17th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Symposium

8:00-8:30

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:50

Welcome & Opening Remarks -- Provost Paul Ludden
The Center, the Academy & Coming Events -- Ron Wetherington, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence

8:50-10:30

Plenary Session -- Engaging the 21st Century Student: A Range of Interactive Options to Enhance Your Classroom (Presentation - choose read only to view)

Students today are growing up in a very different world than many of our models for higher education were designed to serve. Cell phones, text messaging, blogging, wikis, and tweeting, are all common verbiage and behaviors for students in the 21st Century. Students today are regular contributors of their ideas, beliefs and comments through various outlets. It is time to re-think how we teach and even what we teach to allow students to become more active participants in the learning process, both inside and outside of the classroom.

Panel members will discuss and demonstrate how they use a wide range of interactive techniques to effectively reach students today. They will demonstrate how their techniques achieve a variety of both standard and domain specific learning objectives. Interactive options to be discussed range from simple role play ideas or experiences helping in our local community to educational gaming applications.

Participants of the event will walk away with fresh and interactive techniques to enhance their lectures and a pool of options for better engaging today’s students. Resources for integrating interactive activities, applications and educational games will also be provided. Specific links to articles on the topic and relevant websites as well as articles focused on the pedagogical issues related to these types of teaching methods will be distributed. Come and share in the discussions and demonstrations of new avenues for engaging students of the 21st Century in your classroom.

Resources

8:50 - 9:05 am -- Carrie La Ferle, Temerlin Advertising Institute

9:10 - 9:20 am -- Lynne Stokes, Department of Statistical Science

9:25 - 9:40 am -- David Willis, Department of Mechanical Engineering 

9:45 - 10:00 am -- Daniel Schill, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs

10:05 - 10:15 am -- Brad Boeke, Academic Computing

10:15 - 10:30 am -- Q&A

10:30 - 11:00

Break -- Resource Area (3rd Floor of the Dallas Hall Rotunda)

11:00 - 12:00

Breakout Sessions, I

1. Using Rubrics in Course Construction and in Assessment
   Monnie McGee, Associate Professor, Statistical Science
   Examples:
   > Statistics 5371 Project Guideline
   > Rubric for Data Analysis, 5371 Project
   > Project Description
   > Project Rubric
   
   Mark McPhail, Chair, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs
   Examples:
   > Diagnostic Performance, CCPA 2310
   > Performance Evaluation Criteria (Rubric)
   > In Class Essay #3
   > Writing Criteria (Rubric)
   
   
2. The Effective Use of e-Portfolios by Faculty and Students
   Dennis Cordell, Associate Dean, History
   Michael Tumeo, Assistant Director, Institutional Research
   Handout:
   > ePortfolios
   
3. New Faculty Orientation (Attendance required by new faculty only.)
   Vicki Hill, A-LEC

12:00 - 12:30

Break (Boxed lunches available in the foyer.)

12:30 - 1:30

Breakout Sessions, II (Repeat - Only Sessions 1 & 2)

1:45

Guided Library Tours