Instructional Excellence Retreat
2014
"A Celebration of Teaching at UTC"
Presentation Links
- Experiential Learning at UTC - Bengt Carlson, Rebecca Jones, April Ebbinger, Robert Ricks, Amanda Ward (Creative Discovery Museum)
- Physical Activity Epidemiology Field Research and Service Learning Project, Greg Heath
- Challenge Course Construction and Training (ppt), Andrew Bailey
- Sending Students out of the Classroom and into the Profession, Jamie Harvey/Gene Ezell
- ENGR 3280L and NI Academy Control Lab Project, Bryan Ennis/Abdul Ofoli
- Welcome to the Challenger STEM Learning Center - Perry Storey, Director, Challenger STEM Learning Center
- Team-Based Learning at UTC - Tammy Garland, Charlene Simmons, Karen McGuffee, Seth Waldecker
- Quinn handout (Simmons)
- Open Source Child Development Text and Wiki, D.R. Meece
- From Hand Calculation to IT-Based Estimating – Learning through Projects, Endong Wang/Skip Smith
- Problem-Based Learning, Faculty Fellows cohort led by Cheryl Robinson
- What Students Can Learn From an Activist/Scholar, Talia Welsh
- Using the Research Cycle in Teaching, Faculty Fellows cohort led by Priscilla Seaman
- Curriculum Mapping – Why bother? We will tell you why!; Karen Adsit/Jennifer Ellis/Dawn Ford
- Using a Learning Management System to Help Instruction and Learning, David Rausch
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Teaching and Learning Seminars (concurrent sessions)
1:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Lookout Mountain Room (session A) and Raccoon Mountain Room (session B)
No registration required.
- 1:00-1:45
- Session A: Making a 'hard' class fun, without 'dumbing' it down – Charlene Simmons
- Session B: Lessons learned from teaching an online course panel discussion - Gary Liguori, Tiffany Mitchell, Jennifer Ellis, and Joanie Jackson.
- 2:00-2:45
- Session A: Team-based learning panel discussion – Helen Eigenberg, Elizabeth Gailey
- Session B: ThinkAchieve Grant Presentations:
- Kim Wingate/Caryl Taylor – Enhancing critical thinking through an Early Childhood Special Education field experience
- Amye Warren - Improving critical thinking skills in graduate teaching assistants and their students
- 3:00-3:45
- Session A: Absenteeism in undergraduate education – Lisa Burke
- Session B: Quantitative reasoning across the curriculum - Betsy Darken
- 4:00-4:45
- Session A: Flipping your classes: What Otzi the Iceman can do for you – Lyn Miles, Will Stern, Shela Van Ness
- Session B: Community-based learning on the urban campus - Jennifer Boyd
For more information about the Instructional Excellence Retreat, email Dawn Ford. If you require accommodations for this event, please contact the Walker Center for Teaching and Learning at 425-4188 prior to the event. You can also contact the Office for Students with Disabilities at 425-4006 (V/TTY) or [email protected].