Winter 2013 Events
(1/11 @ noon – 2:00) First Friday Event – Let’s Celebrate! What are we celebrating you might ask? Collaboration, Innovation and Success
Collaboration: Have you visited the CETL Collaboration Room in 3-103AB lately? The Provost funded the renovation of the old classroom space directly across from the Faculty Senate Conference Room and many people frequent the space for coffee and collaboration. The Grand Opening was held in January 2012 as a “First Friday” event with refreshments provided by the Office of Multicultural Student Initiatives. This year, to continue the tradition, the EAU/KERN Foundation is funding refreshments. If you enjoy interdisciplinary conversation and positive ideas, please come to this First Friday event.
Innovation: Were you one of the 91 faculty members who attended the Entrepreneurship Across the University (EAU) workshops funded by the Kern Foundation in the past few years? Did you develop, pilot and assess your innovation tool in the classroom? Perhaps it has been wildly successful or perhaps you learned through failure. In any event, let’s gather informally (around the watering hole) to re-connect. Dr. Massoud Tavakoli will appreciate talking with you. If you are interested in sharing innovative classroom techniques, please come to this First Friday event.
Success: Did you know that Kettering University has earned accreditation bragging rights in many disciplines? Do you realize the amount of work that our faculty, staff and department heads in these departments have gone through to obtain these designations? If you are interested in celebrating and/or sharing your individual department successes, please come to this First Friday event.
After the First Friday celebration, we will continue our Brown Bag discussions.
Tuesday Brown Bag lunches in the CETL Collaboration Room from 12:25 – 1:15pm:
The purpose of these small group discussions is to provide topics that are of interest to faculty and classroom staff for the improvement of teaching and learning. The discussions are intended to be interactive and personalized toward the intersection of pedagogy, policies, and technology. This Winter 2013 term will be devoted to Intentional Teaching Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking or shortened to simply “Teaching Strategies” based on the expertise of Kettering faculty.
The first three Brown Bags are dedicated to sharing the Innovative Teaching Strategies that have resulted from the KEEN/EAU Workshops over the past few years. This KEEN Engagement 2.0 initiative seeks to (1) gather evidence about faculty work that has been done (2) align efforts to KEEN Outcomes and (3) discuss the possibility of a Multidisciplinary Innovation series of courses. These will be led by Massoud Tavakoli.
Weeks 5 through 9 will discuss teaching strategies that have been tried in Kettering classrooms successfully, marginally or unsuccessfully.
(1/15) 2nd Tues: KEEN/EAU Sharing Innovative Teaching Strategies - Massoud Tavakoli Part I. Share what you’ve already done and collect a summary
(1/22) 3rd Tues: KEEN/EAU Sharing Innovative Teaching Strategies - Abdra Traore Part II. Map what has been done to KEEN outcomes
(1/29) 4th Tues: KEEN/EAU Sharing Innovative Teaching Strategies – Massoud Tavakoli Part III. Propose or “pitch” multidisciplinary innovation KETT courses
(2/5) 5th Tues: Mid-Term Assessment in preparation for the second half of the term (tentative: Student – Faculty Forum)
(2/12) 6th Tues: Learning through Reflective Writing - Joy Arbor/Denise Stodola
(2/19) 7th Tues: “Blended Learning – Using Online Tools to Enhance Face-to-Face Classroom Learning”(- Tom Creech Palmer)
(2/26) 8th Tues: Flipping the Classroom - Karen Cayo, Kathy Schaefer
(3/5) 9th Tues: Teaching Strategies for International Students - Basem Alzahabi
(3/12) 10th Tues: Preparing for Spring CETL Events led by Terri Lynch-Caris
The winter season focusing on Teaching Strategies will culminate with a one-day workshop led by Prof. Michael Prince “Active Learning through Instructional Design” Save the Date: April 8, 2013
Winter 2013 Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Speakers – Save the Dates:
Jan 31st: Prof. Homayun Navaz, ME Dept
Mar 7th: Prof. Huseyin Hiziroglu, ECE Dept
Special CETL Collaborative Events:
January 31st – “What Have We Done To Become the Best College Teachers?” Hosted by Quad Pod Collaboration at UM-Flint 6:00-8:00pm. Event is free but registration is required - RSVP to salberto@umflint.edu
February 7th – FIRST Robotics Speaker - Jack Stewart of PFP - Purdue FIRST Program (hosted by Doc. K)
February 14th – Provost discussion with female faculty regarding student mentoring
Advisory Board Meetings – 1/17, 3/14
