Date: Thursday, 04/07/11
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM CDT
Cost: $249 ($274 after 03/31/11)
Colleges and universities face new challenges today. Along with their commitment to student education and success, higher education institutions must also help train students to think critically, communicate effectively and deal with differences productively.
These skills are sought after by employers, yet in short supply in society.
Learn how to teach students to think critically and communicate civilly with 9 Ways to Use Class Discussion to Promote Transformation, a 60-minute video online seminar presented by Dr. Roben Torosyan.
Learn Proven Practices to Overcome Resistance
Students can’t overcome bad habits they don’t know they have. Dr. Torosyan’s approach shows you how to establish a climate of trust in which students can learn to recognize blind spots, gaps and contradictions in the way they think. You’ll also learn how to:
•Encourage students to see past conflict and strive to understand opposing viewpoints
•Help students build on each other’s contributions
•Show students how to be both team leaders and team players
•Facilitate a transformation in thinking.
Making Classroom Discussion the Key to Active Learning
Adopting a relaxed yet rigorously prepared approach for this online seminar, Dr. Torosyan will share the following strategies on how to:
•Have students set and follow ground rules for classroom discussion
•Use short, ungraded writing assignments to deepen thinking and discussion
•Slow the flow of classroom discussion, and probe deeper
•Hear from (nearly) everyone
•Make tangents a gift
•Keep discussion on track or re-frame it
•Use comments to make the group responsible for its own dynamics
•Summarize what was learned
•Infuse variety into classroom discussions.
Who Should Attend
This seminar will help everyone from new instructors to seasoned veterans enhance classroom discussion. People in the following positions will particularly benefit from this seminar:
•Graduate student instructors
•Teaching assistants
•Adjunct and distance education faculty
•College and university professors
•Faculty developers and trainers
•Academic affairs administrators who want to make meetings more effective
•Student affairs leaders and staff.
About the Presenter
Dr. Roben Torosyan is a frequent speaker on faculty development for national organizations and institutions, including the Faculty Learning Community Facilitators’ Conference, The Teaching Professor, the POD Network, Harvard, Columbia and NYU. As associate director of the Center for Academic Excellence and assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at Fairfield University, he has extensive experience in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
The Extras You Get
With polling questions, a video clip and extensive opportunities for questions and answers, there are lots of ways to get actively involved during this seminar. You’ll also leave the seminar with materials you can use right away to take your classroom discussions to the next level, including:
•An article of Torosyan’s on improving classroom discussion
•Dos and don’ts
•Sample documents, including an example of an email sent to students who over or under participate
•Questions for further discussion
•The Discussion Guide for Facilitators, designed to help you and your campus community make the most of this seminar.
Invite Your Colleagues
Since Magna’s video online seminar fees are assessed on a per site basis–not per person–it makes economic sense to expand your guest list across campus–all for one low fee of $249.
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