Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources
20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of August 31st)
Date: Available August 31st – September 6th
Session Title: What if a Student Asks a Question I Can’t Answer?
Presenter: Therese Huston, Ph.D. (Founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University)
Overview:
Students view professors as experts and authority figures. Because of this, when a student asks a difficult question in class and you don’t know the answer, it’s easy to feel flustered, embarrassed and anxious.
- Should you stumble through your response?
- Ramble off on a tangent?
- Make something up on the spot?
There’s no need for any of that. Develop a reliable teaching technique strategy for fielding students’ questions without losing your cool or undermining your credibility. In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, Therese Huston, Ph.D., outlines an effective method for managing these difficult moments.
You will learn how to:
- Employ an effective three-step method for handling difficult questions
- Identify responses that work well for you…and others that miss the mark
- Modify strategies for the “research it yourself” approach
- Use clarification and acknowledgement in dealing with tough questions
- Increase your confidence and credibility in the classroom
- Make class preparation more manageable
- Recognize the pros and cons of your current response repertoire
The session link and login information to the August 31st 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor is available in the announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.
Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate and Improve Your Teaching
Date: September 22, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A204
Overview:
Until recently, teachers and students faced each other in the same classroom at the same time. The increase of online courses has changed that model dramatically, affecting how teachers are evaluated in profound ways. It is essential that faculty understand the best practices that underlie evaluations of effective online teaching. In this seminar you will learn the strategies for garnering constructive feedback, make significant changes in the way you teach based on that feedback, and take more control for the results of your evaluations.
It is essential that faculty understand the best practices that underlie evaluations of effective online teaching. To gain this awareness, participate in this 40-minute online seminar, Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate & Improve Your Teaching. You’ll compare summative and formative evaluation approaches and learn how to use feedback from diverse sources to improve your teaching. You’ll learn how to make changes in your teaching methods while you teach the course so you can respond quickly to student concerns. Evaluating your performance in online courses is becoming more important than ever. This dynamic seminar can give you the insights and practical tools for boosting evaluation results while improving your teaching.
To register to attend this session please go to: http://tinyurl.com/onlineteachingtoolkit
Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law
Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102
Overview:
Frank Lancaster, Associate General Counsel at UT, will present a session entitled ‘Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law.’ The session will provide an overview of case history surrounding contemporary copyright law, key things to remember in the classroom and online environment, and resources for faculty.
A light lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM to those who register to attend by September 16th. To register to attend use this link: http://bit.ly/UTHSC-092515
Copyright and fair use are topics that generate questions. If you have questions about this topic, send them to Dr. Cindy Russell (crussell@uthsc.edu) so that Frank can address some of them during his presentation.
Frank delivered a similar session for UT Chattanooga’s Instructional Excellence Conference. You can view that session here: http://tinyurl.com/utc-copyright (actual speaker audio begins at the 1-minute mark)
Professional Sessions
UTRF Seminar: Panel Discussion with UTHSC Faculty Entrepreneurs
Date: September 10, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute, Freeman Auditorium 930 Madison, Suite 300
Overview:
Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and would like to launch a start-up company? Please join us for a panel discussion with UTHSC faculty entrepreneurs who followed their entrepreneurial passion and founded their own companies. They will share their experiences and provide insight on important topics and issues such as raising money, mistakes, and lessons learned in the process. For more information, please go here.
Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Tinieka Thrailkill at ttriple2@uthsc.edu or 901-448-7827.
New Faculty Orientation
Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102
Overview:
The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) will be hosting New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.
This orientation is for ALL faculty hired as of January 2015 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM and lunch will be provided at 12:00 PM.
To register to attend please go to: http://bit.do/NFO-Fall15
2015 Biomedical Research Symposium
Date: October 23, 2015
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: St. Jude – Marlo Thomas Center GEC Auditorium
Topic: “Stem Cells and Cancer” – The symposium will be hosted by Drs. Sorrentino, McKinney-Freeman and Roussel
Overview:
- Peggy Goodell, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas
- Emmanuelle Passeque, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco in San Francisco, California
- Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York
- Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD, of HSR-TIGET San Raffaele Telethon Institute in Milan, Italy
- Luis Parada, PhD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas
- Roel Nusse, PhD, of Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Stanford, California
- Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts
- Guy Sauvageau, MD, PhD, of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer in Montreal QC, Canada
- Chad Cowan, PhD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Attendance is limited, so please register today to reserve your spot – https://www.stjude.org/education-training/advanced-training/seminars-symposia/biomedical-research-symposium.html
Registration is open for the conference and post celebration until September 30, 2015. Pre-registration is required to attend each event. The post celebration will be held at River Hall @ River Inn-Harbor Town from 6:00pm – 10:00pm.
Did you know….
You can apply credit received for professional development outside the university to your faculty training records? Simply complete the HR Request for Additional Training Credit form found at http://www.uthsc.edu/hrtraining/pdfs/additional_training_credit_form.pdf and forward it, along with a copy of the program’s agenda, to the HR Training Department at 910 Madison, Suite 727.
Why do this? The University of TN believes that professional development and training of its employees are central to the university’s mission, vision, and values. Having credit received elsewhere to your UTHSC training records is very useful to your department and college – for things such as annual reviews and program accreditations.
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