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Seminars for Faculty (Winter 2012)

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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Multicultural Teaching & Learning

Best Practices

Special Topics

Multicultural Teaching & Learning

A Multicultural Strategy for Engaging Students in Courses with Extensive Reading

Monday, February 13, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

In many courses students are required to do extensive reading outside of class. In-class discussion is richer and more focused when students have not only done the reading, but considered their own response in advance. One method for encouraging reading and previewing their response is based on the study of text in several cultures and relies on placing students in “reading pairs.” Join us to explore the history of this approach, the process of using it and how posting to a forum on C-Tools allows instructors to better understand what questions students have about the texts we select.

Margaret Noori, Director, Comprehensive Studies Program, LSA

 

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Best Practices

Designing and Managing Student Presentations

Wednesday, February 1, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Koessler Room, 3rd Floor, Michigan League

In this seminar, we will apply general principles of assignment design to the specific circumstances of student presentations. In doing so, we will address several related questions: What kinds of pedagogical goals can be met through student presentations? How can assignments be structured and evaluated to ensure effective student presentations, either from groups or individuals? What roles can the class and instructor play during student presentations? Along the way we will explore multiple formats and evaluation schema for student presentations, giving participants a range of examples to build on in their own instructional practice.

Deborah Meizlish, Assistant Director, CRLT

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

Thursday, February 23, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Great Lakes North, 4th Floor, 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.

Naomi Silver, Associate Director, Sweetland Center for Writing, LSA
Laura Schram, Instructional Consultant, CRLT

High Impact Practices: Collaboration and Team Work

Wednesday, March 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Hussey Room, 2nd Floor, Michigan League

The American Association of Colleges and Universities includes group work as one of ten high impact practices that promotes deep-level learning in the college classroom. Research shows that this instructional strategy is beneficial for all students, and can be particularly effective for students from underrepresented groups. This workshop will present research highlighting the benefits of group work and will provide strategies for designing such learning experiences. Common challenges associated with group work and ways to address these issues will also be discussed.

Allyson Bregman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, CRLT
Chad Hershock, Assistant Director, CRLT

 

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Special Topics

Blended Teaching: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Learning - A Four-Part Series

  1. Course Design for Blended Learning (face-to face)
    Thursday, January 26, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
    CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

  2. Assessment of Student Learning (online-synchronous)
    Thursday, February 9, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

  3. Content and Learning Activities (online-asynchronous)

  4. Aligning Activities and Assessment (face-to face)
    Thursday, March 15, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
    CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

This series of workshops will provide faculty members the opportunity to delve deeply into blended or hybrid teaching, i.e., the combination of classroom teaching with online teaching. A total of four sessions will take place, with the opening and closing sessions being face-to-face and the two middle sessions online, thereby modeling a blended learning approach. The first session will be open to all faculty interested in the topic. Participants who wish to continue will attend all three remaining sessions and complete a small number of readings and assignments designed to lead them through the process of designing a blended teaching module or course.

Erping Zhu, Assistant Director, CRLT
Chad Hershock Assistant Director, CRLT
Meg Bakewell, Instructional Consultant, CRLT

LSA Theme Semester on Language: Roundtable on Less Commonly Taught Languages

Tuesday, March 6, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons

While universities have begun to incorporate less commonly taught languages into their course offerings, instructors for these languages frequently have had to develop original instructional materials and lesson plans in order to facilitate learning and to accommodate institutional expectations. . In this roundtable,  faculty will share their approaches to creating a curriculum for less commonly taught languages and discuss some of the challenges they've faced and some of the innovations they've used.

Margaret Noori, Director, Comprehensive Studies Program, LSA
Barbra Meek, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, LSA

Blogging in the Classroom (Co-sponsored by the Sweetland Center for Writing)

Friday, March 9,10:00 a.m-12:00 .p.m.
Great Lakes North, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons

Many U-M faculty have found blogging to be a powerful tool for engaging students with course content, increasing the amount of student writing in their courses, and promoting interactive and reflective pedagogy. In this hands-on workshop, faculty from three departments — Brian Porter-Szücs (History), Bill Currie (SNRE), and Naomi Silver (Sweetland) — will share their experiences with classroom blogging. After discussion, participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm their own blog-focused activity, assignment, or lesson plan. Topics covered will include adapting blogs to fit established learning goals, designing new blog assignments, grading blog posts, and student perspectives on classroom blogging.

Naomi Silver, Associate Director, Sweetland Center for Writing, LSA

.PDF of Session Presentation and Materials
Slides will only be available through the end of the Winter 2012 term.

 

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