Graduate Teacher Program

Announcements and Upcoming Events:

2009-2010 Academic Year Lead Network

This Weeks Workshops

Friday Fourms
200 ATLAS
November 13, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Friday Forum: What’s the Difference Between an Advisor and a Graduate Mentor?

IGTS Workshps
200 ATLAS
November 13, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Public and Classroom Speaking: Moving from Terror to Confidence

Technology For the Classroom
200 ATLAS
November 20, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Using Wikis to Facilitate Student Writing

TIGER/CIRTL Workshops
E109 Norlin
November 17, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
What Does Bloom’s Taxonomy Have to do with the STEM Disciplines?

Announcements and Upcoming Events
January 7th and 8th, 2010 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Hale Building	Graduate Teacher Program Spring Conference 2010 Metacognition and Motivation in College Classrooms
Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM ATLAS Building	Collaborative Preparing Future Faculty Network Forum Teaching and Research in Different Types of Postsecondary Institutions
Spring 2010	CIRTL Network Courses Diversity in the College Classroom

Announcements
200 ATLAS November 13 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon	Friday Fourms Friday Forum: What’s the Difference Between an Advisor and a Graduate Mentor? Joanne Belknap, Professor, Sociology Have you ever wondered who you should ask to be your thesis or dissertation advisor and who you should ask to be your faculty mentor? If so, this workshop is for you.
200 ATLAS November 13 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM	IGTS Workshops Public and Classroom Speaking: Moving from Terror to Confidence Vivek Kaila, PhD Candidate, Aerospace Engineering The speaker shares ideas and methods that international TAs and GPTIs can use to build their personal confidence level in public speaking. Vivek is an international graduate student who has taught in the US for about five years.
E109 Norlin November 17 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM	TIGER/CIRTL Workshop What Does Bloom’s Taxonomy Have to do with the STEM Disciplines? PJ Bennett, Interim Assistant Director, Graduate Teacher Program Dr. Bennett has spent years applying Bloom’s Taxonomy to MCD Biology and has interviewed teachers from all disciplines to understand how Bloom’s might apply to testing in their disciplines. He shares his understanding of Bloom and demonstrates how to ask effective test questions using the Taxonomy.
200 ATLAS November 20, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM	Technology For the Classroom Using Wikis to Facilitate Student Writing Anna MacBriar, Faculty, Program in Writing and Rhetoric In this workshop Dr. MacBriar will discuss how wikis can be used in the classroom to help build learning communities and facilitate self-reflection across a variety of academic and non-academic writing contexts.