Pre-Conference Workshops - March 31st, 2005

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Registration

To register for the The Lilly Conference on College Teaching - East 2005 Pre-Conference Workshop, please complete the following Registration Form. The workshop registration fee is $75.00 and it is not included in the cost of the registration for Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching - East 2005. Attendance is capped at 20 participants per session.
Towson University Faculty Members - Note: the fees for the Pre-Conference workshops will not be paid by the Center for Faculty Excellence

 

Available Workshops

Virginia Anderson

Using the Grading Process to Enhance Student Learning, Teaching, and Assessment

At this interactive preconference workshop, based on the book , Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment, by Walvoord and Anderson (Jossey-Bass 1998) and Dr. Anderson’s national experience in developing classroom-embedded assessment models, you will gain experience in:

~ Identifying kinds of learning that you want to take place in a course

~ Constructing exams and assignments that will test those kinds of learning

~ Making assignments worth grading

~ Setting standards and developing explicit criteria for graded assignments

~ Implementing changes in your teaching based on grading process data

~ Saving time and/or sanity in the grading process

~ Developing your own primary trait analysis tool

~ Using the grading process data for classroom, programmatic, or institutional assessment purposes

Spencer Benson
Luz Mangurian

How Students Learn: Connecting Classroom Activities to Student’s Brains

In this minds-on workshop participants will explore current understanding of how people learn and ways to capitalize on this knowledge in improving student learning in their teaching. Participants will explore their own knowledge about what works in enhancing student learning and through individual and group exercises link it to the evidenced based educational reform. The workshop presenters direct Centers of Teaching and Learning at their respective institutions and have many year experience in helping faculty transform the ways they teach.

Phil Sokolove

Topic: Active Learning
Abstract: Not available at this time

Linda Suskie

The Assessment Toolbox

Strengthen your skills in constructing valid, useful assessment tools for your classes that evaluate thinking skills as well as conceptual understanding. The workshop will begin with a very brief overview of a broad variety of assessment tools and then focus on strengthening your skills in creating three especially useful tools: scoring guides (rubrics) for student papers and projects, questions to stimulate student self-reflection, and multiple-choice test questions. Through hands-on practice, learn how to maximize the effectiveness of these tools so that the information they yield is valid and useful to both you and your students.

Schedule

Part I Break Part II
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. 2:15 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. 2:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Once you have filled out all the below information, you may register for Lilly Conference on College Teaching - East one of two ways:

  1. Print out this form and send it along with a check made out to Towson University for the appropriate amount to:

    Donna Guillott
    Academic Programs, ADM 212
    Towson University
    8000 York Road
    Towson, MD 21252-0001

  2. You may print out this form with credit card information and fax it with credit card information filled in to 410-704-4849. Please be sure to sign the form before you fax it to us.

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