Special Event/ Conference
The John M. Burns Conference: A Chance at Birth: How social contexts impact teaching and learning in higher education (morning session) by Dr. Bryan Dewsbury
Power, privilege and class are not unique to classroom settings. In this workshop
called 'A Chance at Birth', we will unpack how historic and existing social structures
impact our own lens of the education process, the student experience and current unequal
outcomes. More importantly, we will discuss the ways in which we can use our current
position to mitigate the effects of these inequitable structures.
Date: 10/21/2019
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The John M. Burns Conference: A Chance at Birth: How social contexts impact teaching and learning in higher education (afternoon session) by Dr. Bryan Dewsbury
Despite valiant efforts to address inequitable outcomes, disparities still exist between
ethnic groups graduating with STEM degrees. In this workshop we will unpack the social
contributors to this disparity, and confront our own potential and obligation to reconstruct
the value system around STEM pedagogical praxis.
Date: 10/21/2019
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The Science of Learning and Why It Matters By Dr.Josh Eyler
There is a lot of discussion in higher education these days about the science of learning
but not a lot of consensus on what kind of science we are talking about or how it
can benefit our students. In this talk, I will explore intersections between anthropology,
psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and educational research that can yield important
insights into student learning. Along the way, we will discuss how this approach to
thinking about our teaching can inoculate us from educational fads, can play a role
in institutional student success initiatives, and can provide a framework for us to
design and test new pedagogies.
Date: 2/21/2019
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Why Failure is Essential for Student Learning Dr.Josh Eyler
Everybody knows that scientists walk into their labs and immediately make world-changing
discoveries, right? And isn't it true that writers, too, create their magnum opus
on the first attempt? Of course not. As academics, we long ago realized that research,
discovery, and learning are lengthy processes marked by stops, starts, and a fair
degree of failure before we come close to success, however that might be defined by
our respective fields and universities. Higher education, on the other hand, does
not often allow for this process of learning to play out. Students are frequently
asked to achieve, on their first attempts, stellar results on high-stakes, high-pressure
assessments. New research is beginning to show us that this strategy does not work
well, though, because it is not how human beings naturally learn. We need to make
mistakes before we can get the right answers. In this workshop, I'll be reviewing
some of the most important findings in this new area of inquiry, and then we will
work together to identify "opportunities for failure" in our courses so that we can
help our students maximize their learning.
Date: 2/21/2019
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John M. Burns Conference: The Undergraduate Experience: What Matters Most for Student Success? (Session 1) by Dr. Peter Felten
In their book The Undergraduate Experience (Jossey-Bass, 2016), Peter Felton and his
co-authors identified six core themes that matter most for student success: Learning,
relationships, expectations, alignment, improvement, and leadership. This interactive
session will explore the research that demonstrates why these themes are important
not only for students but also for instructors and for institutional culture. During
the session, we will critically consider what each of us can do, no matter what our
context and role, to cultivate a generative culture of learning and teaching.
Date: 10/1/2018
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John M. Burns Conference: The Undergraduate Experience: What Matters Most for Student Success? (Session 2) by Dr. Peter Felten
Dr. Felton will continue his discussion of the six core themes for student success
found in The Undergraduate Experience (Jossey-Bass, 2016) which include learning,
relationships, expectations, alignment, improvement, and leadership. Dr. Felton will
also help to consider our assets and collaborations at Texas Tech University, and
how we confront the challenges facing higher education as we consider the relationship
of the themes identified in his work to our institutional culture.
Date: 10/1/2018
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"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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John M. Burns Conference Choosing and Using High-Impact Instructional Strategies
Most of us teaching in colleges and universities today have heard about many different
instructional approaches and activities we might use in our courses, but the sheer
number of choices can be daunting. Given limited time with students, choosing strategies
that best promote their learning is an imperative. The research on teaching and learning
in higher education, however, is better than ever, and it provides us with information
about strategies documented to improve student learning. These studies have much to
offer our understanding. Evidence-based teaching has finally arrived, and indeed it
is long overdue.After participating in this interactive session, you will be able
to
• Identify multiple evidence-based strategies in seven key areas of instruction
• Evaluate the applicability of specific methods to your own unique educational contexts
• Adopt or adapt an evidence-based instructional practice for use in your own courses
Date: 10/6/2017
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John M. Burns Conference Interactive Lecturing: Combining "Time for Telling" and Active Learning Methods
Educators today would be hard pressed to identify a teaching technique more heartily
maligned than the lecture. Critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned,
overused, and even unfair. Such criticisms, however, typically take aim at one type
of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. Lectures, however, come
in many different shapes and sizes and can occupy an important place in the college
classroom. Lectures are particularly effective when they are paired with active learning
methods that provide students with ways to mentally prepare for and pay attention
to lectures as well as with ways to apply and reflect upon what they have learned.
After participating in this session, you will be able to:
• Apply principles of effective presentations to classroom lectures
• Choose active learning strategies to support student learning during lectures
• Create a plan for integrating lectures along with active learning strategies in
a seamless process
Date: 10/6/2017
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Big 12 Teaching & Learning Conference Keynote by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe: Science Literacy in a Fact-Free World
Thirty years ago, Isaac Asimov deplored the "false notion that democracy means that
my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." His words foreshadowed the state
of public dialogue today—but for some fields, like climate science, fake news, false
experts, and conspiracy theories are nothing new. What can we learn from more than
a decade of communication and literacy research in these areas? Join Katharine as
she explores effective strategies for teaching, learning, and discussing science in
an increasingly polarized world.
Date: 6/9/2017
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Big 12 Teaching & Learning Conference Keynote by Dr. Elizabeth F. Barkley: Terms of Engagement - Surviving and Thriving in Today's Challenging Academic Context
Teaching today is tough, but many of the problems we face would be solved if students
were truly engaged in learning. In this keynote, I describe a 5-element model for
understanding student engagement and use this as the framework for identifying strategies
for increasing it. I then flip the lens and use the same framework to look at how
we can keep ourselves engaged in teaching despite the panoply of often competing pressures
we face.
Date: 6/8/2017
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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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12th AT&L Conference "Putting Critical Thinking into Action" by Dr. Stephen Brookfield
In this session, Stephen Brookfield will take participants through a number of exercises
that have been found to develop critical thinking across the disciplines. These focus
on helping students clarify and communicate their assumptions, new perspectives, and
build connections between disparate ideas and knowledge.
Date: 3/31/2016 9:00 AM
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12th AT&L Conference Keynote "Teaching for Critical Thinking" by Dr. Stephen Brookfield
Critical thinking involves students (and teachers) being able to identify and research
the assumptions that frame how they think and act. Only if assumptions are accurate
and valid can we trust them as guides for thought and action. In scholarly terms,
thinking critically requires students to make judgments about the legitimacy of knowledge
in their different disciplines. Research on how students learn to think critically
shows that four factors are crucial to the process – clarifying what the process involves,
sequencing it appropriately, assessing it throughout the curriculum and modeling it
explicitly. In this session Stephen Brookfield will think critically about critical
thinking and review a number of classroom activities that can model the process for
students.
Date: 3/4/2016 11:30 AM
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John M. Burns Conference Afternoon Session: How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles
for Smart Teaching
Date: 9/23/2016
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John M. Burns Conference Morning Session: How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles
for Smart Teaching
A tenet of learner-centered teaching is that learning is the litmus test of any pedagogy.
Therefore, one of the most important investments professors can make is to understand
the learning process so that their teaching is intentionally learning-oriented. In
this workshop we will synthesize 50 years of research on learning from the cognitive,
metacognitive, motivational, developmental, and inclusiveness perspectives into seven
integrated principles. This interactive workshop will illustrate the seven principles
with demonstrations, discussions, and other activities that highlight how each of
the principles might enhance participants' teaching.
Date: 9/23/2016
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John M. Burns Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: "Using Writing, Not Teaching Writing" with Dr. Peter Elbow
Teachers in all disciplines can give an enormous boost to students' skill in writing
if they find as many occasions as possible to use writing in ways that focus on learning
the subject matter of the course. The goal is for students not to feel they are being
taught writing--and for teachers not to feel as though they are teaching writing.
In Dr. Elbow's talk and workshop, he will demonstrate and illustrate many ways in
which we can get students to use writing entirely in the interests of learning the
subject matter of the course.
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Morning Session
Afternoon Session
12th Annual John M. Burns Conference Morning Session "Connecting the Dots: Meaningful Assessment of Student Learning Across the Curriculum" with Dr. Ashley Finley.
Ashley Finley is the Senior Director of Assessment and Research at AAC&U and national
evaluator for the Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) Project. Finley's national work,
at both the campus and national levels, focuses on developing best practices regarding
program implementation, instrumentation, and mixed methods assessment. Her work combines
assisting campuses with the implementation of assessment protocols and the promotion
of best practices across the institution, including general education, academic departments,
and the co-curriculum. Finley's approach to assessment emphasizes the need to intersect
both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in order to tell a cohesive story
about student learning at the institutional level. Fundamental to this approach is
the use of rubrics and e-portfolios as integral components of developing meaningful
assessment practices across a range of learning outcomes, including development of
students' civic capacities and learning. Before joining AAC&U, she was an assistant
professor of sociology at Dickinson College, where she taught courses in quantitative
methods, social inequality, and gender in Latin America. Additionally, she has taught
courses that have incorporated engaged learning practices, such as learning communities
and service-learning. Finley received a B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and an M.A. and Ph.D, both in sociology, from the University of Iowa.
Learning in the twenty-first century has been contextualized by a number of factors
that have profoundly shaped (and reshaped) higher education. Just as everyday life
has been dramatically altered through increasing levels of interconnectivity and application,
so too has college level learning. To meet the demands of an expanding global world,
colleges and universities increasingly need to consider the role of assessment to
tell a story about student learning across the curriculum. In part, this means connecting
authentic evidence of students' learning and skill development (e.g. teamwork, critical
thinking, and social responsibility) to the engaging practices that help to deepen
their understanding. It also means gathering the right kind of evidence that is meaningful
to faculty (and to students) and that can be thoughtfully used to facilitate evidence-based
improvement of efforts. This interactive discussion will focus on how direct assessment
of student learning using rubrics can promote transparency across institutional learning
outcomes and provide actionable evidence of what students can actually do. We will
also consider the promise of assessment not only as means to identify where students
are at any one point in time with regard to learning, but also as a tool to guide
the improvement of students' learning over time.
Date: 10/2013
12th Annual John M. Burns Conference Afternoon Session "Common Ground: Using Rubrics to Create Dialogue, Collaboration and Meaningful Assessment" with Dr. Ashley Finley.
Campuses nationally are increasingly integrating direct assessment of student learning
into their assessment portfolios. A significant number of these campuses have worked
with the AAC&U VALUE rubrics to help guide these efforts. Essential to successful
adoption and implementation of the rubrics, however, is engaging faculty in critical
discussions around the interpretation of the rubric, application of performance levels,
and use of results. In this session, participants will engage in a condensed calibration
exercise that is used to train faculty on applying rubrics to samples of student work.
The VALUE rubric for "critical thinking" will be used to score a sample of student
work to illustrate the utility of engaging faculty in dialogue around articulation
of learning outcomes and interdisciplinary approaches to assessing student learning.
Campus examples of calibration, implementation of the rubrics, and the use of evidence
from direct assessment to improve student learning will also be shared.
Date: 10/2013
7th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference, Pre-Conference sessions
"Writing to Think: Strategies that Foster Student Learning"
This session is presented by Dr. Anisa Zvonkovic, Rachel Engler, M.A., & Katherine
Gerst, M.S., Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University.
The goal of this workshop is to teach professionals and educators how "Writing to
Think" activities can be implemented in the classroom to promote critical thinking
skills and enhance learning and understanding. "Writing to Think" techniques are often
informal writing tasks designed to encourage student thinking and allow students to
develop, clarify, and experiment with ideas through writing activities. These techniques
help instructors tap into a variety of student thinking processes and can be used
before, during or after class to assess student learning. Instructors have the ability
to monitor the student learning process and assess the thinking skills of students.
Concretely, instructor can check for student understanding, assessing for example
when students might be missing key content or when they need more challenging material.
The workshop will also discuss benefits from both student and instructor perspectives,
a variety of techniques and activities that can be used across many disciplines, and
suggestions for evaluating student writing and giving students feedback (while avoiding
a paperwork nightmare).
Date: 3/2011
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9th Annual Advancing Teaching and Learning Conference: "66.4 ways to engage students (and 19.3 ways not to)" by Mark Phillips.
Higher education is one of the few things in life that people pay good money for and
then work like crazy to avoid receiving." Every teacher has asked the question, "Why
don't my students care more?" Some conclude it's the students' problem; others work
even harder, convinced they can force their students to engage. The reality is probably
somewhere between the two. This session will provide tools to help you help your students
engage. It will also include a generous dose of absolution for those days you just
flat-out failed, as well as just a touch of humor.
Date: 2/2013
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9th Annual Advancing Teaching and Learning Conference: Keynote Session "In Search of Better Courses: Building Harder Courses that Actually Engage Your Students" by Dr. Peter Felten.
Dr. Peter Felten is assistant provost, director of the Center for the Advancement
of Teaching and Learning, and professor of history at Elon University. He has published
widely on engaged learning and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and is co-author
of forthcoming books on faculty peer mentoring and on student-faculty partnerships
in teaching and learning. Peter recently served as president of the POD Network, an
international association for teaching and learning centers in higher education. His
teaching at Elon aims to help students think critically and write clearly about the
connections between the lives of individual people and larger themes in history.
Date: 2/2013
Video
9th Annual Advancing Teaching and Learning Conference: "HeadsUp: Mobile Software to Facilitate Small-Group Discussions" by James Langford.
Small-group discussions are often hampered by time-consuming grouping strategies,
poor group dynamics and vague, ineffective topics and prompts, and unclear group roles.
HeadsUp was developed through consultation with faculty and students to minimize these
barriers to classroom discussions. Bring your iOS or Android smart phone or tablet
to this hands-on session to learn how to use HeadsUp in your class.
Date: 2/2013
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8th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference Keynote Presentation: "Evidence Based Teaching: Strategies for Motivating and Helping Students Learn" with Dr. Marilla Svinicki.
Presenter: Dr. Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas at Austin
It is a fairly common situation that the practices we use in teaching come not from
the literature on learning and motivation but on what we experienced as students.
There has been a lot of progress on finding good practices through research in educational
psychology for the last 25 years and it seems reasonable to put that research to use.
The focus on this session will be on a small number of evidence-based practices for
supporting student learning and motivation that can be incorporated into classes without
major overhauls of the curriculum. In addition to learning about the research and
the theories on which it is based, you should come away from the session with at least
four good ideas, 2 to help students learn and 2 to make them want to learn as well.
Date: 2/2012
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John M. Burns SoTL Conference: Intelligence and Creativity: Afternoon Session with Dr. Rex Jung
Date: 9/2011
John M. Burns SoTL Conference: Intelligence and Creativity: Morning Session with Dr. Rex Jung
Named in honor of Professor John M. Burns for his support of the teaching mission
at Texas Tech University, the conference features plenary speaker Rex Jung, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico
and a practicing clinical neuropsychologist. Dr. Jung's research focuses on structural
correlates of higher cognitive functioning in health and diseases including traumatic
brain injury, schizophrenia, and systemic lupus erythematosus. His groundbreaking
research led to the first model describing a network of brain regions critically linked
together in service of intellectual pursuits – the Parieto-Frontal Intelligence Theory
(or "P-FIT"). Over the last several years, he has turned his attention to how creativity
is manifested in the brain – a cognitive capacity perhaps critically dependent upon,
yet distinct from intelligence. The author of over 40 scientific publications, his
research has been widely featured in popular media outlets including CNN, BBC, Psychology
Today, New Scientist, The New York Times, and Newsweek.
Date: 9/2011
7th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference, Pre-Conference sessions:
"Use PowerPoint for Good & Not for Evil"
This session is presented by Dr. Jose Vasquez, Assistant Director, Teaching and Learning
Center, University of Texas at San Antonio
We have all experienced it before: a slide full of text that is not only difficult
to read but is also boring to look at. Documents and slides are not the same thing.
The best slides allow the instructor to be the center of attention, and the best presentations
encourage students to focus on the story, not to transcribe the PowerPoint text. Spreading
quickly throughout the business community, this new visual approach relies on principles
such as simplicity, naturalness, and restraint. Using humor and interactivity we will
answer the following questions: How do you create great PowerPoint presentations?
What are the new "laws" of visual design? How can you use multi-media for effective
teaching? Where do you find these media, and how to embed them into PowerPoint? How
can you use design intentionally to create effective visuals? How do you create effective
handouts? And much more.
Date: 3/2011
Video
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
Video
7th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference with Dr. José Bowen
"Teaching Naked 2: Teaching Change Inside the Classroom"
Teaching Naked 2: Teaching Change Inside the Classroom:
The root of learning is change. Technology offers a new way to present content, but
that rarely sparks the sort of critical thinking or change of mental models we seek.
If technology can give us more classroom time, how can we design experiences that
will maximize change in our students?
Homework
Read the short article first: "Teaching Naked: Why Removing Technology from Your Classroom
Will Improve Student Learning" National Forum for Teaching and Learning, Vol 16, No.
1, December, 2006), p. 1-5.
Date: 3/2011
Afternoon Session
7th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference with Dr. José Bowen
"Teaching Naked 1: Embracing Technology Outside of the Classroom"
José Antonio Bowen is Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, Algur H. Meadows Chair
and Professor of Music, at Southern Methodist University. Bowen began his teaching
career at Stanford University in 1982, first as the Director of Jazz Ensembles, and
then for the Humanities Special Programs and the Afro-American Studies Program. In
1994, he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of
Recorded Music (C.H.A.R.M.) at the University of Southampton, England. He returned
to America in 1999 as the first holder of the endowed Caestecker Chair of Music at
Georgetown University where he created and directed the Department of Performing Arts.
In 2004, Miami University named him Dean of Fine Arts and Professor of Music.
He has written over 100 scholarly articles for many journals including the Journal
of Musicology, The Journal of Musicological Research, Performance Practice Review,
19th-century Music, Notes, Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of the Royal Musical
Associations, Studi Musicali, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and
in books from Oxford and Princeton university presses. He is the editor of the Cambridge
Companion to Conducting (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and received a National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship.
Abstract
The most important benefits to using technology occur outside of the classroom. Use
technology to free yourself from the need to "cover" the content in the classroom,
and instead use class time for direct student to faculty interaction and discussion.
Teaching Naked 1: Embracing Technology Outside of the Classroom
Technology and accountability are changing higher education, but the greatest value
of a residential university will remain its face-to-face (naked) interaction between
faculty and students. The new tools that technology offers can increase student preparation
and engagement and create more time in class for interaction and make the residential
experience worth the extra money it will always cost to deliver.
Date:- 3/2011
Morning Session
9th Annual John M. Burns Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning featuring
Dr. Kristen Renn
Morning Session – Understanding Intersecting Processes: Complex Ecologies of Diversity, Identity, Teaching,
and Learning.
Although it is tempting to believe that issues of diversity and multiculturalism in
education have been fully addressed, abundant evidence suggests that this is not the
case. Students and faculty bring complex, evolving identities to the processes of
teaching and learning, and scholars cannot fully understand teaching and learning
without considering these identities. Using examples from her research with mixed
race students and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, Dr. Renn will
discuss the ecology of teaching and learning in an era when identities based on categories
such as race, gender, and sexual orientation are evolving into new forms.
Date:- 10/2010
6th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference with Dr.Eric Mazur
Harvard Professor – Author of Peer Instruction
Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University.
An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research
program in optical physics and supervises one of the largest research groups in the
Physics Department at Harvard University.
In addition to his work in optical physics, Dr. Mazur is interested in education,
science policy, outreach, and the public perception of science. He believes that better
science education for all - not just science majors - is vital for continued scientific
progress. To this end, Dr. Mazur devotes part of his research group's effort to education
research and finding verifiable ways to improve science education. In 1990 he began
developing Peer Instruction a method for teaching large lecture classes interactively.
Dr. Mazur's teaching method has developed a large following, both nationally and internationally,
and has been adopted across many science disciplines. Mazur is Chairman of the Instructional
Strategy Advisory Group for Turning Technologies, a company developing interactive
response systems for the education market.
Dr. Mazur is author or co-author of 219 scientific publications and 12 patents. He
has also written on education and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User's Manual
(Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively.
In 2006 he helped produce the award-winning DVD Interactive Teaching.
Morning session - "Turning Lectures into Learning" - Education is more than just transfer
of information, yet transferring information is what is mostly done in the standard
lecture -- instructors present material (even though this material might be readily
available online or in printed form) and students take down as many notes as they
can. There is little opportunity for the students to synthesize all the information
delivered to them. Yet synthesis is perhaps the most important -- and most elusive
-- aspect of education. I will show how shifting the focus in lectures from delivering
information to synthesizing information greatly improves the learning that takes place
in the classroom. Classroom response systems make it easy to implement my approach
-- called Peer Instruction -- which involves students actively engaged in the process
of teaching and learning.
Afternoon session - "Peer Instruction Workshop" - The basic goals of Peer Instruction
are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing
students' attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed
in many studies using standardized, diagnostic tests and shown to be considerably
more effective than the conventional lecture approach to teaching. Peer Instruction
is now used in a wide range of science, math, and other courses at the college and
secondary level. In this workshop, participants will learn about Peer Instruction,
serve as the "class" in which Peer Instruction is demonstrated along with student
response using ResponseCards, discuss several models for implementing the technique
in the classroom, and learn about available teaching resources.
Date:- 2/2010
Morning Session
5th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference: "The Pushme-Pullme Pressure of Combining Academic Careers with Family Responsibilities" by Dr. Diane Halpern.
In Dr. Halpern's second session, she will address the question, "What is the effect
of children and other family care responsibilities on academic careers?" Dr. Halpern
writes that "Data from a variety of sources show that the answers depend on whether
babies are born 'early' or 'late' in one's career (relative to tenure decisions),
and whether the faculty member is female or male." Drawing on her new book, Women
at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family, she will examine
compatibility of beliefs about parenting and academic roles and present data from
interviews with academics from "a diverse array of professions and across cultures
[which] show how they are able to be dually-successful." Recommendations will be shared
for individual faculty members, institutions, and public policies because no one should
have to choose between a family and an academic career.
Date: 3/2009
Video
5th Annual Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference: "Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking: How to Make Critical Thinking a Learning
Outcome" by Dr. Diane Halpern.
Certainly critical thinking is one of the buzzwords in academia and a life-long learning
goal in many of our classes. Please join us as Dr. Diane Halpern, well known for her
research on critical thinking, leads the keynote session for the Advancing Teaching
and Learning Conference. According to Dr. Halpern, "the twin abilities of knowing
how to learn and knowing how to think clearly are the most important intellectual
skills for the educated workforce of the future. The real question is can we teach
critical thinking so that the skills generalize across domains and last long into
the future. Empirical research has shown that with appropriate instruction, college
students and other adults can become better thinkers." In this interactive session,
Dr. Halpern will present a short sampler of applications from cognitive psychology
designed to improve thinking skills.
Date: 3/2009
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