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24th Annual Fall Intensive

August 20, 21, & 22, 2008

Registration & Information Desk
Hale 235
Open Daily 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Please do not enter sessions late or leave early.




Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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 Best Do Teach:
Outstanding Lead Teachers

Les Sikos, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Linguistics
Ryan Soderquist, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Chemical Engineering
Jennifer Armstrong, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, English
Allison Hicks, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Sociology

Hale 260
Effective Lesson Planning for Teaching Assistants
Ben Burger, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Geology

Hale 240
Graduate and Professional Student Advocacy
UGGS Executive Council Members
David King, President, UGGS
Andrew Poppe, Vice President, UGGS

Hale 230
Dealing with Problems 1
Hallie Meredith, Lead Coordinator for Social Sciences and STEM, Graduate Teacher Program



10:45 AM – 12:00 NOON

Hale 270
Dealing with Problems 2
Jason Hanna, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Philosophy

Hale 260
Goal Setting For Academic Success
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program

Hale 240
True GRIT: Gender, Race, and Information
Technology at CU-Boulder

Deborah Keyek-Franssen,
Associate CIO for Academic Technology Initiatives

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
Diversity in College Teaching
Julie Graves, Doctoral Candidate, Education

Hale 240
Bloom's Taxonomy: Using Questions
PJ Bennett, Interim Assistant Director,
Graduate Teacher Program

Hale 230
Teacher, Teach Thyself: Assessment & Evaluation
Manuel Saldivar, Assistent Professor, Education

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Old Main Chapel
The Ira and Ineva Baldwin Best Should
Teach Lecture
Why the Best Should Teach: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility
Donna Dickenson, Emeritus Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of London
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Hale 270
Teaching Problem Solving in Engineering
Lucas Portelli, Lead Graduate Teacher, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Marian Chaffe, Lead Graduate Teacher, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrew Pleszkun, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hale 260
Using Writing Assignments to Promote Learning
Steve Lamos, Associate Director,
Program for Writing and Rhetoric

Hale 240
The Truth Ain't Nothing but a Sandwich
William King, Professor Emeritus, Ethnic Studies

Hale 230
Teaching with Active Learning
Mike Dubson, Senior Instructor, Physics



10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Hale 270
Conflict Management in the Classroom
Thomas Sebok, Director, Ombuds Office

Hale 230
What Do Undergrads Want from Their Teachers?
Hallie Meredith, Lead Coordinator for Social Sciences and STEM
Chelsea Bridges, Pre-Prof Lead
Zuhra Faizi, Pre-Prof Lead
Thomas Ragole, Pre-Prof Lead

Hellems 145
Technology & Instructional Design in Foreign Language Instruction
Edwige Simon, Educational Technologies
Specialist, ALTEC

Humanities 1B50
The CU Honor Code and Ethics in Teaching
Vincent McGuire, Honor Code Faculty Advisor
Matt George, Faculty Education, Honor Code Office


1:00 PM – 2:15 PM

Hale 270
Seven Healthy Habits for Foreign Language Teachers
Patricia Schindler, Senior Instructor,
German & Slavic Languages
Petra Watzke, Lead Graduate Teacher, 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
Preparing Future Faculty
Noah Finkelstein, Associate Professor, Physics

Hale 230
Teaching: Do You Have the Personality for It?
Tanya Rose, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Education
Jennifer Popple, Lead Graduate Teacher, Theatre & Dance



2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Hale 270
Teaching is Really Scary! Strategies for
Overcoming Fear in the Classroom

Theresa Crapanzano, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Journalism and Mass Communication

Hale 260
CULearn
Erica Brandon, Faculty/Staff Trainer, ITS
Jill Lester, Academic Technologist (DATC), School of Education

Hale 240
Challenges and Strategies for the
American Classroom: A Special Workshop
for International TAs and GPTIs

Vicky Lai, Ph.D. Candidate, Linguistics
Weldu Weldeyesus, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Linguistics

Hale 230
Kolb Learning Styles Inventory
(Repeats 10:00 am on Friday)
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program




Friday, August 22,2008

9:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Hale 270
Teaching Science & Engineering Labs
Jonathan Metts, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Aerospace Engineering
Mariel Desroche, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Physics
Ryan Takeshita, Lead Graduate Teacher,
MCD Biology

Hale 260
Teaching Respect for All: Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender Student Inclusion

Bud Coleman, Chair & Associate Professor,
Theatre & Dance

Hale 230
What's Wrong with the Way Things Are?
An Interactive Theatre Piece Addressing White Privilege

Rebecca Brown Adelman & Interactive Theater Project, Wardenburg Health Center



10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Chem 140
Discrimination & Harassment Training
Tangie Sutton, Training Manager, Office of
Discrimination and Harassment

Hale 270
Teaching Your First Course as Instructor of Record
Michael Zizzi, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication

Hale 260
Dealing with Threats and Suicide
Karen Raforth, Director, Counseling Center
Amy Robertson, Counseling Center

Hale 230
Kolb Learning Styles Inventory
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program



1:00 PM – 2:15 PM

Hale 270
Getting Students Talking: Running Effective Discussions
Anne Curzan, Associate Professor, English,
University of Michigan
Lisa Damour, Adjunct Faculty, Psychology,
John Carroll University

Hale 260
Students with Disabilities: Rights,
Responsibilities, and Accommodations

Cindy Donahue, Director, Disabilities Services

Hale 230
Evaluating Creative Work
Mark Amerika, Professor, Art & Art History
Jesse Bedirian, Former Lead Graduate Teacher, Dance



2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Hale 270
Scenarios and Strategies: Addressing
Individual Student Concerns

Anne Curzan, Associate Professor, English,
University of Michigan
Lisa Damour, Adjunct Faculty, Psychology,
John Carroll University

Hale 260
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Steve Pollock, Associate Professor, Physics

Hale 230
Identifying, Teaching, and Referring Students with Difficulty Learning Foreign Languages
Anne Becher, Senior Instructor, Spanish & Portuguese
Carmen Kopen, Instructor, Spanish & Portuguese


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