CENTER FOR TEACHING ENHANCEMENT
FALL 2001
WORKSHOP SERIES



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Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom

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

Friday, September 14, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Dr. James Eison

Nearly 25 years ago, McKeachie wrote in the Handbook of Research on Teaching, "College teaching and lecturing have been so long associated that when one pictures a college professor in a classroom, he almost inevitably pictures him as lecturing." A host of recent national reports, however, have challenged college and university faculty to use instructional approaches that transform students from passive listeners into active learners. This session will demonstrate both why and how this can be done. Warning: This program will practice what it teaches; active involvement is expected.

Promoting Deep Learning

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

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

Facilitator: Dr. James Eison

All too many college and university students appear content to scratch the surface of assigned course readings and to memorize minimally that which might appear on examinations. Consequently, one significant instructional challenge faculty face is to develop strategies that stimulate students to delve more deeply into course material. This interactive session will explore ways faculty can teach students to better understand and appreciate the important differences between surface and deep learning. Participants will also explore ways to design in-class activities and out-of-class assignments that promote in-depth exploration and self-reflection.

 

Creating a Teaching Portfolio

Thursday, September 20, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Friday, September 21, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Monday, October 15, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Tuesday, October 16, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Dr. Diane R. Williams

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.

 

Connecting Diverse Students Through Their Academic Experiences

Monday, September 24, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

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

Facilitators: Dr. Diane R. Williams and

Dr. Paulette Walker

This session will explore ways of designing classroom learning experiences that provide opportunities for diverse students to connect to each other and to each subject. It will also include ways of dealing with misunderstandings that arise when students bring different cultural perspectives to class. The benefits of diversity in our classrooms are only realized if students are exposed to each others’ ways of thinking and doing. No matter what your discipline is, there are ways that you can foster productive learning interactions among students to help prepare them for a global work experience while at the same time enriching the course with diverse experiences students bring to each topic.

 

Teaching Students With Disabilities

Thursday, September 27, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

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

Facilitator: Dr. Mary Sarver

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?

 

Establishing Program Objectives and Assessing Learning Outcomes

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

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

Facilitator: Dr. James Eison

Throughout higher education, faculty are being asked to identify the core educational objectives of their programs or degrees and being asked to demonstrate instructional effectiveness by assessing student learning outcomes. This session, therefore, will explore practical and time-efficient strategies that can be used to address these two important and interrelated instructional challenges.

 

Curriculum Progress: Reflecting the Latino Experience

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

Friday, October 5, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitators: Dr. Diane Williams and

Ms. Norma Cano-Alvarez

This workshop continues a theme begun in Fall of 1997 on reflecting the diversity of our students’ experience in the curriculum. Have you ever wondered what contributions have been made in your field by members of groups represented in our diverse USF student body? This session will offer instructors skills and resources for uncovering the contributions of Latinos in order to create inclusive and enriching courses for all students. We will also discuss the impact of cultural issues on the classroom. NOTE: The companion workshop scheduled for November 15 or November 16 on Latino students’ views of teaching and learning at USF.

 

Teaching Visually Using PowerPoint and the World Wide Web

Thursday, October 18, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Friday, October 19, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitators: Dr. James Eison and

Dr. Barbara Grazul Hubbard

Instructors throughout higher education are exploring ways to use new technology tools to add an element of"instructional innovation" into traditional forms of teaching. And when done thoughtfully and skillfully, many positive benefits can result. Unfortunately, simply moving from the all-to-familiar "talk and chalk paradigm of teaching" to an updated version of "present and PowerPoint as pedagogy" does relatively little to enhance student learning. Participants in this lively session will examine ways that PowerPoint and the World Wide Web can be used to enhance learning by adding a visual dimension to one’s thinking and teaching.

 

Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

Monday, October 22, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Tuesday, October 23, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Dr. Diane R. Williams

Why is it that students often prefer receiving crisp right answers rather than grappling with the gray areas of course content? This session will introduce William Perry’s stages of students’ critical thinking. We will also examine Benjamin Bloom’s categories of educational objectives and learn to use them to take students to a higher level of critical thinking. Classroom and laboratory applications of these ideas will be explored, including the use of the World Wide Web in assignments.

 

Arousing Intrinsic Motivation in the University Classroom

Thursday, October 25, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Friday, October 26, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Dr. Jim Eison

Faculty members commonly report that a large number of undergraduates appear excessively concerned with the pursuit of course grades. Less visible in many classrooms are the students who are genuinely interested in learning. Thus, the importance of creating instructional activities and approaches to stimulate students’ intrinsic motivation can be easily overlooked. This interactive session will synthesize briefly research on student motivation in higher education, explore instructional design strategies that foster intrinsic rather than extrinsic motivation, and examine practical approaches to addressing participants’ questions and concerns.

 

 

Teaching Students to Read and Critically Analyze Primary Source Documents

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

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

Facilitator: Dr. Jenny Reed

Many faculty require students to read primary source documents in preparation for class discussion, yet results are often frustrating. This session introduces a general approach to enhancing student understanding of any primary document using a one page worksheet (based on Richard Paul’s model for critical thinking) to guide student reading and promote subsequent class discussion. The workshop also offers a practical method for encouraging students to complete such assignments. NOTE: To maximize the personal benefits of this workshop, please bring to the session a relatively short primary source reading that you assign to your students.

 

 

Creating Rubrics: A Strategy for Enhancing Student Learning and Improving Grading Efficiency

Monday, November 5, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Tuesday, November 6, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Dr. James Eison

As many experienced instructors can attest, distributing a clear and comprehensive set of guidelines describing how students’ work will be evaluated often enhances the quality of students’ papers, projects, and presentations. The consistency and efficiency of instructor time devoted to providing constructive feedback and grading student work can similarly be enhanced by this same set of explicit guidelines. In this session, we will examine practical ways to create grading rubrics that enhance student learning, improve grading efficiency, and document learning outcomes. NOTE: To maximize the personal benefits of this workshop, please bring to the session a copy of an actual assignment for a paper, project or presentation that you currently use in one or more of your classes.

Through the Looking Glass: Seeing USF Colleagues in Action

Thursday, November 8, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Friday, November 9, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Dr. Diane Williams

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the classrooms of your USF colleagues? Since it is often not practical to visit instructors, we will bring instructors to our workshop for virtual visit. In this session, we will look at short digital movie clips of authentic scenes from classrooms of USF instructors demonstrating various approaches to teaching, including lecturing, active learning, and small group work. Each movie clip will be accompanied by discussion and resources related to the technique demonstrated.


Case Method Teaching

Tuesday, November 13, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Dr. James Eison

Case method teaching is an exciting and effective alternative to lecture-based instruction in many disciplines. This session will first demonstrate case method instruction and then critically examine elements of effective case method teaching. Participants will then explore ways case method writing might be adapted to their own courses.

 

As I See It: Views of Latino Students on Teaching and Learning at USF

Thursday, November 15, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Friday, November 16, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitators: Dr. Diane Williams and

Ms. Norma Cano-Alvarez

 

Have you ever wondered what USF students are really thinking? This theme started with views of students in a series of workshops begun in the Spring of 1999. This on-going series continues with an opportunity to meet a distinguished panel of Latino 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. NOTE: The companion session scheduled for October 4 or October 5 on reflecting the Latino experience in the curriculum.

 

Coping with Learning Styles Diversity: The VARK Inventory

Tuesday, November 20, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

Facilitator: Mr. Neil D. Fleming

This interactive workshop will help you identify your own learning style preferences and plan strategies to empower your students. You will take a brief inventory (VARK - Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic) to identify your preferences for sensory modalities and receive immediate feedback. In groups we will then develop ways to modify existing course curricula to better serve the diversity in front of you. Examples will be provided with some examination of the implications for your classroom. At the end of the workshop you will know more about your own preferences and be able to use VARK confidently with your students.

 

Reflecting Your Course in a Learning-Centered Syllabus

Thursday, November 29, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., Location: SVC 2080

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

Facilitator: Dr. Diane R. Williams

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, as well as the relationship of the syllabus to the course goals and the instructor’s teaching philosophy. Illustrative syllabi from several disciplines will be considered. We will focus on designing a syllabus that establishes a framework for instructors to teach students how to learn subject matter.

 

Additional Resources for Instructors:

The Center for Teaching Enhancement has published An Instructional Resource Guide for New Faculty and Teaching Assistants (Ninth Edition); complimentary copies are available upon request. The Center also has a large collection of workshop handouts, bibliographies, etc., and a library of text and video resources available for use by faculty and graduate students. For additional information, please visit the Center (SVC 1088), Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or call 974-2576.

 

Faculty Assistance for Technology-Enhanced Teaching

Many USF faculty have expressed interest in exploring ways to enhance student learning and increase educational access through technology-enhanced teaching. A multi-unit collaboration known as VITAL (i.e., Virtual Instructional Team for the Advancement of Learning), representing

Academic Computing, the Center for Teaching Enhancement, Educational Outreach, the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, the Health Sciences Center Information Services, the Tampa Campus Library, and WUSF-TV has been formed to assist faculty in such endeavors. A separate brochure describing VITAL’s Fall semester workshops on technology-enhanced teaching is available. VITAL’s web page is found at http://www.usf.edu/VITAL. Faculty can contact the group by phoning 974-7984 or via email at vital@usf.edu.