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Seminars
for Graduate Student Instructors
(Winter 2008)
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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CRLT is prepared to provide necessary physical accommodations for seminar participants with advance notice. Please call CRLT at 764-0505.
Academic Career Issues
- Postdocs and Faculty
Worklife at Liberal Arts Colleges
Friday, January 18, 3:30-5:00 p.m. - Professing to Learn:
Scholarly Learning in the Early Post-Tenure Career
Friday, April 4, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Multiculturalism
- Gender and Authority
in the College Classroom
Wednesday, January 30, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Teaching for Inclusion
Tuesday, February 5, 3:00-5:00 p.m. - Transforming Departmental Climate in Science and Engineering
Tuesday, February 19, 11:30-1:00 p.m.
Best Practices
- Leading Discussions
in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Monday, January 28, 3:30-5:30 p.m. - Now that I Have It, What
Grade Should I Give It: Evaluating Student Writing
Wednesday, February 13, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Technology in Teaching & Learning
- Second Life: Opening
a New World for Teaching
Tuesday, March 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Academic Career Issues
Postdocs and Faculty Worklife at Liberal Arts Colleges
Friday, January 18, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
East Conference Room, 4th Floor, Rackham
Co-sponsored by Rackham School of Graduate Studies and CRLT
Interested in teaching at a liberal arts college? At this event, faculty and administrators from liberal arts colleges will discuss job search strategies and faculty worklife. In addition, participants will learn about the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships at Oberlin and Kalamazoo Colleges for University of Michigan Ph.Ds (http://www.rackham.umich.edu/ postdoctoral/exchange_program/).
Mary Wright, Coordinator of GSI Initiatives, CRLT
Professing to Learn: Scholarly Learning in the Early Post-Tenure Career
Friday, April 4, 12:00-1:30 p.m. (Lunch provided)
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and CRLT
Having followed 40 professors up to five years post-tenure at four major research universities, Neumann will discuss what she has discovered about professors’ pursuits of scholarly learning. Topics will include the following: (1) what it means for post-tenure professors to learn their subjects of study and teaching; (2) where and when these professors pursue scholarly learning, other than in their research; (3) what else they learn, besides scholarly content, that is of value to their work and careers, and how their diverse learning experiences interact; (4) strategies they use to persist in scholarly learning, often with little institutional support; and (5) institutional and social conditions that facilitate and impede newly tenured professors’ scholarly learning.
Anna Neumann, Professor of Higher Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Multiculturalism
Gender and Authority in the College Classroom
Wednesday, January 30, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
Although this seminar is open to men and women, it is designed primarily for women interested in exploring issues related to establishing and maintaining authority in the classroom. Questions to be addressed include: What is authority in the classroom and why is it important in teaching? To what extent does gender play a role in classroom authority and challenges to authority? What do women report about their experiences with challenges to authority that seem unique? How can challenges to authority be prevented or managed? The ability to teach with authority in the classroom is something you can develop, and the effort is worthwhile because you will have a more satisfying teaching experience and your students will learn more.
Anne Harrington, Director, Business Instructional Development Program; Lecturer, Ross School of Business
Registration has been closed for this seminar.
Teaching for Inclusion
Tuesday,
February 5, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE:
Great Lakes Central, Palmer Commons, 4th Floor
This seminar will explore ways in which discussion, language use, classroom organization, assignments, and presentations of materials can create an open atmosphere of participation and engagement for all students. We will also examine ways of encouraging and accommodating various views and interpretations while still achieving course objectives and moving students to new insights and understandings.
A.T. Miller, Coordinator of Multicultural Teaching and Learning, CRLT
Transforming Departmental Climate in Science and Engineering
Tuesday, February 19, 11:30-1:00 p.m.
Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center, North Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and the Women in Science and Engineering Program
Particularly in science and engineering, female faculty, students, and members of under-represented groups frequently report interactions that contribute to more negative views of departmental climate than those held by their majority and male counterparts. This presentation uses findings from a faculty questionnaire distributed by the ADVANCE team at Virginia Tech and the theoretical lens of self- authorship to explore the role of negative feedback in perceptions of collegiality, mentoring, and departmental climate in the sciences and engineering.
Elizabeth Creamer, Professor, School of Education, Virginia Tech University
Best Practices
Leading Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Monday, January 28, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
How can I heighten student participation in my sections? What are different ways I can plan a discussion and ask questions of students? How can I enhance students’ critical thinking skills? This seminar will provide participants with strategies for addressing these questions in social science and humanities classrooms. Seminar participants will learn and practice techniques for facilitating discussions, managing controversies, asking effective questions, and enhancing and evaluating student participation. This seminar will complement the Leading Discussions session offered at GSI Teaching Orientation.
Monica Huerta, Graduate Teaching Consultant, CRLT;
Lauren Kachorek, Postdoctoral Teaching Consultant, CRLT
Now that I Have It, What Grade Should I Give It: Evaluating Student Writing
Wednesday, February 13, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE:
Windows Room, Palmer Commons, 3rd Floor
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.
Deborah Meizlish, Coordinator of Social Science Initiatives, CRLT;
Paul Barron, Lecturer, Sweetland Writing Center, LS&A
Registration has been closed for this seminar.
Technology in Teaching & Learning
Second Life: Opening a New World for Teaching
Tuesday, March 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
The virtual digital world, Second Life, has been an international sensation, as people create alternative identities and interact in new kinds of spaces. What can Second Life contribute to university teaching and learning? Participants will see demonstrations of Second Life, including examples of how UM faculty are using it in courses from Italian language and culture to medicine. Participants will also discuss possibilities for using the unique environment of Second Life, e.g., how to experiment with open environments (interacting with others), ways to utilize “closed” environments (classrooms that exist in virtual space), and strategies for stimulating student collaboration.
Giorgio Massei, Lecturer, Romance Languages and Literatures, LS&A;
Philomena Mecchan, Instructional Learning Lead, Language Resource
Center;
Crisca Bierwert, Associate Director, CRLT
Registration has been closed for this seminar.
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