Workshops 2004

One of the hardest things to do is to document teaching proficiency. This portfolio workshop will help faculty develop an outline for their portfolio and define the content and layout.

This will be a roundtable discussion of grade inflation across the university. Come to learn how it has affected us, what can be done about it, and other related issues.

In this session we will discuss the ways in which faculty and administration can mentor each other and how best to find effective mentors in and outside of your department.

Class sizes keep increasing, so how do we manage the new workload and at the same time maintain our standards for excellent teaching and effective learning? Come to this workshop to share your ideas and learn new perspectives.

Participants will discuss a cumulative impact of cognitive levels on structuring learning objectives, teaching strategies and evaluation methods.

Adjunct Workshop: Tools You Need to Start the Semester

Find out about rosters, grade books, syllabi, course websites, and using any software or campus resources that make your life easier as a UCF Instructor.

Cheating: Detecting and Preventing Academic Dishonesty

This session will explore the issues related to awareness, prevention, detection, and consequences of plagiarism. Learn also about UCF services to detect plagiarism.

In this presentation you will be given a syllabus template with everything that is recommended by the university. We will examine several UCF syllabi according to the rhetorical choices made by their creators toward developing a syllabus that accurately reflects your teaching philosophy and that effectively communicates your expectations to students.

Give students a lasting first impression that will serve you both well throughout the semester. Proven effective strategies for establishing a good rapport, as well as high expectations for performance wiil be discussed.

Getting Students to Work Together Effectively in Groups

This session will focus on teaching strategies for improving the ability of students to participate in collaborative learning. Techniques will be demonstrated for enhancing the motivation of students to learn and to teach each other in small and large discussion groups.

How do we deal with students who are critical of our teaching, either in public or in private? We will model some scenarios, and provide suggestions and hints for turning confrontations into constructive experiences.

Our beliefs and assumptions about teaching and learning always inform our teaching practice, and our practice always reflects what we believe and assume. Whether or not this relationship is effective is another matter. Good teaching is the result of an ongoing dialogue between theory and practice, and good teachers can explain their practices in terms of justifiable beliefs and assumptions. In this session we will discuss some common learning theories and their implications for your teaching practices.

Participants will learn attributes of complex problems that require teamwork and will design several for their own classroom use.

Participants will learn attributes of complex problems that require teamwork and will design several for their own classroom use.

Educators who speak English as a second language face unique linguistic and cultural challenges. We will discuss strategies to ease the transition to a new language and a new culture.

Participants will experience creative classroom techniques that might be used in any size class. By being actively involved, faculty will be able to determine the value of the methods from the student and faculty perspective.

Humor is a tool for engaging students but can also alienate them. This workshop will focus on positive and negative aspects of the use of humor in the classroom.

Identify the “micro-culture” in your class and make it work for you.

Aligning Course Goals and Objectives with Assessment

A tool box of assessment techniques will be opened and participants will discuss aligment of course goals and objectives with different types of assessment.

Participants will learn to set up a new grade sheet in MS Excel, to automate all desired calculations, to graph class performance data, and to format for usability.

Participants will discuss how we measure student achievement with respect to class, course and program requirements and how they are interrelated. Brief encounters with rubrics, classroom assessment techniques and authentic assessment will be included as well as a systemized approach to program and accreditation agency demands.

Viewing assessment as everything educators do, participants will begin developing ways to identify and address excellent practices and those needing to be improved whether in the classroom or in whole programs.

Targeting Learning Outcomes for Program Assessment

Participants will learn how to develop good student learning outcomes at the program level. Strategies for measuring these outcomes will be offered. This session will include matching targeted outcomes to discipline specific certification needs.

If you are in any way interested in ethics in your teaching and in your research, or if you wish to develop ideas and materials for incorporating ethics into your curriculum and projects, please attend this sharing session. If you have materials, bring them. If you have questions, bring them. If you just want to listen in, you will be welcome.

This presentation will review several ideas from David A. Sousa's book of the same title which integrates recent findings about the learning brain with better teaching practices.

Learn how the UCF Arboretum can be used as a classroom for your course, engaging students both literally and figuratively in the natural and constructed landscape. From physics to psychology, from journalisim to math, the Arboretum is a learning laboratory.

Why should you use PowerPoint in your classes? What is the added student learning? What can you incorporate into your PowerPoint presentations to reach all student learning types? In this workshop these and other questions will be discussed and the types of media that can be incorporated into a PowerPoint presentation will be demonstrated. The beginning session will focus on basic skills in PowerPoint. Intermediate sessions will offer some advanced skills.

Service Learning: Setting up and Sustaining Community Partnerships

The better the relationship with a community partner, the better chance for a successful learning experience for students in a Service-Learning class. Come to hear advice on how to initiate, develop and sustain a good partnership where instructor, student and community partner all benefit.