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AY 375 - Fall 2016: Eighth Day Lesson Plan
Section Recap (20 minutes)
(10 minutes) In groups, share from your midsemester evaluations:
- One consistent comment
- One amusing comment
- One thing you agree or disagree with
If you have not yet administered your evaluations:
- One thing you are particularly interested in learning about from your eval
- One thing you expect that your students will say
If you are not teaching this semester:
- Share one of the questions you wrote on your eval
(10 minutes) As a class:
- What were some things you learned from your midsemester evaluations?
- Were there any comments that stood out? Was anything surprising?
- How were sections this week?
Faculty Visits (40 minutes)
Professors visiting at 7pm:
- Eliot Quataert
- Jessica Lu
Some prompts given in advance:
- What class are you currently teaching? Have you taught it in the past? What other courses have you taught?
- For the course you’re currently teaching, what are your learning objectives and goals? How would you complete the sentence “At the end of the semester, I want my students to .” ?
- How do you assess (in lecture, with the GSIs in discussion section, on the exams) whether these goals are being met?
- If you have taught both non-major courses and major courses, how does preparing for those courses compare? How do your learning objectives for them differ?
- What is your lecture style like? Do you employ active learning strategies (think-pair-share, etc.) in your lectures?
- In your teaching experience, what strategies have you found to be effective? Not effective? (e.g., different lecture styles, type of homework problems, projects vs. exams, etc.)
- What do you like best about teaching?
Break (5 minutes)
Ethics (45 minutes)
(5 minutes) Explanation of activity.
(10 minutes) Group preparation.
(30 minutes) Six scenarios (5 minutes each).
Homework
- Section video-taping is happening this week. We will send you a link to your section video by the end of the week. Watch it, and complete the Section Video Recap Worksheet (due 10/12, next week!).
- Bring your lesson plan notebooks to 375 next week.
- Look through the abstracts from some of the following conference proceedings. Choose one paper to read and answer the questions at the bottom of this page.
- Learning @ Scale: mainly focused on learning from MOOCs (massively open online courses), but also includes research onusing student data to understand aspects of learning, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2876034
- ICLS: International Conference of the Learning Sciences, top research conference in the field and mainly focuses on STEM education, includes some research in higher education, https://www.isls.org/icls/2016/index.html (see proceedings, volumes 1 & 2 on homepage)
- NARST: National Association of Research in Science Teaching, mainly focused on practitioners and research that comes from classrooms or is being applied to classrooms, http://narst.org/annualconference/2016_Narst_International_Conference_Program.pdf
- EDM: Educational Data Mining, mainly focused on machine learning as a method for using data to understand student learning, http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2016/proceedings/edm2016_proceedings.pdf
- AIED: Artificial Intelligence in Education, more comprehensive methodology than EDM (including natural language processing) as a means to understand student learning, http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319197722
- AERA: American Educational Research Association, the biggest conference for presenting new work in all areas of education (including higher education, STEM education, etc.), but the proceedings are a pain to sift through, http://www.aera.net/Publications/Online-Paper-Repository/AERA-Online-Paper-Repository
Answer these questions about your articles:
- What is the title?
- What were the main take-aways (conclusions) from the article?
- What methods did the authors use to come to their conclusions?
- What did you find most interesting about your article or about the proceedings in general?