CRLT’s seminars provide a forum for graduate students and postdocs to explore topics in teaching with colleagues from across campus. Each term, CRLT offers seminars on a variety of topics. All seminars are interactive, solidly grounded in the research on teaching and learning, and designed to offer practical suggestions that can be incorporated into classrooms.
CRLT is prepared to provide necessary physical accommodations for seminar participants with advance notice. Please call CRLT at 764-0505.
Innovative Pedagogies
•Enriching Student Scholarship: Improving Research Assignments and the Sources Students Cite
Monday, October 10, 2:00-4:00pm
•Using Screencasting Technology to Engage Students and Gauge Their Understanding
Tuesday, October 25, 2:00-4:00pm
Research and Best Practices
•Facilitating Classroom Discussions in the Social Sciences & Humanities
Thursday, September 22, 2:00-4:00pm
•Effective Lecturing: Six Steps to Success
Tuesday, September 27, 2:00-4:00pm
Multicultural Teaching
•Six-Session Training for Multicultural Classroom Facilitation
Tuesdays, October 4, 11, 25; November 1, 8, 15, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
•CRLT Players: (dis)Ability in the Classroom
Monday, October 24, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Preparing Future Faculty
•Preparing Future Faculty Conference: Getting Ready for an Academic Career
Wednesday, October 5, 11:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
•What’s It Like To Have a STEM Career at Different Types of Universities?
Wednesday, October 5, 1:10-2:20 p.m.
•What’s It Like To Be an Academic Administrator?
Wednesday, October 5, 2:30-3:40 p.m.
Innovative Pedagogies
Enriching Student Scholarship: Improving Research Assignments and the Sources Students Cite .PDF of PPT Slides Slides will only be available through the end of the Fall 2011 term.
Monday, October 10, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
Do you want your students to become familiar with your discipline's research? Do you want them to find and cite better sources in their research assignments? In this session, you will learn how to design an effective research assignment that leads to higher quality student research and addresses the challenges that students have delving into the serious literature of your discipline. You will also learn how to integrate the BiblioBouts information literacy game into your assignments so that students work together collaboratively and competitively to produce the best bibliography for their selected research topics. Bring your syllabus and assignments so we can discuss their effectiveness and how to synchronize them with BiblioBouts.
Karen Markey, Professor, School of Information
Doreen Bradley, Director of User Education Initiatives, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
Using Screencasting Technology to Engage Students and Gauge Their Understanding
.PDF of PPT Slides
Slides will only be available through the end of the Fall 2011 term.
Tuesday, October 25, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Great Lakes Room South, 4th floor, Palmer Commons
Screen capture technology is best known as a way of posting videos of complete lectures. However, faculty are also using this technology in more targeted ways, creating short supplemental video clips to support student learning in their courses. In this session, a panel of faculty will share their approaches to creating and using screen captures to post short explanations of materials students find difficult. These video segments feel highly personalized because they allow students to review topics of their choice at their own convenience. Participants in this workshop will learn how to leverage screencasting technologies to save faculty time while increasing student success.
Brenda Gunderson, Senior Lecturer in Statistics
Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Benjamin Paloff, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
Erping Zhu, Assistant Director, CRLT
Research and Best Practices
Facilitating Classroom Discussions in the Social Sciences & Humanities
Thursday, September 22, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
How can I heighten student participation in my sections? What are different ways I can plan a discussion and ask questions of students? How can I enhance students’ critical thinking skills? This seminar will provide GSIs in social science and humanities disciplines with effective discussion strategies, including activities like brainstorming, minute papers, think-pair-share, case studies, and a jigsaw discussion. Seminar participants will learn and practice techniques for facilitating discussions, managing common discussion challenges, asking effective questions, and enhancing and evaluating student participation.
Laura Schram, Instructional Consultant, CRLT
Effective Lecturing: Six Steps to Success
Tuesday, September 27, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Electronic Education and Resources Building, 700 East University Avenue, E0530 DIRECTIONS
.PDF of PPT Slides
Slides will only be available through the end of the Fall 2011 term.
This workshop presents a simple six-step process for effective lecturing: 1) start with the students, 2) create the structure, 3) develop each point, 4) adapt for learning, 5) do the last 10%, and 6) deliver dynamically. Time will be given to apply each step to a work in progress. Participants will receive the most benefit if they bring slides or an outline for a lecture they would like to revise or come with a topic and a few main points for a future lecture or presentation.
Anne Harrington, Director, Ross School of Business Instructional Development Program
Multicultural Teaching
Six-Session Training for Multicultural Classroom Facilitation
Tuesdays, October 4, 11, 25; November 1, 8, 15, 3:00-6:00 p.m. (Must attend all 6 sessions)
CRLT Seminar Room,1013 Palmer Commons
Co-sponsored by Rackham School of Graduate Studies and The Program on Intergroup Relations
This training series will provide GSIs with the opportunity to learn and use various models of group facilitation and dialogue for classroom settings. These three-hour sessions will introduce the skills and theory behind various methods of facilitation and examine the strengths and appropriate uses of each method in the classroom. Participants will receive a certificate of training after completing all six sessions.
Crisca Bierwert, Associate Director and Multicultural Coordinator, CRLT
Taryn Petryk, Director of Co-Curricular Initiatives, The Program on Intergroup Relations
CRLT Players: (dis)Ability in the Classroom
Monday, October 24, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Great Lakes Room North, 4th floor, Palmer Commons
In this sketch, the CRLT Players depict an instructor and students struggling with many issues, stereotypes, and dynamics surrounding visible and hidden disabilities in the classroom. Following the performance, the participants are invited to dialogue with the characters, who then repeat the sketch while incorporating audience suggestions.
Jeffrey Steiger, Artistic Director, CRLT Theatre Program
Preparing Future Faculty
Preparing Future Faculty Conference: Getting Ready for An Academic Career
Wednesday, October 5, 11:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Ballroom, 2nd Floor, Michigan League
Co-sponsored by Rackham Graduate School and The Career Center.
Planning a career in academe? This half-day conference is designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars prepare for the transition to faculty jobs. The plenary and concurrent sessions will offer materials and strategies to learn about what it means to pursue an academic career and how to prepare for the job search process. Lunch will be provided. Enrollment is limited.
Featured Conference Sessions:
What's It Like To Have a STEM Career at Different Types of Universities?
Wednesday, October 5, 1:10-2:20 p.m.
Michigan League
Thinking about a faculty career after graduation? This panel focuses on the range of faculty careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields. Panelists will offer strategies for getting a faculty position, as well as for working productively at one, from different institutional perspectives.
Mary Wright, Assistant Director, CRLT
Chiron Graves, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Eastern Michigan University
Cyndee Gruden, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toledo
Bob Megginson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
What’s It Like To Be an Academic Administrator?
Wednesday, October 5, 2:30-3:40 p.m.
Michigan League
Interested in exploring the possibilities for working in academic administration? This panel introduces the range of administrative careers in postsecondary education, many of which also involve a faculty appointment and teaching. Panelists will offer strategies for getting an administrative position, as well as for working productively at one, from different institutional perspectives.
Mary Wright, Assistant Director, CRLT
Steven Volk, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence, Oberlin College
Jann Joseph, Dean of the College of Education, Eastern Michigan University
Henry Dyson, LSA Academic Advisor, LSA Individual Concentration Program
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