Assessment of Your Teaching Styles and the Technologies You Use
David Singer Visiting Professor
Tue Jan 9, Wed Jan 17, 01-03:00pm, TBA
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2007
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
This two hour session will be offered on two different days. It will be of particular interest to those faculty and instructors who wish to accurately assess the effectiveness of their specific teaching styles and the educational technologies that they use. Part of the session will involve collaboration of those taking part in the development of strategies they might consider employing and educational technologies that they might consider using. An emphasis will be placed on ways to assess whatever learning styles or educational technologies are used.
Contact: David Singer, x3-5759, singerd@mit.edu
Sponsor: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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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 advice 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: Dan Nocivelli, 5-122, x3-2850, book@mit.edu
Sponsor: Teaching and Learning Lab
Tech's Top Teachers Talk Turkey
Dr. Lori Breslow, Moderator
Join us for a session in which some of MIT's best teachers — both faculty and teaching assistants — talk about how to teach well. In collaboration with Hibur: the MIT-Technion Link, this will be an interactive videoconference with students and faculty at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).
Mon Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, 9-057
Special Considerations for Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom
Jane Dunphy and Karl Reid
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 classroom.
Tue Jan 30, 12-01:00pm, 32-124
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. (Come prepared for physical activity!)
Wed Jan 31, 12-01:00pm, W-32- DuPont Gym
The ACT of Teaching
Margie Zohn and Archie Roberts
We will explore the links between the skills of the actor and those of the teacher, and jump into experiential exercises designed to hone your presence in the classroom. How do we craft the messages we are delivering and understand the impact they have on our audience? How can we use more of our expressive capacity to keep a group engaged? Be ready for a fun, interactive lunchtime as we all get into the ACT of teaching.
Thu Feb 1, 12-01:00pm, 32-124
Interactive Teaching
Sanjoy Mahajan and Janet Rankin
By asking students questions based on key concepts, you engage students' interest and intelligence. You also learn what concepts they find most confusing. By having a whole class BE a demonstration, you can involve students even more in their learning. This session discusses the reasons for interactive teaching and provides examples of questions and techniques that you can use or adapt for your own teaching.
Fri Feb 2, 12-01:00pm, 32-124
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How to Speak
Professor Patrick Winston
Fri Feb 2, 11am-12:00pm, 32-141
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
You can improve your speaking ability in critical situations by observing a few heuristic rules. Professor Winston's collection of rules is presented along with examples of their application not only in lectures, but also in job talks, thesis defenses, and oral examinations.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tll
Contact: Daniel Nocivelli, 5-122, x3-2850, book@mit.edu
Sponsor: Teaching and Learning Lab
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Splash on Wheels
David Farhi
Sat Jan 27, 11am-04:00pm, W20-467
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 12-Jan-2007
Single session event
Did you have fun at Splash? Did you miss Splash but wish you had participated? Do you have no idea what Splash is? MIT Educadional Studies Program's Splash is a program that runs every November where MIT volunteer teachers teach lots of high school and middle school students lots of cool things. Now Splash is on wheels! ESP is running a smaller version of Splash at Hudson High School! We need lots of teachers. MIT students, you in particular, know many things that high schoolers and middle schoolers find interesting. Come with us for a day or a few hours to teach some of them. It will be lots of fun (and there will be free food involved). Sign up your class now at esp.mit.edu!
Web: http://esp.mit.edu
Contact: David Farhi, W20-467, x3-4882, splash-on-wheels@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Studies Program
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Third Annual TA Workshop -- "TAcracy" : Effective Teaching Strategies for TAs, by TAs
Demba Ba, Stephen Hou
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Anxious about teaching for the first time? Don't worry! Please come to the 3rd annual EECS TA Workshop, which provides insight into effective strategies that would help graduate students fare well in their duty as a Teaching Assistant (TA). Focus group-style discussions will revolve around topics that are relevant to all TAs, regardless of the subject. Participation from veteran TAs will help one to benefit from the experience of TAs who've been there and done that.
Dinner is provided.
Contact: Demba Ba, demba@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cosponsor: EECS Graduate Students Association
Managing the TA Duty
Demba Ba, Stephen Hou
How do I do well in my classes, get research done, and at the same time do a good job TAing, all in the same term? As a head TA, how do I do my job best?
Mon Jan 29, 05:30-07:00pm, 34-401B
Helping Students Learn Best
Demba Ba, Stephen Hou
What can I do to ensure that my students learn the material? How do I write good problem-set problems? How do I balance individual work with collaboration? What are good uses of office hours? How do TAs best give their students feedback?
Tue Jan 30, 05:30-07:00pm, 34-401B
Teaching Tutorials
Demba Ba, Stephen Hou
How is recitation different from tutorial? What does it mean to run a good tutorial? How do I encourage my students to interact with me and with each other? What do I do if no one seems to know what's going on?
Wed Jan 31, 05:30-07:00pm, 34-401B
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Using Powerpoint to Animate Algorithms
James Orlin
Wed Jan 10, 01-03:00pm, E 51-372
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
There are lots of useful features in PowerPoint and Excel that can make presentations more interesting, including useful animation features and formatting that can be used in surprising and enlightening ways. In the first hour, we will demonstrate useful PowerPoint techniques, including the use of PowerPoint for algorithm animation. In the second hour, we will provide Excel techniques for enlivening presentations.
Contact: James Orlin, E53-363, x3-6606, jorlin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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