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New Faculty workshops
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars for new faculty and staff. While these workshops are designed for new members of the college community, any faculty or staff member is welcome to attend. Fall semester workshops include:
Spring 2014 CELT Events
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars. Spring semester workshops include:
Wednesday, February 5 - "What is Open SUNY?" - webinar offered by Carey Hatch (SUNY Associate Provost), Ken O'Brien (chair of the Provost's Open SUNY Advisory Council), Peter Knuepfer (President of the University Faculty Senate), Tina Good or her representative (President of the Faculty Council of Community Colleges), and other faculty and profe4ssional staff involved in the Open SUNY effort. (1:00 - 2:00 pm, 123 Penfield).
Talking Writing: Brown Bag Series of Informal Discussions
Learning Styles
Many educators have read about and trained in the theory of "learning styles". Believers in learning styles contend that people have an innate style in which they learn best (kinesthetic, auditory, visual, for example), and that matching instruction to that learning style will enable students to learn better. While there are appealing aspects of this approach (students ARE different in the way they learn), and may make intuitive sense, the research supporting learning styles is very weak. This presentation will explore the idea learning styles, and highlight the arguments made by suppor
Spring 2012 CELT Events
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars for faculty and staff. Spring semester workshops include:
Thursday, January 26 - Your Research from the Sponsors Perspective - Jack Gelfand, Maria Nakamura, Linda Cook (12:30 - 1:30 pm)
Spring Breakout 2012
Spring breakout will take place on May 16-25, 2012. The schedule appears below. Please register here.
Wednesday, May 16
Using clickers to enhance learning
This workshop will focus on an examination of how the use of clickers may increase student learning and engagement in the classroom. An overview of the evidence of the effectiveness of this clicker use and a demonstration of how clickers can be effectively used will be provided.
Mentoring Undergraduates
The workshop will include an overview of the programs on campus that are currently focused on mentoring undergraduate research. There will be a highlight of available resources to support interested faculty and the benefits. This will be followed by experienced mentors sharing their own success stories and an open discussion for all participants as a way of identifying the way forward for undergraduate research mentoring on our campus.