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Activities
Tentative Program Schedule for The Third Annual Teaching Scholars Initiative Colloquium
January 27, 2006
1:00 Welcome (Molly Shi Boren Ballroom): Kelly Damphousse
1:15 Teacher Scholar Awards (Molly Shi Boren Ballroom):
Paul B. Bell, Jr., College of Arts and Sciences
John T. Snow, College of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences
Tom L. Landers, College of Engineering
1:30 “Improving Teaching to Improve Learning: Instructional
Development at OU” (Molly Shi Boren Ballroom):
Kent Johnson, Director of IDP at the University of Oklahoma
2:20 Break
2:30 Breakout Sessions: Part 1
“True Confessions of an Electronic Media Addict” (B1)
Kurt Gramoll — Engineering
The ups and downs of electronic media development and implementation for engineering education and technical training will be presented in an open and humorous manner for this serious topic. Online demos will be liberally shown to help the audience fully grasp the issues and problems (and benefits). .
“Mistakes First-Time Teachers Usually Make” (B2)
Darren Purcell — Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences
Craig St. John and Joe Rodgers — Arts and Sciences
Observations made by experienced teachers of things inexperienced teachers frequently do in their classes that they probably shouldn’t, and things they don’t do in their classes that they probably should.
2005 TSI Awardee Session
“Desperate Teachers: Sexing Up Your Teaching Philosophy” (B3)
Mariëlle Hoefnagels — Arts and Sciences
Looking for a job? Hoping for a promotion? Coming up for tenure? If so, you'll need to write a teaching philosophy. This session will help you turn yours from "blah" to "Bravo!"
Clicking and Clacking: Use of Clickers in Teaching” (B4)
Michael Abraham and LeRoy Blank — Arts and Sciences
This breakout session will describe the experiences we have had using clickers as a pedagogical tool in the classroom. It will focus on different ways in which the remote voting devices can be used to provide learning experiences for the students and feedback information for the instructor.
3:20 Break
3:30 Breakout Sessions: Part 2
“Teaching Creativity: Inspiration and/or Process” (B1)
Jonathan Hills, Vince Leseney, Rena Cook — Fine Arts
Students are quite naturally creative and easily inspired, others require method and process. How do teachers, especially in the applied areas, keep motivating the individual student to look beyond the assignment and explore?
2005 TSI Awardee Session
“So You Want to Try Something New in Your Class?” (B2)
Aondover Tarhule — Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences
Every teacher sooner or later feels the itch to experiment with new teaching pedagogies in order to excite their students. These experiments come at a cost in terms of time and may also prove disastrous. This paper discusses a few hints to help make your experiment a success and also some pitfalls to avoid.
“An Undergraduate Perspective of College Teaching” (B3)
Ariel Allison, Larry Birdine, Marcus Wolf, Melody Bradley, &
Rebecca Eckstein — Arts and Sciences
This panel of OU undergraduate students will present a unique view of college teaching from THEIR perspective. Drawing from the recent book “My Freshman Year” by Rebecca Nathan, these students will discuss how the pressures of student life impact learning and the classroom experience.
4:20 Break
4:30 Keynote address (Molly Shi Boren Ballroom):
“Teaching Challenges in the 21st Century”
University of Missouri – Wakonse Representative
5:15 Reception (Beaird Lounge): Music by Larry Hammett Trio
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