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Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Lalita Subrahmanyan
CETL Director
cetl@stcloudstate.edu
(320) 308-5282 Phone
(320) 308-3217 Fax

 

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Book Event and Workshop: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Date: March 21, 2013
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Atwood Memorial Center Granite Room
Description: Conferences & Workshops.

Thinking, Fast and Slow
By: Daniel Kahneman

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

This book talk will be offered in two sessions, on March 21st and April 5th. The first session (corresponding to Part I in the book) will be a discussion of two types of mental processing: fast and automatic, and slow and effortful. We will prepare a number of demonstrations for illustrative purposes.

The second session will discuss applied topics comprising the remainder of the book. Focus will be on those of greatest interest to participants.

 

Cost: Free
Contact:
Lalita Subrahmanyan
(320) 308-5282
cetl@stcloudstate.edu
www.stcloudstate.edu/teaching

'Book Event and Workshop: Thinking, Fast and Slow' Schedule

Date Time Location
March 21, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Atwood Memorial Center Granite Room

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR:

FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING FAIR

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013

Click HERE to Register!

Registration Deadline Extended to Friday, May 31, 2013, 4:30 pm.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR:

THE 2013-2014 INTERACTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING E-HANDBOOK TEAM!

For detailed description of process, tasks, rewards, and expectations for the e-Handbook,

Please Click HERE!

 

THEME FOR THE 2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR:

Using a critical lens to engage with technology in teaching and learning.

 

WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING PROPOSALS FOR UNIVERSITY-WIDE INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS DURING FALL CONVOCATION AUGUST 21-23

Click HERE to Access Proposal Form!

 

Planning Team led by Lalita Subrahmanyan, CETL Director: Debra Carlson, Keith Ewing, Wade Nelson, and Michael Penrod.

TENTATIVE FALL CONVOCATION PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21

9:00 - 10:15: President’s Address

10:15 - 4:00: College/School and Department meetings

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013

8:30-9:30: University-wide Informational Concurrent Sessions

9:45-11:00: Keynote Session

11:15-12:15: University-wide Informational Concurrent Sessions

12:30-2:30: Teaching and Learning Fair and Miller Awards Ceremony.

2:45-4:00: University-wide Informational Concurrent Sessions

3:30-7:30: FLC Orientation

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013

8:30-4:30: New Faculty Orientation

CETL AND THE WRITE PLACE INVITE YOU TO ATTEND:

THE FACULTY WRITING RETREAT!

May 13 through May 17 (Monday through Friday)

The Write Place will be at your disposal from 9 AM to 5 PM, as a dedicated space where you will have an uninterrupted block of time to write with a community of other like-minded writers.

 

2013-2014 MILLER SCHOLAR AWARD RECIPIENTS NAMED!

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NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR:

THE FIRST ANNUAL SCSU TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING SUMMER INSTITUTE

Co-sponsors: The Center for Continuing Studies, InforMedia Services and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Click HERE to Register!

Deadline: Wednesday, May 8, 2013

For more details, please click on:

Summer Technology Institute

CETL IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE:

FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES FOR 2013-2014!

FLC Logo

(For more details on the FLC program, please click on the image above.)

Click below on the FLC of your choice for description, schedules, rewards, expectations and membership application forms:

Co-teaching

Faculty proposers: Nancy Bacharach (Teacher Development), and Teresa Heck (Kinesiology)

Co-teaching is a powerful framework that provides new opportunities for enhancing student learning. This FLC will explore the many ways the concept of co-teaching can be utilized in not only the delivery of instruction, but in assignments and coursework.

Flipping the Classroom

Faculty proposers: Jeanne Anderson (Information Media) and Stephanie Houdek (Math Skills Center)

In this FLC faculty members will explore how we can turn the classroom on its head by delivering instruction online outside of class so that active learning, group collaboration, instructor feedback/support and homework can be addressed during class time.

Backward Design

Faculty proposer: Kate Pound (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)

Briefly, Backward Design is a process in curriculum and lesson planning starts not by preparing lectures (i.e. learning experiences), but first by identifying the desired results. After that, the educator determines what acceptable evidence for those results having been achieved is, and only then plans the learning experiences and instruction to meet the goals.

Laboratory Course Pedagogy

Faculty proposer: Nate Winter (Chemistry and Physics)

The overarching purpose of this FLC is to explore and examine the current research and thinking of the pedagogy of laboratory experiences with a view to incorporating some of the strategies into the courses taught by the members.

Collaborative Learning

Faculty proposer: Miguel Chavez (Ethnic and Women's Studies)

The purpose of this FLC is to increase student engagement by redesigning courses to embed structured Collaborative Learning strategies that take into account scholarship on the relationship between group dynamics and student learning and create and redesign their courses.

LGBTQ Issues

Facilitator: Rachel Wexelbaum (Library Resources Services)

The members of this FLC are SCSU faculty, instructional staff, and other SCSU community members engaged in research on and teaching of LGBTIQ populations and issues. The purpose of this FLC is to explore theories and practices of heteronormativity in the attempt to identify heteronormative practices at SCSU. In 2013-2013, the LGBTIQ FLC will continue and expand upon our work from the previous year. We intend to conduct focus groups and other activities to determine student, faculty, and staff perceptions of heteronormativity in order to develop best practices and exercises to improve campus climate.

Review of applications begins Monday, April 15, 2013 at 4:30 pm

INTRODUCING A NEW OPPORTUNITY FROM CETL:

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (CoP)!

Engage in on-going pre-scheduled reflective dialogues with colleagues!

Learn more about a focused topic related to teaching and learning!

Apply for CETL’s Communities of Practice Initiative!

Please Click HERE to Access CoP Descriptions and Application Forms

Review of applications begins on: Friday, May 3, 2013