Lecturing for Student Learning
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The Interteach Format: Facilitating Students’ Consistent Preparation, Attendance, and Active Participation.

Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | 1:00pm-2:30pm | TECH 111

Facilitator: Philip N. Hineline, Professor, Psychology, CLA

The Interteach Format is a whole-course arrangement organized around one-to-one discussion between students. Its objective is to enable more (if not most) students to do as the best students always have done:  They consistently prepare for class, they integrate the course material by examining cross-relations between topics, and they actively participate during class.

• Here’s a way to get the students to tell you what they are finding difficult or interesting, which makes for easy and well-focused lecture preparation.
• Here’s a way to position yourself mainly as helpful coach, rather than as information dispenser.
• Here’s a way to provide consequences for the students to always come prepared–consequences that arise from normal conversation rather than from coercive arrangements.

 

Eric Mazur's Peer Instruction: How Could It Work in Your Classroom?

Mon, Nov 23, 2009 | 11:00am-12:30pm | TECH 111
Facilitators: TLC Staff

Participants will view a video that follows Mazur as he teaches an introductory class. He explains his methods, why he uses them, and discusses the improvement in student learning outcomes that he, and others, have documented. Following the video, we will discuss our own responses to his pedagogy and how we might use some of Mazur's methods in our own classrooms.