Tbers, If you are interested in attending this please contact me. I have some funds to support two or three facultyıs travel and registration costs. Mr. James B. Greenberg Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center Milne Library SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820 email: [log in to unmask] phone: 607-436-2701 fax: 607-436-3081 IM: oneontatltc "Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever" ------ Forwarded Message From: "Murphy, Cheryl" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:55:52 -0500 To: <[log in to unmask]>, FACT <[log in to unmask]>, FACTL <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>, ITEC L <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>, SUNYTC-L <[log in to unmask]>, TC Liaison Committee <[log in to unmask]>, WEBTEACH <[log in to unmask]> Conversation: Spring Teaching & Learning Conference: What the best college teachers do! Featuring Dr. Kenneth Bain Subject: Spring Teaching & Learning Conference: What the best college teachers do! Featuring Dr. Kenneth Bain THE SUNY TRAINING CENTER AND UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO'S CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES PRESENTS: **************************************************************************** ****************************************************** Spring Teaching & Learning Conference: What the best college teachers do! Featuring Dr. Kenneth Bain, New York University **************************************************************************** ****************************************************** Date: March 3, 2006, Friday Time: 9:00AM - 4:30PM Place: The Center for Tomorrow, Univeristy at Buffalo, Amherst, NY =========REGISTER ON-LINE============= By Clicking on the Link Below http://www.peopleware.net/2754/index.cfm?eventDisp=S06TLCONF&subeventdisp=UB S06TLCNF <http://www.peopleware.net/2754/index.cfm?eventDisp=S06TLCONF&subeventdi sp=UBS06TLCNF> $110 SUNY Training Center Member $140 Non-SUNY Training Center Member =========CONFERENCE WEB SITE============= For up to date information: http://www.tc.suny.edu/ubspring06/welcome.html <http://www.tc.suny.edu/ubspring06/welcome.html> =========KEYNOTE SPEAKER================ Kenneth Bain, Ph.D. Founding Director Center for Excellence at New York University KENNETH BAIN (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1976) is founding director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at New York University. Prior to moving to NYU in the fall of 2001, he was founding director of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and a professor of history at Northwestern University. He went to Northwestern from the history faculty at Vanderbilt University in 1992, where he was also founding director of the Center for Teaching in the College of Arts and Science. His historical scholarship centers on the history of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East (principal works include The March to Zion: United States Policy and the Founding of Israel, 1980, 2000), but he has long taken an interest in teaching and learning. Internationally recognized for his insights into teaching and learning and for a fifteen-year study of what the best educators do, he has presented invited workshops or lectures at nearly two hundred universities and events all over the world. His research has concentrated on a wide range of issues, including deep and sustained learning and the creation of natural critical learning environments. His recently-published book What the Best College Teachers Do. (Harvard University Press, 2004) won the 2004 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society. He has won four major teaching awards, including a teacher-of-the-year award, faculty nomination for the Minnie Piper Foundation Award for outstanding college teacher in Texas in 1980 and 1981, and Honors Professor of the Year Awards in 1985 and 1986. A 1990 national publication named him one of the best teachers in the United States. He has received awards from the Harry S Truman Library, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the International Studies Association, among others. He is currently completing his third book on U.S. relations with the Middle East (The Last Journey Home: Franklin Roosevelt and the Middle East). =============PROGRAM================= 8:30 - 9:00 am -- Continental Breakfast and Registration 9:00 - 9:10 am -- Welcoming Remarks 9:10 - 10:30 am -- Keynote: What the Best College Teachers Do: The Results of a 15-Year Study - Ken Bain, Director, Center for Excellence and Professor of History at New York University What do the best teachers do and understand that makes them so successful? How can any of us reach our students more effectively? In this highly interactive session, participants will explore the thinking and practices of highly successful college teachers identified in an award-winning 15-year study of people who have had enormous success in helping and encouraging their students to achieve remarkable learning results. We will look also at the research on human motivation and insights into the nature and meaning of human learning. Participants should emerge with a deeper understanding of human learning and how best to foster its development. They should emerge also with a better understanding of their own best practices and how to enhance them. 10:30 - 10:45 am -- Break 10:45 - 12:15 pm -- Developing Autonomous Learners: Helping Students Succeed in College § Kelly Ahuna, Ph.D., Director, Methods of Inquiry, University at Buffalo § Christina Gray Tinnesz, Ph.D., Associate Director, Methods of Inquiry, University at Buffalo The transition from high school to college can be overwhelming for many students as they navigate a culture in which their success is wholly reliant upon their own motivation and effort. By addressing determined strategies and techniques students need to master for college success, this presentation will provide insights faculty can use to facilitate the learning process for students. Once we know what students need to do to be autonomous, how can instructors assist in that process? Through presentation and interaction, this program will generate ideas to help faculty ensure that their students are indeed learning course content. 12:15 - 1:00 pm -- Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 pm -- Group Methods for Enhancing Teaching: The Hidden Group in the Classroom - Dr. Lawrence Shulman, Professor, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo Every class, even a large lecture, has a hidden group that can be used to enhance student learning; it also may become a major obstacle to learning. The presentation will use examples from the workshop leader as well as examples from workshop participants to explore the following issues: Issues of authority between the instructor and the students; Dealing with a difficult student; Student apathy; Creating a safe and respectful environment for discussion of sensitive subjects (race, gender, religion, politics, etc.); Helping students to connect with class content; Tapping potential for mutual aid as students help each other in the learning process. 2:30 - 2:45 pm -- Break 2:45 - 4:15 pm -- What the Best College Teachers Do: Creating a Natural Critical Learning Environment - Ken Bain, Director, Center for Excellence and Professor of History at New York University How do we apply the ideas about best teaching practices to our own efforts? In this highly interactive and lively session, participants will apply some of the major ideas of a 15-year study of best college teaching practices to the development and teaching of college courses. Participants should emerge with some concrete plans for improving their courses and the learning environments for their students. We will focus on the development of a Natural Critical Learning Environment and how a promising syllabus and a change in what happens in and out of class can help create that environment. 4:15 - 4:30 pm -- Bringing it all together: Event Reflection - Dr. Jennie Dautermann, Teaching, Learning and Technology Program Manager, SUNY Training Center =========QUESTIONS? CONTACT THE SUNY TRAINING CENTER============= Phone: 315-464-4078 Fax: 315-464-7303 Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> =========END OF E-MAIL MESSAGE============= ------ End of Forwarded Message