Next week CTE is offering some of its popular workshops about teaching. Read all about the topics and times. Registration is needed.
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.
Eric Mazur (Dean, Applied Physics, Harvard University) is the guest speaker at this year's Physics and Astronomy Department teaching retreat. All are invited to attend two talks Thursday morning December 11 from 9 to noon.
The talks will be held in the Quantum Nano Centre Room 0101.
Coffee & Pastries at 8:30 am.
Please R.S.V.P. 9:00am, 10:30am or both talks to
Bonnie Findlay, bfindlay@uwaterloo.ca, Ext. 36831.
The teaching retreat poster.
For those finding themselves unable to attend, some online talks by Professor Mazur:
Eric Mazur, Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, was named the first winner of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education in 2014 for his work on Peer Instruction (known locally as clickers).
Some exerpts about Professor Mazur and the award from Harvard Magazine:
The Minerva Prize recognizes one faculty member from any institution worldwide who has made a significant impact on student learning experiences through extraordinary innovation in higher education, and includes a $500,000 cash award.
"Members of the Academy unanimously and enthusiastically agreed on the selection of Dr. Mazur as the first recipient of the Minerva Prize," said Roger D. Kornberg '67, JF '76, a Nobel laureate in chemistry who is governor of the Minerva Academy, in a statement. "His development of the Peer Instruction teaching methodology, now broadly adopted, embodies the innovation in teaching excellence that the Minerva Prize was conceived to recognize and promote. We are pleased to bestow this honor upon an individual who has contributed so greatly to the advancement of teaching and with such passion for improving student learning outcomes."
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
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/modules/enthusiasm/
LITE Grant deadlines:
Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) grants deadlines:
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
Paul Kates
Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison
pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x37047
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