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GTAs and adjunct instructors, as well as regular faculty, are welcome to our workshops.

Survival Skills for New Instructors: Friday, April 18, 10:30 am - Noon, Milam 215

This session will be of particular interest to instructors new to teaching, but serves as an excellent review of some of the best practices used in classrooms today. Dr. Saunders will discuss and answer questions on some of the most critical aspects of teaching in higher learning. Issues such as establishing the teaching/learning environment, discipline in the classroom, effective teaching behaviors and motivation will be addressed. Resources to support teaching at OSU will be reviewed. The CTL handbook will be provided to attendees.

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Promoting Student Engagement and Understanding Through the Use of Thinking Routines, presented by Ron Ritchart, Harvard:Thursday, April 24, 9:30 am-12:30 pm, Milam 215

Getting students to actively engage with course material in thoughtful and substantive ways is fundamental to the development of understanding. But how do we create situations in the university classroom to accomplish this goal? How do we infuse the presentation of material with opportunities for deeper reflection on that material? In addition, how to do we provoke students to think about and question what they are learning? One strategy is through the use of thinking routines, simple structures that invite students to think about the content before them. These strategies can be easily woven into the classroom so that an expectation for meaning making, active engagement, reflection, and questioning become a part of the culture of the classroom.

Researchers at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education have worked over the past eight years to develop a set of thinking routines as part of the Visible Thinking initiative. While these strategies have been designed with K-12 teachers in mind, they proven equally effective for adult learning and have been used a variety of settings, included lectures at HGSE, universities in Michigan, and in adult professional development classes. In this session, we’ll discuss the structure of thinking routines, how they operate in classroom settings, see some videos of them in action, and have a chance to try some ourselves.

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Discover Your Teaching Philosophy: Tuesday, May 13, 10:00 am-12:30 pm, Milam 215

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. Dr. Saunders will introduce Professor Daniel Pratt’s Teaching Perspectives Inventory. 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.

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