Winter Teaching Event – Saturday, January 20th, 2018, 10am-4pm
3rd Floor Richcraft Hall
Concurrent Workshops #1: 10:00-11:30am
Room / Title / Presenter / Audience / EDC CreditRB 3110 / “Personalities in the Classroom” / Ryan Coulling, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology / All TAs / Yes
RB 3112 / “Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Engaging Students in Research” / Martha AttridgeBufton, Carleton University Library / All FASS & FPA TAs / Yes
RB 3220 / “Sexual Assault: Impacts and Implications for Your Classroom” / Jenna Lambert, Equity Services / All TAs / Yes
RB 3224 / “In the Know and on the Go: Identifying Academic Support Services for Students” / LakinDagg, Learning Support Services / All TAs / No
Teaching Talk #1—Keynote Speaker Series: 11:45am-12:45pm
Room / Title / Presenter / Audience / EDC Credit2200 RB / “Encouraging Reflective Practice as a Teaching Assistant” / Dr. Alan Steele, Institute of Environmental Studies / All FED & FS TAs / Yes
Concurrent Workshops #2: 1:15-2:45am
Room / Title / Presenter / Audience / EDC CreditRB 3110 / “Active Learning Strategies for Improving Student Engagement in Problem-Based Tutorial Sessions” / Josh Woods, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering / All FED & FS TAs / Yes
RB 3112 / “Making the Grade: Providing Effective Feedback while Marking” / Logan Ewanation, Dept. of Psychology / All FASS & FPA TAs / Yes
RB 3220 / “Teaching Essay Writing” / Noah Schwartz, Dept. of Political Science / All FASS & FPA TAs / Yes
RB 3224 / “Intercultural Communication: Meeting Challenges in Academic Communication as an ITA” / Chris Smith, ITA Mentor / All TAs / Yes
Teaching Talk #2—Keynote Speaker Series: 3:00-4:00pm
Room / Title / Presenter / Audience / EDC Credit2200 RB / “Jamming the Classroom: Lessons from Music for Non-Music Educators” / Dr. Jesse Stewart, Dept. of Music / All FASS & FPA TAs / Yes
Session Descriptions:
Concurrent Workshops #1: 10:00 – 11:30am
1. Personalities in the Classroom: Strategies for Teaching and Meeting with Different Characters (1.5 hrs)
Ryan Coulling, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
This workshop aims to help you identify some of the different personalities you will encounter as you teach and meet with students that you TA. This workshop will also allow you to be able to develop strategies to deal with these students, while recognizing unsuccessful tactics.
Skills/Knowledge Developed:Managing a classroom
EDC Credit: Yes
Restrictions/Limitations:All TAs, max. enrolment of 30
Location:3110 RB
2. Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks:Engaging Students in Library Research (1.5 hrs)
Martha AttridgeBufton, MacOdrumLibrary
Generation Y students like search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, so much so that “googling” is now a verb.So how do we get these students into the library, either in person or “on the cloud”? Martha AttridgeBufton, a subject specialist at the Carleton University MacOdrumLibrary, will share teaching strategies to raise awareness of the need to use library resources to find “good” information when delivering in-class workshops to large groups—it’s all about filter bubbles, YouTube, and peer instruction.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Engaging students, managing a classroom
EDC Credit: Yes.
Restrictions/Limitations: All FASS and FPA TAs, max. enrolment of 30
Location:3112 RB
3. Sexual Assault: Impacts and Implications for Your Classroom (1.5 hrs)
Jenna Lambert, Equity Services
This workshop will discuss the individual impacts of sexual assault as well as its implications for students’ academic success and how you can assist and support them in classroom. The workshop will be interactive and feature many opportunities for discussion.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Managing a classroom, creating an inclusive classroom
EDC Credit: Yes.
Restrictions/Limitations:All TAs, max. enrolment of 25
Location:3220 RB
4. In the Know and on the Go: Identifying Academic Support Services for Students (1.5 hrs)
LakinDagg, Centre for Student Academic Support
Feeling overwhelmed by the academic demands of your students? Know that you are not alone! This workshop will provide detailed information regarding the academic resources that are available to TAs at Carleton helping you to address the concerns and obstacles that many of your students face. Participants of this workshop will engage in an interactive overview of the academic support services that are offered through the Centre for Student Academic Support.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Managing a classroom, adopting institutional standards/procedures
EDC Credit:No.
Restrictions/Limitations:All TAs, max. enrolment of 25
Location:3224 RB
Teaching Talk #1—Keynote Speaker Series: 11:45am-12:45pm
1. Encouraging Reflective Practice as a Teaching Assistant (1.0 hr)
Alan Steele, Institute of Environmental Studies
When students participate in laboratory activities, discussion groups, tutorials, or problem analysis sessions, they are encountering problems and ideas that they most likely have not encountered before. Besides learning the subject content in that session,they are also learning broader skills, such as how to solve problems or ways to articulate ideas. It is useful if students reflect on their approaches to acquiring these broader skills. Going a step further, we as educators should reflect on our approaches to teaching, so as to be more effective. In this session, we will discuss these ideas and consider ways to encourage reflection in both our students and ourselves.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Using reflective practices, motivating and engaging students
EDC Credit: Yes
Restrictions/Limitations:All FED and FS TAs, max. enrolment of 380
Location:2200 RB
Concurrent Workshops #2: 1:15-2:45pm
1. Active Learning Strategies for Improving Student Engagement in Problem-Based Tutorial Sessions (1.5 hrs)
Josh Woods, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Teaching assistants in Engineering, Math, and Science are often faced with solving a large number of examples during tutorial sessions. More often than not, this can be a monotonous period for students. To overcome these challenges, this workshop introduces the concept of active learning and describes how teaching assistants in Engineering, Math, and Science can incorporate it into their problem analysis sessions to improve student engagement and knowledge retention. Workshop participants will have an opportunity to experience a number of active learning strategies for themselves and determine what might work best with their teaching assignment.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Incorporating active learning into PA sessions
EDC Credit?:Yes
Restrictions/Limitations: All Science and Engineering TAs, max. enrolment of 30
Location:3110RB
2. Making the Grade: Providing Effective Feedback while Marking (1.5 hrs)
Logan Ewanation, Department of Psychology
In this workshop, we will be learning together about a number of strategies on how to provide students with effective feedback while marking/grading. We will also have a chance to discuss ways to handle situations when students are unhappy with their mark.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Providing effective feedback, handling difficult situations
EDC Credit?:Yes
Restrictions/Limitations: All TAs, max. enrolment of 30
Location:3112RB
3. Teaching Essay Writing (1.5 hrs)
Noah Schwartz, Department of Political Science
When you’re a graduate student, essay writing comes naturally – and explaining how to write a good essay to younger students can sometimes pose a challenge. In this workshop, TAs will learn to think reflexively and creatively about how to teach essay writing to their students. They will design, develop and deliver an essay writing lesson, and leave the workshop with concrete material to use during their tutorials or office hours.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Teaching essay writing
EDC Credit?:Yes.
Restrictions/Limitations:All FASS & FPA TAs, max. enrolment of 25
Location:3220RB
4. Intercultural Communication: Meeting Challenges in Academic Communication as an ITA (1.5 hrs)
Chris Smith, ITA Mentor
This workshop highlights issues in communication that International TAs face, such as 1) variance in teaching style, 2) post-lesson communication styles with students, 3) understanding student stresses, and 4) directing students to relevant academic support on campus for their needs.This workshop includes ample opportunity for ITAs to discuss their concerns in all aspects of intercultural communication.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Inclusive teaching
EDC Credit?:Yes.
Restrictions/Limitations:All TAs, max. enrolment of 25
Location:3224RB
Teaching Talk #2—Keynote Speaker Series: 3:00-4:00pm
1. Jamming the Classroom: Lessons from Music for Non-Music Educators (1.0 hr)
Jesse Stewart, Department of Music
Many of the qualities that we associate with compelling musical performances—including preparedness, conviction, and a sense of connection and interaction among the performers—are imminently applicable to teaching and learning practices in other disciplines. Drawing on Dr. Stewart’s experiences as an award-winning musician and educator, this talk will examine musical performance as a model for effective teaching and learning practices in non-music classrooms.
Skills/Knowledge Developed: Engaging students
EDC Credit: Yes
Restrictions/Limitations:All FED and FS TAs, max. enrolment of 380
Location:2200 RB