Bridge the Practical and the Theoretical
Event Date: 5/3/2011
Time: 1:00 pm Central
Length: 60 minutes
Event Registration $239 Register today and save! (Price increases to $264 after 4/26/11)
Seminar CD now includes bonus material:
PDF Transcript of online seminar
Facilitator’s Discussion Guide
Supplemental Materials
Power Point Handouts
Event Description
The Seminar CD ships 7-10 days following the live seminar.
Featured Presenter: Alice Cassidy, Ph.D.
Alice Cassidy is principal of Alice Cassidy In View Education and Professional Development. She has a B.Sc. (honours) from the University of Victoria, an M.Sc. from McGill University and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (UBC). For the past 15 years, she held leadership roles at UBC’s campus-wide Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth (TAG) and associated Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL).
Since the mid-1980s, she has designed, directed, facilitated and/or taught a wide variety of educational programs, including the award-winning Shad Valley Program for high-school students; university courses in biology and education for undergraduate and graduate students; science education and natural history field classes; teaching and learning seminars for instructors at post-secondary institutions in BC, Ontario and China, and customized workshops for professionals in organizations in the community.
Her areas of focus include active and participatory learning, professional development for organizations, use of self-directed learning, problems and cases in real-world settings, instructional and narrative skills, and students as active collaborators in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
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We all want to help students learn. Decades of classic publications provide the foundation. Yet educators also seek practical applications–the nuts and bolts of working with an educational strategy in the classroom.
Ten Ways to Actively Engage Your Students, an audio online seminar set for Tuesday, May 3, blends the theoretical with the practical, and explores it all in light of growing interest in active learning.
In this seminar presenter Alice Cassidy, Ph.D., will draw from her more than 20 years of teaching and facilitating to link examples of active engagement with their theoretical basis and demonstrate potential benefits to students.
This seminar and its supplemental material, including over 50 web links and examples from multiple disciplines, will give you a large collection of searchable and linkable ideas you can start using in your next class.
Learning Objectives for You and Your Students
During this audio online seminar you’ll learn how to:
Use 10 techniques to actively engage your learners
Get to know your students early in the term and ‘break the ice’
Invite students to start some classes, building community and responsibility
Design in-class activities where students connect current events and issues to course material
Have students come to class having done pre-readings or other prep work
Hear student voices in class using quick, easy-to-use methods
Add creativity to your teaching repertoire
Receive valuable feedback from students at various points during the course
Explore over 50 techniques and web links, adapting many examples to your own discipline and context
Facilitating Participatory Learning
Alice Cassidy, Ph.D. is principal of In View Education and Professional Development, designing and leading workshops and seminars on teaching, learning and professional development. Cassidy’s background includes 15 years as the associate director of the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth at the University of British Columbia. She served in leadership roles with the Educational Developers Caucus and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in both Education and Zoology for 15 years.
Active Learning for You
In this seminar Cassidy models what she teaches. Fully 80% of this audio online seminar with Adobe Connect is devoted to participatory learning activities, so you can start boosting student engagement in your next class.
Most of the 10 teaching techniques to promote active student engagement will be modeled through poll questions and chat. You’ll have a chance to share your background, ask questions, practice techniques and share your thoughts on using these strategies in your classes.
You’ll receive supplemental tools you can use to build student engagement, including:
A summary of all contributions made during the seminar
Web links to more examples, details and references
Questions for self-assessment
Sample documents
Questions for further discussion.
Who Should Attend
This seminar is designed for people interested in active learning and who want to improve, refine or build on their teaching skills. If you work in an educational institution or setting, this seminar can expand your teaching techniques. People in the following positions will particularly benefit from this seminar:
University and college instructors
Educational and faculty developers
Take It Campus-wide for One Low Fee
Helping students learn is everyone’s business in higher education, and thanks to Magna’s audio online seminar fee structure you can afford to invite almost everyone. Since fees are assessed on a per site basis–not per person–all those interested in promoting active learning can attend at one site for one low fee of $239.
You’ll even get a chance to play “Snowball”–one of Cassidy’s Ten Ways to Actively Engage Your Students–the way you would with your students.
The Discussion Guide for Facilitators
To help you boost student engagement, put the strategies you learned to work and find ways to share best practices, you’ll also get a copy of the Discussion Guide for Facilitators, just for being a participant in a Magna audio online seminar.
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