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Creating
a Teaching Portfolio
Facilitator:
Carol Harneit |
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Tuesday, September 9, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Wednesday,
September 10 , 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Thursday,
November 13, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Friday,
November 14, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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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. Teaching portfolios can be used to guide instructional improvement
efforts and strengthen applications for employment, tenure, or teaching
awards. Participants in this workshop will examine how portfolios are
best planned, written, and revised. |
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Series of Three Workshops on Assessment of Student Learning
These three sessions focus on assesssing student work in relation to assignment
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Flashlight
Online: Lighting the Way to Student Assessment
Facilitators:
William Patterson and Neil Gomes |
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Monday, September 29 , Time: 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Tuesday,
September 30, Time: 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Are you looking for ways to assess student learning in
your course? If so, in this session you will learn the basics of using
Flashlight Online, an assessment tool developed exclusively for USF and
other member institutions of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group.
(The TLT Group is part of the American Association for Higher Education.)
Flashlight Online is a dynamic, easy-to-use tool that offers faculty a
large database of survey templates, as well as a variety of options for
designing customized surveys of student learning. Students can easily
access and submit these surveys using any Web browser. |
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Help with Assessing Students' Learning
Facilitator: Teresa Flateby |
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Monday,
October 13, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Tuesday,
October 14 , 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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In this session, we will examine practical ways to
create grading rubrics, or scoring guidelines, that enhance student
learning, improve grading efficiency, and document learning outcomes
in a single course, a course with multiple sections, or an entire department.
We will also learn to apply a system of analysis to determine which
parts of your objectives are being accomplished and which parts need
adjusting. |
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Help
With Assessing Students' Writing
Facilitator: Teresa Flateby |
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Monday,
October 20, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Tuesday,
October 21, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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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 students' 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. |
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Large
Classes: The Search for Effective Approaches
Facilitators:
Marilyn Myerson, Allison Brimmer, and Jodi Nettleson |
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Wednesday, September 24, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080
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You look out at the crowd, the sea of faces eagerly waiting
for your words and wonder how to reach them, really connect with them.
Just keeping them in their seats becomes a puzzle. In this session you
will have the opportunity to talk with large class instructors who have
met the challenges of teaching large classes. Actively engaging students
in the learning process is especially important in large classes. This
session will identify several low-risk, high impact instructional strategies
for increasing in-class participation to help make large classes as exciting
and effective as smaller classes. |
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What is Inquiry-based Learning?
Facilitator: Diane R. Williams |
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Thursday,
September 25, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Friday,
September 26, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Picture
students learning through involvement that leads to understanding, students
asking higher level questions that lead to resolutions, students processing
information into useful knowledge. This session will explore the essentials
of inquiry-based learning and its relationship to project-based and problem-based
learning. Inquiry-based learning is an approach to teaching and learning
that reflects USF's priorities for students' learning experience.
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Academic
Integrity: Meeting the Challenges of Plagiarism
Facilitators:
Diane R. Williams, Janet Moore, Elaine Slocumb, and Bob Sullins
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Wednesday,
October 1, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: LIB 201 |
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Thursday,
October 2, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: LIB 201 |
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Have
you talked with your students about academic integrity? Do you know the
national statistics on dishonesty in the classroom? Come and learn more
about this growing problem and some solutions. This session will explore
the issues related to awareness, prevention, detection, and consequences
of plagiarism. Participants will also learn about Turnitin.com, an Internet
detection service available to USF instructors. |
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Teaching
Students With Disabilities
Facilitators:
Mary Sarver, David Owens, and Lorene Burnam |
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Wednesday,
October 8, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Thursday,
October 9, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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This workshop will address common faculty concerns about
working successfully with students with disabilities. Among the topics
to be explored include: (1) Why provide accommodations? (2) How does the
university respond to requests for accommodations? (3) To whom should
faculty direct their questions and concerns? and (4) Are good teaching
practices for students with disabilities different from good teaching
practices for students without disabilities? |
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Active Learning: Practical Applications to Promote Passion and Ration
Facilitator: Jennifer Baggerly |
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Wednesday,
October 15, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Thursday,
October 16, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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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. |
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Challenging Students' Beliefs
Facilitators: Diane R. Williams, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts,
and Rachelle Brunton |
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Tuesday,
October 28, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Many
instructors participated with intense interest in our conference on courses
that challenge students' values and beliefs in February. This special
informal session is designed to bring those instructors back together
with like-minded colleagues who teach such courses, especially courses
in which sensitive topics such as race, religion, gender, ethnicity, and
other diversity issues are vital to the course. In this session, we will
consider our current burning issues, and unveil our new Blackboard community
site, designed to support instructors in these courses. |
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As I See It: Views of Muslim Students on Teaching and Learning at USF
Facilitators: Student Panel from the USF Muslim Student Association (MSA)
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Wednesday,
October 29, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Thursday,
October 30, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Have
you ever wondered what USF students are really thinking? This workshop
theme about student views started in the Spring of 1999. This series continues
with an opportunity to meet a distinguished panel of Muslim students who
will share insights about teaching and learning from their perspectives.
Here is an opportunity to ask everything you ever wanted to know but couldn't,
wouldn't, or didn't. For this interactive session, come prepared
for a lively question and answer exchange with colleagues and students.
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Effective Teaching and Learning at a Distance
Facilitators: Diane Austin and Carol Harneit
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Monday,
November 3, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Tuesday,
November 4, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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You
may be new to distance learning or perhaps you simply want to enhance
and expand your effectiveness at a distance . This workshop will include
an overview of distance learning choices available to faculty, suggestions
for preparing your course for distance learning (including design, interactivity,
support systems, and access to resources), strategies for troubleshooting
in a distance learning environment, the role of building community in
a distance environment, and a review of principles of good practice in
education as they apply to distance learning. |
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Reflecting Your Course in a Learning-Centered Syllabus
Facilitators: Diane R. Williams and William Patterson
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Wednesday,
November 5, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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Thursday,
November 6, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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What's
behind a well-developed course? The well-developed syllabus! In this session,
we will discuss the essential and optional components of a good syllabus,
the relationship of the syllabus to the course goals and the instructor's
teaching philosophy, and the potential of the online syllabus. Illustrative
syllabi from several disciplines will be considered. We will focus on
designing both hardcopy and online syllabi that establish a framework
for instructors to teach students how to learn subject matter. Assistance
will be available for those interested in designing a syllabus for a Blackboard
course site. |
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Study Abroad Meets Intercultural Communication
Facilitators: Jeffra Flaitz and Diane R. Williams |
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Wednesday,
November 19 , 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 |
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The
excitement of travel. The intensity of discovering yourself. The challenges
of getting to know others who are different. We experience these events
ten-fold when a visit abroad is for a sustained period of study or research.
Can we prepare our students for such encounters? Can we help them develop
realistic expectations? Can we show them how to manage awareness of cultural
values, beliefs, and traditions different from their own? How will they
fare when they undergo re-entry into the once familiar world of the monolingual,
monocultural American? These are some of the topics to be discussed in
this lively and interactive session. |
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