The Center for Instructional Advancement and Technology (CIAT) is proud to offer professional development workshops for all full- and part-time faculty. These mostly faculty-led sessions include many aspects of instructional design, teaching topics, and using technology in teaching. Workshops are scheduled before and after new faculty orientation sessions.
Questions? Please contact Audrey Cutler at {acutler@towson.edu} or x4-5082.
To register and for more information, please look for these titles at {http://fusion.towson.edu/www/ciat/workshops}.
Faculty Professional Development: Presentation Techniques
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 8 ? 10 a.m.
Effective presentation skills transcend the use of PowerPoint. Presenters must engage the audience, create interest and provide a clear message. This hands-on workshop focuses on using technology effectively to support your instructional message and student learning.
Your use of PowerPoint will be expanded as you learn best practices for planning your message; designing slides that effectively balance images and text; and selecting appropriate fonts and colors to set the tone for your presentation. Your presentation skills can also be enhanced by understanding how effective use of vocal technique and mannerisms effect communication and perception of your message.
Faculty Professional Development: Alternatives to Papers and PowerPoints
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 10:30 a.m. ? noon
Effective assessment is an essential part of all curriculum. While papers and PowerPoint presentations can reflect aspects of student learning, there are many options to represent a student’s mastery of course content. This workshop offers at least twenty alternatives to engage students in reflecting on and representing their learning in creative, quantifiable ways. Examples of alternative representations of student learning include: creating a video to illustrate a process or time period; creating a wiki to capture student collaboration; creating a travel brochure to reflect travel and events in a certain time period; and a host of other projects that can be implemented across various academic disciplines.
Faculty Professional Development: Creating an Effective Syllabus
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 1 ? 2:30 p.m.
This workshop will give you the tools to draft a syllabus for a face-to-face or hybrid course. Topics include:
? How to clearly outline your learning goals
? How to identify the methods you will use to address them
? Identifying how students will be evaluated
We will also identify campus resources that you may include in your syllabus to support your students for any additional help they may require.
Faculty Professional Development: Designing Instruction Using a Systems Approach
Monday, August 16, 2010, 1 ? 2:30 p.m.
Together we will solve sample instruction challenges using a shared systematic approach ? the ADDIE model. This instructional systems design model can be used to address instructional hurdles and guide effective course or lesson design.
Faculty Professional Development: Say It Quickly: Using Pecha Kucha to Sharpen Research and Presentation Skills
Monday, August 16, 2010, 3 ? 4:30 p.m.
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format to help learners hone research skills, analyze information, and present in a professional, succinct manner. The 6:40 limit (6 slides, 40 seconds each) imposed on this style of PowerPoint presentation encourages learners to present the most relevant information. Grading rubrics will also be discussed. Attendees will work in small groups to create their own Pecha Kucha presentations.
Faculty Professional Development: Emerging Technologies: Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies into Your Course
Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 1:30 ? 3 p.m.
VoiceThread, Wiggio, Facebook, Ning, Jing, Second Life, Jaycut, Dropio – These are just a few examples of Web 2.0 technologies and applications designed to enhance the creativity and productivity of internet users. These same tools are being used to support instruction and assessment goals here at Towson and throughout higher education. Explore these resources during this hands-on session and learn how to apply them in your classroom instruction.
Professional Development Workshop: Use of Academic Coaching to Augment Classroom Instruction
Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 8:30 ? 10 a.m.
Academic coaches provide targeted learning activities developed to make challenging course concepts more concrete and understandable. Academic coaching differs from tutoring and review sessions in that it is designed to help students learn and practice material on their own, with feedback and help available as needed. In this workshop, you can try academic coaching learning activities in the role of students and reflect on this approach and its applications to your own courses.
Presenters Sarah Bruce, Susannah Feldman, and Charlotte Saylor from the Department of Biological Sciences will also discuss:
? How to run a coaching session
? The successes and challenges of these sessions
Faculty Professional Development: Building the Student-Teacher Relationship through Active Listening
Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 10:30 a.m. ? noon
Motivating students takes more than just sharing interesting content and pedagogy. For students to feel completely engaged and valued members of the learning environment the teacher needs to build strong relationships within the classroom. How is this done? This workshop will present different techniques which enable students to participate, stay actively involved, and know what to expect. All of these actions lead to their better understanding of the content presented, and a more positive relationship with you.
