Workshops & Events
Spring 2008 Teaching Well Workshops (Flier)
These interactive workshops cover a variety of relevant topics to help faculty now and as they prepare for the remainder of the academic year. Workshop topics include teaching practices, technology integration, and course development. Check the workshop calendar for specific dates and times.
Date: Fridays
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Kennedy Library, Room 510B
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PREFACE 2008
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
PREFACE: The Cal Poly Shared Reading Program seeks volunteer discussion facilitators for our 2008 events. All new Cal Poly students will be asked to read the PREFACE book over the summer and be prepared to discuss it with PREFACE volunteer discussion facilitators during WOW. The book will be “Montana 1948” by Larry Watson. New PREFACE volunteer discussion facilitators are asked to attend one of the PREFACE Information Sessions in May. Discussion facilitators receive a free copy of the book, support materials, and an exclusive session with the author. Returning PREFACE volunteer facilitators are asked to drop in at the “PREFACE Pick-Up Materials Reception” on Thursday, May 8 any time between 3:00 and 5:00pm. No formal presentation will occur, but materials and light refreshments will be provided. Of course, returning PREFACE volunteers may attend the “New Volunteer Information Session” if they wish. CTL is co-sponsoring all the PREFACE Information Sessions in the Kennedy Library, Room 510B, for any interested volunteer faculty or staff member.
New Volunteers
Date: Wednesday, May 7
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Library, Room 510B
Date: Thursday, May 15
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Library, Room 510B
Returning Volunteers
Date: Thursday, May 8
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Library, Room 510B
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EdGE Micro-Workshops
Three presentations by Marie Paretti, Ph.D. (Bio), Virginia Polytechnic State University
Marie Paretti, director of the Virginia Tech MSE/ESM Engineering Communications and Professional Development Program, will be visiting campus on Wednesday, May 14 and Thursday, May 15 to present three brief workshops:
The Social Functions of Communication (Flier)
Helping students move from "good " to "useful"
Dates: Thursday, May 15
Time: 9:10 am to 10:00 am
Location: Kennedy Library, Room 510B
Teaching Cross-Cultural Collaboration (Flier)
Understanding and Responding to Cultural Constructions of "Team"
Dates: Thursday, May 15
Time: 10:10 am to 11:00 am
Location: Kennedy Library, Room 510B
Teaching Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Flier)
Moving Beyond "Divide and Conquer"
Date: Wednesday, May 14, and Thursday, May 15
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Kennedy Library, Room 510B
Lunch will be provided.
Registration is appreciated. To register, contact the CTL (ctl@calpoly.edu or 756-7002).
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Faculty Writing Brush-Up
Do any of these situations apply to you?
- You'd like to five all your assignments in writing, but you're just not confident enough that your writing is professional and correct.
- You're working on a paper, proposal, or project of your own and aren't quite sure how to polish your prose.
- You've forgotten (or neverreally learned) the distinction between "lie" and "lay."
- You're worried about writing well enough to respond to student work effectively.
If any of these issues sound familiar, the CTL can help. If you're struggling with your own writing, or your prose just needs a little polish, come to our faculty writing brush up! CTL provides the goodies; we'll provide the handouts, the stimulating topics, and a few jokes; you'll provide yourself and your ideas and concerns.
Date: Thursdays April 17 and 24
Time:
3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Kennedy Library, room 510B
For more information, or to sign up, contact Deborah Wilhelm (dwilhelm@calpoly.edu or 756-7038) or the CTL (ctl@calpoly.edu or 756-7002)
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Advising 102 - One-on-One with a Student
A student has a death in the family and comes to you for help.
What do you do?
A freshman is struggling with calculus andneeds support.
How can you help him?
A student cuts class frequently, does not turn in her work, and seems disoriented when you talk with her.
What should you do?
A student has been on Academic Probation several quarters and comes to you for some solutions.
How can you help?
Advising 102 will focus on realistic scenarios of advisor/student interactions. During this quarter’s workshop, members of the Academic Advising Council will present some common issues that advisors often face, and the group will discuss possible solutions. The workshop operates in a group discussion format, featuring facilitators who bring a variety of skills and expertise to the topic:
Bradley Kyker
Advising Resource Specialist, CAFES
Bonnie McKim
Advisor, College of Liberal Arts
Susan Sparling
Director, Student Academic Services
Participants are invited to email the facilitators in advance of the workshop with some tricky situations that they have encountered.
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: 11:10 am to 1:00 pm
Location: Kennedy Library, 510B
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WINGED
Your students can become better thinkers, readers, and writers—and you can make your classes more focused and relevant, including reducing both your grading load and your worry load. Cal Poly’s WINGED (Writing in Generally Every Discipline), a workshop series for faculty from across the disciplines, offers conversation, insight, and pragmatic strategies for a variety of classroom concerns:
- Encouraging students to think critically about course content
- Assuring that they complete and understand course reading
- Increasing the quality of their projects, exams, or papers
As a WINGED workshop participant, you can join this faculty conversation about creating student accountability for course content, using good assignment design and assessment, and a variety of additional topics specific to your needs. The four-meeting series is designed to give you a bag of “magic tricks” (that is, appropriate pedagogical practices) that you can take immediately into your classroom and use to your—and your students’—benefit.
One WINGED seminar will be offered during Spring Quarter 2008:
Date: Tuesdays (April 15, 22, and 29, and May 6)
Time: 3:10 to 5:00 pm
Location: Kennedy Library, Room 510B
For more information or to sign up, contact Deborah Wilhelm (dwilhelm@calpoly.edu, 756-7038) or the CTL (ctl@calpoly.edu, 756-7002)
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