Workshop Registration Information

To reserve a space in any upcoming workshop, please email Joselyn Schultz.

PLEASE NOTE: Before registering for a workshop, be certain that you are able to attend the entire session.

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Fall 2008 Schedule of Workshops:

Setting and Articulating Course Learning Goals

How do you know if your students are learning what you want them to learn?

Every instructor asks this question, but you can’t answer it until you define what knowledge, skills, and understandings you want your students to take away from your course.  What outcomes do you desire?  These outcomes — your learning goals — must be phrased in active terms that clearly tell students what is expected. A clear and complete set of learning goals also helps you develop authentic assessments by targeting those aspects of your students’ learning that you most value.

In this 1.5 hour workshop, we will discuss how to establish and frame a set of learning goals that represent the learning outcomes you most desire and explicitly communicate these to your students.

Participants interested in bringing teaching/learning goals with them to refine at the workshop are encouraged to do so.

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM (St. Mary’s 204)
Instructor: Janet Russell (CNDLS)
Register through email for the Setting and Articulating Course Learning Goals workshop

Effective Classroom Interaction

In this workshop, participants will consider strategies for enhancing classroom interactions. Such strategies include those that facilitate discussions (e.g., how to involve a quiet student, or how to respond to a student who dominates a discussion), and also ways to make lectures more engaging (e.g., how to push students to move beyond passive note taking, or how to discern what students are hearing in what the instructor is saying). We will also consider such technologies as online discussion forums and student response systems (clickers).

Thursday, November 13, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm (St. Mary’s 414)
Instructors: John Rakestraw (CNDLS) Janet Russell (CNDLS)
Register through email for the Effective Classroom workshop