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Learning Conversations bring together groups of employees to discuss contemporary issues of interest to them and engagement activities geared to building awareness and problem-solving.
These may include, but are not limited to, book clubs or informal and brown bag sessions on topics of interest.
Learning Conversations
- Community of Practice Series: Teaching Great in Eight
Community of Practice Series: Teaching Great in Eight
Presenter: Scott Neal, Instructor, Cybersecurity, Networking & Support Programming
This is a Community of Practice for Faculty to engage in conversations surrounding pertinent topics related to teaching 8-week courses. Meetings occur from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. via .
Course Timeline
Course Date Fostering Meaningful Student-Instructor Interactions with an 8-week course February 24, 2025 Maximizing Knowledge in 8 weeks: how to support student content knowledge retention March 17, 2025 Life Happens: How to manage student attrition in an 8-week course March 31, 2025 Curating Your Content: how to select and include the most impactful learning experiences in your 8-week course April 14, 2025 Grand Finale: Student-Faculty Pow-Wow April 28, 2025 - Small Teaching and strategies to maximize student learning using small changes to instruction
Small Teaching and strategies to maximize student learning using small changes to instruction
Facilitator: Dr. Barbara Clarke, Coordinator, Organizational Development and Learning
The lessons/chapters in Small Bites for Small Teaching are derived from the book 鈥淪mall Teaching鈥 (2nd edition) (Lang, J., 2021). Other materials include resources from Bain鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Best College Professors Do,鈥 and Lang鈥檚 鈥淪mall Teaching Online鈥 and 鈥淥n Course," articles published in the Chronicle of Higher Education (COHE), and other instructional texts. The premise of this course is that small, incremental changes in your instruction can yield significant positive results for your students. The changes recommended do not require changes to your curriculum or significant pre-planning and administration.
Meetings occur biweekly from 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. via or in Phillips (Building 3), room 3-125.
Conversation Timeline
Week Date Introduction and Chapter 1: PREDICTING January 29, 2025 Chapter 2: RETRIEVING February 12, 2025 Chapter 3: INTERLEAVING February 26, 2025 Part II: Understanding and Chapter 4: CONNECTING March 12, 2025 Chapter 5: PRACTICING March 25, 2025 Chapter 6: EXPLAINING April 9, 2025 Part III: INSPIRATION and Chapter 7: BELONGING April 23, 2025 Chapter 8: MOTIVATION May 7, 2025