Training and Professional Development

  • Teaching Talks - September Schedule

    You are invited to participate in a series of informal teaching talks throughout 2017.  These are opportunities for participants to comfortably share teaching concerns and discuss techniques and strategies with colleagues, experts, and CETL staff.  All sessions will take place in Rowe 319.  All UConn instructors —graduate students, TAs, and APIRs, as well as adjunct, tenure-track and tenured faculty—are encouraged to attend.

    Contact Suzanne LaFleur if you have questions or would like more information.

     

    Friday, September 8              1:30 – 2:45                  Creating a Positive Classroom Environment

    We will discuss such topics as:

    • Maintaining a positive attitude

    • Making students feel welcome and showing you care

    • Encouraging student participation and active learning

    • Giving choices and engaging student passion

    • Sharing the instructor’s passion for the subject

    • Providing opportunities for active learning

    • Celebrating success and celebrating failure

    • Using humor to make and/or emphasize a point

    Register here

     

    Tuesday, September 12                    1:00 – 2:15                  Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation

    At this session, participants will discuss topics like

    • Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

    • The role of choice in motivation

    • Engaging student passion as a means of motivation

    • The importance of the teacher/student relationship in motivating students

    • Challenge and reward

    • The reluctant learner


    Register here

     

    Thursday, September 21                   1:30 – 2:45                  Public Speaking and Presentation Tips for Teachers

    We will discuss topics such as:

    • Interrupting the lecture- small group discussion, large group discussion, questions- yours and theirs…

    • Effective use of PowerPoint slides

    • Speaking the students’, or audience’s language, and making the presentation fit the audience

    • Moving away from the board or the podium

    • Effective use of humor

    Register here

     

    Wednesday, September 27              2:00 – 3:15                  Less Listening, More Active Participation (via WebEx)

    At this session, participants will discuss topics like

    • When do I need to lecture, and when may I allow students to learn on their own?

    • Overcoming obstacles to active learning

    • Opening the lecture to increase active learning

    • Strategies to activate the classroom

    • Making students part of the planning process

    • Active learning through projects, problem solving activities, experiments…

    • Giving choices

    • Specific things to consider for the beginner

    Register here

     

    For more information, contact: Suzanne LaFleur at suzanne.lafleur@uconn.edu