Teaching Excellence Series

Dr. Michael Bakan teaches the importance of facilitating hands-on, participatory learning in his Introduction to Music in World Cultures class.

In recent years Teaching Award Winners shared specific strategies on how they have made their teaching both rewarding and effective. This is an opportunity for faculty and teaching assistants to not only get ideas on how to enrich their teaching but also to ask questions and share classroom experiences with colleagues.

Archived Presentations

• Actively Using Media Applications as an Instructional Aid with Dr. Susan Fiorito
  Explore how Dr. Susan Fiorito uses technology to capture her assignment instructions in a video that students can view 24/7 through the course site. Her presentation focuses on the use of CamStudio, a free, open-source, screen-recording software package, to provide directions to her students for an assignment involving spreadsheets. Dr. Fiorito is a 2009-2010 University Teaching Award Winner.
  Download a copy of Dr. Fiorito's PowerPoint slide show Actively Using Media Applications as an Instructional Aid. 1.4 MB PPT

• Active Learning in Introduction to Music in World Cultures with Dr. Michael Bakan
  Dr. Michael Bakan teaches the importance of facilitating hands-on, participatory learning in this Introduction to Music in World Cultures class. Students are shown performing on a handcrafted gamelan orchestra from Bali, Indonesia, which enlists upwards of 25 players and features gongs, metallophones, drums, and other instruments that are very beautiful physically and very powerful sonically. Dr. Bakan is a 2009-2010 University Teaching Award Winner.
  

• Making Theory Relevant: The Gender Attitude and Belief Inventory with Dr. Janice McCabe
  Surveys can be useful tools for understanding your students' backgrounds, knowledge and attitudes regarding a course as well as engage them with the material. Watch Dr. Janice McCabe's presentation on how she has developed and used the Gender Attitude and Belief Inventory (GABI) to assist students in learning about gender theories. She is a 2009-2010 University Teaching Award Winner.
  Download a copy of Dr. McCabe's Gender Attitude and Belief Inventory (GABI). 45 KB PDF

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