32nd Showcase on Teaching and Learning
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Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Showcase Highlights:
- 8:00–8:50 a.m.—Breakfast Plenary—Accessible by Design: Simple things you can do to make your class more accessible
Join Dr. Eric Nelson, as he discusses accessibility issues in the classroom. - 9:00–11:30 a.m.—Faculty workshops and interactive poster sessions
Participate in 50-minute faculty expert sessions and interactive poster sessions presented by MSU Curriculum Innovation award winners. - 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.—Luncheon and keynote address with Dr. Dee Fink
Dr. Fink will present “5 High Impact Teaching Practices.” If we want our teaching to have a major impact on student learning, what are some ideas that can help us do that? Since 1990, the scholars of teaching and learning have been generating new ideas every year about college-level teaching. All of these ideas are good, but which ones have the most potential to have a high impact on student engagement and student learning? In this presentation, Dr. Fink will offer his list of five high impact teaching practices. Implementing any one of these can improve almost anyone’s teaching; implementing two or three of them will provide an amazing experience—an experience that is as exciting for the professor as it will be for the students. - 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.—Special showcase workshop with Dr. Dee Fink
Dr. Fink will facilitate a workshop “TEAM-BASED LEARNING: A Special Way of Using Small Groups.” Many college teachers are now using small groups in their courses. While this generally makes a course more active, students and even teachers also frequently feel that these efforts do not result in experiences that students value. In fact, some students say they “hate small group work.” This happens when teachers don’t manage the dynamics of group work properly. In this workshop, Dr. Fink will introduce team-based learning (TBL) as a special way of using small groups. TBL uses a specific sequence of activities that (a) accelerates the transformation of “groups” into “teams” and then (b) directs the dynamic energy of teams in a way that results in high levels of student engagement and high quality student learning. During this workshop, participants will not only learn about team-based learning, they will experience it.