Better Teaching @ MIT
Dr. Lori Breslow, Director, Teaching and Learning Laboratory
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
A series of lunchtime workshops designed to help MIT instructors teach better. We'll talk to some of MIT’s best teachers about how they teach, get some advise on teamwork from MIT coaches, look at how to engage students in productive classroom discussion, and other topics. Workshops are open to all members of the MIT community.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tll
Contact: Alberta Lipson, 5-122, x3-8604, lipson@mit.edu
Sponsor: Teaching and Learning Lab
Tech's Top Teachers Talk Turkey
Dr. Lori Breslow, Moderator
This year's Better Teaching series kicks off with a session in which some of MIT's best teachers—
both faculty and teaching assistants—talk about how to teach well.
Mon Jan 30, 12-01:00pm, 9-151
Special Considerations for Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom
Jane Dunphy, Director, English Language Studies
MIT's cultural diversity is an exciting resource. If handled sensitively, it can enrich the Institute's educational and intellectual life. Handled poorly, it can present an obstacle to productive participation of MIT students. Here, we will discuss strategies to increase understanding and effective management of the multicultural class room.
Tue Jan 31, 12-01:00pm, 9-151
Planning and Running Recitations
Lori Breslow, Ph.D.
Do you want to create a classroom environment that encourages student questioning, discussion, and real-time experimentation? This session will look at ways to get students talking, doing things, and learning both from you and each another.
Wed Feb 1, 12-01:00pm, 9-151
Coaches Teach the Teachers
Lori Breslow, Ph.D., Moderator
Many of the skills athletic coaches use in working with their players are skills that teachers can and should use to help students learn. Come hear what MIT’s award-winning coaches can tell us about motivating and teaching them to work in teams.
Thu Feb 2, 12-01:00pm, 9-151
How to Speak
Professor Patrick Winston
Every instructor needs to present his or her material in an enthusiastic, positive, coherent way to reach students effectively. Information must be conveyed in a relaxed, honest, and focused manner and be clear enough to be understood. MIT's legendary Patrick Winston presents his renowned session on how to do just that!
Fri Feb 3, 12-01:00pm, 32-155
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EECS Teaching Assistant Workshop
Stephen Hou
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Jan-2006
Limited to 50 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Panel/Group Discussion Monday the 23rd, then Microteaching Workshops Tuesday through Thursday.
Anxious about teaching for the first time? Don't worry! Please come to the 2nd annual EECS TA Workshop. Panel/group discussions plus workshops coordinated with Lori Breslow, MIT Teaching and Learning Lab. RSVP to Stephen Hou, shou@mit.edu, indicating whether you're interested in the panel only, microteaching session only, or both. If microteaching, indicate your choice of dates and the subject you will TA this spring.
Cosponsored by the EECS Graduate Student Association.
Contact: Stephen Hou, shou@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Panel and Group Discussion
Stephen Hou
Experienced TAs will talk informally about the things they wish they knew before they first TAed. Topics: interacting with students and fellow staff, encouraging class participation, grading, handling cheating, managing teaching and research time.
Break out groups moderated by experienced TAs will discuss "TA situations".
Mon Jan 23, 04-06:00pm, 34-401A
Microteaching Workshops
Lori Breslow
Groups of 8 participants (first RSVP, first served!) will take turns preparing and teaching 10-minute tutorial/recitations to the other participants. Each session is taped -- Instructor and group will critique each lesson. In your RSVP, please rank your choices of the three dates below and indicate what subject you will TA this spring. RSVP to Stephen Hou, shou@mit.edu.
Tue Jan 24, Wed Jan 25, Thu Jan 26, 04-06:00pm, 9-151
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Teaching 101: Captivating Your Captive Audience (aka Planning a Lesson)
Dr. Pamela L. Gay, Michael Shaw
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Whether it be a 20-min presentation or a 2-hr lecture, we are all called on to teach, and there are things we all need to know if we want our audience to listen, to learn, and to retain the contents of what we are teaching. In this 2 session course you will learn the ins and outs of preparing a good lesson or talk. Research studies will be cited throughout for those wishing to learn more. Participants will be prepared to teach ESP's Splash! from this class.
Contact: Michael Shaw, W20-467, x3-4882, esp-iap@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Studies Program
Dr. Pamela L. Gay, Michael Shaw
In the first section, we will discuss the basics of organizing a presentation, how to earn style points for appropriate use of technology (and how to loss them!), as well as pacing and presentation.
Mon Jan 16, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
Dr. Pamela L. Gay, Michael Shaw
In the second session we will dive into active learning, and how you can increase learning by decreasing content density and by encouraging student interactions during class time.
Wed Jan 18, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
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Teaching 102: Keeping Them Keeping on Coming (and Learning!)
Dr. Pamela L. Gay, Michael Shaw
Mon Jan 30, Wed Feb 1, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Anyone teaching a multi-session class faces two problems: physical attrition and intellectual attrition. Designing a class that weaves an intellectual story that keeps students interested, challenged, and interested in being challenged is a complicated game best played with a strategy book. In the first lesson in this two class course we will discuss how people learn and the advantages of using concept mapping to design syllabi and in the second class we will discuss techniques for weaving together pre- and post- evaluation with activities, discussion and lecturing. Special focus will be made to teaching informal classes and classes not being taught to meet standards. Participant's will be prepared to teach ESP's HSSP from this class.
Contact: Michael Shaw, W2-467, x3-4882, esp-iap@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Studies Program
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Teaching Beyond the Textbook: The Role of Technology in Curriculum Development and Delivery
Manos Chaniotakis
Wed Jan 18, Thu Jan 19, 10-12:00am, NW14-1112
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This course makes the case for interactive teaching. How do you go about introducing a hands-on component to a course while at the same time enhancing the theoretical/conceptual dimension of the class? What is the pedagogical value of hands-on teaching? What is the state of technology in interactive teaching?
The first day, educator and entrepreneur, Dr. Tom Hsu, will share his experiences in interactive and hands-on teaching from middle school to graduate school. On the second day, we will take a tour of the 6.071, 22.071 class/lab room. We will experience hands-on teaching by running and evaluating various 6.071 experiments.
Contact: Manos Chaniotakis, 24-207A, 253-8450, manos@mit.edu
Sponsor: Nuclear Science and Engineering
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