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Seminars for Faculty (Winter 2009)

CRLT’s seminars provide a forum for faculty to explore topics in teaching with colleagues from across campus. Each term, CRLT offers seminars on a variety of topics. All seminars are interactive, solidly grounded in the research on teaching and learning, and designed to offer practical suggestions that faculty can incorporate into their classrooms.

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Spotlight on Thurnau Professors

Best Practices

Evaluation and Assessment

Spotlight on Thurnau Professors

Engaging Students Using Wikis and Blogs: A Discussion with Scott Moore

Wednesday, January 28, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
Lunch will be served.

Are your students browsing the Internet during lecture? Are they drawn to technology and away from your class? Do you feel like giving up? Instead of fighting technology, Professor Moore shows how embracing technology can draw students into a course. As they create course content via wikis and blogs, students take ownership of their own learning. Professor Moore demonstrates these tools, along with the challenges they can pose and ways of addressing them.

Scott Moore, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Business Information Technology, Ross School of Business

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Inside the Teacher’s Studio: A Discussion with Ralph Williams

Thursday, January 29, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Vandenberg Room - The Michigan League

A Thurnau Professor, a winner of the Golden Apple award, and this year's Michigan Professor of the Year, Professor Ralph Willams has had a major impact on the intellectual development of thousands of U-M students. After more than 30 years of teaching at U-M, he will retire at the end of the Winter 2009 term. This seminar will offer an opportunity for participants to hear from Professor Williams about his approaches to teaching and learning, how his pedagogy has grown and developed over time, and his insights into working effectively with the current generation of U-M students.

Ralph Williams, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of English Language and Literature

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Best Practices

Make It Stick! Classroom Strategies for Long-Term Retention

Registration closed: Monday, February 9, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

New InfoRegistration open: Wednesday, March 18, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

We all know that over time students forget a good portion of course content, but once in a while an idea will stick - sometimes for the rest of their lives. This workshop explores six strategies for stimulating students’ retention of content. The workshop will provide many enjoyably sticky examples and offer opportunities for participants to apply the strategies to their own needs.

Anne Harrington, Director, Ross School of Business Instructional Development Program

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Evaluation and Assessment

Assessing Multicultural Learning: Tracking Ideas on the Move

Wednesday, February 11, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

Instructors of courses with multicultural content face challenges when they engage students effectively. They also see tremendous growth in students they teach. This seminar will help instructors identify and document such student learning. The seminar will illustrate how to use writing assignments, in conjunction with in-class discussion, to help students become more aware of the ideas they are acquiring and changing, and to help instructors trace the student learning in their classes. Participants will have a chance to discuss the challenges that issues of power and identity pose for students and to describe student engagement and growth they have seen and would like to document. We will then review several models of writing assignments that frame or build on in-class discussion, review and adapt frameworks for assessment, and practice analyzing student growth by comparing writing from earlier and later in a course.

Crisca Bierwert, Associate Director, Multicultural Coordinator, CRLT

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Are They Learning What You’re Teaching? Analyzing Student Learning for Course Revision, Assessment, or Accreditation

Wednesday, February 18, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
Lunch will be served.

This session considers methods for analyzing student learning so that faculty and external audiences have an accurate picture of the learning taking place.  Collecting data on student learning can prove valuable for efforts to revise courses or curricula, to satisfy grant criteria, or to meet the requirements of external reviewers and accreditors.  Participants will explore the pros and cons of various methods for measuring student learning.  Participants will examine both direct methods (e.g., portfolios) and indirect methods (e.g., student or employer surveys) and will identify those best suited for their institutional and intellectual contexts.

Chad Hershock, Assistant Director, Science initiatives, CRLT
Debbie Meizlish, Assistant Director, Social science initiatives, CRLT

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Now That I Have It, What Grade Should  Evaluating Student Writing

Tuesday, March 3, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

Faced with a pile of papers to grade?  Unsure how to assess your students’ written work?  Do you spend a lot of time trying to explain to your students how you graded their papers and exams?  This seminar will focus on the conceptual and practical aspects of evaluating student writing.  After tackling the big questions (What is the purpose of grading?  What are the links between learning and assessment?), we will discuss how to make the actual process more efficient and effective.

Chris Groscurth, Instructional Consultant, CRLT
Paul Barron, Sweetland Writing Center

Registration for this seminar is closed.

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