SUNY Center for Professional Development 's Process Education Conference 2012
"Establishing Meaning in Teaching and Learning: Innovation, Reflection and Sholarship"
The theme, “Establishing Meaning in Teaching and Learning: Innovation, Reflection, and Scholarship,” was selected to stimulate increased quality of teaching and learning by spotlighting the natural relationship between classroom innovation, reflective practice, and the scholarship of teaching/learning. As the focus of education continues to shift from teaching to learning, shifting responsibility from the teacher to the student, the scholarship of teaching and learning seeks to bring meaning to what it means to teach and what constitutes learning.
“A Scholarly Approach to Producing Meaning in
the Classroom by Reducing Unnecessary Uncertainties”
Plenary Speaker
Todd Zakrajsek
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Students spend a LOT of time trying to figure out what teachers want. There are certainly occasions where discovery learning or ill-defined tasks are specifically planned, but there is also a need to think about and reflect upon what is really happening when a faculty member gives an exam or assigns a paper with very little indication of what the student should do to be successful.
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We hope you will join us!
WHERE: SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
WHEN: June 18-20, 2012
FEE: SUNY CPDMember Registration
SUNY CPD Member Fee $250.00
SUNY Non-CPDMember Registration
SUNY Non-CPD Member Fee $270.00
6th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference
Education for Social Change
Monday, August 20, 2012
8:30am-3:00pm
This year's Teaching and Learning conference will focus on a variety of vital themes under the umbrella of education for social change. Our keynote speaker will be Terry Doyle.
Terry Doyle is an author, educational consultant and Professor of Reading at Ferris State University where he has worked for the past 35 years. From 1998 to 2009 he served as the Senior Instructor for Faculty Development and Coordinator of the New to Ferris Faculty Transition Program for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at Ferris State.
He is the author of the book Learner Centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice which was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Selected New Books in Higher Education in 2012 and the book Helping Students Learn in a Learner Center Environment: A Guide to Teaching in Higher Education, published by Stylus, 2008. He is the co-author of the book New Faculty Transition -An Ideal Program published in 2004. His newest book titled Learning in Harmony with Your Brain is written for college students and is scheduled for publication in 2013.
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