Information on (and several audio recordings of) teaching development workshops held during the 2006-07 academic year is available on the Committee on Teaching Development (CTD) Blog.
Faculty "Talk Back"/ CTD Listening Session Luncheon Discussion between faculty and members of the CTD, moderated by Bob Williams, on Wednesday, January 25, 2006, in the Barber Room.
Helping Students Generate Effective Questions as a Method of Enhancing Learning (CTD Sponsored Workshop and Luncheon) Professor Laura Greene of Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, presented her research on working with students to generate effective questions in response to course texts. Dr. Greene's research on reader response, originally prepared for the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, focuses on how teachers can help students develop more critical responses to and engage more deeply with reading material. This workshop was held on Thursday, February 9, 2006 from 10:00am-12:00pm.
Teaching Circles Reception Year-end celebratory reception for all teaching circle participants on Tuesday, June 5, 2006, in the Barber Room.
Speaking workshop with Tamara Burk and Lee Bowie from Mount Holyoke in February 2001. Over 35 faculty members attended this 2-day workshop.
Quantitative Workshop with Dorothy Wallace ( Dartmouth), John Schlotterbeck (DePauw), and Joan Garfield ( University of Minnesota) in June 2001. About 20 faculty attended.
Diversity workshop in September, 2001 with Matthew Ouellett on the dimensions of diversity requirement, particularly, he provided a framework for focusing on issues of diversity in the classroom.
Writing workshop with Martha Townsend on September 10th, 2002 coordinated with the Freshman Studies workshop.
Speaking Workshop with Sherwyn Morreale of the National Communication Association on September 8 and 9, 2003, coordinated with the Freshman Studies workshop (i.e., one morning of the workshop devoted to teaching first-year students).
Diversity Workshop on Global Diversity in September, 2004: Divisional Panels (Fine Arts/Music Panel: Frank Doeringer, chair, Gene Biringer, Rich Frielund, & Frank Lewis; Social Science/ENST Panel: Mark Frazier, chair, Jeff Clark, Marty Finkler, Karen Nordell, Terry Gottfried, & Dena Skran; Humanities/ ETST/GEST/Library Panel: Jane Parish Yang, chair, Gretchen Revie, Susan Richards, & Judy Sarnecki). Examined how the Freeman Grant has transformed our curriculum.
Diversity
Discussion of the video, True Colors, in the new speaking lab, Beth Haines moderated the discussion.
April, 2003, Diversity Luncheon: Carla Daughtry and Wendy Walter-Bailey presented on experiential learning in Ethnic Studies 200: Race and Ethnicity in the United States; Mark Frazier spoke on his in-class simulation of the World Trade Organization dispute settlement process in his Global Economic Relations
Foreign Language
Gustavo Fares and Birgit Tautz on defining and developing proficiency. Discussion of connections to teaching critical thinking in other disciplines. Eilene Hoft-March moderated the discussion.
Quantitative
Joy Jordan and Matt Stoneking on teaching quantitative reasoning and promoting transfer of skills across classes.
Speaking
Monica Rico on designing student speaking assignments and evaluating performance.
Beth DeStasio & Tim Spurgin on making a course speaking intensive, ideas for specific types of assignments during the term. Monica Rico moderated the session.
May, 2003: Speaking Luncheon
Beth Haines and Marti Hemwall on using “The Competent Speaker” form to evaluate student presentations (April, 2004).
Writing
Karen Hoffmann, Pete Peregrine, and Tom Ryckman on teaching writing intensive courses at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Luncheons 2003-2004
Diversity
Luncheon on the diversity curriculum, our progress to date and areas in need of development (jointly supported by the Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies Advisory Boards, May 2004).
Excellence in Teaching