Live Online Seminar
Date: Thurs., Oct. 14, 2010
Time: 12:00 p.m. Central
Length: 90 minutes
Cost: $249 ($274 after 10/07/10)
***The fee for this seminar is per site, not per person. Invite your colleagues to join you and it won't cost a penny more. Plus, the seminar comes with a no-risk guarantee. If you're not satisfied, for any reason, we'll gladly refund your payment.***
Teaching is, in many ways, a performance art. When you approach the podium, you are much like an actor taking the stage. You’ve memorized your lines, so to speak, but what you’re really hoping for is a little group improvisation. Of course, you never know how students are going to respond to the material, so you have to be both in the moment and aware of the moment … sensing when to go with the flow, and when to help shape the flow.
Faculty Focus invites you to attend Teaching & Learning Rhythms: Tools to Enhance Student Engagement, a new online video seminar coming Oct. 14. During this 90-minute seminar, award-winning professor Alex Fancy will show you how to set the stage for learning so that teaching seems effortless and students are actively involved in their learning.
This video online seminar will cover:
• Ways to resolve ongoing issues of “flow” in the classroom
• Finding the right balance between information and reflection, repetition and variation, and low and high energy in your classroom
• Engaging students as “co-managers” of learning
• Shaping rhythms to provide a sense of engagement
• Teaching as a dramatic performance and energy exchange
• Analyzing your course structure with attention to short and long-term rhythms
• Why rhythm and balance are essential to shaping classroom communities
• The six-act approach to teaching
• Ways to manage a disengaged student
• Working with natural ebbs and flows in the teaching dynamic
• Centering yourself in the college classroom
• Mindfulness and reflection on your teaching process
You also will receive a brief white paper outlining the theory behind this recommended approach to teaching, along with 100 questions for self-assessment of your teaching performance.
About the PresenterAlex Fancy is a long-time professor in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at Mount Allison University in Canada. He has been recognized for his teaching across campus, regionally, and nationally.
Professor Fancy has received multiple awards for his experimentation, passion, and involvement with teaching. He was the first recipient of Mount Allison’s Herbert and Leota Tucker Teaching Award and the Association of Atlantic Universities’ Distinguished Teaching Award. He also has earned the coveted 3M National Teaching Fellowship.
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