Navigating Copyright and Open Access for Teaching and Research: Annual Veterinary Medicine Mini-Symposium for Teaching, Learning, and Research
9 am - 2:30 pm, Thursday, October 15, Kohnstamm Conference, Administration Building, Grafton campus
Register here: www.regonline.com/09VetMiniSymp
More information on the event can be found here.
Peer Observation and Feedback Workshops:
Session I: Conducting Peer Observations - Wednesday, September 28, 2009, 3:00-4:30pm
Session II: Offering Constructive Feedback - Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 3:00-4:30pm
CELT offered a two part workshop on how to conduct peer observation of and offer constructive feedback on teaching. As part of this workshop, we provided the opportunity for participants to practice the process of observing a class and offering feedback with a colleague. All faculty were welcome to participate and to invite a colleague with whom they would like to partner. For those who wished, CELT staff helped you to identify an appropriate colleague to work with you. For more information or to register, please contact Annie Soisson at CELT: annie.soisson@tufts.edu (617) 627-4000. We look forward to seeing you there!
For a short introduction to the topic, visit our "Teaching Tools at a Glance" under the Resources tab of our website.
Innovative Course Design: Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Facilitate Learning (May 2009)
2009 UIT Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning with Technology Tuesday, May 19 - Friday, May 22.
This year's Institute focused on a model for designing innovative courses through the use of technology. Participants were introduced to a new environment for designing and creating learning sequences online and worked in teams on creating integrative course designs through a multi-step process of defining instructional goals, aligning feedback and assessment mechanisms, identifying related teaching and learning activities, and selecting appropriate technologies to support their designs.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Poster Expo (May 2009)
Showcased how Tufts faculty use GIS in their teaching: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 3:30 pm 5:15 pm Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor, Medford Campus Hosted by Tufts GIS Center, UIT http://gis.tufts.edu
11th Annual Practical Appraoches to Precepting Conference(May 2009)
Teaching Required Courses: Challenges and Opportunities (May 2009)
22nd Annual Teaching and Learning Conference (March 2009)
The University Conference on Teaching and Learning is an annual, university-wide conference based on current issues of imporatance to Tufts faculty. The conference features a keynote speaker and interactive teaching and technical skills workshops. This year's topic was: "Juggling it All: Teaching, Practice, and Research," with keynote speaker Cassandra Volpe Horii, PhD, Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University.
Tools for Tenure Track Faculty (November 2008)
As you travel down the tenure review preparation path, allow the Tisch Library to streamline the process and increase your productivity. We have numerous resources to support you as you prepare your tenure documentation, saving you valuable time. During this lunch time workshop, we demonstrated these tools and gave faculty ideas about applying them to their specific needs. Guests from UIT Academic Technology demonstrated ways of using a wiki to collect and organize tenure review materials.
This event was co-sponsored by Tisch Library and CELT. For more information on the topic, contact Laurie Sabol at Laurie.sabol@tufts.edu.
Faculty members shared their experiences of teaching with clickers at Tufts. They described specific goals for integrating classroom response systems (CRS) into their courses and offered their reflections on the challenges and benefits of the classroom response systems they've used, including feedback from students in their classes. Teaching Assistants had the opportunity to try the clickers during this interactive session.
This event was co-sponsored by UIT and CELT.
University Conference on Teaching and Learning: Overcoming Barriers to Student Success (December 2007)
The University Conference on Teaching and Learning is an annual, university-wide conference based on current issues of importance to Tufts faculty. The conference features a keynote speaker and interactive teaching and technical skills workshops. This year’s topic was: "Overcoming Barriers to Student Success," with keynote Speaker Richard Kadison, M.D., Chief, Mental Health Services, Harvard University Health Services and author of "College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It."
CELT works with the UCTFD and the UIT in the planning and implementation of the conference.
Keynote Presentation Slides - "Staying Healthy at Tufts: Student Mental Health and Success" [PowerPoint]
Breakout Session Notes - "How to Create Inclusive Teaching/Learning Environments Both In and Out of the Classroom" [PDF]
Leveraging Popular Culture Websites [PowerPoint]
Fostering Student Engagement Through Discussion Forums [PowerPoint]
Discussion Goals Worksheet [PDF]
Discussion Tools - Using Blackboard [PDF]
As you travel down the tenure review preparation path, allow the Tisch Library to streamline the process and increase your productivity. We have numerous resources to support you as you prepare your tenure documentation, saving you valuable time. During this lunch time workshop, we demonstrated these tools and gave faculty ideas about applying them to their specific needs. Guests from UIT Academic Technology demonstrated ways of using a wiki to collect and organize tenure review materials.
This event was co-sponsored by Tisch Library and CELT. For more information on the topic, contact Laurie Sabol at Laurie.sabol@tufts.edu.
GIFT Summer Graduate Institute (2007)
CELT was pleased to co-sponsor the summer 2007 Graduate Institute for Teaching, providing graduate students with an opportunity to enhance their teaching skills. At Tufts we strive for excellence in teaching, mentoring and scholarship, and the mission of the Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT) is to support graduate students and faculty in these activities. Our goal is to provide opportunities for graduate students, our future faculty, to build strong teaching and communication skills.
GIFT works in collaboration with the University-wide Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CELT) and is generously supported by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Tufts Summer School.
"Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Classroom: How the Library and the Academic Resources Center Can Help" (May 2007)
This two hour interactive workshop was held for the Tufts Arts and Sciences and Engineering faculty. It included: a review of Tufts' new academic integrity policy; designing effective assignments to prevent plagiarism; a hands-on demonstration of Turnitin, an anti-plagiarism program that checks student work against a database of student papers and published articles; a hands-on demonstration of RefWorks, a bibliographic management program that allows users to save citations and print correctly formatted bibliographies. RefWorks greatly reduces unintentional occurrences of plagiarism. This program was sponsored by Tisch Library, the Academic Resources Center, and CELT.
For more information, contact Abigail Cross at Abigail.cross@tufts.edu.
"Teaching with Primary Sources in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences" (April 2007)
Participants learned how to explore Tisch Library's rich collection of online primary sources in their teaching and research. Tufts faculty members Danny Abramson (Art History) and Ben Carp (History), who currently teach with primary sources, led a two-hour interactive workshop tailored to the interests of attendees. Chao Chen, humanities reference librarian, demonstrated pedagogical uses of particular online collections. Sponsored by Tisch Library and the CELT.
For more information on this topic, contact Chao Chen at chao.chen@tufts.edu.
Two-Day Faculty Workshop on Teaching Diverse Populations (October 2006 & January 2007)
Explored the knowledge, awareness, and skills needed to be effective teachers and advisors of diverse student populations. Workshop curriculum was tailored to the Tufts environment, including case studies of actual Tufts classroom experiences. This program was sponsored by the Office of Diversity Education & Development and CELT.
Comment from previous participant:
"These were two extremely valuable days – the best workshop I’ve attended at Tufts. Insights into my own resistance to discussion, possibly heated, about real issues, and realities for students. Insights into students’ behaviors and reactions. Practical ideas for how to make my classroom a good space for all students. A new network of colleagues that I respect and can turn to for ideas and support."
For more information, contact Jean Wu at jean.wu@tufts.edu.
University Conference on Teaching and Learning: Considering Ethics in Teaching, Learning, and Research (December 2006)
This year’s topic was: "Considering Ethics in Teaching Learning and Research" with keynote speaker Michael A. Grodin, M.D., Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health; Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences, Community Medicine and Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Professor of Philosophy, Boston University; and Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights. Dr. Grodin's presentation considered the history of bioethics and reflected on why there is such an interest in the topic today. He also discussed the use of cases as a mechanism for teaching ethics and how to create active learners.
CELT works with the UCTFD and the UIT in the planning and implementation of the conference.
If you would like to see one of these topics presented again, or have suggestions for topics that you would like to see addressed, please feel free to contact us at CELT. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions!
