Wednesday Dec 16, 2009
8:45 Coffee (Fennell Campus, Room i126)
9:00 Welcome and Introductions
9:15 Learning Styles (Cate Walker Hammond, Staff Development, Centre for Teaching, Learning)
We tend to teach in the way we like to learn ourselves. However, not everyone learns the same way. This session will explore four major learning styles and strategies for meeting the needs of those styles in our classrooms.
10:30 Break
10:45 Delivering an Effective Lesson (Roberta Burke, Faculty Development Specialist, Centre for Teaching Learning)
This session will focus on a formula for designing an effective lesson, as well as teaching techniques and methods to optimize student learning and engagement.
12:15 Lunch
1:00 Academic Accommodations for Students with Disabilities, (Martha Fox, Manager Disability Services)
The session will describe how teachers are to usetheconfidentialaccommodationplan as well as disability services available for faculty to support students’ learning.
2:00 Student Feedback on Teaching (Roberta Burke)
Review the criteria that students use to provide feedback to faculty at the end of a course and explore methods of obtaining fast feedback throughout the term.
2:30 Break
3:00 Classroom Management (Faculty Guests: Michael Chan, Marla Robinson, David Wearing)
A panel of college faculty members will share their own techniques for classroom management.
4:00 Feedback and Closure
Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
8:45 Refreshments (Fennell, Room i126)
9:00 Designing Effective Assessments (Roberta Burke, Faculty Development)
Assessment is central to the quality of an effective teaching/learning environment and is the ultimate “reward” by which we measure students’ performance. Participants will identify indicators for effective assessment, student expectations and student perspectives in regard to assessment, and develop a framework for creating and monitoring assessment practices relevant to outcomes and curriculum design.
10:30 Break
10:45 Library@Mohawk College (Marilyn McDermott, Outreach and Instruction Librarian)
We can save YOU time and help your students graduate! Collaborate with a librarian
and find out about the library’s resources and services to support teaching and learning. We’ll talk a little about our great e-resources, our Research Skills Instruction Program, Refworks, copyright and Custom Courseware. You’ll leave with a much better sense of how a librarian can help make your life as a teacher at Mohawk easier and how we can contribute to your students’ academic success.
11:30 Dealing with Classroom Issues
Participants will be introduced to common classroom issues and the resources (policies and procedures) within the College that would support them when dealing with classroom/behavioral issues that may arise.
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Dealing with Classroom Issues- continued (Diane Harrison, Student Issues Coordinator)
2:15 Break
2:30 How does e-Learning enhance classroom learning? (Pat Anderchek and Andrew Connery,
e-Learning Services, CTL)
In our institutional move to Blended Learning, the role of the learning management system and complementary learning technologies is critical. This session will introduce you to our new system- "e-Learn@Mohawk", as well as other technologies, including clickers, testing and quizzing activities, games, and tablets. You will also begin to explore beginning concepts and questions to consider when planning your online learning space.
4:00 Feedback and Closure