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Helping with Assessing Students’ Writing
Facilitator: Teresa Flateby |
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Monday,
September 13, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Friday,
October 8, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Are
you drowning in grading? Help for the grading of writing is on the way!
If you assign writing or are teaching a Gordon Rule writing course and
need assistance with grading students’ papers, this workshop is
for you! CLAQWA (Cognitive Level and Quality of Writing Assessment)
provides instructors with a framework to assess student writing consistently
and to judge the cognitive levels students attain. In this workshop,
you will: 1) learn to use CLAQWA for multiple purposes in the classroom,
2) construct writing assignments to reflect appropriate cognitive levels,
and 3) assess students’ essays with CLAQWA. |
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Creating a Teaching Portfolio
Facilitator: Carol Harneit |
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Tuesday, September 14, Time: 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Wednesday, September 15, Time: 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Friday, November 12, Time: 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Thursday, November 18, Time: 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Creating a teaching portfolio is an especially effective way for faculty and graduate teaching assistants to become more reflective about their teaching and more skillful in documenting their teaching accomplishments for others. Teaching portfolios can be used to guide instructional improvement efforts and strengthen applications for employment, tenure, or teaching awards. Participants in this workshop will examine how portfolios are best planned, written, and revised. |
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Helping with Assessing Students’ Learning
Facilitator: Teresa Flateby |
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Monday,
September 20, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Tuesday,
September 21, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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In
this session, we will examine practical ways to create scoring guidelines,
that enhance student learning, improve grading efficiency, and document
learning outcomes in a single course, a course with multiple sections,
or an entire department. We will also learn to apply a system of analysis
to determine which parts of your objectives are being accomplished and
which parts need adjusting. |
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Large Classes: The Search for Effective Approaches
Facilitators: Marilyn Myerson and Allison Brimmer |
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Wednesday,
September 22, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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You
look out at the crowd, the sea of faces eagerly waiting for your words
and wonder how to reach them, really connect with them. Just keeping them
in their seats becomes a puzzle. In this session you will have the opportunity
to talk with large class instructors who have met the challenges of teaching
large classes. Actively engaging students in the learning process is especially
important in large classes. This session will identify several low-risk,
high impact instructional strategies for increasing in-class participation
to help make large classes as exciting and effective as smaller classes. |
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What is Inquiry-based Learning?
Facilitator: Drew Smith |
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Thursday,
September 23, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Friday,
October 1, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Picture
students learning through involvement that leads to understanding, students
asking higher level questions that lead to resolutions, and students processing
information into useful knowledge. This session will explore the essentials
of inquiry-based learning and how it differs from traditional methods
of instruction. Inquiry-based learning is an approach to teaching and
learning that reflects USF’s priorities for enhancing the research
experience of undergraduate students. |
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Flashlight Online: Lighting the
Way to Student Assessment
Facilitator:
Neil Gomes |
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Monday, September 27, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Tuesday,
September 28, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Are you looking for ways to assess student learning in
your course or to conduct surveys for research? If so, in this session
you will learn the basics of using Flashlight Online, a survey and assessment
tool developed exclusively for USF and other member institutions of the
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group. Flashlight Online is a dynamic,
easy-to use tool that offers a large database of survey templates, the
ability to collaborate on the development of a survey, as well as a variety
of options for designing customized surveys.
Respondents can easily access and submit these surveys using any Web browser.
By the end of this workshop, you will have created a short survey of your
own in Flashlight Online. |
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Making the Case Against Plagiarism
Facilitators: Michael Pinsky and Elaine Slocumb/ Carol
Harneit |
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Wednesday,
September 29, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Thursday,
September 30, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Your
students come to USF to learn the skills for their intended professions,
but one thing a student must learn to succeed in his or her field is professional
integrity. This session will explore the issues related to awareness,
prevention, detection, and consequences of plagiarism. Participants will
learn about techniques and tools for teaching professional integrity and
dealing with plagiarism in the classroom. Participants will also
learn about Turnitin.com, USF’s new plagiarism detection service.
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Designing Rubrics
Facilitator: Teryn Gilbertson |
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Monday, October 4, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Tuesday,
October 5, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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What is your protocol for determining if a presentation
or paper is excellent, good, or fair? A rubric is an assessment tool that
allows instructors to correlate either quantitative or qualitative scores
with ease. Rubrics introduce your students to your hierarchy of importance
when assessing a project, paper, or presentation. This session will generate
ideas about standards for grading as well as take you through the steps
of creating rubrics. |
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Teaching Students with Disabilities
Facilitators: Mary Sarver, David Owens, and Lorene
Burnam |
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Wednesday,
October 6, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Thursday,
October 7, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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This
workshop will address common faculty concerns about working successfully
with students with disabilities. Among the topics to be explored include:
(1) Why provide accommodations? (2) How does the university respond to
requests for accommodations? (3) To whom should faculty direct their questions
and concerns? and (4) Are good teaching practices for students with disabilities
different from good teaching practices for students without disabilities?
This workshop will also provide information about websites useful
for faculty. |
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Active Learning: Practical Applications to Promote Passion and Ration
Facilitator: Jennifer Baggerly |
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Tuesday,
October 12, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Wednesday,
October 13, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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I
love your class! Student responses such as this can be promoted
through active learning strategies that engage the hearts and minds of
the students. In this session, participants will learn numerous creative
active learning strategies that 1) promote passionate learning, 2) increase
rational thought, 3) encourage openness to others, and 4) facilitate involvement
of all students. |
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As I See It: Views of Students
Facilitators: Student Panel from USF’s PRIDE
Alliance |
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Monday,
October 18, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Have
you ever wondered what USF students are really thinking? This workshop
theme about student views
started in the Spring of 1999. This series continues with an opportunity
to meet a panel of student members of PRIDE Alliance who will share insights
about teaching and learning at USF from their perspectives. Here is an
opportunity to ask everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t,
wouldn’t, or didn’t. For this interactive session, come prepared
for a lively question and answer exchange with colleagues and students.
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Reflecting Your Course in a Learning-Centered Syllabus
Facilitators: Diane R. Williams and Shauna Schullo |
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Tuesday, October 19, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Wednesday, October 20, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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What’s behind a well-developed course? The well-developed syllabus! In this session, we will discuss the essential and optional components of a good syllabus, the relationship of the syllabus to the course goals and the instructor’s teaching philosophy, and the potential of the online syllabus. Illustrative syllabi from several disciplines will be considered. We will focus on designing both hardcopy and online syllabi that establish a framework for instructors to teach students how to learn subject matter. Assistance will be available for those interested in designing a syllabus for a Blackboard course site. |
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Fostering
a Positive Learning Environment for All Students
Facilitators:
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts and James Cavendish |
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Thursday, October 21, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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How can we as instructors foster a respectful, inclusive,
and professional learning environment for our students? This session will
focus on the responsibilities associated with being an instructor and
how instructors can enhance students’ motivation. In addition, diversity
will be discussed as an asset that facilitates positive educational outcomes,
including increased cultural awareness and critical thinking. |
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Latest Library Services for Teaching and Research
Facilitators: Ilene Frank and Jim Vastine |
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Monday, November 8, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Tuesday, November 9, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Let us introduce you to the newest library services and resources for your teaching and research. Learn how to request electronic copies of articles from journals found in the Tampa Library. Learn about RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management program that has been licensed for use by students and faculty at USF. Learn about new databases with everything from digitized classical music to psychology resources to women’s studies. |
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Alternative
Approaches to Discussion and Small Group Work Using the Internet
Facilitator:
Shauna Schullo |
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Monday,
November 15, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Tuesday,
November 16, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Location: SVC2080 |
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Technology
facilitated communication, either synchronous (live) or asynchronous (delayed),
can be used in many situations where those interacting need not be in
the same location. It is usually an environment with a leader (the instructor
or group facilitator) and participants (students or group members) in
multiple locations interacting with one another, in a similar manner to
a face-to-face class. This approach can be used to build community, enhance
discussion and create effective interactive groups quite efficiently.
This session will look at options for planned or spontaneous learning
activities using current Internet technologies to provide effective learning
opportunities for your courses. |
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