Staff & Faculty Events for Spring 2009 / View as Calendar |
| January |
| Course and Syllabus Design for Significant Learning Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:00 - 3:30 pm Teaching Portfolios for Faculty Wednesday, January 28 3:00 – 4:30pm Assembly Hall (Campus Center) Thursday, January 29 2:30 – 4:00pm Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) |
| February |
| Why Do Students Struggle With Abstraction and What Can You Do About It? Monday, February 2 3:00 – 4:30pm Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) Thursday, February 5 2:30 – 4:00pm Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) What Is Streaming Media, and How Can You Teach With It? Tuesday, February 10 3:00 – 4:30pm Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) Faculty Showcase: Team-Based Learning Thursday, February 26 4:00 – 5:30pm Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) |
| March |
| Designing Activities that Explore Cultural Values Wednesday, March 4 3:00 – 4:30pm Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) Excel Gradebook Consultations Wednesday, March 11 12:00 – 3:00pm Library B15 ITLAL Special Event: Guest presenter Maryellen Weimer Friday, March 20 11:00am – 2:30pm Alumni House |
| April |
| Other Workshops |
| Workshops Conducted by Information Technology Services Training (ITS) Workshops Conducted by the Interactive Media Center |
| Course and Syllabus Design for Significant Learning (Return to top) | ||
| Wednesday, January 14 | 2:00 – 3:30pm | Standish Room, 3rd floor of the Science Library |
| 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. | ||
| Teaching Portfolios for Faculty (Return to top) | ||
| Wednesday, January 28 | 3:00 – 4:30pm | Assembly Hall (Campus Center) |
| Wednesday, January 29 | 2:30 – 4:00pm | Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) |
| 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. | ||
| Why Do Students Struggle With Abstraction and What Can You Do About It? (Return to top) | ||
| Monday, February 2 | 3:00 – 4:30pm | Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) |
| Thursday, February 5 | 2:30 – 4:00pm | Levitt Room (Downtown Campus) |
| Where’s the concept in all those examples? What’s the purpose of all that data? Learning to tell the forest from the trees is THE most important skill students need in order to become mature disciplinary thinkers. We can accelerate their progress by effectively structuring their encounters with information. The key lies in asking students to make active “test judgments” that help them assess and sort new information before they absorb it into existing patterns of belief and use. Reflecting on judgments and their consequences is how students improve their thinking. This workshop will stage and model the “judgment and reflection” process that is the foundation of the critical thinking classroom. | ||
| What Is Streaming Media, and How Can You Teach With It? (Return to top) | ||
| Tuesday, February 10 | 3:00 – 4:30pm | Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) |
| An increasing number of UAlbany faculty members are giving students access to media by digitizing and streaming their audio-visual files. In this workshop you will learn about the types of media that can be digitized and streamed and the most effective ways to use them to teach. | ||
| Faculty Showcase: Team-Based Learning (Return to top) | ||
| Thursday, February 26 | 4:00 – 5:30pm | Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) |
| Come and learn about the experiences of a cohort of UAlbany faculty who have chosen to incorporate Team-Based Learning (TBL) into their classrooms. TBL is a method of teaching that holds student teams accountable for their learning while also ensuring that individuals pull their weight. Various faculty members will share their personal experiences and anecdotes in adopting this method of teaching as well as some challenges and rewards they have experienced in the classroom. Click here to read about one professor's experience. | ||
| Designing Activities that Explore Cultural Values (Return to top) | ||
| Wednesday, March 4 | 3:00 – 4:30pm | Terrace Lounge (Campus Center) |
| The University at Albany has a widely diverse population both in its student body and faculty. This workshop is designed to provide tools for exploring those differences in a productive way. In this workshop we will first participate in a variety of easily adaptable activities for exploring diversity in cultural values and then discuss their applications in the classroom. | ||
| Excel Gradebook Consultations (Return to top) | ||
| Wednesday, March 11 | 12:00 – 3:00pm | Library B15 |
| You will learn how to use Excel for basic grade book management and new strategies for using your Excel grade book more effectively. Just bring in any relevant grading information (your syllabus, written grade book, etc.) and an ITLAL staff member will work with you on an individual basis to create a grade book for your class. Setting up your Excel grade book before mid-term will save you time and allow you to keep up with students’ progress so as to avoid surprises at the end of the semester. | ||
| ITLAL Special Event: Guest presenter Maryellen Weimer (Return to top) | ||
| Friday, March 20 | 11:00– 2:30pm | Alumni House |
| Session 1: Teaching that Promotes Learning (11:00am – 12:30pm) If a professor aspires to teach in ways that promote learning, what does that teacher do about the nuts and bolts of instructional practice? Based on the presenter’s book, Learner-Centered Teaching, this workshop will link the research on learning to five areas of instructional practice that directly influence how much and how well students learn. |
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| Session 2: Successfully Implementing Change (1:00 – 2:30pm) This workshop will identify a series of steps that help ensure that change positively impacts learning outcomes. It will outline strategies for adapting and implementing changes to particular instructional situations and assessing their impact to determine if the strategy needs further adaptations, should be used again or even used more widely. | ||
