Better Teaching @ MIT
Dr. Lori Breslow, Director and Dr. Janet Rankin
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. In the series we'll talk to some of MIT’s best teachers about how they teach, explain how to write homework problems and test questions to best support student learning and understanding, consider ways to engage students in classroom discussions, and explore other topics. Workshops are open to all members of the MIT community.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tll/programs-services/better-teaching/schedule-iap-current.html
Contact: Leann Dobranski, 5-122, x3-3371, leann@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. This is a panel discussion at which questions are strongly encouraged.
Mon Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, 2-190
Interactive Teaching and Active Learning
Dr. Janet Rankin, Associate Director, Teaching & Learning
Asking students questions based on key concepts engages students' interests and intelligences. Instructors also learn what concepts students find most confusing. This session discusses the reasons for interactive teaching and provides examples of questions and techniques that can be used for adapted for teaching a variety of courses and topics.
Tue Jan 25, 12-01:00pm, 2-190
Planning and Presenting a Lecture
Dr. Janet Rankin, Associate Director, Teaching & Learning
This session will explore how to organize a lecture or recitation. It will help you understand how to craft the messages you are delivering and understand how they affect your audience. By the end of the seminar, you will have a better sense of how to use more of your expressive capacity to keep a group engaged.
Wed Jan 26, 12-01:00pm, 2-190
CANCELLED - Constructing Effective Assignments, Problem Sets & Exam Questions
Dr. Janet Rankin , Associate Director, TLL
This session highlights ways in which exams, problem sets and homework assignments can be designed to best support student learning and understanding. Participants identify positive and negative attributes of sample homework problems and work collaboratively to redesign these problems in order to more effectively reinforce desired learning outcomes.
THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
TO OBTAIN SESSION HANDOUTS CONTACT JRANKIN@MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 27, 12-01:00pm, 2-190 - CANCELLED, CANCELLED
Special Considerations for Teaching in a Multicultural Classroom
Dr. Lori Breslow, Director, Teaching and Learning Laboratory
MIT's cultural diversity is an exciting resource. In this seminar, strategies are presented for discussion about ways to increase understanding in, and effective management of multicultural classrooms.
Prior to attending this event, it would be useful for discussions if you previewed this 14 minute video: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/crd/videos/5268-intuitively-obvious-volume-8
Fri Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, 2-190
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EECS Teaching Assistant Workshop
John Sun
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: EECS graduate students interested in teaching
Want to improve your teaching skills and your chances of getting a TAship in the future? Please come to the annual EECS TA Workshop. We will have group discussions focused on different aspects of TAing, led by experienced TAs who will share some of the things they wish they had known before they began teaching.
During this first workshop in the series, we will address topics such as the following:
What can I do to ensure that my students learn the material?
How do I write good problem sets and solutions?
How much time does TAing really take?
How do I make progress in my research, keep up in my classes, and do a good job as a TA, all in the same term?
For the second event:
During this second workshop in the series, we will address topics such as the following:
What are the differences between recitations and tutorials?
How do I encourage my students to interact with me and each other?
How much should I prepare and present, and how much time should I devote to answering students' questions?
What are some good uses of office hours?
Dinner provided. Please RSVP at website below.
Web: https://eecsgsa.mit.edu/events/
Contact: John Sun, johnsun@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cosponsor: EECS Graduate Students Association
Basics of TAing
John Sun
What can I do to ensure that my students learn the material?
How do I write good problem sets and solutions? How much time does TAing really take? How do I make progress in my research, keep up in my classes, and do a good job as a TA, all in the same term?
Tue Jan 25, 06-07:30pm, 34-401A
How to Teach Effectively
John Sun
What are the differences between recitations and tutorials? How do I encourage my students to interact with me and each other? How much should I prepare and present, and how much time should I devote to answering students' questions? What are some good uses of office hours?
Wed Jan 26, 06-07:30pm, 34-401A
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Facilitating Effective Research
Melissa Martin-Greene, Janet Rankin
Tue Jan 18, 12-02:00pm, 1-135
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Facilitating Effective Research is a session sponsored by the UAAP and the Teaching and Learning Laboratory that is geared toward graduate students and post-docs who are currently, or soon plan to be, mentoring undergraduate researchers. The session is a means to facilitate discussion about UROP mentoring best practices, research-advising perspectives, and how to set realistic expectations for UROP students, among other topics. The ultimate goal of the session is to foster effective UROP research and advising relationships between undergraduates and their mentors.
Advance sign-up required, space limited (email melmart@mit.edu if interested in attending).
Sponsors: UAAP/TLL
Contact: Melissa Martin-Greene, 7-104, x3-3002, melmart@mit.edu
Sponsor: Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
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How to Speak
Professor Patrick Winston
Fri Jan 28, 11am-12:00pm, 6-120
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/programs-services/better-teaching/schedule-iap-current.html
Contact: Leann Dobranski, 5-122, x3-3371, leann@mit.edu
Sponsor: Teaching and Learning Lab
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Tips and Tricks for Teaching High School Students (and beyond!)
Anna Premo
Thu Jan 13, 12-03:00pm, 2-143
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Ever wondered how to teach the basics of algebra with facepaint? We have. Come explore the wonderful world of teaching high schoolers in this teaching workshop. We'll give you some brief tips, split you into groups, provide you with a topic and an assortment of fun props, and let you run wild. Afterwards, we'll have critique sessions to let you know what you did well and what we might have thrown erasers at you for.
Note: no actual high schoolers will be present--you will instead have to hone your acting skills as you pretend to be a petulant teenager while other groups teach.
Lunch will be provided.
Contact: Anna Premo, apremo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Middle East Education through Technology
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