Past Events 2005-2006

	March 2, 2006 "Building a Professional Self: Reflective Learning in Gradudate professional Education." Woodruff Room, WHSCAB. Co-sponsored by UACT. Attendance is limited, please contact Jennifer Romig for more information at jromig@law.emory.edu A luncheon workshop about reflection, specifically students' own critical self-reflection, as a teaching method in the professional schools. Faculty from the law, medical, nursing, and theology schools use various techniques to encourage students to reflect, from journal-writing read by the professor to group discussions of difficult subject-matter or experiences. These assignments help students cultivate a frame of mind that benefits their overall professional development. Such assignments can be successful in large or small courses and in a clinical or doctrinal setting. This luncheon workshop will give faculty from graduate and undergraduate schools across Emory a chance to compare notes on what they are already doing to encourage reflection and how they might do more. It will explore the successes and challenges that the faculty have encountered when encouraging, and even requiring, students to reflect. It will discuss the trade-offs between wider, content-driven course coverage and deeper coverage incorporating reflection. It will draw out practical advice on reflective-learning assignments but will also explore the theoretical basis for these assignments. ____________________________________________________ March 23, 2006 UM Center for Research on Teaching and Learning (CRLT) Theater from University of Michigan White Hall 207 at 4.00 pm CRLT Theater is a group of actors from University of Michigan that act out different classroom and professional development challenges and then facilitate discussion on how to best deal with them. To learn more about them their website is http://www.crlt.umich.edu/theatre/aboutplayers/mission.htm or about the center which is http://www.crlt.umich.edu/ ____________________________________________________ March 24, 2006 "The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Cognitive-Affective Connection." Oxford campus conference Please contact Patti Owen-Smith at psypos@emory.edu for more information. This conference is interdisciplinary in design and focuses on scholarly approaches to the cognitive-affective connection in teaching and learning, a connection which is the common denominator across many of the innovative movements and practices in higher education today, including student engagement, service learning, leadership, communities of practice, collaborative learning, ethics, values and beliefs, and student voice. ____________________________________________________ April 17, 2006 "Learning through interactivity: Innovative approaches to teaching with PowerPoint and technology" Lecture with Dr. Ian Lapp, Assist. Dean for Academic Affairs and Assist. Professor of Public Health. 101 Nursing School Auditorium at 4.00 pm This workshop will provide participtants with pedagogical strategies for making PowerPoint and other technology a better and more interactive medium for promoting learning. * Reception to Follow * -free parking available in Michael Street deck after 3.30 pm ____________________________________________________ April 18, 2006 Second teaching and Learning Center Panel with Pat Molholt and Ian Lapp from Columbia University Jones room, Woodruff Library at 4.00 pm Faculty from Columbia University will talk about their Center for Education Research and Evaluation (CERE). They will then be joined by UACT members who will discuss our progress on planning a Teaching and Learning Center as well as our future goals. Please contact Donna troka at dtroka@emory.edu ____________________________________________________ May 17-May 19, 2006 Master Teacher program (MTP)

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