CENTER FOR 21st CENTURY TEACHING EXCELLENCE
Spring 2003
WORKSHOP SERIES



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Creating a Teaching Portfolio
Facilitator: Dr. Diane R. Williams
Wednesday, January 22, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Thursday, January 23, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

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

Wednesday, April 2, 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.



Help With Assessing Student Writing
 Facilitator: Dr. Teresa Flateby

Monday, January 27, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Tuesday, January 28, 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 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.

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

Wednesday, February 12, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Thursday, February 13, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

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? 4) Are good teaching practices for students with disabilities different from good teaching practices for students without disabilities? Bring your questions to this important workshop.

Managing a Career as an Academic Researcher and Scholar

Special Registration Information: To register for the workshop series below you must be in the first three pre-tenure years and be able to attend ALL THREE SESSIONS. Seating is limited.

Facilitator: Dr. Joe Moxley

Friday, February 14 AND Friday, February 21 AND Friday, February 28, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Are you working on your research and scholarship on a daily basis? Have you developed a writing and research plan to guide your way toward tenure? Are you familiar with how software tools can facilitate research, collaboration, writing, and bibliographic management? In a three-part series of workshops, Managing a Career as an Academic Researcher and Scholar explores the generative power of daily writing, the myths that intrude on creativity, and the habits and attitudes of successful academic authors. Participants will: 1) develop a Document Planner for a Major Research Project, 2) draft a Research and Writing Plan, 3) register CVs with Community of Science and arrange for weekly updates on funding opportunities, 4) experiment with a variety of invention strategies, and 5) survey software tools from a writer’s perspective, including MS Word’s Track Changes, Commenting. About the Workshop Leader: Joe Moxley, a professor of English at USF, has published twelve books and over 50 articles in numerous publications. Joe has received funding from the Department of Education (FIPSE), Microsoft, Adobe, Xerox, and Time Warner to support learning communities and new media scholarship. Joe has given academic writing workshops at numerous universities.

As I see It: Views of Muslim Students on Teaching and Learning at USF
Facilitators: Dr. Diane R. Williams and Ms. Sabah Uddin

Tuesday, February 18, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Wednesday, February 19, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Have you ever wondered what USF students are really thinking? This workshop theme about student views started in the Spring of 1999. This on-going series continues with an opportunity to meet a distinguished panel of Muslim women 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. This theme will be expanded in the fall workshop series.

 Getting Feedback on Student Learning: Classroom Assessment Techniques
Facilitator: Dr. Diane R. Williams

Tuesday, February 25, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Wednesday, February 26, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

Instructors are sometimes surprised to find out that their students have not learned as much or as well as expected. K. Patricia Cross and Thomas Angelo have developed a practical concept to help instructors and students deal effectively with this common problem. This session will consider the work of Cross and Angelo on learner-centered classroom assessment techniques to help instructors monitor learning. Classroom assessments are usually anonymous activities used throughout the semester to determine how much and how well students are learning. Instructors will explore a variety of assessment techniques and will learn how to apply them systematically in their courses.

 Reflecting Your Course in a Learning-Centered Syllabus
Facilitators: Dr. Diane R. Williams and Mr. William Patterson

Tuesday, March 18, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: LIB 209

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. Please note the above session is scheduled to meet in LIB 209.

Service Learning: Engaging Students Through Community-Based Learning
Facilitators: Dr. Diane R. Williams, Ms. Robin Jones and Dr. Janna Jones

Friday, March 21, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Location: SVC 2080 (Please note time of workshop)

Are you searching for ways to motivate students to learn a deeper level of problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision making while making a difference in the community? Service Learning, a growing movement among college instructors, is a teaching approach that enriches classroom learning by allowing students the opportunity to engage in community service as part of their academic coursework. Not only do students experience service to the community, but they also participate academically, building in reflective time through their community experiences, applying classroom concepts by researching, writing, and evaluating their community learning as part of their coursework. This session will introduce Service Learning and offer basic information on how to get started. Participants will meet instructors who have been incorporating Service Learning in their courses as well as representatives of community service organizations who have worked with instructors to provide meaningful community experiences for students. Please note the above session is scheduled to meet from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Promoting Active Learning in Large Classes
Facilitator: Dr. Diane R. Williams

Friday, March 28, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC 2080

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 we will talk with veteran 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.


......SPECIAL EVENT ..........


Eighth Annual Symposium on 21st Century Teaching Technologies:

A Continuing Series of Explorations



Wednesday, March 5, 10:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Phyllis P. Marshall Center, University of South Florida, Tampa Campus

Faculty, graduate assistants, students, and parents are invited to attend the eighth annual Symposium on 21st Century Teaching Technologies: A Continuing Series of Explorations and concurrently, the fifth annual Technology Vendor Exposition. The Symposium will showcase faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and students who are using computers and other technology tools to enhance teaching and learning. As in the past, the event will encourage broader understanding of the potential benefits and challenges of technology use in higher education.
For additional information, please visit the Symposium website at: http://fmhi.usf.edu/usfsymposium/2003 or contact William Patterson, Symposium Chair, via email at: patterson@cte.usf.edu