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Workshops and LecturesEach semester, the Center facilitates a number of programs for the NYU teaching community. These programs, which cover a wide variety of teaching and learning issues, are presented by Center staff, NYU faculty members, and experts on teaching and learning from around the country. The programs are free and open to the NYU community. The past semester's schedule, listed below, is an example of the types of programs we offer. The schedule and registration for the Fall 2008 semester will be posted in September. Check this page for the latest updates to our schedule or sign up for our mailing list. Graduate Student Workshop Series Spring 2008 Faculty WorkshopsThe following workshops are open to NYU faculty and graduate students. Registration is required, as space is limited. The location of the workshops will be emailed to you when you register. What the Best College Teachers Do: Inductive Learningled by Ken Bain, founding Director of the NYU Center for Teaching Excellence and current Vice Provost of Instruction, and Director, Research Academy for University Learning at Montclair State University Dr. Bain returns to NYU to present this popular program, based on his book, What the Best College Teachers Do (Harvard University Press 2004), winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society. This session will focus on inductive learning. A copy of What the Best College Teachers Do will be provided to all registered participants. Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited.
College Lectures: Necessary but not SufficientA Distinguished Teaching Award Medalist Event led by T. James Matthews, Professor of Psychology and of Neural Science Although the modern literature on post-secondary education often encourages alternatives to the conventional lecture, it seems that many of us are convinced that lectures remain a core necessity for vital parts of the mission of the college. The question then becomes, how does one prepare and deliver pedagogically effective lectures. The speaker will share some lessons learned about how to select and package material, how to tune up for the presentation, how to augment the spoken word, how to accommodate the limits of student's attention span, how to read the student's engagement, how to invite and channel student participation, how to pace the presentation, how to back and fill, and so on. Doubtless, the audience will have their own methods and insights to share. Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited.
The Active Learning Continuumled by Barbara Abad, Assistant Professor of French, Southern Methodist University The choice of effective active learning strategies—from simple, short activities to complex, long activities—depends on course objectives, teaching style, and students’ level of experience. This workshop will provide concrete advice and practical exercises to help you determine what active learning approaches are best for you and your students. Dr. Abad, former Senior Graduate Student Development Consultant at CTE, returns to NYU to present a version of her popular graduate student program tailored to the concerns of both faculty and graduate students. Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited.
with Paul W. Glimcher, Associate Professor of Neural Science, Economics and Psychology; Distinguished Teaching Award Medalist (2006) Textbooks are often central to teaching undergraduate science, particularly required and introductory courses. What are the benefits and drawbacks of such use, and what alternatives to textbook-based teaching exist for faculty? This interactive session features a NYU science faculty panel discussing issues ranging from textbook costs and the use of ancillary materials provided by publishers to lecture-free teaching and balancing introductory text lessons with contemporary research findings. Panelists will also offer practical suggestions for achieving active learning among students - with and beyond the textbook. Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited.
led by David Slocum, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence Do you have a syllabus that you want to refine and strengthen? Are you developing a new course for Fall 2008 for which you want a more dynamic and engaging syllabus? The very structure of a syllabus can influence how students how students approach a course and how they learn. This workshop helps faculty with draft syllabi in hand to consider the values guiding their work. The objective is to create more integrated syllabi that stimulate student learning throughout a given course. Note: Participants in either session are required to submit copies of their syllabi by noon on March 26, and to read those submitted by other participants before their workshop date. Instructions for submitting and reading will be sent after registration. Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited.
Offered in conjunction with NYU Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS) this two-part workshop focuses on various kinds of technologies available to NYU instructors. Both current users and those who want to explore the possibilities of teaching technologies will benefit. Pre-Workshop: Constructing a Blogled by ITS staff Learn the basics of constructing a blog with the NYU-supported platform. Integrating Blogs into Your Course: Pedagogy and Promising Practicesled by Lucy Appert, GSP, and ITS staff A follow-up session to both Session One and the Fall semester's "Blogs and Wikis" program, this session explores the biggest question after a course specific blog is constructed: namely, how to use it effectively in one's own courses. Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited.
CTE is pleased to present an ongoing series of discussions exploring how diversity issues impact university teaching and learning, particularly in the NYU classroom and laboratory. Disaster, Race, and American Politics: Katrina in the Classroomled by Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies, Princeton University For more details on this program and to RSVP for this program only, click here. You can also RSVP for this program while registering for other CTE programs by clicking the button below. This session is co-sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP) as part of Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Week. Open to the NYU community. RSVP encouraged but not required.
with a panel of NYU faculty and students Students bring a wide range of physical, emotional, psychiatric, and learning disabilities to the classroom and laboratory. This interactive faculty workshop re-thinks disability both in terms of the accommodations required by law and as the basis for more inclusive and accessible learning environments. Facilitated by NYU students and faculty, the session will help faculty develop multiple teaching strategies, assignments, and instruction formats, enabling students to reach the same goals of learning in different ways. Panelists include: Co-sponsored by the Council for the Study of Disability. Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited.
with a panel of NYU faculty NYU students come from an increasingly diverse number of countries, with a variety of approaches to the educational process and the roles and responsibilities of teacher and student. This special three part program offers an in-depth exploration of the unique dynamic of the internationally diverse classroom, its challenges, and its benefits. This program is co-sponsored by the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) and the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP). For more details on this program and the scheduled speakers, click here. Diversity in U.S. Colleges and Universities(Apr. 2) Faculty Engagement with Global Student Diversity (Apr. 4) Towards a More Inclusive Pedagogy: Principles and Practices (Apr. 14) Open to faculty and graduate students. Enrollment limited. This new, semester-long series of faculty workshops is designed to enrich understanding of the teaching of a single research methodology or practice. Mini Institute on More Effective Teaching with Visual MaterialsIn a multimedia world, using video, pictures, and other visual aids in the classroom has become almost essential to engaging students. This Mini Institute explores the more effective use of visual materials teaching across a variety of disciplines. Introduction: The Power of Teaching the VisualDavid K. Irving, Associate Professor, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Tisch Documents, "Documents," and Documentary Practices in Modern Art: The Case of PhotographyRobert Lubar, Associate Professor, Institue of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Science Focusing on the examples of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, this presentation examines the manifold uses of photography in 20th century art as evidence, visual technology, artifact, and visual text. What happens when photography itself enters into the archive of art history? What relations obtain between photographic technologies and other media such as painting and film? What are the pressure points -- internal and external -- that mediate the various uses of photography as a document and as an autonomous object? What relations exist between the photographic document and the photographic index? The Visual EssayNatalie Jeremijenko, Assistant Professor of Visual Art, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Visualizing ScienceTrace Jordan, Associate Director, Foundations of Scientific Inquiry, Morse Academic Plan, College of Arts and Science Visual images are an essential part of scientific discovery, analysis, and communication. Textbook and research papers are full of images that are intended to convey specific meanings to the reader. But "reading" these scientific images requires a set of interpretive skills that we often neglect to teach in an explicit manner. This workshop will examine some examples of scientific imagery and explore ways in which visual literacy can be developed in the science classroom. FilmRichard Allen, Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts Film and visual media in general are increasingly part of the university curriculum as faculties seeks to creatively exploit the audio visual literacy of this generation to constructive pedagogic ends. This session will explore some of the ways in which film can be used and it will reflect upon some of the tensions and contradictions that arise between teaching with film and teaching about film. Media and Visual CultureMarita Sturken, Professor of Culture and Communication, Co-Director of Visual Culture Program, Steinhardt This program will discuss where to find images for use in teaching media studies and visual culture, and ways of presenting them in the undergraduate classroom. presented by Bobst Library and CTE in conjunction with the MMI on Teaching Visual Materials Increasingly, faculty in disciplines across the curriculum require access to high quality digital images for teaching and research. In this session, Tom McNulty, librarian for fine arts at Bobst Library, will demonstrate ARTstor, a very large – and growing – collection of art, architecture, and design images. Following the brief presentation, participants will get some hands-on practice finding and organizing images in ARTstor. Open to graduate students and faculty. Space is limited. Registration required. Register
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