Workshops 2005

Academic standards - what does this mean to faculty and students?

In this workshop faculty will discuss academic standards, what that means to faculty and students, and how to ensure that each stakeholder is aware of the standards of the course or program.

Developing a Faculty Portfolio

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.

How to Develop, Strengthen and Maintain a Healthy Voice

This workshop will cover exercises from the Linklater Technique. Kristin Linklater is one of the leading Vocal Experts in the world. Tips from her technique will help you develop volume and endurance, without damaging your voice. Please come dressed in warm-up clothes and have something committed to memory ready to speak.

Mentoring and Being Mentored

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.

What faculty need to know about undergraduate research programs RAMP and McNair Scholars

This session is intended to empower UCF faculty and staff with the knowledge of potential local and national undergraduate research opportunities. We will provide insight into mentoring and advising strategies designed to help underrepresented students understand the nuances of graduate education.

Writing for Top Tier Academic Journals

Fevzi Okumus's workshop on writing for academic journals will be an interactive workshop on key success factors for writing academically. The session will contain some helpful hints to getting your work published and will have an interactive question and answer session on writing. Best practices will be shared.

Assessing Assessment

Evaluating the appropriateness of assessment tools for various content, skills and values; a brief encounter with validity.

Assessing Student Performance and Teaching Strategies

From goals and objective to assessment and improvement, this discussion will focus on an integrated assessment system that addresses individual student performance and teaching effectiveness. (An introduction to rubrics is included.)

Assessment

Selecting the most effective assessment strategies for courses, programs and your SoTL projects.

Assessment Strategies that Work

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

Assessment Tools

Join in the discussion of various assessment tools and the best ways to implement them to assess student learning.

Building a Grade book in MS Excel

We will walk through a grade book template and customize it to your syllabus. Please bring your syllabus with a breakdown of your scoring policy.

Creating Effective Diagnostic Assessments

This session addresses two purposes: 1) getting students focused on course goals and objectives and 2) collecting data about student learning. We will look at using content questionnaires, confidence surveys, learning styles inventories, and attitude surveys that build a foundation for subsequent formative and summative assessment of student learning outcomes.

Creative Assessments: Tying Assessments to Program and Course Objectives

Participants should bring a copy of their syllabus and we will examine how objectives are assessed. We will talk also about suggestions for using "creative assessments" and explore best practices on assessment techniques that others have used in the past.

Developing Your Own Rubric

In this workshop you will develop a rubric for assessment of a class assignment. Bring your assignment objectives and leave with a completed rubric

Effective Grading Strategies

In this workshop participants will discuss criteria for making grading easier, more efficient, and more useful to the student.

Program and Classroom Assessment

Aligning assessment tools with teaching strategies and cognitive levels.

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.

Rubrics = Expectations and Evaluation

Rubrics are useful for multiple purposes in the learning process including the establishment of criteria and expected levels of performance. They provide us with intra-rater reliability to ensure we evaluate the top and bottom of the stack with the same standards. They provide us with inter-rater reliability when the same assignment is used by multiple instructors.

Rubrics: What Are They And How Do They Meet Assessment Criteria?

This program will feature the development and writing of rubrics to meet assessment criteria. Techniques will be highlighted to assist you in developing objectives and activities to meet the goals of your courses. A Sample assessment and rubric will be shared with attendees.

Test Construction

Why do you test your students? How do you test your students? Is there a way to improve your tests? Join with us to discuss the answers to these questions and others that will provide tools to construct effective assessments of student learning.

101 Tips for Teaching Large Classes

How do we maintain our standards for excellent teaching and effective learning when teaching large or even very large classes? Come to this workshop to share your ideas and learn new perspectives.

Classroom Response Systems

Looking for ways to engage your students? Increase student accountability in large classes? Innovate your delivery methods? This session will offer you an overview of various student response systems and a demonstration.

Collaborative Learning & Social Capital

This workshop will illustrate how collaborative learning can be enhanced in a classroom environment. The workshop will use social network analysis to assess the students' performance in collaboration during the term using the class as an organizational setting. The instructor collects course related and friendship network data at the beginning of the each term and toward the end of the term. Then, these two sets of network data compared to see the change in collaboration and networking among students over the term. We will discover implications and suggestions for implementing these activities in other courses and settings.

Collaborative Testing: Process and Outcomes

Come by to learn about using collaborative testing, having students complete examinations as a group as well as individually. Research on the outcomes of this testing approach will be included.

Collecting materials to demonstrate effective teaching and learning

In this workshop the different ways in which one can demonstrate effective teaching and learning will be discussed. This is useful for those interested in alternative ways to assess teaching excellence that include, but are not focused on, student evaluations only.

Communication in the Classroom and Effective Teaching

In this workshop you will learn techniques that enhance the motivation of students to learn from and to teach each other.

Constructive Engagement in the Classroom

Constructive Engagement (CE) is a collaborative learning technique that requires students to research, synthesize knowledge, and communicate this knowledge to other students. This session will describe the CE process, provide the tools for faculty to implement CE in their own classes, and provide a demonstration of CE in action.

Cultural Perceptions and Classroom Incivility

To what extent do cultural perceptions, shaped by stereotypes and social power, influence the occurrences of student classroom incivility? This workshop will provide strategies for reducing the level of classroom incivility to the point where classroom incivility can be a constructive force.

Designing an Effective Syllabus

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.

Focusing Students on Learning

This session addresses two purposes: getting our students focused on learning goals and collecting quantitative data about student learning. We will look at using learning styles inventories, attitude surveys, and knowledge surveys toward building a foundation for better assessment of student learning and for student engagement.

From Idea to Innovation to Realization

This session will provide an introduction to the Office of Research & Commercialization and the programs and services available to support technology transfer, entrepreneurship and commercialization.

Growing With The Developing Classroom Technology

This workshop highlights one instructor’s movement from chalk and talk to the electronic classroom. Presenter will demonstrate how to adapt a course to use developing technologies in the classroom. A sample course will be examined.

Handling Negative Student Feedback

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.

How To Teach Using the Case Study Method

This seminar will review the pros and cons of teaching using case studies or problem based learning. You will come away with various types of case studies and some key ways to make your teaching more effective by using case studies.

Interactive Teaching Ideas to Start the Semester (or how to get students on board)

Engaging students in their own learning is one of the challenges that we face each time we teach. In this workshop the participants will share different teaching ideas, determination of standards and how to best communicate expectations to the students.

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.

This interactive workshop will review the structure of course design and give examples of different kinds of course syllabi. We will revise and clarify our teaching goals, outcomes, delivery methods, and assessments toward a more effective syllabus.

Just in time teaching is a new methodology designed to engage students by using feedback from pre-class web assignments to adjust classroom lessons, so that students receive rapid response to specific questions and problems rather than generic lectures. Many teachers have found that this process also encourages students to take more control of the learning process and become active and interested learners.

Learn techniques to help reach all of your students. By understanding your learning style and teaching style you will better understand how you approach teaching. Opportunities for expanding teaching methods to facilitate learning for all students will be reviewed.

Adjuncts don't always know where to find the help they need, from nuts & bolts like rosters and gradebooks, to theoretical pedagogical issues like course design and classroom management. We can help!

Come explore several content presentation methods for changing teaching delivery to enhance learning, and leave with new ideas for your classes.

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

Bring a hardcopy of your favorite lesson plan, assignment, or learning activity and be ready to describe it and to share it with other faculty members. Snacks will be served, fun shall be had. We will make enough copies to share with everyone.

Structuring and Assessing Face-to-face and Online Discussions

Some students struggle seeing the relevance of classroom discussions; they don’t usually think of discussion as a valuable outcome or as evidence of their thinking. In this workshop we will develop specific objectives, procedures, and evaluation criteria for discussion-based learning. If you have current or past assignments, please bring them in.

Student Learning Outcomes for Academic Learning Compacts

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.

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.

Let's explore your classes, get new ideas, and create new activities to bring a breath of fresh air to your classroom delivery in order to enhance learning.

As teachers embrace the growing need to document their scholarship, to more objectively measure student learning, and to align their practices with standards, it is important not to forget that the passion for learning, the desire for growth, and the eros of the learning environment are intangible and ineffable energies. This session will be about making small enhancements to the curriculum that will encourage students to find, express, and channel their desire for learning creatively.

Come find out why Inspiration is the number one best selling visual mapping product used in academia today. This workshop will show you how to use Inspiration as a visual tool for class and project planning, storyboarding time-based media, student project collaboration and critical thinking, and curricular process management.

How do we effectively help students participate in collaborative learning? Learn some teaching strategies to improve our use of large and small group “learning partnerships” in the classroom.

As you begin to plan your spring semester courses, consider incorporating a couple of writing assignments. In this workshop, you will differentiate between writing to learn and writing to perform, see examples of effective writing assignments and assessment techniques from a variety of disciplines, and explore ways to overcome challenges or barriers to assigning writing.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a concept so new that there are few “standard” definitions of it. Together we will explore what SoTL is (and isn’t), and come to an understanding of what SoTL projects would look like in our various fields.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a concept so new that there are few “standard” definitions of it. Together we will explore what SoTL is (and isn’t), and come to an understanding of what SoTL projects would look like in our various fields.

Are you interested in teaching a Service-Learning class, but aren't sure how to start? This workshop is aimed at those who have not taught a Service-Learning class yet at UCF, but are interested in exploring ways to incorporate this exciting hands-on style of learning into their classes.

In this workshop you will learn how to assess Service-Learning by using Student Structured Reflection.

The workshop will focus on the service learning practices at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and its capacity building among community organizations (public, private, nonprofit) in the region. The workshop will highlight service-learning pedagogy as a central strategy for bridging the instruction of civic knowledge and skills with opportunities for active service at UCF. In addition, it will explore how higher education institutions and community-based organizations form partnerships to meet the educational goals of students.

Faculty who use Service-Learning in their Daytona courses will demonstrate their Service-Learning projects and answer questions from other faculty who may be considering adding SL to their courses.

This workshop discusses teaching service learning courses in an online environment. It will first briefly introduce the online teaching at UCF, then introduce the definition of the service learning at the university, and finally conclude with the discussion of challenges and recommendations for teaching service learning in an online environment.

Faculty from different disciplines will demonstrate their proven Service-Learning projects in the Arts and Humanities.

Service-Learning Student Reflection Leaders Workshop

Instructors have the responsibility to guide student reflection through designing reflection prompts and through providing feedback on reflection products, but that this function is enhanced when shared with student peers. Patti will share with interested faculty the theory and practice of using Student Reflection Leaders to facilitate guided reflection and assessment in SL courses.

Beyond Beyond Chalk begins with a look at the innovative multi-media video series filmed for PBS almost 10 years ago as a change advocate for distance education. A major part of the presentation is Reach Out and Teach, the second video series, which is an introduction to designing distance education courses and written to help educators and instructors understand the fundamentals of distance education and instructional design. Workbooks are included.

Information Session on the new copyright procedures and how they affect placing items on Course Reserve. Also time for Q&A's.

This grant writing workshop is free and open to our university faculty and staff. The workshop will be conducted by Susan Lockwood, Florida Humanities Council (FHC) Grants Director. Susan will discuss applying for grants, examples of successfully proposed projects, current Council initiatives, and accessing free programs that are available from the FHC Resource Center.

Incorporating Global Perspectives into Women's Studies Curriculum: Challenges and Strategies

The workshop will highlight the themes of globalization and women's perspectives in the canon of Women's Studies. Featuring cross-societal and interdisciplinary perspectives, it will encompass the inclusion of women's voices around the world. Some special features of the workshop will be the integration of global themes, cross-cultural representations and effective pedagogical strategies to enhance the women's studies curriculum.

International Travel: Lessons Learned From Real and Virtual Experiences

The presentation will start with an overview of the Fulbright-Hayes Travel Abroad program conducted by UCF during the Summer 2004. This will be followed by the presentation outlining the U.S.-Armenia Teacher Exchange which took place right after the India program. It will close with a question and answer session clarifying the scope and purpose of the U.S.-Armenia Teacher Exchange.

Why should we use PowerPoint in our 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.

Pre-Hurricane Preparation and Empowerment Workshop

The Counseling Center, E.H.& S. and the Police Department have joined together to offer you a workshop which has been designed to empower you to cope more effectively in the event of a hurricane or other disaster. Various tools to aid your empowerment will be presented. The focus will be positive and practical.

This workshop is intended to provide you with your rights and responsibilities along with options and referral resources for students, who disclose personal crime, violence or abuse to you.