March 2015 News
CTE Math Faculty Liaison
Paul Kates
Topics
If you or your department group would like to know more about
any of these subjects please get in touch with me.
CTE Events Coming Up
March 2015
- Documenting Your Teaching for Tenure and Promotion (CTE908)
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
- The Engineering Ideas Clinic - WHIP Luncheon (CTE742)
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
April 2015:
- Clickers (CTE726)
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm, MC 4040
- LEARN Instructor User Group (CTE686)
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
May 2015:
- Getting Started with LEARN (CTE656)
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Event details here.
CTE Programs for your Graduate Students
Two programs
for graduate students and graduate student TAs
to pass along to your grad students:
- Fundamentals of University Teaching (open to all graduate students)
- Certificate in University Teaching (open to doctoral students)
The Fundamentals of University Teaching certificate is normally completed
over 2 to 3 terms. But, several times a year the program is run in a
10 day period.
The next tentative dates for future sessions are
Aug 7-18, Dec 7-18 2015.
UW Teaching and Learning Conference
Making Teaching and Learning Visible - Clarifying and Communicating Teaching and Learning Processes
Opportunities and New Directions (OND) 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015. Registration by Apr 3 2015.
Keynote session: Dr. Linda Nilson, Director of Clemson University's
Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation.
Spring 2015 LEARN Course Creation Timetable
In the next two weeks (mid-March to start of April) I'll be creating
LEARN courses for Spring term courses in the Mathematics Faculty.
You don't have to request a course from learnhelp@uwaterloo.ca.
An email notice will be sent when your course in ready.
Help with LEARN and CTE Teaching Resources
- To check the look or layout of a LEARN course, to check which items
are accessible to students, or to verify course Gradebook calculations,
impersonate the course "Test" student.
https://uwaterloo.ca/learn-help/instructors/additional-topics/impersonate-test-student
- LEARN help pages: https://uwaterloo.ca/learn-help/instructors
- How to add your TAs to LEARN:
Choose TA Level 4 for access rights like an instructor account.
Choose TA Level 1 for access rights like a student account.
https://uwaterloo.ca/learn-help/instructors/adding-teaching-assistants
- Class Photo list: click the Instructor Tools link on your course
home page.
https://math.uwaterloo.ca/math-faculty-computing-facility/resources/instructors/course-management/photo-classlists
- Export a classlist by section or group by using the Grades tool or
the Instructor Tools link on the course home page.
- There is new Report tool that exports information about groups, quiz & dropbox submissions. This tool is not on by default and has to be added to
your course navigation toolbar (see Customizing your Navbar). There is no help page for this
tool so try it out to see its report formats.
- TurnItIn (plagiarism detection and feedback),
MapleTA (smart quiz software),
Clickers (increasing in-class engagement) and library eReserves are all integrated with LEARN.
To read more about how to use the integration software, see the
links under the Integration heading on the LEARN Instructor's help page.
- Teaching Resources:
- Five Things You Can Do to Make Your Students Appreciate Your LEARN Site
- Encouraging Academic Integrity Online
- CTE Faculty Liaisons
- CTE Teaching Tips
https://uwaterloo.ca/learn-help/instructors (see bottom, right corner of page)
- Browse through the CTE resource pages for
tips on lecturing, assessment, teaching technology and lots more.
https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/resources
For example,
- UW Copyright Guidelines
Classroom Lecture Recording and Observation
Interested in seeing how you teach from a student's point-of-view?
Book a time for a video recording and observation of one of your
lectures. The lecture recording and feedback is shared only with
the lecturer. Email pkates@uwaterloo.ca for arrangements.
CTE LITE Grant Information $5000-$30,000
LITE Grant deadlines:
Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) grants deadlines:
- Seed Grants: Two annually: February 1st and June 1st; up to $5000
- Full Grants: One annually: October 1st; up to $30,000
You can see previous projects and more details here:
https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-awards-and-grants/grants/learning-innovation-and-teaching-enhancement-grants
Voice Care for Lecturers
CTE staff offer the following for lecturers to
help keep your lecture voice in good shape this term:
- advice from five 5 short videos by
Dr. Rich Brown, Theatre Department, for the
Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment at
Western Washington University.
In the first video skip to minute 2 to get to the reasons for getting
a tired voice while lecturing.
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/modules/voice/default.asp
Freeing Your Natural Voice, by Kristin Linklater, 2006 edition,
Professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University (retired), New York.
Teaching with Enthusiasm
Another short video from the same
institution as the Voice Care videos above (Center for Instructional
Innovation and Assessment at Western Washington University).
The video of Dr. Kristen Larson (associate professor in the Physics/Astronomy
Department at Western Washington University) includes
- How do you tap into your enthusiasm and learn to share it with your classes?
- How does showing enthusiasm differ from entertaining students?
- What have been your challenges for teaching with enthusiasm?
- How do you keep it fun and interesting for yourself and your students year
after year?
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/modules/enthusiasm/
Nearby Summer 2015 conferences in CS, Statistics, Science
- Math + Coding Symposium, Learning, making & performing math relationships with code
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Fri Jun 19 - Sun Jun 21, 2015
The Symposium will explore the recent and quickly evolving focus on coding for
K-12 students, and its connection to mathematics.
- A Statistics Education Workshop: Advancing Innovation and Scholarship in Statistics Education in Canada
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, July 6-7 2015
- Co-organizers:
Alison Gibbs, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Bethany White, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, Western
University
- Biannual Western Conference on Science Education (WCSE)
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, July 7-10 2015
The biannual WCSE conference is a great opportunity to meet fellow STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) educators from across Canada
and beyond.
Paul Kates
Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison
pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x37047
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