Workshops To Go!
Every year, the Teaching and Faculty Support Center offers a number of "Workshops to Go" to departments and faculty.
The Workshops to Go are interactive sessions lasting about one hour, during which a topic related to enhancing teaching and learning is addressed.
Workshops are presented by TFSC Co-Directors, or faculty colleagues with experience in a specific arena.
Please contact the TFSC ((479)-575-3222, tfsc@uark.edu) for more information or for scheduling a Workshop to Go for your faculty group.
If you have specific recommendations for these or similar programs in the future, feel free to share those ideas as well.
2000-2001 TFSC Workshops to Go
Motivating Students: Making Learning Rewarding
The secret to good learning is student (and faculty) motivation. The "secrets" for enhancing motivation are addressed in this workshop, which presents practical suggestions
The Interrupted Lecture: Moving from Passive to Active Learning
Information retention during a lecture drops dramatically after the first 15 minutes. This session presents the interrupted lecture as a strategy for increasing retention throughout an entire class period. Various interruption strategies are provided.
Identifying Levels of Learning: Systematic Course Design
In this workshop, Bloom's six levels of cognitive learning will be presented as framework for identifying course objectives and selecting teaching strategies. A number of teaching strategies will be presented, and each will be linked to the levels of learning for which it is most suited.
Concept Maps: Essentials at a Glance
With concept maps, you reveal the core idea and its relation to issues and questions. A concept map is a visual constellation map to help you navigate through the starry night of your heavenly course. This workshop examines the nature of concept maps, their construction, and their application to a variety of classes.
Classroom Assessment Techniques: Is Your Class Working?
Evaluating our students is commonplace; evaluating our classes as a learning environment is less familiar to some. This workshop provides an overview of some of the more common CATs (Classroom Assessment Techniques) that can be used to assess classes.
Facilitating Effective Discussions: Powerful Techniques and Potential Pitfalls
While discussion can be a powerful learning strategy, good classroom discussions don't just "happen"; they require preparation and an able facilitator. This session presents guidelines for effective discussion.
Building Bloomin' Good Tests: Matching Testing Content and Format with Educational Objectives
Bloom's levels of cognitive learning can be used as a framework for developing learning assessment tools. Various types of tests and tests questions are reviewed in the context of the specific objectives of the course.
Beyond Objective Tests: Authentic Assessment through Rubrics
Discussion, presentations, term papers, group work - all these learning activities share one common attribute. They are sometimes difficult to quantify in precise numerical terms, yet they represent some of the higher order learning skills. This session explains how rubrics can define the requirements of a learning activity, the relative importance of different aspects of performance, and the criteria used to evaluate learning.
Course Portfolios to Enhance Teaching
This workshop encourages thoughtful consideration of what we do to help classroom learning. Explaining a special aspect of a course so that someone else gains an insight into your methods, purposes, and strategies to enhance learning. Along with representative samples of coursework, this uses what you already have done in class