Fall 2001

Eyes Wide Shut: Diversity In The College Classroom

The Teaching Effectiveness Program in Academic Learning Services is offering a nine-day online noncredit course centering on the impact of diversity on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Participants will create an online learning community and explore the concepts of white privilege, racial identity development, and student resistance to diversity issues through readings, written assignments and online discussions. The emphasis throughout the course will be on using the information to become better teachers.

This course will begin on Tuesday, September 4 with a face-to-face meeting (9:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m., Room 51 PLC), run for seven consecutive days online, and culminate with a face-to-face meeting on Friday, September 14 (9:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m., Room 51 PLC).

We are looking for faculty and GTFs with an interest in learning about diversity issues and who also have an interest in finding out more about online teaching and learning.

Participants will need daily access to the World Wide Web and a browser, an email account and the ability to use these resources with ease. We will be using a Blackboard web-site and part of the first face-to-face meeting will be initial training in how to use a Blackboard site as a student. We are designing the course to require approximately one to two hours of work per day. There will be readings, writing assignments, and online discussions. Enrollment will be limited to 15 students. Please contact Tim McMahon if you are interested in this course.

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Beginnings: Insights, Tools And Strategies For New Teachers

The Teaching Effectiveness Program is offering a 4 day teacher training for beginning instructors. This training may also be done as a one day intensive. Additional one day trainings will be held at the end of teach term. Please contact Georgeanne Cooper to register.

The schedule for GTF Beginnings Fall, 2001 follows below:

All trainings will be held in 121-A Grayson Hall.

This training will be offered again after each term on the following dates: December 1, March 16, June 8. All rooms are TBA.

Topics covered include:

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ALS 609 Online Teaching Support

TEP is piloting this online course for beginning instructors fall term. It can be taken from one credit or no credit. CRN 16034. Those who register through Duck Call will be automatically enrolled in the course. Those who do not want credit must send a request to register to Georgeanne Cooper.

Participants will need daily access to the World Wide Web and a browser, an email account and the ability to use these resources with ease. We will be using a Blackboard web-site and you will receive instructions for using this courseware.

This course is designed to provide online teaching resources, and a forum for discussing and solving any problems which may arise in your classrooms during fall term. Participants will have weekly assignments (short readings, lesson plans, a weekly teaching summary, and participation in an online discussion). Expect to spend between 3-4 hrs. Per week on this course.

This is an opportunity to get ongoing support for your teaching and a student's experience of line learning. For more information, contact Georgeanne Cooper.

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ALS 609 Blackboard Websites

Minimum enrollment requirements for this class were not met and therefore, this offering has been canceled.

ALS 609: Blackboard Websites will be taught ONLINE as a one credit (or no credit ) Pass/No Pass course focusing on using Blackboard Technology in new and existing courses. Course content will address technical/pedagogical issues and by the end of the quarter, participants will have developed a Blackboard coursesite.

Homework will include group activities, online discussions, reading assignments, presentations and assessments. Participants will create a Blackboard site for a course they will teach during the coming academic year and will need to gather/prepare course material for use in creating it. (Coursesites being created for this fall term cannot be used.)

Participants will enter into a learning/participation contract with the instructor. This contract will outline expectations for participation, assignments, due dates and grading. A preregistration meeting with the instructor is also required. Participants will need daily access to the World Wide Web and a browser, an email account and the ability to use these resources with ease.

Blackboard Websites will run from September 24 through November 30. Class size is limited to 15 participants. Both the preregistration meeting and the learning/participation contract are required before registering for this course.

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Large Class Teaching

TEP will offer a one day training for instructors who teach large classes on Wednesday, October 3 from 2:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in 123 Pacific. Please register with Georgeanne Cooper.

This training will address major issues large class teachers face, provide resources for effective teaching strategies and techniques in large class teaching. Topics include:

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Teaching International Students

This presentation will be offered twice--Thursday, October 11 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Straub 142 and Wednesday, October 24 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 155 Education. Please register with Georgeanne Cooper.

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How To Handle Difficult Situations with Students

Wednesday, October 17 from 2:30-4:30 (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.

Email Georgeanne Cooper to register for this event.

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Today's College Students--Who are they? What do they want? How can we best teach them?

Wednesday, October 31 (Studio B-Media Services) and Thursday, November 1 (Studio B-Media Services) from 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

College students of today seem to view the world from a new and different perspective than did previous generations. The disparity of values, wants, needs, and outlook between students and faculty can result in a disappointing classroom experience for everyone involved. This program will identify how traditionally aged college students may or may not differ from other age groups and examine how this information impacts the classroom experience. Information from the recently published book Millennials Rising (Strauss & Howe) will also be presented and discussed. Please register with Tim McMahon.

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Creating the Inclusive Classroom

Wednesday, November 7 (Studio B-Media Services) and Thursday, November 8 (Library 401) from 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The inclusive classroom is an environment in which all students can be engaged, learn, and believe that they matter. In this workshop, the concept of the inclusive classroom will be explored--what it is; how it can be created; how it can be maintained. Please register with Tim McMahon.

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Women in the Classroom--Perspectives from both sides of the podium

Wednesday, November 14 (Library 401) and Thursday, November 15 (Library 401) from 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

There is little doubt that the experiences of women in the university classroom, both as students and as instructors, are different from those of men. In this session, a panel of female students and instructors will explore how issues related to gender impact the university experience and provide suggestions for what women can do to be successful in the classroom. Please register with Tim McMahon.

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Using Excel for Gradebook Management

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 some of the functions instructors can use to ease the hassle of managing grades in large classes. We will show you how to download your gradebook from the web as well as some basic design and layout techniques. We will demonstrate formulas to automatically add point totals, average a group of assignments and weight and add those averages. You will learn to automatically chose the top grade from a group of assignments, drop the lowest score and replace specific information with new information. You will learn how to use the sorting functions to quickly isolate students by score that may need extra assistance and how to save your gradesheets as HTML for posting to your course web page or Blackboard site.

This 2 hour training will be offered twice--December 10 and 11 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. It will be held in the ITC, located on the second floor of the Knight Library.

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Tea with TEP

Tuesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in room 51 PLC (64 PLC for technology related topics), the TEP staff will meet with interested instructors and focus on the following topics for fall term:

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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.
Last Modified: 01/27/11