"Get Students to Focus on Learning Instead of Grades: Metacognition is the Key" by Dr.Saundra Yancy McGuire

21st Century students come to college with widely varying academic skills, approaches to learning, and motivation levels. Faculty often lament that students are focused on achieving high grades, but are not willing to invest much time or effort in learning. This session will focus on the importance of helping students acquire simple, but effective learning strategies based on cognitive science principles. We will engage in interactive reflection activities that will allow attendees to experience strategies that significantly improve learning while transforming student attitudes about the meaning of learning.
Date: 3/2/2018
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13th Annual ATLC Conference Keynote Session by Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes

Transparent teaching/learning practices make learning processes explicit while offering opportunities to foster students' metacognition, confidence, and their sense of belonging in college in an effort to promote student success equitably. A 2016 publication identifies transparent assignment design as a replicable teaching intervention that significantly enhances students' success, with greater gains for historically underserved students [Winkelmes et al, Peer Review,Spring 2016]. We'll review the findings as well as educational research behind the concept of transparent teaching/learning in this session. Then we'll apply that research to the design of class activities and course assignments. Participants will leave with a draft assignment or activity for one of their courses, and a concise set of strategies for designing transparent assignments that promote students' learning.
Date: 3/3/2017 
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13th Annual ATLC  Conference Transparent Design at Texas Tech: A Panel Discussion

During her keynote presentation, Dr. Winkelmes explained the research behind and provided a framework for the Transparency Project; during this follow-up panel discussion, faculty members from Texas Tech who implemented transparent assignment design during the fall semester of 2016 will share their own insights about and experiences with the project. Panelists will discuss questions such as: What was the process like for them as faculty members? How did their students respond to the revised assignments? What realizations did they have during the project, and how has it changed their teaching? In this session, attendees will learn more about how transparent assignment design really works, and how it might work in their own classrooms.
Date: 3/3/2017 
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Cross Cultural Conversations in the Classroom and Leading Multicultural Conversations Online with Dr. Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo
Date:- 4/2014

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Understanding Online Identity: What Students and Faculty Need to Know about Personal Branding by Dr. David Perlmutter
On behalf of the Provost's Office and the Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center, you are invited to join Dr. David Perlmutter, newly named Dean of the Texas Tech College of Media and Communication, for a conversation about the impact of social media on personal and professional branding. Understanding your online brand isn't just for companies and businesses interested in selling a product or maintaining a reputation. In today's tech-savvy academic environment, students and faculty may benefit from thoughtful consideration of online social networking before making moves that might enhance or ruin future career opportunities. Whether you are interested in professionalizing your content with updates about your publications or you find yourself digging out of a social media nightmare from that unfortunate 80s hair glamour shot that pops up first on Google, Dr. Perlmutter will offer cautionary tales and words of wisdom to help you put your best virtual foot forward. Dr. David Perlmutter received his BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He served as a Board member of the American Association of Political Consultants and now sits on the National Law Enforcement Museum Advisory Committee for its Media Exhibit. He has been principal or co-principal investigator in multidisciplinary grants totaling about $400,000. He most recently served as Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Professor and Starch Faculty Fellow at the University of Iowa. He has written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as more than 200 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines such as Campaigns & Elections, Christian Science Monitor, Editor & Publisher, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC.com, Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today. He writes a regular column, "P&T Confidential," http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/columns/pt_confidential/," for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He officially joins Texas Tech on July 1, 2013. For questions, please contact Suzanne Tapp (Suzanne.tapp@ttu.edu or 806.742.0133) at the TLPDC.
Date:- 5/2013

7th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference, Pre-conference sessions:
"Questioning: A Essential Ingredient to Mastering Good Teaching"
This session is presented by Dr. Audra Morse, P.E., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University.
Questioning is a basic technique used to involve students in the lesson, assess student understanding of lesson or course material and bring inattentive students back into the fold. A poorly worded question may leave the student unsure of the intent of the question and afraid to answer for fear of looking foolish in front of their peers. Just as the structure of the question is critical to effectiveness, the response to a question is just as critical. A poorly answered question may leave the students unsure of the correct answer as well as unwilling to answer future questions. In the workshop, the elements of good questions will be presented, examples given, and the participants will have an opportunity to practice question development. Appropriate and less than appropriate responses to questions will be presented. The workshop will be example driven and will provide ample time for questions!
Date:- 3/2011
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