Course Development Workshop Set for Feb. 10
A workshop on course development will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 10, at the Stratford Center in Stratford Heights.
Main presenter Barbara Tewksbury has spoken and published widely on education issues and has played a leadership role in the national geoscience education community for many years.
Tewksbury is the William R. Kenan Professor of Geosciences at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where she has served on the faculty since 1978. She earned her PhD in geology from the University of Colorado.
She was named New York State Professor of the Year in 1997 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and she is the 2004 recipient of the Neil Miner Award for exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth Sciences.
Her presentation will address issues about designing effective and innovative courses and will seek to answer such questions as these:
*Where does my course fit within the undergraduate curriculum?
*Who is my audience? What knowledge and experiences do my students bring with them?
*What are the limitations that I must deal with (such as credit hours or sequencing)?
*What do I want students to be able to do after their time spent in my course? What content needs to be covered for my students to learn what I want for them to know?
*What are the most effective ways to present this content?
*How will I measure their accomplishments and learning?
Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m., and participants will also be able to pick up a continental breakfast. The session will then run from 9 a.m. until noon. To reserve a spot, please send RSVP information to Patrice Woerner at Patrice.Woerner@uc.edu. Further information will be sent out in advance of the event. The Center is at 2634 Stratford Ave., off Clifton Avenue and directly opposite McMicken Hall and Van Wormer. The Stratford Center is beside the parking garage and is distinguished by a green awning with Grill 155 written on it.)
The event is co-sponsored by the A&S Department of Biological Sciences, the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning (CET&L) and the Honors Scholars Program.
Please note that the workshop conflicts with the Universitys Cincinnatus competition. Planners sought for several weeks to work around this conflict, but scheduling left no alternatives.
"While it is important for us to bring Dr. Tewksbury to campus during this part of the academic year, we very much regret the unavoidable conflict with Cincinnatus," said Wayne Hall, Vice Provost for Faculty Development.
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