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Educational Studies Program

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


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

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

Teaching 201: Running an Educational Outreach Program
Michael Shaw
Wed Jan 25, 07-09:00pm, 1-246

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

They say teaching is one of the most thankless professions, and they're right. And that's when teachers are getting paid. How do you encourage teachers to volunteer hours of their personal time to an outreach program without burning them out? Its no secret how to teach an amazing class--some professors here at MIT have it 100% covered. But how do you put together an entire program of uniformly excellent classes? In this session, we will examine these questions, and prepare you to run outreach programs here at MIT. Some of the discussion will be specific to the Institute, but much of it will apply more broadly. Anyone interested in directing an ESP program or running other educational outreach opportunities at MIT are encouraged to attend. Current MIT students, our own future master educators, are particularly encouraged to attend.
Contact: Michael Shaw, W20-467, x3-4882, esp-iap@mit.edu


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