Conference examining how students learn

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Date: Fri Feb 04 2011 - 18:07:49 MST

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Subject: Conference examining how students learn

    TO: Boulder Campus Full, Associate, Assistant Professors and all Instructors

    FROM: President's Teaching Scholars Program

    SENDER: Mary Ann Shea, Director

    DATE: February 4, 2011

    SUBJECT: Conference examining how students learn

    President's Teaching Scholars Program (PTSP) Conference: Critical, Creative, Interactive Learning

    The University of Colorado President's Teaching Scholars sponsor the third
    annual Conference on Teaching and Learning. The Conference is planned for
    All University of Colorado faculty and will encompass a range of sessions
    Including a plenary.

    How students learn and what that means for faculty members will be the topic of
    the upcoming conference March 4, 2011 on the University of Colorado Anschutz
    Medical Campus.

    Several educators from throughout the university system will present sessions
    to advance the discussion of the way students learn in the classroom and how
    professors can capitalize on those methods.

    Examples of the sessions include "On Incivility and Digital Distraction:
    Collaborative Social Contracts for Building a Better Classroom Community,"
    "Student Learning, Neurons and Surprise Reward" and "How to Do the Impossible:
    Teaching and Learning in a Lecture."

    Mary Ann Shea, PTSP director, and Provost Roderick Nairn, University of
    Colorado Denver will open the one-day conference with a welcome.

    Established in 1989 as a presidential initiative, PTSP endorses excellence in
    teaching by honoring faculty throughout the university who excel in teaching,
    scholarship and research.

    Registration for the event, scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., is free and
    includes all sessions, refreshments and lunch, at the medical campus, Research
    2 Building, P15-2100, Trivisible Room.

    Space is limited to 110 attendees. Online registration must be completed by
    Feb. 25. For the conference program and registration please visit:

    http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/announcements/2011_spring_conference.html

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