March 6: First Friday Roundtable

Workshop to explore student accountability in large classes

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10:24 a.m., Feb. 17, 2015--All members of the University of Delaware teaching community, including graduate students and postdocs, are invited to participate in the first Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning (CTAL) roundtable of 2015, scheduled from 3:30-5 p.m., Friday, March 6, in 208 Gore Hall. 

Part of the First Friday Roundtable series, the workshop on “Holding Students in Large Classes Accountable for Reading” will look at ways faculty have used writing in large lecture-based classes to increase student accountability and engagement without increasing their own workload.

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The 20th annual June Lecture Series at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UD in Wilmington will be held June 6-9. Titled 'June a la Carte,' this year's program focuses on great political documents, feminism, world politics and a Newark cuisine sampler.

Melissa Ianetta, director of the UD Writing Center, will lead the case-based interactive workshop.  

Participants will first discuss the available resources at UD that can support such work and then work to develop for their own classroom tools that could be used to these ends.

To register, click here.

Future Roundtable events

• April 10: “Divide and Conquer: Working with Groups and Teams in Large Classes.” To register, click here. (Due to spring break, this session occurs after the first Friday.)

• May 1: “Unconference: Participants this is your opportunity to bring questions and discuss what you want to focus on about teaching and learning.” To register, click here.

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