All Events for Fall 2009 / View as Calendar Please click the event you want to attend to register for it |
| September |
| A Two-Part Series on Documenting Your Teaching • Part I: What is Peer Observation and How Can I Make it Matter? Wednesday, September 9 3:00-4:30pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Thursday, September 10 2:30-4:00pm Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) • Part II: Teaching Portfolios for Faculty Monday, September 14 3:00-4:30pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Tuesday, September 15 2:30-4:00pm Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) Demystifying the Academic Job Market Thursday, September 17 2:30-4:00pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Increase the Impact of your Lectures Tuesday, September 22 2:30-4:00pm Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) Thursday, September 24 3:00-4:30pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Writing Effective CV’s and Cover Letters Wednesday, September 23 2:30-4:00pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Improve your Students’ Reading and Writing Tuesday, September 29 2:30-4:00pm Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) Wednesday, September 30 3:00-4:30pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| October |
| ITLAL Special Event Dee Fink: Designing Courses for More Significant Student Learning Friday, October 9 9:00am-3:30pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) ITLAL Special Event Dee Fink: The Joy and Responsibility of Teaching Well Saturday, October 10 10:00am-12:00pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Teaching Portfolios for Future Faculty Tuesday, October 13 2:30-4:00pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Using Simulations to Explore Culture Clash Monday, October 26 3:00-4:30pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Tuesday, October 27 2:30-4:00pm Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) |
| November |
| Preparing for the Academic Job Interview Monday, November 9 5:00-6:30pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| December |
| The Use of Clickers in the Classroom Tuesday, December 8 9:00-12:00pm ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| Other Workshops |
| Workshops Conducted by Information Technology Services Training (ITS) Workshops Conducted by the Interactive Media Center |
| A Two-Part Series on Documenting Your Teaching Part I: What is Peer Observation and How Can I Make it Matter?(Return to top) |
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| Wednesday, September 9 Thursday, September 10 |
3:00-4:30pm 2:30-4:00pm |
ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| How do you want students to be different at the end of the semester from how they were at the beginning? What kinds of learning experiences in your course are likely to induce those changes? In this session participants will zero in on factors that contribute to development of student thinking, knowledge, and know-how. Participants will develop a plan that allows them to revise an existing course in ways that promote stronger student engagement with the materials, as well as greater student mastery of disciplinary thinking. | ||
| A Two-Part Series on Documenting Your Teaching Part II: Teaching Portfolios for Faculty (Return to top) |
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| Monday, September 14 Tuesday, September 15 |
3:00-4:30pm 2:30-4:00pm |
ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
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Showing that you are an effective teacher is crucial to your success as a faculty member, especially if you are preparing for tenure review. A teaching portfolio gives you the chance to showcase your teaching, to explain why you do what you do in the classroom, and to demonstrate why your methods work. This workshop will give you tips for collecting and displaying materials that will help you articulate your philosophy of teaching and demonstrate your strengths as a teacher. Please note: This session will focus on teaching portfolios as they are used for tenure/promotion packages. A session on teaching portfolios for future faculty/graduate students, which will focus on using a teaching portfolio as part of an academic job search, will be offered on October 13. |
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| Demystifying the Academic Job Market (Return to top) | ||
| Thursday, September 17 | 2:30-4:00pm | ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| There’s a light at the end of the dissertation tunnel, and you’ve decided it’s time to start looking for a job. But where do you even start? In this session graduate students considering a life in academe will learn from UAlbany faculty members who have recently entered the professorate. Join us in this discussion, which will consider issues as wide-ranging as application strategies, CV’s, and on-campus interviews, including some do’s and don’ts. | ||
| Increase the Impact of your Lectures (Return to top) | ||
| Tuesday, September 22 Thursday, September 24 |
2:30-4:00pm 3:00-4:30pm |
Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| Whether you have a “performer” personality or not, or whether you lecture a lot or a little, it’s useful from time to time to re-visit “best practices” for making your lectures engaging, interesting, effective learning tools for students. How can you ensure that (a) the lecture’s content and delivery serve the purpose you intended it to, and (b) that the context and set-up for each lecture lead to maximum impact on student learning? In this “lecture-lecture” (or “demo-workshop”) participants will experience a variety of techniques for engaging students via lecture format, and reflect upon ways that their current lectures can be tweaked, supplemented, contextualized or revised for heightened effect. | ||
| Writing Effective CV’s and Cover Letters (Return to top) | ||
| Wednesday, September 23 | 2:30-4:00pm | ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| A well-organized CV and cover letter are crucial for landing the academic job you have been working toward as a graduate student. While separately they address different aspects of your preparation and experience, together they can be a powerful tool to convince a prospective academic institution that you have the skills necessary for the job AND that you are a fit for their institution. This workshop will help you develop a clear plan for how best to organize your credentials into a CV and gain techniques for putting together a cover letter that brings you one step closer to that perfect academic position. | ||
| Improve your Students’ Reading and Writing (Return to top) | ||
| Tuesday, September 29 Wednesday, September 30 |
2:30-4:00pm 3:00-4:30pm |
Levitt Room ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| One of the frustrations of teaching undergraduate classes is dealing with students who are ill-prepared for college-level reading and writing assignments. The good news is that there are ways to move beyond that frustration and enhance students’ skills. This workshop will give you some ways to think about the development of reading and writing skills, and we will demonstrate some strategies for improving reading and writing skills without sacrificing course content. We will also help you consider how you might use these techniques in your own classes. | ||
| Dee Fink: Designing Courses for More Significant Student Learning (Return to top) | ||
| Friday, October 9 | 9:00am-3:30pm | ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| Designing Your Courses for More Significant Learning 9:00 am—12:00 noon Location: ITLAL Underground (LI B69) Most college teachers would like their courses to be an experience in which their students achieve significant, lasting learning, but we feel frustrated and uncertain about how to get that to happen—for more students, more of the time. In this workshop Dee Fink asks participants to 1) examine the place of instructional design in the “big picture” of teaching, 2) take a close look at what each of us really wants our students to learn, 3) systematically work through a new model of instructional design that will enable us to “design high quality learning into our courses,” and 4) consider whether this more intensive way of designing courses is worth the time it takes. ****** Significant Learning Design: A Practicum 12:30 pm—3:30 pm Location: ITLAL Underground (LI B69) Participants in this session will work intensively on a current or upcoming course. Bring your ideas, plans or a syllabus, and let Dee Fink lead you through the process of thinking systematically through your course by writing more focused learning goals, creating appropriate learning and assessment activities, and integrating these activities into the weekly schedule for your course. You will leave with a good first draft of a learning-centered design for your course. |
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| Dee Fink: The Joy and Responsibility of Teaching Well (Return to top) | ||
| Saturday, October 10 | 10:00am-12:00pm | ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| Course design specialist Dee Fink examines our traditional responses—and suggests alternative ones—to four central issues of teaching: WHAT we teach, HOW we teach, how we GEAR UP as teachers, and WHO we are as educators. If we can re-think and revise our responses to these four issues in ways that improve student learning, we can experience the deep Joy that comes with teaching WELL! |
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| Teaching Portfolios for Future Faculty (Return to top) | ||
| Tuesday, October 13 | 2:30-4:00pm | ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| You know you are a great teacher—all your students and colleagues say you are. But how can you show it? One great way is by developing a strong teaching statement and assembling a portfolio. This workshop will give you tips for collecting and displaying materials that will help you articulate your philosophy of teaching, demonstrate your strengths as a teacher, and set yourself apart from other job candidates. | ||
| Using Simulations to Explore Culture Clash (Return to top) | ||
| Monday, October 26 Tuesday, October 27 |
3:00-4:30pm 2:30-4:00pm |
ITLAL Office (LI-B69) Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) |
| *Registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions please email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| We make judgments about the world around us based on our basic assumptions about how the world works. When we are faced with diversity, these same assumptions can create clashes and break down communication. Participants in the game experience firsthand the shock of realizing that despite their good intentions and the many similarities amongst themselves, people interpret things differently from one another and often in profound ways. While this workshop is designed for instructors preparing their students for situations where they will be working with diverse populations such as study abroad or internships, anyone who would like to take part in this simulation is welcome. | ||
| Preparing for the Academic Job Interview (Return to top) | ||
| Monday, November 9 | 5:00-6:30pm | ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *To register for this event call 442-5521 or email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| So you’ve landed an interview…and the panic is setting in! This workshop will walk you through the “typical” faculty interview, and give you an idea of what to expect. Learn the ins and outs of interviewing for faculty jobs. We will discuss the proper preparation and potential pitfalls of the most common interviewing scenarios: phone, conference and on-campus. | ||
| The Use of Clickers in the Classroom (Return to top) | ||
| Tuesday, December 8 | 9:00-12:00pm | ITLAL Office (LI-B69) |
| *To register for this event call 442-5521 or email teachingandlearning@albany.edu* | ||
| It’s a growing university trend to transform those giant lecture halls into places of student participation, active learning and critical thinking. The tool is the “clicker,” a small TV-remote-like handset that students purchase like a book and bring to class each day. Using this tool the instructor can survey their classes instantaneously in order to promote students’ reflection and assess their thought process, knowledge, attitudes and even opinions. This presentation and discussion is designed for those who are contemplating the use of this maturing technology. Come see how clickers are being used here at UAlbany and in other institutions and join us for a discussion on best practices, benefits, challenges and technical issues related to the use of this rapidly growing tool. | ||
