The goal of the Teaching Institute is to enable participants to be successful and confident classroom teachers. The goal will be accomplished by exploring the benefits of active learning, formative, summative, and hypothesis-driven assessment, and responsiveness to diversity. Participants will examine a variety of teaching practices and principles and will participate in peer-evaluated micro-teaching exercise.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
— Associate: Evidence-Based Teaching
• Describe and recognize the value of realistic well-defined, achievable, measurable and student-centered learning goals.
• Describe several known high-impact, evidence-based effective instructional practices and materials and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.
• Describe several assessment techniques and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.
— Associate: Learning Community
• Describe and recognize the value of learning communities, and how they impact student learning.
• Describe several techniques and issues of establishing LCs comprising a diverse group of learners.
— Associate: Learning-through-Diversity
• Describe the impact of diversity on student learning, in particular how diversity can enhance learning, and how inequities can negatively impact learning if not addressed.
• Describe how an instructor’s beliefs and biases can influence student learning.
• Describe and recognize the value of drawing on diversity in the development of teaching plans (including content, teaching practices and assessments) to foster learning.
• Describe several learning-through-diversity (LtD) techniques and strategies.
— Associate: Teaching-as-Research
• Define and recognize the value of the Teaching-as-Research process, and how it can be used for ongoing enhancement of learning.
— Practitioner: Evidence-Based Teaching
• Integrate one or more evidence-based teaching strategies into a teaching plan so as to accomplish learning goals.
• Implement one or more evidence-based teaching strategies for students in a learning experience.
— Practitioner: Learning Community
• Integrate one or more LC strategies into a teaching plan so as to accomplish learning goals and learning-through-diversity.
• Implement one or more LC strategies for students in a learning experience.
— Practitioner: Learning-through-Diversity
• Examine and describe own beliefs and biases, including how they may influence their students’ learning.
• Determine the diverse backgrounds among a group of students, and consider the opportunities and challenges of the findings on each student’s learning.
• Create a teaching plan that incorporates content and teaching practices responsive to the students’ backgrounds.
• Implement one or more LtD strategies in a teaching experience.
— Practitioner: Teaching-as-Research
• Show the integration of Evidence-Based Teaching, Learning Communities and Learning-through-Diversity to accomplish learning goals.