Discover Your Teaching Philosophy - Postponed

Co presented by Dr. Peter Saunders and Dr. Kathleen Lloyd.
This workshop will be of particular interest to faculty and graduate teaching assistants preparing a teaching portfolio and who wish to create a statement of their teaching philosophy. All faculty and GTAs who teach, hold assumptions about what it means to teach. Ask a dozen instructors and you will hear a range of answers that describe guiding, facilitating, telling, showing, planning, helping, directing and so forth. The answers one gives, tell you something about each person’s “perspective” or philosophy of teaching. Professor Daniel Pratt’s Teaching Perspectives Inventory will be introduced. As one of Canada’s leading educators in the field of adult education, Professor Pratt spent years researching teaching perspectives (philosophies) on several continents. Attendees will have an opportunity to take Professor Pratt’s Teaching Perspectives Inventory and receive a print out of the results. Each perspective will be explored. Faculty and GTAs will come away from this workshop with a concise statement of their own teaching philosophy. Attendees are encouraged to bring syllabi of courses they teach.
Registration for this workshop is not available at this time.

Assessment: Are Your Students Learning? - Postponed

Teaching is not learning.  This rather startling observation by Thomas Angelo, which appears in his best-selling book College Assessment, points out a major challenge facing all instructors. This workshop is intended to give faculty new to assessment practical tools they can use to ensure that what they are teaching is indeed being learned. Dr. Kathleen Lloyd will introduce key concepts regarding assessment and then demonstrate three different tools faculty across all disciplines can use to ensure that what they are teaching is indeed being learned. Dr. Lloyd will then introduce attendees to Angelo and Cross’ excellent book of assessment tools.
Registration for this workshop is not available at this time.

Living Course Institute Website Now Open

The Living Course Institute is a week-long, summer workshop in which faculty develop a web-based learning platform to improve student engagement and retention of learning. The new website is now open, and we're accepting OSU faculty/staff applications for the 2010 Living Course Institute. This summer's annual Institute runs from July 19 - 23. In 2008, our first Institute was featured in a President's Report article by Lee Sherman entitled Where Socrates Meets YouTube.

Click here to learn more about the Institute or to register.

Teaching Resources From Fellow Educators

Want to motivate your students? Give the best quizzes, tests, and exams? Learn how to employ the best teaching techniques from fellow educators? Honolulu Community College has compiled a list of teaching resources from all over the web that cover dozens of topics on critical teaching issues. This resource will always be available in the "Links" menu item above, listed as "Teaching Tips: Honolulu Community College."

CTL in the news: Engaging Students From the Get-Go

In a recent blog post, OSU Professor, Dr. Andrew Ross, shares his Living Course materials developed while attending the CTL's Living Course Institute earlier this summer. An Associate Professor in both the Crop and Soil Science, and Food Science Departments at OSU, Ross is integrating these materials into his course, which he often refers to as "the science of deliciousness."

Using Clickers as an Effective Pedagogical Tool

This workshop will assist instructors at all levels of experience with clickers (also called Response Systems) in developing best practices for incorporating clickers in their teaching. Clickers can be used in higher education in a variety of ways to improve teaching and to enhance learning. In this workshop we will cover clicker reward structures, cheating policies, effective clicker activities, and good clicker questions. Examples of assessment tools used with clickers to engage students in active learning will be demonstrated. Instructors will be provided with a CTL handbook of clicker resources.
Watch this Video (requires ONID or guest login).

Engaging Students with Instructor-Personalized Media (Webinar)

Dr. Jean Mandernach is a psychology instructor for Extended Campus who conducted a research study in the use of media in distance courses. Dr. Mandernach presented this same talk at the Ecampus 2009 Spring Faculty Forum. Note: initial audio quality is poor but improves significantly at about the 7 minute mark. View this recording here.

World Regional Cultural Studies

These clips feature cultural briefs from the Winter 2010 class of AS412: World Regional Cultural Studies. With an Introduction from Captain Michael Batchelor, Air Force ROTC, each clip features a 1 hour presentation from student groups focusing on key elements for countries for a particular world region. Topics for these regional overviews include such elements as history, demographics, geography, politics, economics, and current conflicts. Watch this Video (requires ONID or guest login).

Student Motivation Webinar Recording Now Available!

Our webinar workshop from Jan. 27th (Student Motivation: The Key to Improving Retention and Student Success) has been made available to us as a recording for approximately 1 year. The recording is available here.