Workshops and Events
Spring 2020 Workshops
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Date |
Title |
Facilitator(s) |
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Tuesday, March 3 |
Cross Peer Mentorship |
Julie Walsh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Monday, February 3 |
How to Ungrade: Self-Assessment and Alternative Feedback Methods in the College Classroom
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Erich Matthes, Associate Professor of Philosophy |
Spring 2019 Workshops
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Date |
Title |
Facilitator(s) |
|---|---|---|
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Tuesday, April 16 |
Data Visualization in the Classroom
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Jeremy Wilmer, Associate Professor of Psychology |
Fall 2018 Workshops
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Date |
Title |
Facilitator(s) |
|---|---|---|
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Thursday, December 13 |
Demystifying Assessment
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Sarah Pociask, Teaching and Learning Assessment Specialist |
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Monday, October 1 |
Using Mid-Semester Evaluations To Reinforce Classroom Learning
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Tracy Gleason, Professor of Psychology |
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Wednesday, October 10 |
Unleash the Science of Learning: Powerful Evidence-Based Strategies thatTransform Teaching
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Pooja Agarwal, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Berklee College of Music |
Spring 2018 Workshops
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Date |
Title |
Facilitator(s) |
|---|---|---|
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Tuesday, May 8 |
Mellon Evidence-Based Teaching Project Showcase
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Ann Trenk, Professor of Mathematics Julie Walsh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Connie Bauman, PERA Professor Emerita Jeannine Johnson, Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program
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Friday, March 16 |
Mastery-Based Grading
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Stanley Chang, Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Mathematics Alex Diesl, Associate Professor of Mathematics Oscar Fernandez, Associate Professor of Mathematics |
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Thursday, February 15 |
Facilitating Effective Learning through Groupwork
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Sarah Spence Adams, Professor of Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Olin College Jason Woodard, Associate Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship at Olin College |
Fall 2017 Workshops
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Date |
Title |
Facilitator(s) |
|---|---|---|
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Friday, October 27 |
Using Concept Inventories to Assess Student Learning
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Adele Wolfson, Professor of Chemistry |
Spring 2017 Workshops
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Date |
Title |
Facilitator(s) |
|---|---|---|
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Tuesday, February 7 |
Research-Based Guiding Principles for Maximizing Learning for Women and Students of Color
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Oscar Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
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Wednesday, February 22 |
Gathering Information about Student Motivation to Inform Your Teaching
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Sara Fulmer, Teaching and Learning Assessment Specialist |
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Thursday, March 16 |
Active Learning: Why it works (with ideas for individual and group work)
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Sharon Gobes, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience |
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Thursday, April 13 |
Process over Product: Using In-class Group Work to Facilitate Deeper Understanding
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Alex Diesl, Associate Professor of Mathematics |
Interested in presenting a workshop? Have an idea for a future workshop topic or presenter? Email Oscar Fernandez
2017 Summer Teaching Institute on Active Learning Pedagogies, May 9-10
- Discuss the benefits, challenges, and risks of implementing active learning pedagogies
- Design an active learning teaching strategy and corresponding assessment to integrate into a 2017-18 course
- Explore the role of technologies in active learning pedagogies
- Build an interdisciplinary community that provides a sustainable structure for implementing active learning pedagogies
- Practice reflective teaching
2017 Pinanski Lecture by James M. Lang, April 11
Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Assumption College
"Small Teaching: Lessons from the Science of Learning"
Research from the learning sciences and from a variety of educational settings suggests that a small number of key principles can improve learning in almost any type of college or university course, from traditional lectures to flipped classrooms. This lecture will introduce some of those principles and offer practical suggestions for how they might foster positive change in higher education teaching and learning.
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