Higher Education Teaching Series
Topic outline
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Introduction
NMC's Higher Education Teaching Series is a CIE-sponsored training program for new faculty, adjunct and regular, who have little or no formal teacher training or teaching experience. Over the course of a semester, a cohort of mentor/mentee pairs study, investigate, reflect, and discuss important aspects of teaching NMC's students.
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Overview: This module introduces different approaches for planning lessons, units, and an entire course. It emphasizes backward design as an effective planning methodology. Student considerations (planning for equity, accommodations, universal design, etc.) need to be addressed when planning instruction.Key concepts: Lesson and course design; approaches to planning; backward design; selecting the correct amount of information to cover, choosing the best way to assess outcomes; student considerations: planning for equity, ADA, accommodations, differentiated instruction
Planning approaches presented: Learning activities; lesson plans; syllabi.
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Overview: Teaching for Learning is designed to assist in incorporating multiple active learning strategies into your course. This module offers theories, examples, and implementation suggestions. It also provides an opportunity for an examination of your teaching style.
Key concepts: Cooperative learning, including individual accountability, positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction, collaborative skills development, and group processing.
Teaching tools presented: Think-Pair-Share; Place Mat; One Strays, Others Stay; Jigsaw; Four Corners.
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Overview: Traditionally, higher ed assessment has been limited to gathering evidence of student learning for the purpose of determining a grade. This module explores powerful, practical, and researched-based ways to enhance the role of effective assessment practice in teaching.
Key concepts: Purpose of assessment; principles of assessment including learning targets (competencies or outcomes) vs. methods (ways of gathering evidence); assessments as thinking tools; what grades mean and what's worth measuring; matching authentic, highly-engaging methods to learning targets and assessment
Assessment approaches presented: Summative, diagnostic, and formative assessment; learning measurement; self-assessment and peer assessment; methods; accomodations
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Overview: This module will introduce the knowledge and skills necessary for teaching in a variety of online environments; provide an array of instructional strategies using emerging technology that can be introduced in both face-to-face and online environments; and present a series of self-assessment instruments to track the instructor's progress and assist in planning further instructional activities.
Key concepts: Course design; synchronous vs. asynchronous delivery; netiquette; using new technologies; creating community, sustaining student engagement and interaction; open source; plagiarism; and copyright concerns.
Teaching tools presented: Blogs, wikis, podcasts, videos, additional online instructional tools.
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Overview: Exploring for Learning is designed to introduce you to graphic organizers and how you can use them effectively in your classroom, both for teaching and assessing learning.
Key concepts: Using graphic organizers--visual representations of knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas organized in meaningful ways.
Charting tools presented: Word webs; flowcharts; ranking ladders; Venn diagrams; fishbone diagrams; mind maps; concept maps.
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Final Project
The last step in the Higher Ed Teaching Series program is to share part of your experience with others at NMC. This is an opportunity to share and discuss with others ideas, projects, successes, relationships, processes, or ah-ha moments that have occurred as part of the program.
You may have explored new assessment models or tried a new active learning method or implemented a new project or tried a new communication method with your students. Share your experience.
Ways to share:
- Present at the New Faculty Institute
- Present at the October PD Day
- Write a series of blog posts for teaching.nmc.edu
- Participate in the 4x4x16 Writing Challenge in the fall
- Help facilitate a CIE Friday Forum
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