen, Center for Teaching and Learning.
Why does one student work hard to learn your course material and another student does not? Knowing what motivates your students can make your teaching more effective. In this interactive session we will discuss theories of motivation and how they apply to students in your classroom. We will address questions like ‘what does motivate students?’ and ‘how can I take advantage of what motivates my students to improve their learning?’ You will leave this session with some concrete suggestions for tying your course content to applications relevant to your students to motivate them all semester long.
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Presenter: David Langley, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Every teacher knows that students rapidly forget large amounts of information provided in their classes during the semester. How can one create “sticky” teaching messages that will be both memorable and useful to students? Six principles from the book Made to Stick (Heath & Heath, 2008) will be introduced and adapted to a teaching and learning environment through a host of relevant examples and problems.
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Presenter: Pamela Flash, Center for Writing.
In this session, time-pressed instructors will become familiar with the five-minute writing workshop. These brief, interactive activities offered at the start or close of class sessions, engage students in focused, context-relevant, interactive instruction related to key trouble-areas. Whether the workshops are focused on stylistic issues (like wordiness), or focus issues (like redundancy or an unworkable thesis/hypothesis), or usage issues (like sentence fragments or citation formats), they enable instructors from across the curriculum to save the time they would otherwise spend writing duplicate comments on multiple student papers/projects.
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Presenter: D. Christopher Brooks, Office of Information Technology
Covering over four years of empirical research on Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) at the University of Minnesota, this presentation will cover the results obtained via three quasi-experimental designs, student survey results, and embedded class observations.
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Presenters: Ilene Dawn Alexander, Center for Teaching and Learning; Tim Kamenar, Disability Services
Creating universally designed courses that support the educational development of diverse learners appears to be a complex and insurmountable process - but it isn't. It is, instead, a mindful strategy that can be cultivated to benefit both students and teachers. Accordingly, this session will provide an overview of teaching and learning in light of universal design principles, then move into applying the principles to three areas:
• syllabus structure and format,
• presentation development and delivery,
• discussion activities and engagement.
The presenters will share examples, resources and tools, developed from working with teachers on campus, to illustrate effective practices that benefit a broad range of learners without compromising outcomes.
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Presenters: Colleen M. Meyers and Deb Wingert, Center for Teaching and Learning
What discussion style best describes students in your class setting--"basketball," "rugby," or "bowling?" Join us for the advanced session to enhance your repertoire of discussion skills with the primary focus on including diverse groups of students representing differences in terms of culture and participation tendencies and preferences. This workshop is designed for faculty, staff, and TAs who instruct undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline in any instructional setting (lab, recitation, clinic, seminar, large class, or small class).
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Presenters: Kem Saichaie, The Collaborative for Academic Technology Innovation, OIT; Ilene Alexander and Bill Rozaitis, Center for Teaching and Learning
Are you scheduled to teach in an "active learning classroom" and want ideas on how to make the experience successful? Or are you simply interested in learning about how others approach teaching in these unique spaces? Please join colleagues from across the university in a two-part workshop exploring the pedagogy of active learning classrooms. Participants will explore considerations for teaching in ALCs, the specific challenges raised by the rooms, and strategies for making their courses more student-centered.
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Presenters: Barbara Beers and Elena Stetsenko, Center for Teaching and Learning
This workshop is for those who are new to teaching, new to teaching in the US, or who are new to using active learning strategies. The participants will experience some basic active learning techniques, from the basic Think/Pair/Share to the Jigsaw Teamwork reading technique.
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Presenter: Anita Gonzales, Center for Teaching and Learning
Students from all disciplines are asked to "think critically" about their subjects, but do they know what instructors are seeking? Although critical thinking is highly regarded in academia and the work place, how do instructors design learning activities and assess this elusive goal? In this workshop, participants will define critical thinking within the context of their respective disciplines, map learning activities that cultivate critical thinking, and consider methods to assess critical thinking. Participants should come to this workshop with a syllabus for a course they are or will be teaching (or an outline or an idea for such a course).
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Presenters: Kem Saichaie, The Collaborative for Academic Technology Innovation, OIT; Ilene Alexander and Bill Rozaitis, Center for Teaching and Learning
Are you scheduled to teach in an “active learning classroom” and want ideas on how to make the experience successful? Or are you simply interested in learning about how others approach teaching in these unique spaces? Please join colleagues from across the university in a two-part workshop exploring the pedagogy of active learning classrooms. Participants will explore considerations for teaching in ALCs, the specific challenges raised by the rooms, and strategies for making their courses more student-centered.
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Presenters: Jeff Lindgren and Caroline Rosen, Center for Teaching and Learning
In this workshop, you will learn how an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to classroom management. The key is structuring a positive classroom climate and setting expectations upfront so that students know what behaviors are appropriate. However, strategies will also be discussed for times when intervention is called for. This workshop is helpful for both beginning and experienced instructors who want to learn strategies for handing common classroom management situations.
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