25th Annual Fall Intensive
August 19, 20, & 21, 2009
Registration & Information Desk
Hale 235
Open Daily 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Please do not enter sessions late or leave early.
Schedule
Wednesday, August 19
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Hale 270
Welcome & Introduction to the Graduate Teacher Program
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
PJ Bennett, Assistant Director, Graduate Teacher Program
Valentine Roché, Coordinator, Graduate Student Career Services
9:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Hale 270
The Nitty Gritty About Succeeding as a Teacher
Jennifer Popple, Former Lead, Theatre and Dance
Mark Lewis, Doctoral Candate, Education
Hale 260
Graduate and Professional Student Advocacy
UGGS Executive Council Members
Andrew Poppe, President, UGGS
Hale 230
Effective Lesson Planning for Teaching Assistants
Betsy Swanner, Former Lead, Geology
Lorine Giangola, Former Lead, Environmental Science
10:45 AM – 12:00 NOON
Hale 270
Dealing with Problems
Juliette Bourdier, Doctoral Candidate, French and Italian
Hale 260
True GRIT: Teaching Gender, Race, and Information Technology
Deborah Keyek-Franssen, Director, CTO
Hale 230
Using Clickers to Assess Learning
Doug Duncan, Director,
Fiske Planetarium and Science Center
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Hale 270
The University Lecture
Dennis Van Gerven, Professor, Anthropology
Hale 260
Conflict Management in the Classroom
Donna Louden, Assistant Director, Ombuds Office
Hale 230
Goal Setting for Early Completion of Your Degree
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Hale 270
Bloom's Taxonomy: Using Questions Effectively
PJ Bennett, Interim Assistant Director, Graduate Teacher Program
Hale 260
Diversity in the Classroom
Alphonse Keasley, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity
Hale 230
Teaching as Instructor of Record with TAs
Lauren Calimeris, Lead Graduate Teacher, Economics
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Chem 140
Best Should Teach Awards and Lecture and the School of Education's Celebration of 100 Years of Teaching Licensure
The Pedagogical Imagination: Teaching Toward Possibility
Kris Gutierrez, Provost Chair, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder
7:30 – 9:00 PM
UMC 235
Best Should Teach Reception
Thursday, August 20, 2009
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Hale 270
Teaching Problem Solving in Engineering
Lucas Portelli, Lead Graduate Teacher, Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Marian Chaffe, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Andrew Pleszkun, Professor, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Hale 260
The Imposter Syndrome: Do I Really Belong Here?
Tamara Williams, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
Hale 230
Using Writing Assignments to Promote Learning
Steve Lamos, Associate Director,
Program for Writing and Rhetoric
10:15 AM - 12:00 Noon
Hale 270
What Do Undergrads Want From Their Teachers?
Jennifer Armstrong, Lead Coordinator
Steve Ragole, Pre-Prof Lead, SUEP
Zuhra Faizi, Pre-Prof Lead, SUEP
Thomas Ragole, Pre-Prof Lead
Jenette Preciado, Pre-Prof Lead, McNair
Hale 260
Technology & Instructional Design in Foreign Language Instruction
Mark Knowles, Director, Educational Technologies, ALTEC
Hale 230
Kolb Learning Styles Inventory
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program (Repeats on Friday)
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Hale 270
Helping All Language Students to Succeed: Mission Possible
Patricia Schindler, Senior Instructor,
German & Slavic Languages
Carmen Grace, Senior Instructor, French & Italian
Hale 260
Nonacademic Career Planning & Résumé Writing
Valentine Roché, Coordinator, Graduate Student
Career Programs
Hale 240
Using CULearn
Erica Brandon, Faculty/Staff Trainer, ITS
Hale 230
Teaching: Do You Have the Personality for It?
Katye Blackwell, Lead Graduate Teacher, Psychology
Liza Williams, Doctoral Candidate, Theatre & Dance
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Hale 270
Teaching is Really Scary! Strategies for
Overcoming Fear in the Classroom
Lori Britt, Lead Graduate Teacher, Communication
Hale 260
Dealing with Threats and Suicide
Karen Raforth, Director, Counseling Center
Amy Robertson, Counseling Center
Hale 230
Identifying, Teaching, and Referring Students with Difficulty Learning Foreign Languages
Anne Becher, Senior Instructor, Spanish & Portuguese
Carmen Kopen, Instructor, Spanish & Portuguese
Arianne Margolin, GPTI, French & Italian
Jean Bouchard, Program Coordinator, Modified Foreign Language Education, Center for Language Learning
Friday, August 21
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Hale 270
Teaching Science Labs
Ryan Takeshita, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, MCDB
Melissa Richards, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, ATOC
Hale 260
Students with Disabilities: Rights,
Responsibilities, and Accommodations
Cindy Donahue, Director, Disabilities Services
Hale 230
Now What? Exploring Conflict in the Classroom
Rebecca Brown Adelman & The Interactive Theatre Project, Wardenburg Health Center
10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon
Chem 140
The CU Honor Code and Ethics in Teaching
Vincent McGuire, Honor Code Faculty Advisor
Chris Wetzel, Student Advisor
Hale 270
Preparing Future Faculty for the Sciences
Mike Klymkowsky, Professor, MCDB
Hale 230
Teaching Your First Course as Instructor of Record
Holly Yettick, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Education
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Hale 270
Discussions: How to Get Your Students Talking in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences & STEM
Hallie Meredith, Lead Coordinator, SS and STEM
Hale 260
Challenges and Strategies for the
American Classroom: A Special Workshop
for International TAs and GPTIs
Vivek Kaila, Aerospace Engineering
Watcharapong Ratisukpimol, GPTI, Economics
Hale 230
Evaluating Creative Work
Jeanne Liotta, Professor, Film Studies
Liza Williams, PhD Candidate, Theatre & Dance
Sam Keehn, Lead Graduate Teacher, Music
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Hale 270
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the Sciences
Steve Pollock, Associate Professor, Physics
Ben Spike, Lead Graduate Teacher, Physics
Hale 260
What Services Does Instructional Technology Services Offer?
Erica Brandon, Faculty/Staff Trainer, ITS
Hale 230
Kolb Learning Styles Inventory
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Chem 140
Discrimination & Harassment Training
Tangie Sutton, Training Manager, Office of
Discrimination and Harassment
(Required for new TA's and GTPIs)
Download the Fall Intensive Schedule as a pfd here.
