Well, we used to be the third Wednesday workshops, but now CETL offers monthly faculty development workshops from 12:30-1:45 on selected Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays.  Faculty members can access materials for these presentations through the links below.  One can either download the Power Point files or view them through one's browser on the web and in some cases, listen to the audio portion of a workshop over our pod casting channels.  

CETL is also committed to a faculty-driven model. Consequently, we are making efforts to assess our workshops in order to ensure we are meeting faculty needs and responding to their interests. To view the results of our assessment surveys, please click here. 

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September 15, 2004 Dr. Doug Oetter, Assistant Professor of Geography, GC&SU, Problem-Based Learning: Power Point download or web display . Audio available through our pod casting channel,
http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/Channel/29.xml.

October 2004 Dr. Dayna Brown, visiting ACE fellow, Authentic Assessment (handouts not available online).

November 2004  Dr. Jamil Zainaldin, President of the Georgia Humanities Council.  Discussion of Thomas Ehrlich and Anne Colby, Educating Citizens.  This is available through our pod casting channel,
http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/Channel/29.xml.

 

February 16, 2005  Dr. Harry Dangel, Georgia State University.  Strategies for Documenting Teaching Effectiveness.  Power point download or web display

April 15, 2005 Mary Huba on Assessment

August 31 Mini-Grants/SOTL Workshop 115 Beeson Hall 12:30 led by Drs. Cynthia Alby, Deborah Vess, and Autumn Grubb

September 30 Teaching Tips

A series of informative teaching tips presented in mini-bytes by various faculty members, including how to create and distribute a pod cast, and how to use audio documentaries in the classroom. Beeson 115 3:00. Join us for the last Friday Faculty Club immediately after the session at the Museum of Natural History. 

October 5 The Flickering Mind

Panel discussion featuring Jessica Somers (BOR), Autumn Grubb, and Steve Stork as facilitators. Free copy of the book to participants.

November 30 Technology Best Practices

Series of informative presentations on best practices in educational technology. 

January 11 Dr. Mary Jane Philips and Jennifer Strole from Counseling Services offer a presentation on stages of student development from a cognitive and behavioral standpoint.  Beeson 115. 12:30. 

Handouts: Overview of the session; description of The Millennial student; Marginality and Mattering; Baxter-Magolda on cognitive development; practice scenarios

February 1 What is effective grading and how can good grading practices promote learning?

Discussion of various issues related to grading using Barbara Walvoord's recent book on grading as a point of discussion. We'll begin with her first couple of chapters and continue to explore other aspects of her book in subsequent sessions on March 1 and April 19.   Facilitator: Autumn Grubb.  Beeson 115.  12:30. 

March 1 Grading discussion part II Facilitator: Autumn Grubb.  Beeson 115 12:30

March 3 Workshop on Collaborative and Active Learning 12:30-3:30 Beeson 115

Dr. Elizabeth Barkley, Foothill College, explores various ways to design effective collaborative contexts to maximize learning.  Participants will receive a free copy of Elizabeth's book. 

April 7 Dealing with Difficult Situations in the Classroom

Dr. Betsy Lucal, from Indiana University South Bend, offers a workshop on handling conflict in the classroom.  Co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Beeson 115. 12:30.

September 27, 2006

What is Effective Teaching? Students and faculty discuss together the characteristics of effective teaching.  Click here to see the results of the students' discussion in Microsoft Word format.

October 27, 2006

Motivating Students. Dr. Christy Price, Dalton College, and Lynn Boteler, Kennesaw State University, will present a 3 hour workshop from 12:30-3:30. 

January 17, 2007 Turnitin.com workshop Chappel 203 12:30

January 26, 2007 Museum Education Room

Dr. Dee Fink is here for a full day workshop with administrators and faculty on Creating Significant Learning Experiences.

8:00-9:00 A.M. Meeting with School of Education.

9:30-Noon Administrators workshop.

1:30-4:00 Faculty workshop

February 7 Exploring the Dimensions of Learning University Banquet Room, Side A 12:30 

Roundtable discussions with students and faculty. 

February 15 Learner-Centered Teaching  Beeson 115 2:00-4:00

Workshop centered around Maryellen Weimer's book.

February 28 Academic Affairs meeting: SOTL and tenure and promotion A&S auditorium, 12:30

March 7 SOTL Poster Session Chappel 113  12:30

March 15 Problem-Based learning Beeson 115 2:00-4:00

CETL-facilitated workshop and free book.

April 4 Team-Based Learning Beeson 115 12:30

Workshop and free book. 

May 11 Publish and Flourish!

Workshop by Dr. Tara Gray, New Mexico State University 9:00 A.M.-3:30 A.M. University Banquet Room side A

Come learn how to increase your scholarly productivity!

 

August 6 Publish and Flourish!

Workshop by Dr. Tara Gray, New Mexico State University 9:00 A.M.-3:30 A.M. University Banquet Room side A

Come learn how to increase your scholarly productivity!

August 9 Fall Teaching and Learning Day

Dr. Nel Noddings, Stanford University, Caring and Higher Education

Nel Noddings is one of the most important names in the philosophy of education. Come learn about some of her most famous insights into the ethics of caring and education. University Banquet Room, Side A 9:00-Noon Free lunch provided

September 26 Rubrics

Have you ever been frustrated (and exhausted) after a long grading session? Have you wanted to find a way to provide more efficient and helpful feedback but just cannot imagine making more time to do it? If so, come to Dr. Cynthia Alby’s workshop on rubrics on September 26, 2007, from 12:30-1:45. The workshop will be held in the Mac Lab in the library.

Brief Description of the Session

Rubrics provide a way for you to provide detailed feedback to students very quickly AND they provide a means for students to critique their own work prior to handing it in to you. Many professors who switch to using rubrics report a) an increase in the quality of student work, b) a decrease in the amount of time they spend grading, c) a greater sense of consistency in their grading, and d) an increase in the quality and quantity of feedback they can provide. Rubrics work particularly well for grading student presentations when you find yourself struggling to pay attention and write comments at the same time.

This workshop will focus on websites that can help those new to rubrics create rubrics quickly and easily, and it will also provide an opportunity for those who have used rubrics to learn about how to fine-tune those rubrics to better meet their needs.

October 10 Faculty Development Workshop: Framing Issues in South Asia (Organized by IDST and Co-Sponsored by CETL)
Dr. Sudha Ratan  will discuss the various prisms through which South Asia has been discussed in academic and policy circles in the 20th Century.  She will also provide readings that will help faculty effectively incorporate aspects of the region in their classes. Venue and Time: 12:30 p.m., Bobcat Dining Room.  Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
This event is open to all teaching faculty at Georgia College.  Faculty members who are interested in participating in this workshop should contact Sunita Manian if you have not already done so. 

 

October 17, 2007 MERLOT 101 MAC LAB library 12:30-1:45

Clinician: Jeanne Sewell 

Have you taken some time to explore MERLOT lately?  MERLOT, multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching, is an international repository of links to learning resources for higher education.  This session will offer an overview of MERLOT for both new and old members.  Jeanne Sewell, the Editor for the Health Sciences editorial board, will demonstrate functionality you might not know exists or were afraid to ask about. You will learn about how to find quality learning resources, assignments, the review process, RSS feeds and more!  

The MERLOT repository has over 17, 500 learning resources and a membership of 50,244.  Membership is free.  The learning resources are peer reviewed by members on eighteen editorial boards.  This is a great opportunity, to learn how you might want to incorporate excellent interactive learning resources into your courses.  Who knows, you may come away with a desire to create and share your own ideas for learning!

 

October 22, 2007

Crises on Campus: Responses and Resources University Banquet Room 12:30-1:45

Download the powerpoint presentation

Join a panel of GCSU faculty and staff to discuss signs that may indicate a member of the GCSU community is in crisis and needs intervention.  Research findings, verbal interventions, campus/community resources, and legal/ethical considerations will be discussed.  Learning strategies for this presentation include discussion and group participation via scenarios.

Panelists:  Dr. Mary Jane Phillips, Director, GCSU Counseling Services; Dr. Barbara Funke, Professor of Health Education & Interim Co-Chair, Dept. of Kinesiology; Dr. Martha Colvin, RN, CNS/PMH, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Undergraduate Nursing;  Scott Butler, Asst. Professor, Health Education, Dept. of Kinesiology; Ms. Shaina McGill, Senior Director for Advising and Retention, Center for Student Success; Ms. Eve Puckett, Assistant Director for Residence Education, University Housing.

 

October 31, 2007 Teaching with Case Studies Museum Education Room  12:30-3:30

Guest clinician: Dr. Michael Katz 

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce participants to the nature and function of case study analysis in ethics.  Case study analysis is a standard approach to teaching applied ethics throughout the United States and elsewhere and most "business ethics" text include several case studies at the back of the chapters. In Professional Education, the series edited by Kenneth Strike and Jonis Soltis is the most widely used set of texts in educational ethics.

In this workshop the participants will be given an opportunity to learn how to engage in case study analysis, analysis that consists of three parts: a) explaining what is morally problematic in a particular case; b) exploring options for the decision maker in the case;  c) choosing the course of action that seems most ethically appropriate---and engaging in supportive moral reasoning to justify this choice.  Two forms of justification are typically used in ethics course--justification based on an analysis of the consequences of a particular decision (consequentialist justifications) and non-consequentialist or principled decision making, sometimes thought of as duty theory justification or deontological justification.  Cases with some relevance to the participants will be constructed for the purposes of this workshop.  A set of useful handouts will accompany the workshop as well as a bibliography for further reading.

Michael S. Katz is a Professor of Secondary Education and Philosophy at San Jose State where he has taught since 1986.  Michael received his B.A. from Amherst College and his MA and Ph.D. from Stanford University (1974). He is the author of over thirty articles and monographs and the editor of Justice and Care in Education (Teachers College Press).  He has been working with prospective teachers since 1974 and has taught at The American University, The University of Nebraska at Omaha, San Francisco State and Stanford, in addition to San Jose State. He is presently President-elect of the North American Philosophy of Education Society. 

*Special thanks to Joe DeVitis for his help in arranging this session.