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Kaneb Center Workshops
These
sessions and others may be presented to an individual deparment
or college:
- Beginning to Write a Teaching Statement - for renewal, tenure and promotion OR for graduate students entering the job market
- Teaching Well by Design - a hands-on workshop that
guides faculty through a course planning process that maximizes
student learning and makes the most efficient use of time
- Teaching, Learning and Technology -
an overview plus
ideas for effective use of the tools
- Grading Student Work - techniques for providing evaluation that achieves learning goals and allows
opportunities for progress
- The Discussion-Based Course - focuses on how
and what students learn through discussion, as well as how to
grade discussions
- Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions -
strategies, resources, and practice designing questions
that are fair, unambiguous, and appropriate
- Defining
Learning Objectives - after an introduction to concepts,
participants begin defining objectives for a course
- Early Semester Evaluations - techniques
to gather feedback from students
- Using Grading Rubrics - a strategy
for making criteria and standards clearer to both faculty
and students in order to achieve better
student work
The following sessions on integrating technology focus
on techniques for effective use in a course. They are not hands-on skill sessions.
- Concourse - course management system (was WebCT Vista)
- Clickers - student response system
- PowerPoint
- Blogs, wikis, podcasting, other technologies
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