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Teaching Effectiveness Seminar

Agenda

DAY 1
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 
 
8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Tab 1: Welcome and Introductions
  • Welcome
  • Introductions
  • Learning Objectives
  • Road map
    • How parts were designed
    • What we will learn
    • How it will help
       
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Tab 2: Top 29 Attributes that lead to Effective Teaching
  1. Research review
  2. Comparison of faculty and student' perceptions on attributes that produce effective teachers
  3. Insights into teaching effectiveness
10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Refreshment Break
 
10:15 a.m.–Noon Tab 3: Course Design, Redesign, Structure, and the Delivery Process - Planning for a Successful Course
  1. The Initial Course Design
  2. Set Clear Expectations
  3. Innovative Class Design Options
  4. Structuring the Course: A Macro Approach
  1. Structuring the Class and week
  2. Out of Class Components Options
  3. Test Design and Difficulty
  4. Being the Best with Who You Are
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch
 
1:00 p.m.– 2:30 p.m. Tab 4: Student Issues and How to Manage Them
  1. Student Responsibility
  2. Students' Expectations
  3. Motivating Effort
  1. Managing Common Student Issues
  2. Student Evaluation and Improving Teaching
  3. Other student issues participants are experiencing
2:30 p.m.– 2:45 p.m. Refreshment Break
 
2:45 p.m.– 5:00 p.m. Tab 5: Challenging Issues Confronting Today's University Professors
  1. Self Assessment
      ► Who am I as a Teacher?
      ►  What is my personality type?
  2. Getting feedback and improving your evaluations
  3. Who are my students? Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
  4. Class culture and atmosphere
  5. Critical thinking
  6. How do you engage students in the learning process?
  7. Bonding
  1. How do you give feedback?
  2. Grading strategies and assessing student learning
  3. Preparation: Check list to boost your effectiveness and scores
  4. Delivery technique
  5. Other issues participants are experiencing (if time)
  6. Closing and summary top 10 list
5:00 p.m.– 5:30 p.m. Tab 6: Wrap Up
  1. What have we learned today?
  2. Meet with subgroup facilitators
  3. Plan for tomorrow
     
DAY 2
7:30 a.m.– 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
 
8:30 a.m.– 9:00 a.m. Tab 7: Instructions for Personal Development Session and Room Assignments
 
9:00 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. Tab 8: Personal Development Session (See attached description)

Noon.–1:30 p.m.
Lunch in assigned rooms

Participants will break anytime between Noon and 1:30 p.m. to pick up boxed lunches and bring back to eat with subgroup
 

1:30 p.m.– 2:00 p.m. Refreshment Break
Reconvene as large group
 
2:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m. Tab 9: Experiential Learning: two exercises
  1. Communications
  2. Decision making
  3. Others if time
3:00 p.m.– 3:15 p.m. Refreshment Break 
 
3:15 p.m.– 4:15 p.m. Tab 10: The High-Tech Classroom: how technology can help solve some of the chronic classroom management problems
4:15 p.m.– 5:30 p.m. Tab 11: Program Conclusion
  1. Roundtable, important teaching differences between undergraduate and graduate students
  2. Follow up on agenda items cut short, if any
  3. Hot issues of interest not addressed in program
  4. What we have learned
  5. Diploma distribution
  6. Participants to complete course evaluation