Friday Forms
Write to Learn with Learning Logs
Rosalyn Zigmond, Instructor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric
This workshop will discuss strategies on how to incorporate written learning logs in any classroom, for any subject. We will discuss the differences between learning logs and journals, for example, and when to use them in different learning situations.

January 25
200 ATLAS
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

January 28
200 ATLAS
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

TIGER
How Teaching as Research Can Help You Help Your Students Learn More
Mike Klymkowsky, Professor, MCDB
Professor Klymkowsky discusses what teaching as research is and how it can be used to motivate and measure student learning.

January 29
200 ATLAS
11:00 AM - Noon

Friday Forms
Images, Mistaken Notions, and Forgivable Sins: The Challenges of Teaching about International Sex Work and Transnational Sex Trafficking
Robert Buffington, Associate Professor, Women Studies
Drawing from his personal classroom experiences, Professor Buffington discusses the perils of teaching controversial topics, including common misconceptions and the ethical dilemma of maintainingprofessional distance in the face of passionately committed students on one hand and student apathy on the other.

Monday Workshops
Writing a Socratic Portfolio: Overview
Dr. Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
Graduate students generally use the teaching portfolio process to prepare for the job market. This workshop provides an overview for beginners to the process.

Lead Team Workshops
Community Outreach Through the Arts
Presented by the GTP Art Team
Valerie Albicker, Administrative Director, Artsbridge
Peggy Bruns, Director, Rocky Mountain Center for the Musical Arts
Beth Osnes, Professor, Theatre
Jason Bisping, Ph.D. Candidate, Theatre and Dance
Are you interested in learning about ways that you can give back to your community? Come learn about how service-based teaching can enrich the local arts community, what community outreach projects are happening NOW at CU and in the Boulder area, and how you can get involved with community outreach projects.

February 4
200 ATLAS
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

TIGER
CIRTL’s Teaching as Research Process
Jessica Gorski, Lead Coordinator, Social Sciences & STEM
Dr. Gorski, an MCDB biologist, discusses CIRTL’s view of teaching as research and presents the CIRTL model which teachers at CU Boulder may be interested in applying in their classrooms.

February 5
200 ATLAS
11:00 AM - 12 Noon

Friday Forum
Writing a Socratic Teaching Portfolio
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
This session provides a useful methodology to help you plan experiences, collect materials, and build the framework of your final teaching portfolio.

Monday Workshops
Factors to Consider when Writing and Using Clicker Questions in Diverse Disciplines: An Interactive Discussion
Dr. Angel Hoekstra, Department of Sociology
Dr. Hoekstra will draw on her doctoral dissertation research to discuss different types of questions, pros and cons of each question type, and potential problems associated with using clicker questions. Discussion will lead participants to key aspects of good practice for writing clicker questions in higher education.

Lead Team Workshops
New Media in Teaching
Presented by GTP Social Sciences Team 1
Nabil Echchaibi, Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication
Anna MacBriar, Instructor, Program in Writing & Rhetoric
Technology didn’t stop with PowerPoint. Join us for a discussion on how new media formats such as blogs and wikis can be used to engage students and promote learning.

Lead Team Workshops
Making the Humanities Relevant
Making the Humanities Relevant
Lori Emerson, Professor of English
Marlia Banning,Professor, Communication
Claudia Mills, Professor, Philosophy
Why Books and Humans Matter in an Age of Science and Technology.

Lead Team Workshops
Academic Careers Panel: How Teaching Now Can Get You A Job Later
Presented by GTP Science Team “Old School Rock Hard Sciences”
Seth Hornstein, Senior Instructor, Astrophysical and Plantary Aciences
Lon Abbott, Senior Instructor, Geology
Robert Winn, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado-Denver, Anschulz Medical Campus
In this workshop the panelists will discuss what academic careers are available to STEM grads, what teaching experience is important to being hired in these careers, and how to organize a teaching portfolio/CV to be more competitive in the academic job market. By the end of the workshop, you will have a better idea of what type of academic career interests you, as well as how your present and future teaching experience applies to that career.

Lead Team Workshops
Science Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Presented by GTP Science Team “Biohazard”
Rob Knight, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Jim White, Environmental Studies and Geological Sciences
McCollom, Laboratory for Atmospheric adn Space Physics
Brett Melbourne, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
One of the most challenging tasks in the academic, scientific, and/or clinical worlds is working with people from other disciplines. When this is attempted, there are often differences that are extremely difficult to overcome. However, some are able to prevail in interdisciplinary collaboration and attain great results. In fact, these results are often better than those achieved through single discipline work. During the Interdisciplinary Collaboration Workshop we will tap into the experience of several expert panelists in order to elicit important techniques in succeeding in interdisciplinary collaboration.

TIGER
A Model Methodology for a Teaching as Research Project*
Jenny Knight, Senior Instructor, MCDB
Dr. Knight presents a model methodology for a teaching as research project based on her experiences as a classroom researcher at CU Boulder.

Friday Forum
Humor in the Classroom
Barbara Fox, Professor, Linguistics
Professor Fox shares her own approach to humor in the classroom and draws from her experiences as a linguist to give you the courage to make your classrooms more fun.

Monday Workshops
Using Service-Learning to Connect your Students to Community and Course Content
Lori Britt, PhD Candidate, Lead Graduate Teacher, Communication
Service-Learning is a pedagogical approach which integrates community service into a course to help broaden students learning and provide meaningful connections and experiences in the community. Find out why and how you might incorporate service-learning into your classes and some of the positive outcomes that can result.

Lead Team Workshops
Introductory Course Teaching: Problems, Solutions and Things that Work
Presented by GTP Social Sciences Team “WASP 2”
Lori Hunter, Associate Professor, Sociology
Lisa Dilling, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
Lisa Dilling (ENVS) and Lori Hunter (SOCY) will draw on their diverse teaching experiences to share their challenges in teaching introductory courses and discuss proven methods for overcoming these challenges. The workshop aims to expose students to common challenges, allow them the opportunity to openly engage these issues, and give them tools for overcoming these problems.

Friday Forum
Putting Your Teaching Portfolio Together
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
229 ATLAS Are you getting ready to go on the job market? Are you wondering how your portfolio might compare with portfolios from other applicants? In this workshop we analyze and compare portfolios.

Lead Team Workshops
Shock Therapy: Returning to the Basics of Language Learning
Presented by the GTP Language Team “Babel’ing Gaijins”
Amber Hsinyi Navarre, Senior Instructor, Chinese
The focus of this workshop is beginning a new language. It will explore the question: “What is it like to start a new language, beginning with the basics.” It is easy for teachers of foreign language to take for granted a basic knowledge of the target language, and hence we often overlook the needs of our students, who are entirely unfamiliar with even the most rudimentary aspects of a second language. This workshop will offer refreshing insight into what aspects of beginning level language courses need to be emphasized.

Monday Workshops
It’s Not Their Fault, They’re Freshmen: Effective Strategies for Teaching College Freshmen
Adam Fox, PhD Candidate, Lead Graduate Teacher, Applied Math
Dan Larremore, PhD Candidate, Lead Graduate Teacher, Applied Math
Dan and Adam will explore strategies, techniques and policies that will help you manage freshman and mixed college classes. Come prepared for some active learning.

Lead Team Workshop
Being Faculty: What I Wish I Knew as a Grad Student
Presented by GTP Engineering Team “emt’s”
Steven Nerem, Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Mark Rentschler, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Daria Kotys-Schwartz, Instructor, Mechanical Engineering
Three professors with diverse backgrounds will discuss in an open-forum format what they wish they had known as graduate students about a career as university faculty. Attendees are encouraged to come prepared with questions for the panel.

March 4
200 ATLAS
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

TIGER
Evaluating a Teaching as Research Project*
Valerie Otero, Associate Professor, Education
Dr. Otero, who is an active classroom science research faculty member on the Boulder campus, discusses how to build a solid evaluation plan into your teaching as research project.

March 5
200 ATLAS
11:00 AM - 12 Noon

Friday Forum
Decentering Teacher Authority to Improve Student Learning
Danica Trifunovic, Instructor, French & Italian
The presenter discusses theory on establishing voice and authority and uses her experiences with an experimental third year class to provide concrete examples.

March 8
200 ATLAS
2:00 PM - 3:00PM

Monday Workshops
Designing and Using Effective Assessments
Colin Wallace, PhD Candidate, Lead Graduate Teacher, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
In this workshop, we will explore some salient ideas in the assessment community, including how to probe multiple levels of cognition and competency, techniques for utilizing students’ prior knowledge, the importance of formative assessments, and the role of authentic assessments. The workshop will include a demonstration and discussion of how to integrate various assessment practices as part of a working class.

TIGER
Creating a Conference Poster for Your TAR Project
PJ Bennett, Assistant Director, Graduate Teacher Program
Dr. Bennett demonstrates how to use PowerPoint to create the design of your conference poster and clarifies how to summarize and illustrate data and conclusions most clearly.

Friday Forum
A Revolution in Construction
Michael Eisenberg, Professor, Computer Science
Professor Eisenberg will discuss how a revolution in technology may be used to allow students to produce 3-D objects for the classroom.

Monday Workshops
Time Management in Student Laboratories
Rebecca Turk, PhD Candidate, Lead Graduate Teacher, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Running student science labs is a unique experience which can be particularly difficult due to time constraints. We will address some of the time management issues that lead to rushed labs, and come up with solutions that may guide us towards an efficient and productive laboratory teaching experience.