Time: 12:00-1:30 PM CDT
Cost: $259 ($284 after 04/13/11)
Featured Higher Education Presenter: Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D.
How deep is the learning that takes place on your campus?
Too many students simply acquire pieces of knowledge without establishing relationships among them, integrating new information with prior learning, or grappling with big questions. Critical reflection can engage students in learning that challenges their assumptions and deepens the way they understand issues and concepts.
Critical reflection provides one of the best ways to transform rudimentary assignments intro truly transformational learning opportunities.
A process of analyzing, reconsidering, and questioning knowledge, critical reflection adds depth and meaning to college coursework. It also develops critical thinking skills–an essential college learning outcome.
In How to Deepen Learning through Critical Reflection, Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D. will clarify misconceptions about critical reflection and explain the steps involved in incorporating this powerful teaching strategy into course designs.
This 90-minute audio online seminar will cover:
•Designing and implementing critical reflection activities
•Connecting reflection to course content and experiences
•Engaging students in meaningful reflection
•Assessing and grading learning achieved through critical reflection
•What critical reflection is and is not
•The range of critical reflection techniques
•Effective facilitation strategies
•How reflection can address the “big questions” in a discipline
•Applying theory to practice
•Using reflection to challenge simplistic conclusions
This seminar will also include case studies depicting how critical reflection leads to the achievement of course-based learning outcomes.
Who should attend?
This training opportunity is recommended for all campus professionals concerned with improving student learning, including:
•Faculty members in all disciplines
•Faculty involved in service-learning and other experiential courses
•Faculty, academic administrators, and student affairs professionals who coordinate internships, service-learning, and study abroad opportunities
•Faculty trainers
•Directors and staff of Centers for Teaching and Learning
•Student affairs professionals
•Directors and staff of service-learning, community service, and civic engagement offices or programs
•Campus ministers and leadership educators
Unlimited participants at a single site
The cost to participate in this 90-minute audio online seminar is $259, regardless of the number of participants from a single sign-on location at your campus. This is an outstanding opportunity to sharpen the pedagogical skills of all educators at your campus for one affordable, fixed fee. We recommend reserving a lecture hall or meeting space in advance of this event to accommodate a large group.
Your presenter
Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D. is Senior Scholar for the Adele H. Stamp Student Union–Center for Campus Life at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a Fellow of the University’s Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and was a Center for Teaching Excellence Lilly Fellow during the 2007-08 academic year. She writes and consults extensively and makes numerous speeches and presentations across the country.
Q&A
During this live, interactive session, you will have opportunities to share your own experiences with critical reflection and to pose individual questions to Dr. Jacoby.
The key to unlocking deeper levels of understanding is critical reflection. Learn how to use this powerful teaching strategy to enrich the academics at your institution by registering for this seminar today.
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