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Graduate Teaching Community: July 2015
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Thursday, July 2, 2015. We'll be meeting informally this summer (2015) to discuss topics related to teaching and learning, to network with other graduate students and post-docs who love teaching, to brainstorm, vent, come up with new ideas, etc. For Summer Session 1, we'll be meeting every other week on Mondays at noon, usually over coffee or lunch. Details on topics and locations will be sent out over the GTC list-serv- to be added, please email rbanderson@ucdavis.edu. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Graduate Teaching Community: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Winter Week 5: From Presentation to Lecture. 1 The contextual change from presentation to lecture. Presentations generally stand alone and are unrelated; lectures are generally delivered in a series and related to one another. The audience of presentations can be supervisors, colleagues and bosses; while lectures are mainly delivered to students. 2 The structural change from presentation to lecture. The explanation of relevance in content is not highlighted in presentation; bu...
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Graduate Teaching Community: April 2013
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Saturday, April 13, 2013. Graduate Teaching Community Spring 2013 Workshop Series on Out-of-Class Assessments. To those of you who are joining us for the first time this quarter: welcome! And a warm welcome back to all our returning members as well. During our first meeting this past Thursday, we discussed both the main ideas of this quarter’s theme, “Out-of Class Assessment,” as well as some of the topics we think would be fruitful areas to further explore as we move through the spring. D) interpersonal...
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Graduate Teaching Community: Spring Week 4: Assessments
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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Spring Week 4: Assessments. We discussed benefits and limitations of two types of assessments:. The goal of formative. Assessment is to monitor student learning. To provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. The goal of summative. Assessment is to evaluate student learning. At the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. The focus is on the learning. The aim of ...
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Graduate Teaching Community: Spring Week 3: The Role of Confusion in Learning
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Friday, May 8, 2015. Spring Week 3: The Role of Confusion in Learning. Confusion can be beneficial for learning? Looked at the role of confusion and its effectiveness in improving learning. Their preliminary findings showed that although students answered more forced-response questions correctly in the non-confusing control, students who were more confused performed better on a post-test. This prompted a second study to analyze the extent of the students' learning by adding a final "near and far tran...
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Graduate Teaching Community: October 2012
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012. TODAY'S GTC MEETING CANCELLED. Due to unforeseen circumstances, today's GTC meeting has been cancelled. We apologize for the late notice and any resulting inconvenience. Please stay tuned for more info about next week's topic (as a reminder, if you haven't yet signed up to facilitate a workshop, please do so here. Sorry we won't get to see all of your shining faces this week - until next time,. Monday, October 15, 2012. Multidisciplinary Teaching: Definitions and Applications.
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Graduate Teaching Community: March 2014
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Monday, March 17, 2014. Giving Extra Credit: Second Chances or Unfair Coddling? Hi there, GTC! Recently in the GTC, we were fortunate enough to participate in a workshop on extra credit. Facilitated by Matt Dumlao. What follows is a summary from Matt regarding both the main points of the workshop and the reactions of participants to the points being raised:. Who is eligible for extra credit was another point of discussion during the meeting. Our discussion of curving grades lead us to the idea that stude...
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Graduate Teaching Community: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Spring Quarter Meeting Time and Topic! Are you interested in exploring effective teaching in an interdisciplinary collaborative group of graduate students and postdocs? Do you want to develop your own teaching skills and earn a certificate in the process? Join the UC Davis. This quarter’s theme:. Teaching Strategies Based on the Science of Learning. Mondays, 11-11:50 am in 1352 Surge 3. With any questions you may have. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Get to know your students. Undergr...
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Graduate Teaching Community: November 2013
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Sunday, November 17, 2013. Techniques and Strategies for Effectively Flipping Your Classroom. Hey there, GTC! Now that we're past the halfway point of the quarter, our GTC discussion series is definitely in full swing! This time the topic focused on a new and exciting trend among educators: flipping the classroom. Sarah Longo, this week's discussion facilitator, had this to say:. The benefits of being flipped. The importance of partnership. On one hand, flipping the classroom requires. What is a team?
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Graduate Teaching Community: January 2014
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Friday, January 3, 2014. For our last meeting of the fall quarter, we were led through a workshop on peer assessment by our very own Melody Schmid. Below is a summary, provided by her, which outlines the central questions and concerns we addressed in relation to this very popular student-engagement technique:. What is peer assessment? Why use peer assessment? PA can create a sense of community in the classroom through increased student-student interaction. Students can receive a wider range of feedba...
