Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

FALL CONVOCATION 2012 ANNOUNCED!!

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Fall Convocation

 

For the Convocation Schedule please click on the picture!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Laurie Richlin, Dr. Milton Cox.

SPECIAL EVENTS

  • Keynote workshop Involving Community in Learning: Making Connections for your Classroom and Campus, Your Students and Colleagues, 8:45 -11:30 a.m. Thursday, August 18, Atwood Ballroom. Open to all faculty, staff, and administrators. No registration required!!

Beyond the classroom, what are ways that learning communities help achieve student, faculty, and institutional learning objectives? This interactive keynote session will provide opportunities to reflect on this and other questions, examine evidence of learning community success, and consider ways to engage faculty and professional learning communities that can benefit your students, colleagues, and institution.

  • Faculty & Professional Learning Communities: Advanced Facilitators’ Workshop 2:00 – 4:30 p.m., Thursday, August 18, Atwood Ballroom. Open to all faculty, staff, and administrators.

Build leadership skills in areas related to teaching and learning! Learn hands-on how to facilitate Faculty and Professional Learning Communities.Pre-registration preferred!

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  • Faculty and Professional Learning CommunitiesDaylong Workshop 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Friday, August 19, Atwood Ballroom. Open to all faculty, staff, and administrators.

Immerse yourself in a day-long Faculty and Professional Learning Communities experience around topics such as: Advising, On-line Learning,Using Group Learning to Foster Critical Thinking Skills in Students, Service Learning, Engaging students through Undergraduate Research, STEM Education, Digital Natives go to College, Problem Based Learning, andEducation in The Liberal Arts. Learn hands-on the community, interdisciplinary collegiality, and collaboration that can occur with your colleagues around issues of teaching and learning!

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CETL WORKSHOPS:

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  • Digital Natives Go To College: Mindless Drones or Mindful Agents?

    1:00-2:15 p.m.Wednesday, August 17, Mississippi Room, Atwood.
    This workshop introduces faculty to an evolving grass-roots initiative focused upon understanding the significance of digital media for young adults and the implications for them as students. We hope this will be the start of future campus-wide book talks and a Faculty/Professional Learning Community with research and grant possibilities.
    Facilitators:Diana L. Rehling, Wendy Bjorklund, Renee Strom, Paula Tompkins
  • Using the Common Reading Text in Class, Part 1

    1:00-2:15 p.m. Wednesday, August 17, Voyageurs North, Atwood
    In the first of two sessions, obtain resources and ideas for how to incorporate the common reading book, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, into classroom discussions and course assignments.This session is open to any faculty member or teaching staff interested in using the book in a class. Faculty who have affiliated a course with the Common Reading Program and missed the June 13 workshop are particularly encouraged to attend.
    Facilitators: Christine Metzo, Darlene St. Clair, Adam Klepetar
  • Using the Common Reading Text in Class, Part 2

    2:30-3:45 p.m. Wednesday, August 17, Voyageurs North, Atwood
    In the second of two sessions, join colleagues from a variety of disciplines and discuss how to incorporate Sherman Alexie's book into your courses as you finalize your plans.
    Facilitators: Christine Metzo, Vicky Williams
  • Research Collaboration as a Tool of Professional Socialization of Graduate Students

    2:00-3:15 p.m. Thursday, August 18,Voyageurs South, Atwood
    How can research collaborations between graduate faculty and graduate students support their socialization into academic and professional work? Find out from this panel of faculty members & graduate students from the Higher Education Administration Programs.
    Facilitators:Gabriella Silvestre, Alvaro Marmolejo Davis, Christine Imbra, Matthew Plachecki

Keynote Speakers

 

Photo of Milt Cox MILTON D. COX is a member of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment at Miami University, where he founded and directs the Lilly Conference on College Teaching, is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal, and facilitates the Hesburgh Award-winning Teaching Scholars faculty learning community. Milt also has been project director of a FIPSE grant establishing faculty learning community programs on other campuses and is co-editor of the book, Building Faculty Learning Communities. He has consulted with and visited over 75 institutions initiating FLCs, including CIA University and institutions in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, and Sweden. He incorporates the use of student learning portfolios and Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences in his mathematics classes. He is recipient of the C.C. MacDuffee Award for distinguished service to Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honorary, and a certificate of special achievement from the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education in recognition and appreciation of notable contributions to the profession of faculty, instructional, and organizational development.

 

Photo of Laurie Richlin LAURIE RICHLIN is Director of Faculty Development at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles. She also is Director of the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching--Pomona, Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal, and President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars. She received her doctorate in higher education from the Claremont Graduate University, and her dissertation research on alternative faculty scholarship received the national Gratzke Award from the American Association of University Administrators. Her most recent book is Blueprint for Learning: Facilitating, Assessing, and Documenting Learning (Stylus, 2006). She has had several years experience facilitating FLCs for faculty and graduate students and is co-editor of the book, Building Faculty Learning Communities. Her current FLC efforts include FLCs on leadership, simulation technology, and for junior faculty members in a College of Medicine.

 

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