Past Teaching Matters Series

FALL 2013

Start with the Outcome: Design Learner-Centered Lessons

• Slides
• Handout
• Additional Resources (Revised Bloom's Model)

Mon, 9/23, 10-11am, KL 159

Spring 2013 (printable schedule)

Come learn about how to prepare your students for success in the classroom. We will discuss strategies for effective communication between instructors and students and strategies for creating an optimal educational environment in the classroom. Presented by Katie Amrine.

• Power Point
• Handout 1
• Handout 2

Afraid you might lose control of your classroom? This workshop will provide participants with some strategies they can use to manage common classroom challenges and create an inclusive, engaged classroom environment. Presented by Yiyang Wang and Jane Lee.

• Power Point
• Handout 1
• Handout 2

Please join us for refreshment, a teaching handout, and a chance to meet with your fellow grad students.  This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Services (GSS) and the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence (CRTE).  Career Services will be providing resources for those looking for academic jobs.

Coffee, Tea, and Teaching Flyer

List of job related websites

What's the difference between cheating and collaborating? This workshop will answer this question and provide tips on how to handle these situations. Presented by Joseph Heras and Katie Amrine.

• PowerPoint
• Handout

Teachers need to adapt their pedagogical and technological strategies to meet students' expectations. This workshop will highlight some tips and techniques on effectively using technology in the classroom. Presented by Sarah Abboud.

• Power Point
• Handout

Please join us for refreshment, a teaching handout, and a chance to meet with your fellow grad students.  This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Services (GSS) and the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence (CRTE).  Career Services will be providing resources for those looking for academic jobs.

Coffee, Tea, and Teaching Flyer

List of job related websites

Resrources from Career Services: Academic job search and non-academic job search

Well-designed rubrics can facilitate more efficient and effective grading. This workshop will discuss the design/modification and implementation of rubrics. Please bring any previously used rubrics to this workshop.  Presented by Carrie Menke, Physics Lecturer, and Amy Fenstermaker, CRTE staff.

• Power Point
• Sample Rubrics

Please join us for refreshment, a teaching handout, and a chance to meet with your fellow grad students.  This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Services (GSS) and the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence (CRTE).  Career Services will be providing resources for those looking for academic jobs.

Coffee, Tea, and Teaching Flyer

A teaching philosophy is essential to securing a college teaching position. This workshop will discuss different strategies for writing an effective teaching philosophy. Presented byYiyang Wang and Joseph Heras.

• Power Point
• Rubric
• Do's and Don'ts
• Worksheet

About half of our students are first-generation students (defined as neither parent having graduated from a 4-year university). This workshop will focus on best-practices and techniques for supporting their learning.

• Power Point from the presentation
• Handout from the presentation

Please join us for refreshment, a teaching handout, and a chance to meet with your fellow grad students.  This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence (CRTE).

• Handout from the event

Are your students listening but not really hearing the lecture? This workshop will discuss various ways to help students listen to and learn from a lecture as well as how to help them begin to think in your discipline.

• Power Point from the presentation

Midterms are approaching, and this workshop will address how to create a rubric and grade more efficiently.

• Power Point from the presentation
• Handout from the presentation

Please join us for refreshment, a teaching handout, and a chance to meet with your fellow grad students.  This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence (CRTE).

• Handout from the event

Experienced Teaching Assistants offer a panel discussion.

• Handout from the discussion

How should you interpret your student evaluations? This workshop will help you determine which aspects of the evaluations will serve to guide you towards constructive changes in your teaching.

• Power Point from the presentation
• Handout from the presentation
• Sample evaluation from the presentation

This workshop will introduce graduate students to formative assessments, featuring SATAL services.

• Power Point from the presentation
• SATAL flier
• Article: Time Efficient Teaching Practices

Please join us for refreshment, a teaching handout, and a chance to meet with your fellow grad students.  This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence (CRTE).

• Handout from the event

Tue, 1/17, 11-12pm, KL 159

How should you interpret last semester’s student evaluations? This workshop will help you determine which aspects of the evaluations will serve to guide you towards constructive changes in your teaching. 

Wed, 1/25,12-1pm, KL 159

How to Help Students to “Think in a Discipline", Presented by Eric Josephs, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemistry, and Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, Ph.D. Candidate, World Cultures

We learn the language and thought processes of our individual disciplines. This workshop given by Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and sciences will explore how to help undergraduates begin to think in your discipline.

Thu, 2/9, 12-1pm, KL 159

Teaching Portfolio Part I, Presented by Mike Truong and Karen Dunn-Haley

Increasingly, job applicants are asked to provide teaching portfolios. If not for a first job, a portfolio likely will be required for tenure review. This session will introduce graduate students to the components of a teaching portfolio. Participants will leave prepared to start portfolios. At the end of this series, participants will bring their drafted portfolios and share them with peers. This event is cosponsored with Career Serivicess and Teaching and Technology Series.

• Presentation Slides
• Workshop handouts (coming soon)

Tue, 2/21, 11-12pm, KL 159

Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement, presented by Silin Sa, Ph.D. Candidate, BEST, and Karen Dunn-Haley

In some cases, job advertisements will ask applicants to provide syllabi for courses they can teach. This workshop will cover the elements required in an effective syllabus and help you understand how to build assessment into your course plan. This event is Cosponsored by Career Services.

Wed, 3/14, 3-4pm, KL 159

Designing Multiple Choice Tests, presented by Justin Hicks, Ph.D., Economics

Learn about designing multiple choice tests.

This workshop requires participants to bring existing draft portfolios for peer review and revision during the workshop. This event is cosponsored by Career Services.

Tue, 4/24, 12-1pm, KL 159

Preparing to be Future Faculty: What was Different and Unexpected about the IOR role, presented by Julie Phillips, Ph.D. Candidated, QSB

Thu, 9/8, 12-1pm

In 2010, close to 55% of our undergraduate were first-generation students (defined as neither parent having graduated from a 4-year university).  Come to this introductory level workshop to learn more about our students and to share techniques for supporting their learning.

Mon, 9/19, 12-1pm

Wed, 9/21,12-1 pm

Grading(Basic Level)

Grading(Advanced Level)

Midterms are approaching, and these two workshops, one at the basic level and one at the advanced, will address how to create a rubric and how to grade more efficiently (basic), as well as how to enhance learning and save yourself time by using peer grading techniques (advanced).

• Advance Grading Handout

Thu, 10/6, 1-2pm

Utilizing Student Support Services(Basic Level)

What do SALC and DS stand for?  If you don’t know, you need to attend this session covering tutoring, disability services, and other supporting entities at UCM.  Learn the basic protocols for referring students, as well as results you might expect from a referral.

Thu, 10/20, 12-1pm

This basic session will feature short video vignettes of some typical classroom management situations. Ideas for how to manage difficult scenarios, including how to avoid or handle grade complaints.

Thu, 11/3, 1-2pm

How to help students learn from lectures(Basic Level)

Even when your students do assigned reading, do they appear to comprehend it? This advanced session will explore ways to help student read effectively.

Wed, 11/30, 1-2pm

Workshop postponed till next semester 

How to Help Students Think in a Discipline(Advanced Level)

Do you get the sense that your students don’t understand the vocabulary and approach to your discipline?   This session will feature a SNS and a SSHA graduate student discussing how to help students think like scientists and social scientists.

Tue, 2/8, 12-1pm, COB 322

This workshop will focus on strategies for determining benchmarks for stages of dissertation, research, and teaching development.  Subjects include effort reporting, advising meetings, and professional communication skills.

• Presentation Slides

Tue, 2/22, 12-1pm, KL 159

Assessing student learning at the beginning of the semester sets the foundation for dynamic discussions and insight into student learning needs. Join us for a graduate student led workshop providing an overview of classroom assessment strategies with a particular focus on assessing prior knowledge and concept mapping.

Wed, 3/30, 12-1pm, KL 159

Humor and Boundaries in the Classroom with Ph.D. Candidate Hoda Mirafzal and Dr. Anne Zanzucchi and Dr. Karen Dunn-Haley, Center Faculty Development Coordinators

Humor can allow for open dialogue among instructors and students; however, there are challenges to maintaining professional boundaries. This graduate student led workshop will highlight the benefits and challenges with humor in the classroom, via representative (and humorous!) case studies.

• Presentation Slides

Tue, 4/12, 12-1pm, KL 159

This workshop will focus on strategies for facilitating effective group work in classrooms, with attention to some of the key challenges with collaboration.

Are you seeking solutions to teaching challenges? Join us for an interactive workshop that explores a research approach to teaching, including resources and strategies for identifying and addressing student learning needs. Resources to be discussed include national and local survey data and education-related databases. Learn to draw on and potentially contribute to data and literature resources to enrich your teaching and your students' learning.

• Presentation Slides

This session will provide an overview of best practices in class observation with focus on gathering feedback.

Wed, 9/1, 12-1pm, KL 159

or

Wed, 9/2, 12-1pm, KL 159

This session will provide interactive scenarios from which to develop strategies that establish positive classroom dynamics and minimize conflicts.

• Presentation slides (resource unavailable)

What do students gain from academic support services? CRTE instructional interns will moderate a discussion with experienced undergraduate tutors.

TAs often need to share grading policy and student progress with instructors. This hour-long workshop­­­­ is designed to help you practice appropriate and professional forms of communication.

This session will focus on developing rubrics and providing feedbacks that engages undergraduates and teaching assistants in dialogue about the learning process.

• Presentation slides (resource unavailable)

A well-designed survey provides insight into student needs and interests. This interactive session will include scenarios for drafting questions and highlight useful online tools for analyzing feedback (e.g., Excel and SurveyGizmo).

Korana Burke and Debye Conte (spring 2010 guidebook fellows) will present on their classroom research findings, with an emphasis on best practices to implementing peer review process for problem sets and writing projects.

Guest speaker Professor Ruth Mostern will provide an overview of what graduate students should know about publishing and on her own experiences researching education-related subjects.

This session will provide an overview of what's entailed in a teaching statement.

• Presentation slides (resource unavailable)
• Teaching statement rubric (resource unavailable)
• Example teaching goals and assessment techniques (resource unavailable)

This session will discuss how you can use different assessment approaches to enhance teaching and learning.

Presented by Career Services, this workshop will discuss the key elements of an effective CV.

This workshop will offer a practical approach to writing a course syllabus.

• Presentation slides (resource unavailable)
• Selected elements of a syllabus (resource unavailable)

A well-designed survey provides insight into student needs and interests. This interactive session will include scenarios for drafting questions and highlight useful online tools for analyzing feedback (e.g., Excel and SurveyGizmo).

The workshop provides an overview of creating an electronic teaching portfolio.

• Presentation slides (resource unavailable)
• Teaching Portfolio Checklist (resource unavailable)
• Online resources on creating teaching e-portfolio (resource unavailable)

Geared towards graduate students, this session will provide an overview of the publication process in academe. Attention will be given to practical considerations of what, where, and how to publish in academe. Emily Lin, Head of Digital Assets from the Library, will co-lead the session with Mike Truong, Faculty Development Coordinator from CRTE.

• Presentation slides (resource unavailable)
• Resources for publishing in academe (collected by UCM Library)

Brad Neily, Coordinator of Disability Services, will highlight important issues related to supporting students with disabilities.

Michael Winder, Lecturer in Writing Program, will repeat his popular presentation on the use of theater techniques for stimulating learning in the classroom.

Anne Zanzucchi, Assistant Director of Writing Program, and Karen Dunn-Haley, Faculty Development Coordinator in CRTE, discuss elements of active learning.

Do you have any particular issues related to teaching that you want to share? Do you need some grading tips? Tips on how to save time? How to engage students? Come to this open forum to share what you have learned and to learn from other TAs.