Teaching Techniques

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Welcome to the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop
Norm Dennis
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Today

• Welcome Overview
• Introductions
• Break and Building Tour
• Administration
• Seminar I - Learning to Teach
• Dinner Games

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Objectives We Are Here To...

• Improve our teaching skills.
• Apply teaching learning theories.
• Use assessment small group techniques.
• Interact with others.

• Learn a little about Arkansas.

• Develop a passion for teaching.

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StrategyWe will do this by...

• A little theory, a lot of practice
• Focused on teaching skills
• High challenge, low threat
• Collaborative
• Collegial

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Ping Wei Director, Educational Activities
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Excellence in Civil Engineering Education
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ExCEEds Roots

• USMA (West Point)
• Department of CME
• Instructor Summer Workshop
• Train rotating military faculty
• 6 weeks
• A 40-year oral tradition

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ExCEEds Roots

• T4E Short Course at USMA
• NSF-funded
• 1996, 1997, and 1998
• 1-week long
• Incorporated the current body of knowledge on
  teaching and learning

USMA
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ASCE ExCEEd

• 1995 CE Education Conference
• ASCE Faculty Development Initiative
• ASCE Committee on Faculty Development
• 1999 ASCE funds ETW

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Excellence in Civil Engineering Education
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Today

• Welcome Overview
• Introductions
• Break and Building Tour
• Administration
• Seminar I - Learning to Teach
• Ice-Breaker Dinner Games

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Getting to Know You

• Pair up with one person from your team
• Introduce yourself
• Name, current university, specialty
• A little personal data interests, hobbies,
  family, pets, something funny...
• Introduce your buddy
• Stand up in pairs

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Team 6

• Participants
• Shane Brown
• Dawn Cheng
• Deo Eustace
• Gerarda Shields
• Mentor Ron Welch
• Assistant Mentor Audra Morse

Classroom 291
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Team 5

• Participants
• Mike Baumert
• Stu Bernstein
• Sunanda Dissanayake
• Harold Park
• Mentor Deb Larson
• Assistant Mentor Toni Cioffi

Classroom 288
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Team 4

• Participants
• Carol Lamb
• Luke Lee
• Atila Novoselac
• Jennifer Shane
• Mentor Frank Mahuta
• Assistant Mentor Steve Burian

Classroom 286
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Team 3

• Participants
• Seamus Freyne
• Walter Gerstle
• Hiroshan Hettiarachchi
• Thomas Korman
• Mentor Roseanna Neupauer
• Assistant Mentor Glenn Morrison

Classroom 270
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Team 2

• Participants
• Chad Christina
• Louis Ge
• Jale Tezcan
• Claude Villiers
• Mentor Tonya Nilsson
• Assistant Mentor Aaron Budge

Classroom 269
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Team 1

• Participants
• Fredericka Brown
• Terhi Pellinen
• Gashwin Saleno
• Roy Xu
• Mentor Al Estes
• Assistant Mentor Gregg Fiegel

Classroom 268
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Today

• Welcome Overview
• Introductions
• Break and Building Tour
• Administration
• Seminar I - Learning to Teach
• Ice-Breaker Dinner Games

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Today

• Welcome Overview
• Introductions
• Break and Building Tour
• Administration
• Seminar I - Learning to Teach
• Ice-Breaker Dinner Games

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Administrative Details

• Workshop notebook
• Tab 1 Schedule/Maps/Blank Paper
• Tab 2 Team Assignments/Participant List/Lab
  Assignments
• Verify your personal data NOW
• Assessments
• Tab 3 Workshop assessment
• Tab 4 Teaching assessment forms/Board
  Notes/Note Pad
• Materials
• Tab 5-10 Handouts for each day
• Tab 11 Reference List
• Tab 12 Miscellaneous

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Classroom Assessment Technique 1

• Complete Background Knowledge Probe
• No names
• Hand to mentor
• You have three minutes

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Food Transportation

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Lunch - On your own
• Dinner - On your own
• Getting here around Fayetteville
• Cars,Vans
• Workshop starts at 745!!!

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Campus Map
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You are Here
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More Administrative Details

• Course textbooks
• Lowman - Mastering the Techniques of Teaching
• Wankat and Oreovicz - Teaching Engineering
• Food and drink - clean up after
• After-hours access to classrooms
• Emergency phone numbers
• [phone] [phone]
• Wear your name tag!

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More Administrative Details

• Dinner Clarion Atrium
• Thursday evening
• Cash bar after first drink
• Car pool from hotel
• Need number of guests by Monday morning
• Prime rib buffet with vegetarian alternative

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More Administrative Details

• Internet access in room 277 and 4190 during lunch
  breaks and after hours.
• USERID exceed
• PASSWORD exceed
• DOMAIN ENGR.UARK.EDU
• Entry into 277
• 1,4,2,3

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LAB I

• No later than 745 tomorrowCreate a mutually
  agreeable name for your team
• Decorate your teams poster by 800 Tuesday
• Have fun!!

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Welcome to the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop
Any questions?
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Getting to Know You...

• As you leave the room
• Stop in front of the video camera.
• Face the camera.
• Clearly say your first and last name.(Use the
  nickname you prefer to be called.)

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Excellence in Civil Engineering Education