2009 Teaching Academy
June 2, 3 and 4, 2009
All faculty are cordially invited to attend the 2009 SCSU Teaching Academy on "Engaging All Learners," to be held June 2-4, 2009. Faculty teaching INQ, LINKS, and Honors, Writing Across the Curriculum courses, "clustered courses" and "Freshmen Only" courses are encouraged to attend.
On Tuesday, June 2, Dr. Leslie Ann Roldan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will present on "Journal Club as Strategy to Promote Scientific Thinking" and "Incorporating Writing into Traditionally Non-writing Intensive Courses." On Wednesday, June 3, Dr. Barbara Millis (University of Texas, San Antonio) returns to Southern by popular demand. Dr. Millis will lead interactive sessions on "Linking Classroom Assessment Techniques (CAT's) to the Research on How People Learn" and "Using Cooperative Writing Activities to Promote Critical Thinking." [Dr. Millis' bio]
Breakout workshops on FYE issues, writing across the curriculum, student learning, instructional technologies, and effective teaching strategies will be presented by our most talented teachers. In addition to enhancing your teaching, you will be rewarded with meals and refreshments, publishers' book fairs, interdisciplinary exchanges, and a $300 stipend for successful completion of the 3-day conference. On Thursday afternoon, the SCSU Foundation will be sponsoring a wine and cheese social in recognition of outstanding teaching.
Click here to see the SCSU Teaching Academy schedule.
Keynote and Workshop Details and Materials
Please find materials for some of the 2009 Teaching Academy keynotes and workshops below.
KEYNOTE
"Linking Classroom Assessment Techniques (CAT's)" -- Barbara Millis, University of Texas, San Antonio
- Cover Page
- Power Point
- Goal Ranking and Matching Exercise
- Discipline-Specific Applications
- CAT Examples (Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross)
- CAT Explanation (National Teaching and Learning Foundation)
- An Introduction to CAT (Diane M. Emerson, Kathryn M. Plank, and R. Neill Johnson)
Workshops
"In-Class Collaborative Writing Assignments" -- Deborah Carroll, Psychology
"Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Toward Systematic Collaborative Peer Review in the Writing Classroom" -- Steven Corbett, English
"Universal Design for Learning" and "UDL in Higher Education Resources" -- Adam Goldberg, Elementary Education/TIP Presenter, and Deborah Newton, Special Education/TIP Presenter
"Using Graded and Non-Graded Assignments in the Classroom" -- Shirley Jackson, Sociology
"Reading is STILL Fundamental" -- Melissa McClain, English/TIP Presenter
"Focus on Substantive Feedback and Revision" -- Bob McEachern, English
"Using Cooperative Writing Activities to Promote Critical Thinking" -- Barbara Millis, University of Texas, San Antonio
- Cover Page
- Power Point
- Deep Learning (John Rhem, National Teaching and Learning Foundation FORUM)
- Discipline-Specific Applications
- Critical Incident Writing Exercise
- Two Critical Writing Incidents: One Positive, One Negative
- A Teacher's Dozen: Fourteen General Research-Based Principles for Improving Higher Education (Thomas A. Angelo)
- Generic Question Prompts (A. King)
- Enhancing Learning--and More!--through Cooperative Learning (IDEA Paper #38)
- A Teacher's Dozen Article (Thomas A. Angelo)
"Creating a Supportive Classroom Climate" -- Linda Sampson, Communication
"Using Rubrics to Support Writing Participation" -- Mike Shea, English/TIP Presenter
"Building a Successful INQ Course" and "Taking Study Skills Seriously" -- Cindy Stretch and Jennifer Guarino, English
"Learning Communities: Benefits and Challenges" --Jessica York, English and FYE
This conference was made possible in part through the generosity of the Davis Educational Foundation, Cengage Learning, Pearson Longman Publishers, McGraw-Hill Publishing, the SCSU Foundation, and the Office of Academic Affairs.
TIP is the Teaching Innovation Program, which is funded by the Davis Educational Foundation, established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis' retirement as chairman of Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.
