Teaching Talks
Monday, November 6 1:30 – 2:45 Options for Feedback and Assessment
At this session, participants will discuss topics like
- Formative and summative assessment
- Criterion referenced (individual performance) vs. Proportionate grading (the curve)
- Simple everyday formative assessment strategies
- Fairness in assessment
- Alternatives to exams, tests, and quizzes
- The final grade
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Thursday, November 9 2:00 – 3:15 Leading Effective Discussions
At this session, participants will discuss topics like
- The attributes of effective classroom discussions
- Preparation strategies
- Questioning techniques
- How to encourage students to speak and assessing students’ contributions to class discussions
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Monday, November 13 1:30 – 3:00– Improv for Fun– Laurel Hall 302
The objectives:
Laugh- forget your day to day troubles, stressors, deadlines and such. Get outside of yourself- and into a character that will allow you to creatively experiment, take chances, try on a different personality...Take part in a creative adventure- Improv is a creative, spontaneous exercise Move, speak and act like someone you would not normally be- laugh and have fun while creating a character who reacts to a situation or a strange environment Improve your spontaneity- in improv we must "let go," and react to the situation and to what is said to us HAVE FUN- Need I explain? If so, you definitely need to come!
Discuss implications for our work life- this is the only "serious" objective. I promise it won't be painful.
Participants will take part in an improv session that will focus on silent improvs, spoken improvs, individual improvs, small group improvs, movement, creating an improv character... At the end we will discuss possible implications for your teaching.
Register at - https://web9.uits.uconn.edu/fins/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=340
For more information, contact: Suzanne LaFleur at suzanne.lafleur@uconn.edu