Teaching and Learning Innovation Series
The Teaching and Learning Innovation (TLI) series features interactive, hands-on workshops focused on the development of excellent teaching and learning through:
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offering new methods for classroom and academic instruction
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presenting creative ways to engage students in learning
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using new teaching strategies to enhance academic experience
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examining teaching and learning approaches in new ways.
Spring 2016
Integrating Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric in First-Year Writing Courses | Monday, January 25 - 3:30-4:30pm - Dr. Lisa Bosley
As part of the 2014-2015 Writing Fellows assessment, critical reading appeared as an ongoing concern among students participating in the program. We attempt to build on these assessment results by focusing on teaching for critical reading in FYW courses. Material covered will be applicable in ENG and ENR 090 and 095, ENG 101 and 102 courses. The session is a repeat of the session offered in August for FYW instructors. Light food provided.
Objectives:
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Think about the role of reading in FYW
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Discuss rhetorical reading as a way to integrate reading and writing instruction
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Review ideas for integrating reading and writing instruction
Location: Noel Studio, Discovery Classroom
Please register here.
Incorporating Metacognition into Your Classroom: Concepts and Strategies | Thursday, February 11 - 11:30-12:30pm - Drs. Russell Carpenter, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Join us for a discussion of the most recent concepts for incorporating metacognition into your classroom. Facilitators will share strategies from classroom activities along with tools that you can use. Each attendee will receive access to a metacognition toolkit after the event.
Location: Teaching & Learning Center
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Intuition in the College Classroom: Knowing More by Thinking Less | Thursday, February 18 - 3:00-4:00pm - Dr. Eric Meiners
Why is it that some college instructors seem to make quick, accurate decisions with seemingly little effort or deliberation, while others struggle to make sense of their classroom experiences? Much of the difference between novice and expert college instructors lies in their use of intuition. Join us for a discussion of intuition in the college classroom.
Topics to be discussed include:
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The different types of intuition
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Instructional situations in which intuition is most valuable
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Strategies for instructors to refine their intuition
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Strategies for instructors to help students refine their own intuition
Location: Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Please register here.
Quality Matters and Teaching Online | Thursday, February 25 - 1:00-2:00pm - Dr. Bev Hart
This workshop will achieve the following:
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Define and describe the Quality Matters process for the development of an online course.
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Describe the Collaborative process of the Instructional Design personnel and their role in course development and evaluation.
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Share examples of online syllabi which meet or exceed Quality Matters standards of excellence.
Location: Noel Studio Conference Room
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Using SPSS for Teaching and Research: Getting Started | Tuesday, March 8 - 3:00-4:00pm - Dr. Eric Meiners
SPSS is a versatile and powerful program that can be used not only for statistical computations, but to create graphs, tables and charts as well. Unfortunately, despite its usefulness, many faculty and staff do not feel confident using it. This workshop provides an introduction to SPSS for those wishing to enhance their scholarly research and program assessments, or to more effectively track student learning outcomes. Participants will be shown how to create a data file and perform some of the most common statistical and graphical functions available with this software.
Location: Teaching & Learning Center, Keen Johnson Building
Please register here.
What Do Great Teachers Do? | Tuesday, April 5 - 11:30am - 12:30pm - Drs. Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Russell Carpenter, and the Faculty Innovators
Join the Faculty Innovators for a discussion of strategies that great college teachers use on a regular basis in their classrooms. This session provides the opportunity for the campus community to discuss teaching in their disciplines while learning about teaching approaches from across campus.
Location: Noel Studio Breakout 3
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Effective Strategies for Incorporating Metacognition into the Classroom | Thursday, April 7—11:00-12:00 - Drs. Charlie Sweet, Russell Carpenter, and Matt Winslow
As our Feb. 11 workshop focused on metacognition theory, this follow-up session will center on practical strategies that campus instructors have found effective. After discussing initial strategies suggested by the facilitators, participants will learn about effective metacognition strategies drawn from a panel of instructors. Participants will also be invited to share metacognition strategies from their classes. Each attendee will receive a toolkit and additional resources.
Location: Teaching & Learning Center, Keen Johnson Building
Please register here.
Planning and Designing Visual Syllabi | Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 11:30am-12:30pm -Jacqueline Kohl
Funny. Engaging. Clever. That’s how students describe the syllabi of English professor Jacqueline Kohl. She argues that in the two years of using visual syllabi, her courses have become memorable from day one, setting a creativity standard for students. Kohl will share examples from all disciplines, and give practical pointers for creating the artistic syllabi.
Location: Noel Studio, Conference Room
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What I learned at SXSWedu | Thursday, April 21 - 11:00-12:00 - Dr. Matt Winslow
Please plan to join Dr. Matt Winslow and the Faculty Innovators to discuss key takeaways in teaching and learning from the SXSWedu conference. Light lunch provided.
Location: Noel Studio Breakout 3
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Use of Virtual Laboratories During Introductory Science Courses | Friday, April 29 - 11:00am-12:00pm - Dr. Scott Rockwell
This workshop will discuss the benefits of virtual laboratory experiments, a literature review of documented virtual lab use in a variety of disciplines, present an overview of virtual labs that are currently being used in the FPPS department at EKU and provide guidance on how professors can get started creating virtual laboratories for their own classes.
Location: Noel Studio Conference Room
Please register here.
