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Course Design and College Teaching, Spring 2017

By Chicago Center for Teaching

Date and time

March 31, 2017 · 1:30pm - June 2, 2017 · 3:30pm CDT

Location

TBA

Description

Course Design and College Teaching

REGISTRATION OPENS TUESDAY 1/31/2017 AT 8AM

*3/31/2017 to 6/2/2017*

Fridays, 1:30-3:30pm LOCATION TBA

In Spring 2017, the Chicago Center for Teaching will offer a pedagogy course open to all graduate students and postdocs at the University. This course fulfills the pedagogy course requirement for the Certificate in Teaching offered by the CCT.

Course Description

The overarching goal of this course is to help graduate students and postdocs prepare to teach in the college classroom. Over the course of the term, we will read literature on teaching and learning and use that scholarship to reflect on our own teaching practice. We will start at the beginning by thinking first about how people learn. Next we will turn our attention to course design and consider what kind of structure will help us promote learning in our students. We then consider assessment: how do we know students are learning, and how can the work we assign them promote meaningful engagement with course material? We will then think about what happens in the classroom (and beyond) by exploring different teaching methods, and what can be said for (and against) them. We will also consider the issue of inclusion in the classroom, discussing how to create a welcoming and productive classroom environment.

Alongside this process of reading, reflection, and discussion, students will also be engaged in designing a course of their own. This endeavor will take the form of a course design project, which should serve as the foundation for a course you plan to teach soon, either in the College, at a Chicago-area institution, or in your first year as a faculty member.

Questions? Email josephlampert@uchicago.edu.

Organized by

The Chicago Center for Teaching (CCT) supports the University’s diverse community of instructors--graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members--in developing their teaching practices with the goal of enhancing student learning across campus. CCT programs are not open to the public and are only available to affiliates of the Univeristy of Chicago. We are committed to the idea that effective teaching begins with an instructor’s intentions and expectations for their students. Toward that end, we encourage the use of pedagogical practices that are based in scholarly literature on teaching and learning and foster dialogue and reflection on effective teaching through workshops, seminars, individual consultations, and other programs and activities. Our aim is to promote teaching as a scholarly practice that is integral to the University’s values.

 
 
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