Best Practices in Teaching Global Audiences
Tami Bolk, Global Education Program Assistant, Lily Zhang, Career Development Specialist
| Jan/09 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-251 |
Enrollment: Registration required through CareerBridge
Limited to 15 participants
Do you teach or tutor international students, or are you considering going abroad to teach? Have you ever experienced challenges or frustration when doing so because of cultural or language barriers? In this session, you will be provided valuable tools to better understand and negotiate cultural differences that will lead to greater teaching success. Come learn how to improve your own intercultural communication skills in order to foster increased global understandings.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Tami Bolk, 12-170, 617-253-4744, tbolk@mit.edu
ESL Program for MIT Service Employees' Workshops 2014
Nancy P Kelly, ESL Program Coordinator
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
The MIT ESL Program for Service Employees is giving a series of workshops during the IAP period on January 29-30. This is open to all. If you are interested in volunteering, are already a volunteer and want to improve your skills, or are just curious about the ESL Program for Service Employees, please come!
Sponsor(s): MIT Womens League
Contact: Sis de Bordenave, 10-342, 617-253-3656, esdeb@mit.edu
| Jan/29 | Wed | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 4-149 |
Research shows that control of stress, intonation and phrasing (called suprasegmentals) in English is more important for comprehensibility of speech and for listening comprehension than complete accuracy of the sound system. We'll go over the main stress, intonation and phrasing patterns of American English and examine different ways to help students to practice these rhythms.
Jane Dunphy - Director, English Language Studies Program at MIT
| Jan/30 | Thu | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 4-149 |
Many ESL students and teachers face the same hurdles. Does your student insist on translating everything word-for-word? Are you having trouble explaining verb tenses to your student? Are you looking for brainstorming support and resources? We'll go over some common trouble spots and share strategies that work.
Laura Mali-Astrue - Volunteer teacher, tutor and conversation partner
Fair Use & E-Reserves
Molly McInerney, DOT Liaison and Course Support Librarian
| Jan/22 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Advance sign-up required. Register at http://libcal.mit.edu/events
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 20 participants
Are you teaching or supporting a class this spring and want to learn more about copyright and electronic reserves on Stellar?
We’ll give you an overview of the latest understanding of US copyright law’s fair use provisions as it applies to materials posted to course management systems like Stellar. We’ll discuss the federal ruling on the Georgia State University e-reserves case and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Then we’ll share best practices for posting to Stellar, and how the Libraries can help with your e-reserves.
Staff from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing and Course Reserves Team will be available to answer questions.
Please register for this class.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Molly McInerney, 10-428G, 617 253-1837, mcinerne@mit.edu
From Assignment to Revision: How Instruction and Feedback Shape Student Writing
Suzanne Lane, Senior Lecturer, CMS/W and Director of WAC
| Jan/28 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 12-134 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
What kind of instruction and feedback will help students understand how to write and revise their assignments, to hone and develop their ideas, or to understand central concepts about effective communication? This workshop will draw on composition research to explore the range of instruction and responding practices, from rubrics to peer review to individual conferences, and when each is effective. By considering feedback in relation to other forms of instruction, participants will learn to provide the kinds of comments and strategies that will help students understand how to improve both their specific texts and their abilities as writers.
All Writing Across the Curriculum workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Humanistic Studies, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Alexandra Sear, 12-117, 617-253-0650, sear@mit.edu
In-Class Debates: Another Option for an Oral Communication Assignment
Edward Schiappa, Professor and Interim Head of CMS/W
| Jan/30 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 12-134 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This workshop will cover the basics of putting together assignments involving in-class debates. Specific issues covered include the mechanics of how to word good debate topics, set time limits, and structure debate formats, as well as how to teach the basic skills that students will need to acquire in order to participate in debates.
All Writing Across the Curriculum workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Humanistic Studies, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Alexandra Sear, 12-117, 617-253-0650, sear@mit.edu
MIT Outing Club Winter School
Ben Scandella, MinWah Leung
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Trip Participants MUST attend the FIRST TWO lectures (Jan 7 & 9)
Prereq: None.
Winter School is MIT Outing Club's crash course in cold weather wilderness activities. Taught over IAP since 1971, the goal of Winter School is to teach the skills one needs to enjoy outdoor sports safely in the winter. Participants attend lectures every Tuesday and Thursday evening and spend time outdoors during the weekends. Trips are offered at various levels of intensity and include hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, back-country skiing, ice climbing, winter camping, orienteering, and mountaineering. Specifically, lecture topics cover essential food and clothing selection as well as the use of technical gear for hiking (snowshoes+crampons), cross country and backcountry skiing, ice climbing and more.
All levels of experience are welcome! Many smaller (10 people max) trips are run to the White Mountains every weekend by our experienced winter trip leaders. Weekend trips are optional, but by far the best part of Winter School! Equipment is available for rent from MITOC; participants will need to provide appropriate clothing (to be discussed in lectures). Those going on trips will need to share cost of gas & upkeep with drivers, as well as a nominal trip fee (covers trail fee for National Forest use). Attendance at the first two lectures (Jan 7th and 9th) is REQUIRED to participate in any of the weekend trips! The first two lectures will be in room 34-101. All subsequent lectures (Jan 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, and 30) will be in room 35-225.
Sponsor(s): Outing Club
Contact: Benjamin Scandella, 48-208, 206-267-2699, BSCAND@MIT.EDU
| Jan/07 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 34-101 |
| Jan/09 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 34-101 |
Mandatory Winter School Participant Lectures. Topics including Clothing, Food, Water, Personal Issues, Basic Hiking, Driving in Winter Conditions, MITOC Procedures/Gear Rentals will be covered.
| Jan/14 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 35-225 |
| Jan/16 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 35-225 |
| Jan/21 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 35-225 |
| Jan/23 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 35-225 |
| Jan/28 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 35-225 |
| Jan/30 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 35-225 |
Lectures the second week will cover a variety of technical topics such winter overnight camping (gear + food), ice climbing, backcountry skiing, avalanches, weather, & mountaineering. The third and fourth week will feature guest lecturers (TBA) that specialize in winter-related activities, academics, and/or outdoors adventures.
Splash for Us
Chelsea Voss, Ray Hua Wu
| Jan/21 | Tue | 08:00PM-11:59PM | Building 36, Floor 1 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Splash for Us is a one-evening IAP event where MIT students present classes about anything they want. Come to teach or learn or both, and explore a variety of unusual, entertaining, and edifying topics!
Where: Building 36, first floor
What: Teach anything, learn anything! By MIT students, for MIT students!
When: January 21, 2014. 8:00pm-11:59pm.
How: If you want to learn, just show up whenever you want! We plan to serve pizza and other snacks while supplies last.
What classes will be taught? Visit here to see an up-to-date schedule of the classes that will be taught at Splash for Us.
Teaching?
Interested in teaching? Visit here to sign up to teach a you want to teach a class for Splash for Us. Classes will be scheduled on a first-come first-serve basis until classroom space is filled up.
If you don't want to teach a long class, you can also sign up to teach a 5-minute lecture during "Firestorm", our series of short lightning lectures.
Sponsor(s): Educational Studies Program
Contact: Chelsea Voss & Ray Hua Wu, splash-for-us@mit.edu
Thinking and Talking: Oral Communication in the Classroom
Andreas Karatsolis, Lecturer, CMS/W and Associate Director of WAC
| Jan/29 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 12-134 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This workshop will examine the rich variety of forms that classroom oral presentations can take, both as a way to scaffold thinking and as a way to assess students’ conceptual understanding. Workshop participants will be able to work on (re)designing assignments for their current or future courses by developing (i) a deeper understanding of fundamental oral communication concepts, (ii) strategies to integrate oral communication assignments into a class, and (iii) techniques and tools to provide feedback on student presentations.
All Writing Across the Curriculum workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Humanistic Studies, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Alexandra Sear, 12-117, 617-253-0650, sear@mit.edu
Visual Literacy: Strategies for Incorporating Classroom Critical Thinking in the Visual Representation of Research
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Ctr. for Materials Science & Engineering
| Jan/27 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 12-134 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This workshop will include a presentation and hands-on exercises addressing the too often ignored component of communication: the visual expression of data and concepts. Just as in writing text, creating visual representations is not only a means of communication but also a process that itself advances and clarifies thinking.
All Writing Across the Curriculum workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Humanistic Studies, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Alexandra Sear, 12-117, 617-253-0650, sear@mit.edu
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