CETL Events

CETL and ORSP Present the Teacher-Scholar Series: Faculty and Student Scholarly Collaboration in Music

Dr. Nick Phillips & Dr. Ethan Wickman with Matt Turek
Music and Theatre Arts
Thursday, Feb. 16, 4:00 p.m. in CETL OL 1142 

This seminar series sponsored by ORSP and CETL features educators who demonstrate how scholarship informs teaching, and how teaching informs scholarship. A variety of ways to make this connection will be demonstrated. > Click here for a PDF flyer      

The 3rd  Annual Tools for Teaching: Using Technology to Enhance Instruction

Friday, Feb. 24, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
in Davies Center

Participating in this regional showcase are the four northwest UW campuses; Eau Claire, River Falls, Stout, and Superior, along with UW-Barron County. The showcase focuses on faculty and instructors who are incorporating online instructional tools and other existing and emerging technologies into their courses to ramp up student learning and engagement.    

CETL Presents Guest Speaker Lendol Calder

BEYOND COVERAGE: SIGNATURE PEDAGOGIES FOR THE INTRODUCTORY COURSE — A History Case Study

Lendol Calder (historian, Carnegie Scholar, and 2010 IL Professor of the Year) will describe his efforts to create and assess a signature pedagogy for introductory history courses. His story will interest teachers of all introductory courses because all face the same challenge: how to prepare students to think and act in the world. > read more    

CETL Services
 

Midterm Student Evaluation Process
February 27 - March 13, 2012

As a service to educators, a CETL representative will visit a class to confidentially assess the course using students' feedback. Consider adding a midterm student evaluation to your syllabus.

To participate:  Send an e-mail to CETL, call 836.2385, or stop in OL 1142, and tell us:

• the date and time you prefer that we visit,
• department and course name and number,
• number of students in the course, and
• location of your course.

CETL will then contact you to confirm your request.

CETL Spring 2012 Programs

Communities of Practice

• Let Me Learn COP This group will learn to use the Let Me Learn advanced learning system in their courses this spring.

• Small Group Teaching COP This group is working together to determine the impact of small group teaching on students' critical thinking skills by studying literature on critical thinking and developing means to implement and assess them both.

• Effective Grading COP Join a group of educators will use the grading process to improve teaching, examine of the linkage between teaching and grading, and try new grading schemes. The group of educators will support their discussions with Barbara Walvoord's book: Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment in College. 

Learning Technology

• Redesign Your Online or Hybrid Course Register to meet with a small group of educators to redesign all or part of your existing online or hybrid course. Join this group to learn about the successful ideas other educators have used and a few new ideas as well. 

• Creating Content Using Technology  This learning group will cover various options to make and share multimedia content that can be reused over and over again, including Prezi, Camtasia, video editing, PowerPoint based tutorials with audio, embedding video in D2L, and others participants want to learn. 

• Social Media for Teaching Have you thought about how social media can be used to enhance your teaching? This group will discuss Twitter, Facebook, and Yammer (the UWEC social networking tool)as options for both communicating information and using these tools to teach.   

Discussion Groups

• Maximizing the Student Work Experience Learning Community UW-Eau Claire recognizes integrative learning as a valuable component of liberal education. Student employment is an important piece of the academic experience that often influences retention decisions, career choices and social relationships. This learning community will focus on realizing the potential of student employment to enhance student learning.

• Student Success in College Book Discussion Group  This book provides concrete examples from twenty institutions that can serve other colleges and universities as they strive to create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment. 

 
• What the Best College Teachers Do Book Discussion Group This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.

• Why So Few Book Discussion Group Using this AAUW report, the group will discuss the underrepresentation of women in the sciences and ways to encourage interest in these fields.

• TED Video Discussion Group Don't have time for a traditional book group but still want stimulating discussion about a wide variety of topics?  Consider the TED Video Club.  Similar to a book group, this group of educators meets bi-weekly to discuss thought-provoking presentations found on TED.com. 

To register for any of these programs contact CETL, CETL@uwec.edu, 715-836-2385, or stop by OL 1142.  Click this link to go to CETL Programs page.