Therese Huston, Ph.D. is a cognitive scientist and founded the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. Therese received her BA from Carleton College and her MS and PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Her first book,Teaching What You Don't Know, was published by Harvard University Press, and her most recent book,How Women Decide,was described as “required reading on Wall Street” by the New York Times. She’s written for theNew York Times and Harvard Business Review and recently gave her first TEDx talk on what smart groups have in common.
this is the first offering from the steering group for Illinois Tech’s New Teaching & Learning Center . co-sponsored by lewis College of Human Sciences, PAUL V. Galvin Library & the Office of Digital Learning in Academic Affairs.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:45pm - 2:15pm Hermann Hall West Ballroom Boxed lunch available This workshop is for Faculty. TAs are welcome if space allows. RSVP no later than March 20
As faculty, most of us know about active learning, but not everyone does it. We have a dozen reasons why we do it less than we’d like, but the reality is, for many classes, teaching becomes telling. Lectures are comfortable for us, especially when we’re grappling with new material, but they can be a little too comfortable for students. Students can become passive, taking lots of notes but not thinking much. Research repeatedly demonstrates that students learn more when they actively engage with concepts. In this interactive keynote, we’ll explore how to move away from teaching as telling toward a different model: teaching as creating a learning environment. By the end of this keynote, participants will have discussed reasons why people lecture instead of using active learning, reviewed data on the benefits of active learning in science and engineering, explored what changes you could make to create a richer learning environment, and experienced active learning techniques that are easy to transfer to different settings.
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