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Innovative Teaching Showcase Open House
Location: College Hall 310, Date: 6/3/2008 11:30 AM
Every year, the Center for Instructional Innovation creates a cutting-edge multimedia showcase, featuring the best practices
of Western’s most dynamic instructors. This year's showcase theme is Creat... more
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Using Data to Understand Western's Students
Location: Miller Hall 158, Date: 4/24/2008 3:00 PM
The first year of college is often the most difficult. The Western Educa-tional Longitudinal Study (WELS) investigates the precursors to college experience (expectations, family background, high schoo... more
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Writing Effective Exams
Location: Viking Union 462AB, Date: 4/14/2008 1:00 PM
Writing exams that effectively evaluate students’ learning can be a difficult task. Yet tasks can inform instructors whether their students are achieving their learning goals. During this hands-on wor... more
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Festival of Scholarship: Celebrating Collaborative Inquiry
Location: see online schedule, Date: 4/10/2008 9:00 AM
The Festival will celebrate collaborative inquiry that welcomes the inclusion of student voices – from developing research questions and project goals through collaborative authorship. Participants wi... more
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Environmental Influences and Student Success
Location: Viking Union 462 A/B, Date: 10/26/2007 9:00 AM
Presented by Peter Rosenberg, of The Spelman and Johnson Group, this workshop details how the physical environment at a university can be welcoming, inclusive, and support academic success. It can als... more
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Advantageous Technologies in Western's Classrooms
Location: Bond Hall 428, Date: 10/16/2007 4:00 PM
In recent years, Western has upgraded classroom technologies including media devices, computers, internet access, projectors and document cameras, as well as specialized tools, such as the Classroom R... more
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2006-07 Innovative Teaching Showcase Open House
Location: College Hall 310, Date: 6/4/2007 11:00 AM
**Please note new date and time.**
Every year, the Center for Instructional Innovation creates a cutting-edge multimedia showcase, featuring the best practices
of Western’s most dynamic instructors. ... more
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Grade Writing and Survive
Location: College Hall 9, Date: 5/15/2007 12:00 PM
This workshop will invite a potpourri of strategies others have found useful for grading student writing.
Formerly “Some Fridays,” this noon-time brown bag series aims to bring together people from a... more
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Creating First-Year Curricula
Location: College Hall 135, Date: 5/3/2007 4:00 PM
What makes a course work especially well for entering first-year students? This interactive and informative workshop is designed to help faculty create first-year seminars that engage students more de... more
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What’s a Rubric Got to do With it? Grading Writing
Location: College Hall 9, Date: 5/1/2007 12:00 PM
This workshop will focus on the value of carefully constructed criteria sheets for evaluating writing, along with ways to use them most effectively.
Formerly “Some Fridays,” this noon-time brown bag ... more
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