Nov. 6 roundtable features two concurrent sessions at Harker Lab

8:40 a.m., Nov. 3, 2015--The First Friday Roundtable series will hold its November session on Friday, Nov. 6. These monthly discussion sessions provide an opportunity for all who teach at the University of Delaware to explore teaching, learning and assessment practices and issues.

The November roundtable will begin with a short introduction from each of the presenters. Afterward participants will choose between two concurrent sessions, starting at the same time and place, 3:30 p.m. in Room 315 of the Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory. (Register.)

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The first option, “Create Teachable Moments With the Help of Student Tools,” will feature three UD faculty members and their diverse strategies to draw students into classroom conversation. They are:

• Anu Sivaraman, assistant professor of business administration
, who uses Canvas forums to springboard class discussions.

• Christopher Knight, associate professor of kinesiology and spplied physiology, who challenges students to collaborate and draw their concept of health which is then compared and contrasted to each other's and industry images.

• Tara Jo Manal, associate professor of physical therapy and director of physical therapy clinical services, who employs clickers in a number of ways to evaluate the understanding of case studies and complex concepts.

Anton Weisstein, associate professor of biology at Truman State University in Missouri and a visiting scholar at Washington University will lead the other session. 

Weisstein has specialized in quantitative reasoning and literacy, has been developing spreadsheet models with students for over 15 years, and is a principal contributor to the Biological ESTEEM Project (Excel Simulations and Tools for Exploratory, Experiential Mathematics).

Weisstein’s session will address the question, “How do we help students develop quantitative reasoning outside of mathematics and computer science courses?” 

This session will introduce modeling through a six-step generic process that works well in a variety of social science and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

Follow-up session materials will be available at this site. 

One session remains in the fall roundtable series. It will be held Dec. 4 and will be on the topic “Considering the Right Things: Motivate Students to Evaluate Teaching Fairly.” (Register.)

For more information about the First Friday Roundtable, visit the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning’s website.

The First Friday roundtables are designed and sponsored through a collaboration of IT Academic Technology Services, the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, Library Services and the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning.