Autumn 2007 Events
In addition to university-wide events, FTAD collaborates with colleges, campuses, and departments to develop events specifically tailored to meet the needs of that unit. A list of some of the possible event topics is available as well as former events. Call FTAD, (614) 292-3644 if you’d like to talk to us about developing an event for your unit. For additional seminars, workshops, conferences, and training about integrating learning technologies into teaching and learning, please visit Technopoli for a current calendar of state-wide professional development opportunities.
Throughout the year, FTAD facilitates workshops, forums, and seminars on a variety of issues concerning college teaching and learning. A calendar of university-wide events is also published in our quarterly Events on Teaching newsletter.
A CONFERENCE FOR NEW TAs
September 10-12 (Mon. - Weds.), 2007
2007 University-Wide Orientation on Teaching & Learning
This conference is a free orientation designed for Teaching Associates (TAs) at The Ohio State University. Most sessions are facilitated by senior TAs; others are larger panel discussions. This orientation is designed to reduce anxieties you might have, provide techniques and strategies for effective teaching, and suggest resources for further assistance.
In some cases, departments have made session recommendations for their TAs. Your registration page will indicate whether or not your department has designed such a track for you. Recommendations for sessions based upon teaching duties and session descriptions are available. For more information on which sessions are most appropriate for you, contact your department. If you have questions concerning registration, contact us at ftad@osu.edu
FALL EVENTS FOR THE COLLEGE TEACHING SERIES
Developing Effective Presentation Skills
September 27 (Thurs.) - 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Facilitating Classroom Discussion
October 4 (Thurs.) - 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Teaching Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom
October 11 (Thurs.) - 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Responding to Student Writing
October 18 (Thurs.) - 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
FALL EVENTS ON TEACHING
Tools for Educational Research: Design and Methodology for SoTL
October 17 (Weds.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Drawing to Learn: Visual Composition Across the Curriculum
October 24 (Weds.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
An Overview to the Academic Job Search
October 30 (Tues.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fighting Plagiarism Doesn’t Have to be Scary: Ethics & Student Writing
October 31 (Weds.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Developing Teaching & Research Statements for the Academic Job Search
November 6 (Tues.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Writing Across Borders: Helping International Students
November 7 (Weds.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Interviewing Skills for the Academic Job Search
November 13 (Tues.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Teaching Portfolios for the Academic Job Search
November 20 (Tues.) - 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
TOAST EVENT
TOAST Open Session for the Ohio State Community
The Ohio State Association for the Scholarship of Teaching
Open Session for Ohio State community – Panel on “International Perspectives on SoTL in Communities”
Former Events this Quarter
When You Have Troubling Students in Your Classroom: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm
300 Younkin Success Center
Chief Paul Denton, Campus Police
Louise Douce, Counseling & Consultation Service
Kashif Khan, Multi-Cultural Resource Center
Sarah Newlin, Campus Suicide Prevention Program
Michael Wright, Registrar's Office (FERPA)
Laurie Maynell, Kathryn Plank, & Bernadette Vankeerbergen, FTAD
In the wake of the recent tragic events at Virginia Tech, many faculty, TAs, and college staff across the nation and here at Ohio State are struggling with a host of issues related to student welfare as well as safety and security in the classroom. These issues range from simply showing concern for and reaching out to a student who may be having difficulty to legal and privacy questions to dealing with potentially dangerous situations in a classroom. Additionally, media coverage of the event has increased the level of apprehension by focusing on traits of the perpetrator that are easily subject to stereotyping and misinformation.
Many individuals in the university community have expressed the need for a forum where they can address such concerns. In this session, we will bring together a panel of experts to discuss policies and resources at Ohio State. Representatives from the Multi-Cultural Center, Campus Police, Counseling & Consultation Service, FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), and the Campus Suicide Prevention Program will be on hand to share useful information and answer questions.
Tools for Educational Research: Human Subjects and SoTL
Monday, April 23
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
150 Younkin Success Center
The Ohio State Association for the Scholarship of Teaching
As we develop plans to investigate teaching and learning questions, it is essential to consider how to ensure the safe and ethical treatment of our? human subjects. During this session Shari Speer (Linguistics) and Sandra Meadows (Office of Responsible Research) will help us identify ethical issues that arise when?studying our own students and research strategies?that protect them. In addition, we will learn how to successfully describe our research protocols in our applications to the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
InterACT Diversity Players: Disability in the Classroom
Tuesday, April 24
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
150 Younkin Success Center
The sketches address the disability policy at OSU as well as general difficulties faced by those with disabilities. Once the sketches are performed, the actors remain in character and are involved in an improvisational interactive Q&A with the audience. The intention is that the students and the audience continue to dialogue about the issues raised. The desired outcome is raised awareness about the policy as well as potential roadblocks that could occur when assisting people with disabilities.
Course Portfolios: Documenting the Intellectual Work of Teaching
Friday, April 13
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
150 Younkin Success Center
Amy Goodburn, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course, and is an invaluable took for documenting and reflecting on the quantity and quality of student learning. This workshop intends to help instructors conceptualize how their teaching—and the student learning that results—can be made visible as they develop their own models for peer review of teaching that seek to document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through use of a courses portfolio.
Amy Goodburn is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where, she teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies.
Developing a Teaching Portfolio
Tuesday, May 1
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
150 Younkin Success Center
Stephanie Rohdieck (FTAD)
This session will address the major issues involved in preparing a teaching portfolio, such as constructing a personal philosophy of teaching statement, describing teaching responsibilities, choosing appropriate artifacts of teaching to include, collecting and synthesizing teaching feedback data, and reflecting on teaching. Participants will get an introduction to developing a portfolio and take part in activities that will help get the reflective process started. Participants needing additional assistance in preparing specific parts of a portfolio are encouraged to make an individual appointment with an FTAD consultant. Brown bag lunch is optional.
Storytelling for International TAs
Thursday, May 3
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Laurie Maynell (FTAD)
As teachers, we often use examples and analogies to illustrate concepts. Telling stories is also a way to help students understand concepts. For international instructors, sharing their stories to help explain concepts in class can also serve as a means for developing language skills. In this session we will discuss the benefits of storytelling in class, practice telling stories to each other, and think about ways to develop stories for teaching.
Mini-Conference on Scholarship, Teaching, and Best Practices
Friday, May 4
9:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Digital Union, Science and Engineering Library
The Academy of Teaching
The Ohio State University Academy of Teaching is offering a one-day seminar on Friday, May 4 showcasing excellence in the scholarship of teaching and learning through the best practices of its members. This free seminar is open to all faculty, graduate students, and staff who want to improve their instructional skills and learn more about the vital link between teaching excellence and scholarship.
Ownership of Language: International Instructors Responding to Student Writing
Thursday, May 10
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
150 Younkin Success Center
Laurie Maynell (FTAD) and Lisya Seloni (Center for the Study of Teaching and Writing)
Teaching in a language that is not your native language can be challenging, especially if your class is a writing class or a class that has a significant writing component. Students with native English speaking knowledge may challenge the judgment of international instructors when it comes to providing feedback on their papers. In this session, we will talk about the challenges involved in teaching writing in your second (third, or fourth) language, and strategies to meet/overcome those challenges.
Critical Thinking: What is it? How do we get our students to do it?
Friday, May 11
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
150 Younkin Success Center
Stephanie Rohdieck and Kathryn Plank (FTAD)
Have you ever been frustrated that your students don’t think critically in the ways that you want them to? If so, you’re facing one of the universal challenges of teaching. In this session we will discuss what we mean by “critical thinking” and how cognitive development theories and research help us better understand our students’ intellectual and ethical development. We will also explore teaching strategies to help us better serve a wide range of students. We’ve scheduled a longer session than usual to allow time to thoroughly explore these challenging issues and work on practical applications for our own classes.
InterAct Diversity Players: Academic Rights and Responsibilities
Tuesday, May 15
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
150 Younkin Success Center
Students and instructors sometimes differ about what is intellectually relevant to the subject matter of a class and what is personal opinion. In this interactive theatre workshop, we will observe vignettes that focus on issues of academic rights and responsibilities. We will look at some of the interactions that may arise when students feel they have been treated unfairly on the basis of political opinions, religious beliefs, or other personally held tenets, as well as when instructors believe students are resisting learning about important subjects because these challenge them to examine their prior opinions. We will then discuss these issues and strategies to address them.
The U.S. System of Higher Education
Tuesday, April 3
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
300 Younkin Success Center
Laurie Maynell (FTAD)
Designed for TAs unfamiliar with U.S. higher education, this session will bring forth issues about cross-cultural differences between the U.S. and other countries in structures, values, communication patterns, and teacher-student interaction.
Collaborative Learning I Tuesday, April 10
Collaborative Learning II Tuesday, April 17
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
300 Younkin Success Center
Kathryn Plank and Judy Ridgway (FTAD)
The use of student groups is common in many types of courses, including labs, recitations, and lectures. This two-part series is designed to help you decide when and how best to use this teaching method. In part I, we will discuss issues of planning assignments and forming groups. In part II, we will explore strategies for managing groups and for assessing group work fairly.
Comparison of Computer-Based versus Paper-Based Examinations for Doctor of Pharmacy Students in a Drug Information Course
May 23, 2007
Maria C. Pruchnicki, Jennifer L. Rodis, and Anand Khurma (College of Pharmacy); and Judy Ridgway (FTAD)
3:30-5:00pm
150 Younkin Success Center
Educational technologies and software applications are increasingly available to faculty as they plan for, administer, and evaluate courses in their discipline. The ultimate goal in using these tools is to improve the learners’ educational experience. However, faculty must often overcome operational challenges related to their use and evaluate the impact on instructional goals and student satisfaction. This interactive presentation will discuss a scholarly approach to a technology project, and describe our pilot as a case example.
TOAST Event
TOAST Open Session for the Ohio State Community
Thursday, May 24, 2007
1:30-3:00pm
Younkin Success Center
The Ohio State Association for the Scholarship of Teaching
Open Session for Ohio State community – Panel on “International Perspectives on SoTL in Communities”