Memory is a curious thing. You can remember all the words to your high school fight song and all the digits of your very first phone number, but you can forget something you read this morning or the name of someone you’ve met several times.

Yet as capricious as our recollections can be, there are also proven ways to manipulate and develop our ability to remember. When we use those strategies in our teaching, we can help students learn more and perform better on exams.

If you are ready to help your students grasp course material and recall it when in matters, you’re ready for What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?—a Magna 20-Minute Mentor with Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.

Roush, a passionate and engaging instructor, shows you how to incorporate cueing, the testing effect, semantic encoding, peer teaching, and the spacing effect into your teaching. Together, these five relatively simple yet powerful techniques will help your students retain more information and show what they know on their assignments, quizzes, and exams.

Learning Goals
When you are finished with this program, you will:

• Know the five powerful learning and memory concepts that can significantly assist student comprehension and retention
• Have new insight into the rationale behind some common teaching practices
• Recognize examples of these concepts when they are applied to teaching strategies
• Learn how to coordinate the use of these concepts into a coherent teaching process
• Possess a specific plan for implementing these concepts into a teaching module in your discipline

The session link and login information to the February 15th 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.

Professional Sessions

Microaggressions and Workplace Bullying (Two-Session Live Webinar)

Dates: March 15, 2016 & March 22, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:3o PM
Location: GEB A104

Register to Participate:

March 15, 2016 – http://bit.do/WorkplaceBullying031516

March 22, 2016 – http://bit.do/WorkPlaceBullying032216

Overview:

This 2-session live webinar for UTHSC faculty and staff is co-sponsored by Faculty Affairs, Office of Equity and Diversity, and Human Resources.

Learn how to proactively identify and remove microaggressions and bullying from your office, department, and institution. During this two-session webcast you will examine critical issues related to microaggressions in higher education, including:

• Physiological and psychological impact on co-workers
• Role-based and hierarchical interactions
• Impact on organizational climates
• Implicit biases you and your coworkers may have

To view the agenda for each of the sessions please go to: http://www.academicimpressions.com/webcast/microaggressions-and-workplace-bullying#Agenda