Transformative Teaching for Transformative Learn

  • Friday, October 9, 2015
  • All Day
  • SR. Jean Schmidt MPR
  • Patrick Green, pgreen@luc.edu
  • None
  • Faculty
    Open to the public.
  • http://www.luc.edu/experiential/featuredinitiatives/facultydevelopmentprograms/
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    Transformative Teaching for Transformative Learning With Dr. L. Dee Fink
    October 9th (10-11:30am)
    Damen Student Center, Sr. Jean Schmidt MPR

    If we want our teaching to have a major impact on student learning, what are some ideas that can help us do that? Since 1990, the scholars of teaching and learning have been generating new ideas about college-level teaching ¿ every year, every year. All of these are good ideas, but which ones have the most potential to have a high impact on student engagement and student learning? In this presentation, Dr. Fink offers a list of 5 high impact teaching practices, based on his book Creating Significant Learning Experiences (2003). Implementing any one of these can improve almost anyone¿s teaching; implementing two or three of them will provide an amazing experience ¿ an experience that is as exciting for the professor as it will be for the students.

    Afternoon Curriculum Workshop: Designing Your Courses for More Significant Learning
    1:30 ¿ 4:00 pm
    CUNEO 417
    Dr. L. Dee Fink, International Consultant on College Teaching and Faculty Development

    Most college teachers would like their courses to be an experience in which their students achieve some kind of significant learning that lasts. But we feel frustrated and uncertain about how to get that to happen ¿ for more students, more of the time. This workshop will (a) expand participants¿ vision of the kinds of learning that are possible and (b) walk participants through a process of designing courses for Significant Learning, i.e., learning that truly makes a difference in the way students think, act and feel after college.