Teacher Development
Spring 2012
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The Teacher Development series begins on February 2nd!! For more details, please click on the Events tab on the left and view the Teacher Development webpage! To access lecture videos please visit this link: Click Here.
Session 1: How Teachers Teach: Explanations and Investigations
When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:30-4:00
Where: EWFM 379 (Media Center Classroom)
Topics: How do effective faculty explain difficult concepts? How do they help students learn which questions to ask and how to find good answers?
Who: Kristen Jellison (RCEAS - Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Session 2: How Students Learn: Effective Assessment
When: Thursday, Feb 16th 2:30-4
Where: Lewis Lab 316
Topics: How does one effectively assess student learning? What are the roles of quizzes, tests, essays and other forms of assessment in the learning process? How can effective assessment help improve teaching?
Who: Greg Reihman (Faculty Development/CAS-Philosophy).
Session 3: How Teachers Teach: Writing to Learn
Where: Lewis Lab 316
When: Thursday, Mar 1, 2:30-4
Topics: How can teachers use shorter, informal, easy-to-grade writing assignments to facilitate learning?
Who: Gregory Skutches (Writing Across the Curriculum/CAS-English)
Session 4: How Students Learn: The Role of Cognition in Instructional Design
When: Thursday, Mar 15, 2:30-4
Where: Lewis Lab 316
Topics: What are our best theories about how people receive and process information? How should teachers take these theories into account when teaching undergraduates?
Who: M.J. Bishop (COE-Teaching, Learning, Technology)
Session 5: How Teachers Teach: Developing a Syllabus
When: Thursday, Mar 29, 2:30-4
Where: Lewis Lab 316
Topics: What is the purpose of a syllabus? What should be included? How can an effective syllabus help both instructors and students?
Who: Greg Reihman (Faculty Development/CAS-Philosophy)
Session 6: Lehigh Lab Symposium on Teaching and Learning
When: Thursday, April 5th 12:00 pmto 5:30 pm.
Where: Linderman Library
Topics: The purpose of this annual event is to highlight innovations in teaching and learning at Lehigh and to help connect instructors to the many forms of instructional support available to them on campus.
Schedule of Symposium
12:00-2:00 Welcome by Provost Pat Farrell and Presentations by Lehigh Lab Faculty Fellows (Linderman 200): Lehigh Lab Leaders and Faculty Fellows will present their work from Fall semester 2011, including documentary filmmaking with students, use of social media in the classroom, explorations of Second Life through academic coursework, integration of writing into Engineering courses, and the use of iPads in a first-year CAS college seminar. ; Presenters Michael Kramp, Jeremy Littau, Ed Gallagher, Kristen Jellison, and Greg Reihman. Lunch will be provided.
2:10 - 3:00 pm Lightning Round (Linderman 200): 8-10 presenters will very briefly (3-5 minutes) present a teaching-related success, large or small, a new approach, or a new teaching technology they would like to share with colleagues. Presenters: TBD
3:10 - 4:00 pm Table Talk (Linderman Library's Bayer Galleria): Stroll about Bayer Galleria and chat with Faculty Fellows, Lightning Round presenters, and LTS staff about a range of innovative technologies and pedagogies being used in classes across Lehigh. Light refreshments will be provided.
4:15 - 5:45 Keynote Talk, "Doing Digital History: Thoughts on the Impact of Digital Technologies on Historical Research and Presentation" (STEPS 101) Stephen Brier, Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education; Founder & Coordinator, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy doctoral certificate program, CUNY Graduate Center
Keynote Description:Professor Brier will review his career as a social historian who has helped define and expand the uses of a variety of media formats and non-traditional research and presentational methods in history, touching on a number of multimedia and digital projects that he has helped conceive and develop over the past three decades, including the American Social History Project the Who Built America? multimedia U.S. history curriculum (http://ashp.cuny.edu/who-america/ ), the History Matters and September 11 Digital Archive websites (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ and http://911digitalarchive.org), and, most recently, the fully online Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (http://cuny.is/jitp )
