Archive of STEM Education Events at CU
School of Education Colloquim Series: Susan Jurow
Practical Elements of the Self: Learning from "The Courage to Lead"
Tuesday, Novemebr, 10th, 3pm EDUC 332
In this talk, Jurow reports on research she conducted during a year-long, transformative professional development program for public school leaders called the “Courage to Lead”. This program aims to help school leaders connect their soul with their professional role so that they can live and work with integrity. Jurow describes the model of selfhood that was cultivated through the social practices of the retreat and shares case materials detailing how 2 participants took up, modified, and/or did not engage with these ideas once they left the sanctity of the retreats and returned to work. Analysis of ethnographic data suggests that to transfer principles from the retreat to work, participants needed their own motivations to do so as well as institutional roles that lent themselves to acting on insights gained from the retreats. This research contributes to our growing appreciation for the implications of a social practice theory of learning, identity, and transfer in educational settings.
APS Four Coners Regional Meeting
October 23 & 24, Colorado School of Mines
This year Colorado School of Mines is hosting the Four Corners Regional APS meeting. Abstracts are due by September 25th. Visit the CSM Regional Meeting website for more information.
School of Education Fall Colloqium Series: Jennie Whitcomb & Kent Seidel
Teacher Quality: “I Know It When I See It”
Tuesday, October 13, 3-4pm, Education 334
Common sense suggests a good teacher matters. Personal experiences with inspirational and challenging teachers reinforce this notion. Research has also shown that some teachers have a more significant impact on student achievement than others. Teacher quality is seen as a key policy lever to narrow achievement gaps that exist along racial and economic lines. Ensuring the quality profile of the teacher workforce is crucial to extend the democratic mission of public schooling to the unprecedented number of students who are more diverse than at any point in U.S. history.
This talk examines current research and policy efforts nationally and in Colorado to enhance teacher quality. We will clarify terms widely used in policy discussions of teacher quality and note some limitations in the research and policy efforts to improve teacher quality. Additionally, we will discuss an ongoing research project in Denver Public Schools to develop an observation tool that focuses on those teaching practices that matter most in both engaging students and fostering their achievement.
STEMapalooza
October 16-17, 2009
Denver Tivoli, Baerresen Ballroom, Rm 320 on the Auraria Campus
School of Education Fall Colloqium Series: Margaret LeCompte
Higher education in Colorado is ground zero in the conservative battle to control universities
Tuesday, September 29, 3-4pm, Education 334
CU-Boulder especially is under siege by a right-wing coalition of conservative intellectuals, students, corporate and political activists, ideologically minded bloggers, and special interest groups. Their goal is to reduce alleged liberal “bias” among the faculty and the university into a “bastion of conservative thought,” in the words of one Colorado legislator. Faculty have found it difficult to fight this onslaught, and reluctant to seek common cause or interests with faculty who have been attacked. This presentation places the interaction between fiscal crises, conservative political and intellectual ideology, and traditional academic values in higher education policy within the framework of hegemonic attempts to restrict academic freedom, prescribe curricular initiatives and assessments, and reduce faculty power in shared governance of universities.
School of Education Fall Colloqium Series: Elizabeth Dutro
Witnessing Urban Studnts Lives and Literacies on Screen: Pedogogies of Testimony and Witness on HBO's The Wire
Tuesday, September 15, 3-4pm, Education 334
This presentation focuses on an analysis of a recent media portrayal of youth and teachers in an inner-city middle school: season 4 of the television series The Wire. The paper focuses on two issues embedded in this narrative and that are central to the presenter’s current research: first, the need to better understand the ways in which urban youth and their relationships to schooling are framed; second, the imperative to centrally consider the role of challenging life circumstances in youth’s relationships to school literacies and to their middle-class teachers.
Physical Chemistry Colloquium
Featuring Gabriella Weaver from Purdue University
Friday Sept. 4th, JILA Auditorium
Contact Robert.Parson@Colorado.edu for more information
Learning Assistant Orientation: Friday August 21st
UMC 382-386: Come meet the new LAs for the fall! All new and returning LAs are required to attend. Faculty with LAs must arrive at noon to meet their new LAs for the semester and to join them for lunch.
First Annual STEM Education Symposium
Come learn more about this exciting new initiative and how it can support your STEM education efforts. Featuring an address by the Provost, Deans from three schools, the introduction of i3's faculty and graduate fellows, and an invited poster session. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. All are welcome! Monday August 31st,
9am-12:30,
UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom
Check out the event flyer or Schedule or Poster Directory
May 19: NOON, PER Group Meeting: Robert Lambourne, Open University, piCETL and IOP, UK
Promoting excellence in physics teaching and learning
In 2005 the UK government launched its largest ever university teaching and learning programme. The CETL initiative established 74 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning widely distributed in terms of geography, subject focus and teaching methodology. Each CETL was funded for five years and was intended to build on established success, generating new teaching resources, promoting educational scholarship and raising the profile of teaching in a strongly research-dominated culture. In this talk I will describe some of the work that has been undertaken by the Physics Innovations CETL (piCETL), the only CETL specifically devoted to physics and astronomy. In particular, I will concentrate on developments in e-learning, including the use of tablet pcs and Reusable Learning Objects from the ELPSS project (E-Learning in Physical Science through Sport), Problem Based Learning in physics and laboratory-based skills teaching with Interactive Screen Experiments.
June 1, 12-1:30: SEI will host Jared Taylor, University of British Columbia
Jared Taylor from the University of British Columbia will be visiting on June 1st. We’re going to have an informal lunch talk from 12:00 – 1:30 in the interactive classroom in MCDB. Room A120. Jared is a Science Teaching and Learning Fellow with the CW-SEI at UBC. He’s been working on invention activities for the past year and has some quite amazing results! He will be talking about the 30 interviews he’s done with invention and non-invention students and the differences in what they are able to do on follow up problems.
The content of the talk will focus more on creating activities than on the Life Sciences so will be applicable to all science disciplines.