Present Salons
How does student writing vary in different disciplines and different classes?
Join us Wednesday April 19, 2017 @ 3:45PM, University Club
In class, writing skills help students communicate their understanding, articulate various perspectives, and provide a platform for expressing their ideas. How does this important higher education skill pan out in your discipline and in other disciplines? Together, we’ll explore the complexities of writing across the curriculum.
What can we do to help students be critical researchers (especially now)?
March 23, 2017
Research is vital to higher education. But how do we teach students to conduct research, to be digitally literate, and to be media literate as well? We’ll discuss the different strategies and challenges inherent to research and teaching at this Salon.
How do students learn content, skills, and “ways of thinking” in your classes?
February 22, 2017
It’s a constant challenge….prepare students to understand important concepts in your class while preparing them with skills to do work outside the classroom. What do you do to help students learn these critical components in your discipline or class?
Online and Face-to-Face Teaching
November 17, 2016
Do you flip or blend your class? Have you taught online or do you hope to in the future? We know that our students learn both in and out of the classroom. We’ll discuss ways that faculty can build skills in both domains. We’ll be joined by Maricia Marks and Kyle Kraus from E-Learning.
Assessing students: Can “grading” be a source of inspiration for personal growth?
October, 26, 2016
Paul Dennis got to the heart of assessment through a captivating case study. Paul has students reflect on why they are taking his class, engage with their own goals, and to think about how they’ll achieve them. He engaged faculty a “Critical Response Process” pioneered by Liz Lerman. This peer-evaluation process follows five steps: 1) Statements of meaning 2) Presenter’s questions 3) Neutral Questions 4) Permissioned Opinions 5) Final Word.
How do you start a new semester!?
September 29, 2016
How to start the semester, this was the driving question behind our first Salon of 2016-2017. Instructors from a variety of disciplines offered their own stories on how to jump into the first couple of weeks. Setting the tone, modeling expectations, building confidence, and easing student fears universally emerged as underlying themes.
