Fall 2000

Understanding and Handling Difficult Student Situations

Wednesday, January 17th and Thursday, January 18th from 2:30-4:30 in room TBA.

The Teaching Effectiveness Program in Academic Learning Services has invited Robin Holmes, Director of the University Counseling Center and Chris Loschiavo, Director of Student Judicial Affairs to conduct a presentation/question and answer session on a variety of issues addressing how to handle difficult situations with students.

Take advantage of this opportunity early in the term to learn more about the student conduct process and specific strategies for dealing with disruptiveness, plagiarism and cheating, inappropriate behavior, feeling threatened by students, legal issues related to student conduct and more.

This session will be offered on Wednesday, January 17th and a second time on Thursday, January 18th from 2:30-4:30 in room TBA. Email Georgeanne Cooper to register for this event.

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Large Class Teacher Training Revisited

The Teaching Effectiveness Program is repeating trainings for both pedagogy and technology issues in teaching large classes. Focusing on Pedagogy in the Large Class, TEP will offer this one-day training twice-- on Wednesday, December 13th and again on Thursday, January 4 (2001). This training will address the topics listed below and run from 9 am to 4pm in 240A Grayson. Please register with Georgeanne Cooper.

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Focus on Technology in the Large Class: Using Blackboard and Excel

This 4 hour training (12:00pm - 4:00pm) session will be offered three times-- December 14, 15 and January 3 (2001). It will be held in the ITC located on the second floor of the Knight Library.

Blackboard is a web-based course management system for creating and hosting online courses and course websites. Blackboard gives you a template to incorporate and supplement your classroom material without any knowledge of HTML. Blackboard offers communications features such as messaging systems, threaded discussions, collaborative work groups, and more. It has tools that facilitate grading such as an online grade book, online file exchange between the instructor/student, and it tracks course content usage. This Blackboard module will consist of adding course content to your newly created site. (If you don't have a site, don't worry, part of the prerequisite for signing up is letting us help you create one. It's quick, easy and painless!)

Excel is a common spreadsheet program that you can use to manage your gradebook. In this module, we will take you step-by-step through several of the processes instructors can use to ease the hassle of managing grades in large classes. We will show you how to import your classlist into Excel as well as some basic design and layout techniques. We will demonstrate formulas to automatically calculate grades, point totals, averages, etc., and we can show you how to automatically calculate a students letter grade based on your percentage breakdowns. You will learn how to use the graphing and sorting functions to quickly view students that may need extra assistance and how to save your gradesheets as HTML for posting to your course web page or Blackboard site.

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Large Class Teacher Training

The Teaching Effectiveness Program will offer a one day training for instructors who teach large classes on Saturday, October 7 from 9 am to 4pm in 68 PLC. Please register with Georgeanne Cooper. Also, please let new faculty in your departments and GTFs who are handling classes independently know about this training.

This training will address major issues large class teachers face, provide resources for effective teaching strategies and techniques in large class teaching. It will introduce teachers to current instructional technology tools which have proven effective in adding value to courses and managing the workload of large class teaching. Assistance in learning how to use these tools will be arranged through TEP's "house call" service and workshops after the training.

Teaching Issues: exploring communication strategies for large audiences, honing presentation skills, promoting deep learning in the large lecture course, using group learning in the large class, developing classroom assessment techniques, making the most of graduate teaching fellow support.

Instructional Technology Overview: creating a course website using Blackboard, managing on-line assignments, facilitating electronic student discussions, managing large volumes of student e-mail, using spreadsheets as electronic gradebooks

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ALS 609: Creating A Course Website Using Blackboard

Tuesdays from 2:00-3:20pm beginning October 3rd.

This is a one-credit pass/no pass course which will address both technical and pedagogical issues through hands-on training and discussion. By the end of the term, each participant will have developed a course website.

Homework will include electronic course material preparation and participation in group activities on-line.

Instructors: Tara Stark and Benjamin Starlin

Lab sessions will be held in the ITC classroom (267B Knight Library).
Lecture sessions will meet in 200 Cascade. (This is where the class will meet October 3rd.)

Enrollment is limited to 15. Each participant will create a Blackboard site for a course to be taught this academic year and will need to provide course material for use in creating it. Preregistration is required.

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Beginnings: Insights, Tools and Strategies for New Teachers

This training focuses on the basic fundamentals of good college teaching: lesson plan preparation, strategies for developing and facilitating classroom discussions, presentation skills and tips on classroom management issues.

The schedule for the 2000-01 academic year is listed below. Sessions will be available based on need. Departments are encouraged to reserve space for their GTFs as soon as possible.

One day intensive versions of the Beginnings class will be held from 9am-4pm on the following Saturdays:

To register send an email to Georgeanne Cooper. Give your name, department and which session you wish to attend.

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Contact Us:
Email: tep@uoregon.edu, Phone: 541-346-2177 Fax: 541-346-2184
Teaching Effectiveness Program, Teaching and Learning Center, University of Oregon.
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