The 21st Annual Fall Campuswide Workshop for Graduate Teaching Assistants, sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies, is scheduled for Tuesday, August 16, 2011, in the Nebraska Union. The program will feature various teaching skills sessions, a lunch buffet—compliments of the Office of Graduate Studies—and a set of disciplinary breakout sessions.
Keynote
This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Susan Ambrose, Associate Provost for Education, Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, and Teaching Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon.
Susan Ambrose has studied women in engineering and science and the variables that influence women's life decisions and careers; she has explored faculty satisfaction and retention; and she has researched how students learn and how to better foster it. This August she will bring that expertise to UNL, sharing with new and experienced graduate teaching assistants research-based evidence on student learning and concrete examples of effective teaching strategies.
As Associate Provost for Education at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Ambrose advises the Provost and the Vice Provost for Education on educational issues, conducting institutional research on learning, identifying and responding to changing needs to continually improve the quality of education at the university. As Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, she maintains overall operation of the Eberly Center, overseeing the Intercultural Communication Center and the Office of Academic Development. Dr. Ambrose received her doctorate in American History (1986) from Carnegie Mellon and has been on the Eberly Center's staff since its inception.
Dr. Ambrose has designed and conducted seminars and workshops for faculty and administrators throughout the United States and in India, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Chile. In 1998 and 2000 she was named a Visiting Scholar for the American Society of Engineering Education and the National Science Foundation, spending time with the engineering colleges at the University of Washington-Seattle, Rice University, and Tufts University. She was also awarded an American Council on Education fellowship for 1999-2000 and worked alongside the presidents of Connecticut College and the University of Rhode Island to learn more about leadership styles.
She has received funding over the years from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the Lilly Endowment, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Eden Hall Foundation. More recently she received funding from The ALCOA Foundation to study the faculty experience at Carnegie Mellon.
She serves on the advisory boards for the Journal of Engineering Education and the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education at the University of Washington. She also serves on the Carnegie Museum of Art Education Program Committee. She has served on accreditation teams for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
She is co-author of How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (2010); The Woman's Guide to Navigating the Ph.D. in Engineering and Science (2001); Journeys of Women in Engineering and Science: No Universal Constants (1997); The New Professor's Handbook: A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science (1994); and numerous chapters and journal articles. She also teaches courses on immigration in the Department of History.
Sessions
Whether you're a new graduate teaching assistant or an experienced, senior-level TA, you're sure to find something in our campus-wide TA workshops to get you energized about teaching. The day also offers an opportunity to get to know other TAs who'll eventually become your friends and colleagues.
Skills Sessions
Disciplinary Breakout Sessions
Join new and experienced TAs in your discipline and learn about effective teaching methods relevant to the teaching you'll be doing as a TA — for example, holding office hours, grading papers, running a lab, or teaching a recitation. Each session will focus on applying what you've learned about the principles of learning and effective teaching within the context of your discipline. Sessions will be facilitated by experienced faculty and award-winning teaching assistants.
Registration
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