CENTER FOR 21st CENTURY TEACHING EXCELLENCE
Fall 2002
WORKSHOP SERIES

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Creating a Teaching Portfolio
Facilitator: Dr. Diane R. Williams

Tuesday, September 17, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Wednesday, September 18, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Thursday, October 31, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Friday, November 1, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Creating a teaching portfolio is an especially effective way for faculty and graduate teaching assistants to become more reflective about their teaching and more skillful in documenting their teaching accomplishments for others. As a result, faculty on an increasing number of campuses have prepared teaching portfolios to guide their instructional improvement efforts and to strengthen their applications for employment, tenure, promotion, or teaching awards. Participants in this interactive workshop will examine how portfolios are best conceptualized, planned, written, and revised.

Cooperative learning is the instructional use of structured small groups to maximize learning. Cooperative learning strategies can revitalize both students and instructors by providing an environment where responsibility for learning is shared by all. This session will describe principles for structuring cooperative learning activities and will introduce several commonly used coooperative learning techniques. Participants will learn to design activities to teach course-specific content using cooperative learning groups.

Help With Assessing Student Writing
Facilitator: Dr. Teresa Flateby

Wednesday, September 25, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Thursday, September 26, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Are you drowning in grading? Help for the grading of writing is on the way! If you assign writing or are teaching a Gordon Rule writing course and need assistance with grading papers, this workshop is for you! CLAQWA (Cognitive Level and Quality of Writing Assessment) provides instructors with a framework to assess student writing consistently and to judge the cognitive levels students attain. In this workshop, you will: 1) learn to use CLAQWA for multiple purposes in the classroom, 2) construct writing assignments to reflect appropriate cognitive levels, and 3) assess students essays with CLAQWA.

Teaching Students With Disabilities
Facilitators: Dr. Mary Sarver, Dr. David Owens and Ms. Lorene Burnam

Tuesday, October 1, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Wednesday, October 2, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

This workshop will address common faculty concerns about working successfully with students with disabilities. The topics to be explored include: (a) why provide accommodations? (b) how does the university respond to requests for accommodations? (c) to whom should faculty direct their questions and concerns? and (d) are good teaching practices for students with disabilities different from good teaching practices for students without disabilities?

Active Learning: Practical Applications to Promote Passion and Ration
Facilitator: Dr. Jennifer Baggerly

Thursday, October 3, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Friday, October 4, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

I love your class! Student responses such as this can be promoted through active learning strategies that engage the hearts and minds of the students. In this session, participants will learn numerous creative active learning strategies that 1) promote passionate learning, 2) increase rational thought, 3) encourage openness to others, and 4) facilitate involvement of all students.