The Teaching Support Centre is presenting its annual Spring Perspectives on Teaching Conference this Wednesday (May 20) at the Arthur & Sonia Labatt Health Sciences Building.
The one-day conference (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) for faculty, staff and graduate students includes sessions on effective lecturing, innovative teaching techniques, problem solving and self-directed teaching/learning, evaluation methods, grading practices, blended learning and other teaching-related issues.
Linda Nilson of Clemson University will lead an interesting keynote address focusing on ‘getting students to do the readings.’
A very common phenomenon in higher education all over North America – students not doing the assigned readings. Nilson will examine the student-reading problem dispassionately as a multi-faceted consequence of faculty members and the students’ beliefs, values, cognitive abilities, and behaviors.
She will also discuss reading assignments, their difficulty, and their relative costs and benefits through the typical student’s eyes – considering how faculty select reading assignments, accommodate reading noncompliance, and how their behavior impacts student reading.
For a complete list of speakers and sessions, and to register, visit the Teaching Support Centre website.