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How Learning Happens And What It Means For Effective Teaching, Molly Jameson
How Learning Happens And What It Means For Effective Teaching, Molly Jameson
Teaching, Learning & Assessment
This workshop will provide a brief overview of prominent learning theories and their relation to effective teaching. Activities and discussion will center on realistic ways to implement learning theory in your classrooms. Please bring course material you would like to better align with learning theory.
Practical Strategies For Creating Inclusive & Equitable Classrooms, Rashida Banerjee, Lyda Mccartin
Practical Strategies For Creating Inclusive & Equitable Classrooms, Rashida Banerjee, Lyda Mccartin
Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Creating a learning environment that supports all students can be challenging as there are numerous ways inclusion and exclusion manifest in the classroom; for example, student-student interactions, faculty-student interactions, course content, course policies, and assessment. While inclusive teaching gets a lot of attention on campus, these topics rarely get discussed in a manner that provides practical strategies for instructors to address course participants’ individual and cultural backgrounds and experiences. This panel brings together Dr. Raquel Wright-Mair, Dr. Rashida Banerjee, and Fleurette King, educators guided by the principles of inclusive teaching, to share their practice. Panelists will share how they create …
High Stakes: Creating Summative Assessments That Align To Student Learning Outcomes, Wendi Flynn, Aaron Haberman
High Stakes: Creating Summative Assessments That Align To Student Learning Outcomes, Wendi Flynn, Aaron Haberman
Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Do your exams, research papers, or other major assignments fully assess desired course-level student learning outcomes? Would you like to put your students in a better position to both develop key skills and demonstrate what they’ve learned through your course? Through this workshop, we will explore different summative assessment methods, and you will develop or refine a high stakes summative assessment that directly aligns with one or more of your course-level student learning outcomes. Please come with a course in mind, particular outcome(s) that you plan to assess, or a current summative assessment that you would like to revise.
Low Stakes, No Stakes: Formative Classroom Assessment Techniques, Wendi Flynn, Aaron Haberman
Low Stakes, No Stakes: Formative Classroom Assessment Techniques, Wendi Flynn, Aaron Haberman
Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Are you looking for more interactive ways to help students develop a particular skill? Would you like to create a low-risk environment for students that will help you (and them) gauge their understanding of key concepts? Through this workshop, you will develop low-stakes or no-stakes simple assessment techniques, assignments, or activities to use in your own class this semester. Please come with a course in mind, or a particular lesson or lecture where you would like to engage students in developing or refining a particular skill.