Teaching Arts Luncheons are faculty-led discussions on current pedagogical issues. They are held on Fridays from 12 to 1 in the College Club—Lower Level, where a buffet lunch is provided by the Office of the Provost/Dean of the Faculty and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning. If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions for future events, please contact Borjana Mikic (Director, Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning).
February 5
Not Your Father’s Intro Physics Course: taking a learner-centered approach
Conversation led by Gary Felder, Doreen Weinberger, and Joyce Palmer-Fortune (Physics)
February 12
Teaching As a Work In Progress: implications for feedback and evaluation
A conversation with the ad hoc committee to review teaching evaluation (Nancy Whittier, Al Rudnitsky, Cate Rowen, Kevin Quashie, Borjana Mikic)
February 26
TBA
March 5
Correcting Mid-stream: mid-semester assessments and alternative models for obtaining course-specific formative feedback on your teaching
Conversation led by Debra Carney (Director of the Jacobson Center MSA program), Nicholas Horton (Mathematics), and others.
March 26
Incorporating Educational Technologies into Your Teaching: gadgets and gizmos, or tools to aid learning?
Conversation led by Tom Laughner (Director, Education Technology) and Michael Barresi (Biology) April 9
TBA
April 16
Getting Rid of the Training Wheels: incorporating information literacy into the foreign language classroom
Conversation led by Bruce Sajdak (Information Literacy Coordinator), Sharon Domier (Five Colleges East Asian Specialist), and Atsuko Takahashi (East Asian Languages and Literature)
April 23
Beyond the Confines of the Classroom: keeping conversation alive
Conversation led by Glenn Ellis (Engineering) and Al Rudnitsky (Education & Child Study)
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