From: Faculty and Research E-Memo (memofrom@Colorado.EDU)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2007 - 17:20:28 MDT
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:20:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Faculty and Research E-Memo <memofrom@Colorado.EDU> Subject: Teaching in a Nutshell: Strategies to Enhance Student Learning
TO: Boulder Campus Teaching Faculty,
Deans, Directors, Dept Chairs, System Administration
FROM: Faculty Teaching Excellence Program
SENDER: Mary Ann Shea, Director
DATE: September 14, 2007
SUBJECT: Teaching in a Nutshell: Strategies to Enhance Student Learning
This participatory symposium presented by Professor Emerita, M. Lee Potts,
involves not only observing yourself teaching, but also investigating how your
ways of communicating affect student comprehension. Although watching yourself
on videotape can be challenging, what you see in yourself will change you more
than anything about teaching that you may learn in the abstract.
In this symposium, the group works together to identify communication
strategies that enhance the students' learning experience. Collaboratively, you
support one another over the rough moments of embarrassment and fear, coming to
view yourself more objectively as a member of a community where learning is
reciprocal to teaching. In the process, you acquire specific techniques for
guiding and improving learning; and you perceive how your voice and your body
affect how well your students see/hear/grasp what you are saying. Few of us
have had the opportunity to focus on these subtle, yet vital dimensions of
teaching and learning.
This symposium takes place on Wednesday Sept 19 & Sept 26 from 3:00-5:00 in
ATLAS 200. Participation in both sessions is required.
Register at http://www.colorado.edu/ftep/events/eventdocs/potts.html
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