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Thursday, January 15, 2009 | ||||
| 7:45 | Registration and Complimentary Beverages and Pastries
Engineering Hall Lobby | Edit | ||
| 8:15 | Welcome and Overview
1800 Engineering Hall Steve Cramer, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering Moderators:Sandra Courter, Director, Engineering Learning Center | Edit | ||
| 8:20 | How People Learn: An Introduction
1800 Engineering Hall This overview of recent research in the learning sciences will address issues of how people learn from both cognitive and socio-cultural perspectives. It will also briefly describe how this research impacts the design of learning environments. So think of the kind of classroom environment you want to set for your students and how you will communicate and model it - starting your first class day. Panelists:Erica Halverson, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology | Edit | ||
| 9:00 | Stretch Break
1800 Engineering Hall New engineering teaching assistants will move to their workshops in the Engineering Centers Building. All others may remain in 1800 Engineering Hall. | Edit | ||
| 9:15 | Delta Opportunities to Integrate Research, Teaching, and Learning plus Graduate Student Experiences
1800 Engineering Hall Share experiences from graduate students who have been involved with the program and see for yourself the support that is available on campus for teaching and learning. Whether you are interested in teaching strategies, assessment methods, diversity issues, or more rigorous research related to how your students are learning, you can find other graduate students with similar interests and programs to support your interests. Delta was an NSF-sponsored project but now is a regular campus program. http://www.delta.wisc.edu/ Coordinators:Chris Pfund, Delta Associate Director Don Gillian-Daniel, Delta Associate Director Bob Mathieu, Astronomy, Delta Co-Faculty Advisor Kristin Masters, Biomedical Engineering, Delta Co-Faculty Director (invited) Facilitators: Graduate Students with Delta Experience - to be named | Edit | ||
| 10:15 Choose One |
A1. How People Learn: From Theory to Practice in Your Course A2. Creating and Implementing an Inclusive Syllabus - Diversity Issues in Teaching and Learning A3. Less Is More A4. The New eCOW2 with Moodle - The Rollout of an Improved Course Management System A5. An Assessment Blueprint to Guide You and Your Students | |||
| 11:45 | OVERALL EVALUATIONS | Edit | ||
| 12:00 | ADJOURN | Edit | ||
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | ||||
| 1:00 | DEPARTMENT ORIENTATIONS
(Check with your department) | Edit | ||
| A1 Back to session A |
A1. How People Learn: From Theory to Practice in Your Course
Engineering Hall This workshop is no longer a choice during TIP on Thursday, August 28. Instead we will continue the conversation about how people learn in a web-conference within the first two weeks of the semester. You will receive an email with details. Please choose one of the other four workshops. | Edit | ||
| A2 Back to session A |
A2. Creating and Implementing an Inclusive Syllabus - Diversity Issues in Teaching and Learning
2317 Engineering Hall Learning styles, gender, race, culture, geography, and socio-economic characteristics are among the diversity issues that influence how students learn. This interactive workshop will help you draw on the diversity of students in your class to benefit the learning of all and add adiversity learning goal to your course syllabus. You will discuss how both content and process are important to your course and discover case studies, research, and resources to develop an inclusive syllabus. Coordinators:Don Gillian-Daniel, Associate Director, Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning Chris Pfund, Associate Director, Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning and Co-director of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching | Edit | ||
| A3 Back to session A |
A3. Less Is More
2534 Engineering Hall While TAs have little control over their course material, they know that they are required to "cover' all the assigned material. Often this results in an over-load of information or "mental dazzle" for the undergraduate learner. This workshop will show how a philosophy of "less is more" can help to design lesson plans that will focus on key concepts and student-active teaching strategies that promote learning and measurable outcomes. Moderators:George Johnson, Associate Faculty Associate, Engineering Professional Development | Edit | ||
| A4 Back to session A |
A4. The New eCOW2 with Moodle - The Rollout of an Improved Course Management System
2261 Engineering Hall The College of Engineering is pleased to introduce a new course management system based on Moodle, an open-source program. Compare it to Learn@UW. Whatever decision you make, your students will expect to find your syllabus and learning resources on the web. Simple planning steps and important design elements can make even your textbooks; quizzes; assignments; podcasts; and Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, or Flash documents more accessible to all students. Of course, web-based learning activities can help students learn, but designing them can be a challenge. Learn strategies to design courses with materials that meet accessibility guidelines, serve a wide range of student abilities, and accommodate a variety of web browsers and devices. eCOW2 Tutorials (see http://ecow.engr.wisc.edu/tutorials/) Facilitators:Paul Oliphant, Computer Aided Engineering Joyce Tikalsky, Webmaster, Engineering External Relations | Edit | ||
| A5 Back to session A |
A5. An Assessment Blueprint to Guide You and Your Students
2540 Engineering Hall How do you know that your students know what you want them to know? You and your supervisor should discuss this question and then review the learning experiences you are planning for your course. This workshop will focus on developing a formal assessment blueprint that TAs could discuss with their faculty supervisors; this would include both formal and informal assessments to see if students are understanding the material. You will discuss how your course syllabus or webpage should include the assessment blueprint as well. Facilitators:Moira LaFayette, Engineering Assessment Director Colleen Abraham-Atakpu, Graduate Student, Industrial & Systems Engineering and Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis | Edit | ||