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Spring 2008 Faculty, Teaching Academic Staff and Teaching Assistant Programs
The Center for Instructional and Professional Development invites you to select from a variety of spring instructional and professional development programs aimed at enhancing student learning in your courses. Each program is carefully designed around core features that have been identified as effective strategies for impacting conceptual understanding and teaching practices in higher education. Materials will be available on e-reserve or distributed at each session.
Discovering Living Learning Communities
Friday, May 2, 2008
10:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sandburg Flicks
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The Program:
Academic Affairs, the Center for Instructional and Professional Development, University Housing (Residence Life) and the First Year Center invite you to discover the possibilities of Learning Communities and find out about UWM's Living Learning Community Initiative on Friday, May 2, 2008, at the Sandburg Flicks.
Experienced faculty and Learning Community directors from UW-Madison and UW-Whitewater will discuss their successes and challenges. UWM's five pilot Living Learning Communities – Creating Your Future; Health Sciences; Information Technology; Visual Arts; Cultures and Communities – will present their plans for RiverView communities in Fall 2008. These groups will begin their own professional development work in the afternoon.
The program is designed to advance the work of these five communities and to encourage other groups who may be thinking about similar initiatives for the future. There will be ample opportunities for all groups to ask questions and find out about resources, as well as to start or continue development of a learning community. |
The Schedule:
10:30 Welcome & Introductions
10:45 Learning Community Models at UW campuses
Presented by Aaron Brower, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Diana Rogers-Atkinson, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Noon Lunch
12:30 Short Presentations by 2008-09 Living Learning Communities
12:45 General planning session and goal-setting (current and future LLC's)
1:45 Work with individual groups
3:00 Tour of RiverView (optional)
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As Part of the ongoing discussions about General Education and Assessment
Who Says You Can't Change History?
Presented by the Center for Instructional and Professional Development and the Department of History
Friday, April 25th
12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m.
Zelazo 171
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The Program:
History, like other departments in the College of Letters and Science, has had plenty to talk about and work on in recent years: Freshman seminars, research courses, assessment, General Education criteria, Teachers for a New Era. Are these just “one damn thing after another” that departments are forced to deal with against their will or can they actually serve as opportunities to discuss important department issues. Can these programs and issues be thought of, and worked on, as part of a larger scheme?
History faculty started out to review General Education courses and ended up formulating guidelines for all History courses and a successful Undergraduate Research Experience proposal.
Professor Helena Pycior and Assistant Professor Nan Kim-Paik will join facilitator Professor Jeffrey Merrick. Helena will discuss 229 (Race, Science, and Medicine in US), representing the large lecture courses, and Nan will discuss 286 (Korean War), representing regular (capacity = 45) lecture courses. Both have made many changes in their syllabuses and look forward to comparing notes about curricular reform with colleagues in other departments.
Dr. Merrick's PowerPoint Presentation
Microsoft Word Version of Dr. Merrick's Presentation
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To Register for the program, click on the title of the workshop.
| Graduate Teaching Assistant Workshops |
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Designing a Curriculum Vita
As graduate students, you have spent the past several years reading, researching, writing and presenting. Now you get to showcase all that work for prospective employers. This workshop will walk you through the process of creating a Curriculum Vita (CV) that will showcase your hard work and skills. If you already have a CV started, bring it along and have it critiqued. |
Thursday, February 28, 2:30-4:00
Union 181 |
Creating a Teaching Portfolio
For those graduate teaching assistants hoping to get academic jobs at teaching focused institutions, a Teaching Portfolio is an important tool to have prepared. This workshop will focus on how to construct a philosophical statement on teaching and obtain guidelines for developing a teaching portfolio that represents a learner-focused instructor. |
Wednesday, April 2, 2:30-3:30
Union 250 |
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