Date: Thursday, 04/07/11
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM CDT
Cost: $249 ($274 after 03/31/11)
Featured Higher Education Presenter: Roben Torosyan, Ph.D.
Classroom discussion–even if it’s online–is a vital part of higher education today, valued as a way to explore course content while promoting critical thinking and effective communication.
Now you can learn how to take your process to the next level with 9 Ways to Use Class Discussion to Promote Transformation, a video online seminar on Thursday, April 7.
Presented by Dr. Roben Torosyan, an authority on faculty development and educational practices, this session will show you how to promote sound thinking and civil communication.
Bypass Resistance with Tested Techniques
If you’ve ever wanted to expand participation, minimize cliques and help students learn how to handle conflict productively, sample techniques from Dr. Torosyan in this 60-minute video online seminar include the following:
•Assign low stress, rapid-fire reading summary reports at random
•Break up clique-based seating with mid-class rearrangements
•Techniques to make sure students can explain positions with which they disagree.
Enrich Your Teaching with Proven Practices
This is some of what you’ll learn during the seminar:
•How to have students set and follow ground rules for classroom discussion
•How to use short, ungraded writing assignments to deepen thinking and discussion
•How to slow the flow of classroom discussion, and probe deeper
•How to hear from (nearly) everyone
•How to make tangents a gift
•How to keep discussion on track or re-frame it
•How to use comments to make the group responsible for its own dynamics
•How to summarize what was learned
•How to infuse variety into classroom discussions.
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.
Who Should Attend
Anyone who uses dialogue and discussion to pursue educational or institutional objectives can benefit from this seminar, including people in the following positions:
•Adjunct and distance education faculty
•College and university professors
•Academic affairs administrators seeking to boost the benefits of meetings
•Graduate student instructors
•Teaching assistants
•Faculty developers and trainers
•Student affairs leaders and staff
Make Enrichment a Campus-Wide Initiative
Improving classroom discussion, promoting critical thinking and encouraging civil communication are goals which resonate across campuses. So why not invite all interested parties, since fees for Magna Online Seminars are assessed on a per site basis? You and all your colleagues can attend for one low fee of $249.
And There’s More
Take part in this video online seminar and you can start taking your classroom discussions to the next level, thanks to these additional materials:
•Sample documents, including an example of an email sent to students who over- or under-participate
•Dos and don’ts
•An article of Torosyan’s on improving classroom discussion
•Questions for further discussion
•The Discussion Guide for Facilitators, designed to help you and your campus community make the most of this seminar.
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