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Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium
The 2009 Teaching and Learning Symposium is scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, 2:30-4:30 p.m. The Symposium will take place in the HUB Ballroom, and will provide you with opportunities to interact with UW instructors who are actively engaged in examining teaching and learning in their disciplines.
Mary Pat Wenderoth, UW Department of Biology
“Taking the Mystery Out of Learning for Your Students”
Ten years ago the National Research Council published its report on “How People Learn” which consolidated the research base on learning and teaching. They found three factors were critical to learning: Addressing student’s preconceptions of the discipline, helping students develop a rich conceptual framework into which to place factual knowledge, and enhancing a student’s ability to monitor their learning.
Over the years I have developed and implemented numerous teaching strategies to address these three critical factors. Intrinsic to the success of each strategy is how transparent it makes the learning process for the student. In this talk I will describe three different teaching strategies I use on a regular basis in my classroom: 1) Bloom’s Taxonomy to align my teaching and testing and help students monitor their learning, 2) weekly learning paragraphs to uncover student preconceptions and promote student reflection, and 3) summary sheets to help students build rich conceptual frameworks.
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The keynote address will be followed by 51 concurrent poster sessions and presentations featuring the innovative work of faculty, staff, and TAs on all three UW campuses.
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“A great opportunity to network with other people thinking about similar issues in departments all across the university. I had lots of great conversations.”
- 2008 Symposium Participant
“It is a very valuable symposium and important to highlight the scholarship of teaching and learning both for other faculty and for the administration.”
- 2007 Symposium Participant
Download a pdf copy of the 2009 Symposium Information Flyer
To view titles and abstracts of sessions presented at the Symposium in previous years, see programs for:
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