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Featured below are recent Teaching Award Winners who wish to share specific strategies on how they have made their teaching both rewarding and effective.
For each of the following streaming media presentations, mouse over the video window until the controls appear, then select the forward arrow to watch the presentation.
Providing in-class instructions for assignments can be a challenge for instructors who must balance student needs with content coverage and precious little class time. Explore how Dr. Susan Fiorito addresses this challenge by using 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 Professor in the Department of Retail Merchandising and Product Development and teaches classes in retail technologies, family-owned businesses, and merchandise buying and inventory analysis. She 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
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. After only a cursory introduction to Balinese music and culture at the time of these sessions, the goal was to start "from scratch" and within the hour-plus span of the class to have them playing an actual traditional Balinese gamelan piece. Through active musical engagement, the students learned about music and its relation to culture within a specific cultural context, not through passive digestion of information. Through participatory involvement in the actual musical processes, students learn gamelan performance and its significance to Balinese cultural life and, by extension, issues of tradition and transformation in world music that are central to this course. Dr. Bakan is a 2009-2010 University Teaching Award Winner.
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. Her presentation focuses on the use of GABI in the classroom and how instructors might adapt it for use with other topics and theories. Dr. McCabe is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and teaches courses on the sociology of gender, childhood, social problems, contemporary theory, and feminist theory. 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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