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
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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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
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Making the Most of Your Presentation
Dr. Jean-luc Doumont, Communication Consultant, Principae
Mon Jan 24, 02-04:00pm, 32-123
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Strong oral presentation skills are a key to success for engineers, scientists, and other professionals, yet many speakers are at a loss to tackle the task. Systematic as they otherwise can be in their work, they go at it intuitively, sometimes haphazardly, with much good will but seldom good results. Based on Dr. Doumont's book "Trees, maps, and theorems" about “effective communication for rational minds” this lecture proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver presentations. Among others, it covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as stage fright.
Contact: Leann Dobranski, 5-122, x3-3371, leann@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE)
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Structuring Your Scientific Paper
Dr. Jean-luc Doumont, Communication Consultant, Principiae
Tue Jan 25, 02-04:00pm, 32-123
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Papers are one of the few deliverables of the work of researchers. Well-designed, they efficiently allow each reader to learn only what he or she needs to. Poorly designed, by contrast, they confuse readers, fail to prompt decisions, or remain unread. Based on Dr Doumont's book Trees, Maps, and Theorems, about “effective communication for rational minds”, the lecture shows how to structure scientific papers, theses, and technical reports effectively at all levels to get the readers' attention, facilitate navigation, and, in this way, get the message across optimally.
Web: http://www.principiae.be
Contact: Leann Dobranski, 5-122, x3-3371, leann@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE)
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