FW: [facdev-l] SUNY CPD: Teaching Well and Course Design
Tbers,
I’ve got no money to support you attending this, but thought you might be interested anyway...
Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820
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THE SUNY CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT presents the 6TH Annual Teaching & Learning Event
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Annual Teaching & Learning Day: Teaching Well and Course Design
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Date: March 7, 2008 - Friday
Time: 9:00AM - 4:00PM
Place: University at Buffalo, Center for Tomorrow, Amherst, NY
Registration Deadline: March 3rd
=========REGISTER ON-LINE=============
http://www.cpd.suny.edu <http://www.cpd.suny.edu/>
$ 80 SUNY CPD Member
$ 100 Non-CPD Member
CPD Members may use their points as a method of payment
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Dr. DEE FINK, National Project Director, Teaching & Curriculum Assessment Project
Dr. Fink currently works as a national and international consultant in higher education. During the last two years, he has led over 80 workshops nationally and internationally for faculty and administrators about what can be done to promote better teaching and learning. He is frequently invited to be a conference speaker on the subject of “Creating Significant Learning Experiences.”
In 2004-2005 he was president of the POD [Professional & Organizational Development] Network in Higher Education, the largest faculty development organization in the world. In 2003 he published a book on “Creating Significant Learning Experiences” (Jossey-Bass). From 1979 to 2005 he served as the founding director of the instructional Development Program at the University of Oklahoma. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1976.
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8:30 am - 9:00 am Sign-In and Welcome – A continental breakfast will be provided
9:00 am - 10:30 am
The Joy & Responsibility of Teaching Well
Dr. Dee Fink, National Project Director, Teaching & Curriculum Assessment Project
When we teach, our actions as teachers have the potential not only to fulfill our responsibility to students and society but also to give us the deep joy that comes when we do something important – and do it well.
There is growing evidence that although college-level teaching is extremely important in today’s world, we are not doing a very good job of educating our students. In this presentation I examine our traditional responses to four central issues of teaching: WHAT we teach, HOW we teach, How we GEAR UP as teachers, and WHO we are as educators.
If we can re-think and revise our responses to these four issues in ways that will improve student learning, then we can experience the deep Joy that comes with doing something very important – and doing it very WELL!
10:30 am - 10:45 am - Break
10:45 am - Noon
Broccoli, Headhunting, and the Mayan Universe: Is there a Connection?
Kimberly Davies Hoffman, Reference/Instruction Librarian, SUNY Geneseo
Thomas Cardot, Senior Student in Anthropology, SUNY Geneseo
To complement Dr. Fink’s Joy and Responsibility of Teaching presentation, Hoffman and Cardot will provide a unique example of “formulating a powerful learning strategy” in the realms of cultural and physical anthropology. Several years ago, Dr. Kintz’ voiced her frustrations with students’ poor reading and research skills and lack of enthusiasm for course content to librarians at Milne Library. Thus began a successful collaborative experiment where professor and librarian restructured course objectives, semester schedules, learning activities, and assessment tools. The main goal was to train students in sophisticated research and critical thinking skills that would then equip students to perform outside research on current course topics. In turn, students would bring this knowledge to the classroom and become more active and informed participants in group discussions. A collaborative triangular model between professor, librarian, and student slowly became our vision where every course participant was both teacher and student and continuous feedback amongst all three stakeholders informed further improvements in course design. Constant exchange of ideas and activities from all three perspectives have helped move the typical course lecture to a dynamic, creative, and highly successful curriculum.
Noon - 1:00 pm – Lunch provided
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm – Workshop
Want Your Students to Learn More? Designing Your Courses for More Significant Learning
Dr. Dee Fink, National Project Director, Teaching & Curriculum Assessment Project
Most college teachers would like their courses to be an experience in which their students achieve some kind of significant learning that lasts. But we feel frustrated and uncertain about how to get that to happen – for more students, more of the time.
In this workshop, we will:
· Examine the place of instructional design in the “big picture” of teaching,
· Take a close look at what each of us really wants our students to learn,
· Systematically work through a new model of instructional design that will enable us to “design high quality learning into our courses,” and
· Conclude by looking at two case studies that address the question of whether this more intensive way of designing courses is worth the time it takes.
The reaction of most teachers to this new model, Integrated Course Design, is quite enthusiastic, for two reasons. It shows them why much of what they are currently doing is good, but it also identifies what they could add to their teaching that would make it even more powerful.
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Contact: THE SUNY CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Phone: 315-233-3052 ext. 111
Fax: 315-437-0835
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A printable flyer (Fink flyer.pdf) is attached to this message. Please print and distribute to those on your campus who may be interested.
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