Today is the last day to register for meals and to be eligible for fantastic door prizes at the Reflecting on Teaching Colloquium. To register, just click over to the Office of Instructional Development.
Teaching Thursday is looking for people who might interested in blogging the conference (unfortunately half of the Teaching Thursday staff will be organizing the conference and the other half will be at another conference!). All blogging the conference would entail is (1) dropping me a line at Teaching Thursday World Headquarters (billcaraher(at)gmail(dot)com) and (2) receiving a magic word that lets you post directly to our wonderful blog from your email. Then you would be able to blog directly from the conference, during little breaks, or during a reflective moment at the end of the day.
Our goal is to capture some of the energy, excitement, and spontaneous creativity that these all-campus colloquia cultivate and communicate this spirit (in as much as it is possible) to those of us who were not able to attend.
So, don’t be shy! Contact the Teaching Thursday staff today and volunteer to take the all-campus colloquium international and worldwide.
Reflecting on Teaching: An All-Campus Colloqium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
October 16 – 17, 2009
University of North Dakota
Memorial Union
John Tagg
Professor of English at Palomar College & Core Faculty Member with the Collaboration’s Institute for Academic Innovation.
In his keynote, on Friday (from 12-30-1:30), Prof. Tagg will present:
“SCHOLARSHIP FOR A CHANGE: THE UNIVERSITY AS A LEARNING ORGANIZATION”
How can the scholarship of teaching and learning help the University as an organization to learn? How should the growing body of research on learning affect organizational structures, policies, and attitudes? How can we — as teachers, scholars, and educators — live up to the standards we propose for our students? In addressing these questions we will consider some of the barriers and challenges that complicate educational change and also propose ideas for implementing what we learn about students and about learning.
On Saturday, October 17 (9-11:30), Prof. Tagg will offer a workshop, “CLOSING THE LEARNING LOOP: ASKING QUESTIONS THAT COUNT”
What are the most important questions for the scholarship of teaching and learning to ask? Using the concept of double-loop learning, we will attempt to develop strategies for generating the questions that organizational structures and habits sometimes camouflage or conceal. Starting with the problems and issues you are confronting today, we will try to discover research problems that can generate actionable discoveries.
Conference Schedule
Friday, October 16, 2009
ON SITE REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST* 8:00-9:00am
[Please register online for breakfast]
POSTER SESSION 8:30-4:00
Click here for poster titles & times presenters will be available at their posters
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 9:00 – 10:30
Session A: Thinking about Thinking: Helping Students Become Self-reflecting and Self-motivated Thinkers May Be the Best Education You Can Give Them
Dexter Perkins, Mark Grabe
Session B: Engaging and Assessing in Large Classes
Peter Meberg, Jeff Carmichael, Dorothy Keyser, Wendelin Hume
Session C: An Open Forum: Is Liberal Learning Still Relevant or Is General Education No Longer Valid In the Modern Economy?
Patrick O’Neill, Tom Steen, and colleagues
Session D: Electronic Pedagogy: Translating Teaching for the Digital Classroom
Dave Yearwood, Richard Van Eck, Andrew Knight, Anne Kelsch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10:45-12:00
Session E: Connecting with Students, Students Connecting
Elizabeth Bjerke, Gaye Burgess, Leslie Martin, Thomasine Heitkamp
Session F: Innovative Teaching Approaches in Foreign Language Curricula
Jane Berne, Sherrie Fleshman, J. Colleen Berry, Amanda Boyd
Session G: Working with Who Our Students Are: Diversity in Learning Styles and Culture
Kirsten Dauphinais, Kimberly T. Krohn, Myrna Olson
Session H: From Virtual Histology to Clickers to WebAnatomy: Formative Testing as a Means of Affecting Student Engagement and Learning in the Biological Sciences
Dan J. O’Neill, Murray Jensen, Jon Jackson
LUNCHEON* & PRESIDENT’S WELCOME 12:00-1:30
KEYNOTE SPEECH BY JOHN TAGG 12:30-1:30
“Scholarship for a Change: The University as a Learning Organization”
Introduction by Dr. Phyllis Johnson, Vice President for Research & Economic Development
[Please register online for lunch]
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:45-3:00
Session I: Mentoring Native American Students in STEM
Ralph Johnson, Julia Xiaojun Zhao, Brian Tande, Mark Hoffmann
Session J: Handling Controversy in the Classroom
Janie Pinterits, Becky Simmons, Patti Alleva, Sally Pyle
Session K: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Disciplines
Evguenii Kozliak and STEM faculty
Session L: Creating Active Learning Environments: Teaching with Classroom Response Systems
Dave Yearwood & Glenn Cockerline, Jeff Carmichael, Lori Swinney
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3:00-4:30
Session M: Spurring Self-Reflection in Decision-Making
Patti Alleva, Kara Wettersten, Ken Ruit, Kristine Paranica
Session N: Making Service-Learning an Effective Teaching Strategy
Lana Rakow, Larry Pate, Jared Keengwe, David Whitcomb, Amy Phillips, Robin David
Session O: Drawing Students into STEM and Helping Them Succeed
Julie Abrahamsom, Alena Kubatova, Evguenii Kozliak, Gretchen Mullendore, Dave Pierce
Session P: Success Stories: How Learning about Learning Improves the Major
Steven Light, Fred Remer, Renee Mabey, Joan Hawthorne
RECEPTION* AT THE ND MUSEUM OF ART 4:45-5:45
Sponsored by OID & the VPAA
Introductions and Welcome by Dr. Joan Hawthorne, Assistant Provost
[Please register online for the reception]
SATURDAY, October 17 9:00-11:30
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Workshop facilitated by John Tagg*
“CLOSING THE LEARNING LOOP:
ASKING QUESTIONS THAT COUNT”
