Summer Graduate Teaching Scholars
Preparing to Teach 5:
What do YOU want to learn
this Summer?
June 9 and 10, 2016
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Name Course Dept/School
Summer I or II # students
Peter Newbury
How we’ll support you this Summer
Center for Engaged Teaching team
Tiffany Dunbar,
Education Research Coordinator
Erilynn Heinrichsen,
Program and Peer Mentor Coordinator
Gabriele Wienhausen,
Faculty Director, Teaching + Learning Commons
Education Technology Services (ETS):
April Cha, Brent Hartley, Craig Bentley, Joan
Holmquist, Dan Suchy,…
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How we’ll support you this Summer
observations and feedback from peer
mentors
Part 1: pre-observation planning
Part II: observation
Part III: post-observation debriefing
This will happen twice, in Weeks 1&2 and
in Weeks 3&4
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How we’ll support you this Summer
observations and feedback from peer
mentors
Observations focus on 3 categories:
Providing support for students
Encouraging students’ independence
Developing interpersonal/community
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How we’ll support you this Summer
observations and feedback from peer
mentors
We believe you’ll find these observations
and feedback extremely valuable. We
recognize some of you may not want to
be observed and so you have the option
to opt out of the program.
Watch for an email and
then respond ASAP
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How we’ll support you this Summer
peer mentors (observations, technical
support in 1st class, “on-call” for advice)
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Erica Bender (Sociology) Andrea Chase (Chem & Biochem)
Monica Chu (Biological Sciences) Drew Walker (Psychology)
Nirag Kadakia (Physics) Mary Klann (History)
Jake Olson (Cognitive Science) Krista Perks (Neuroscience)
Katrin Pesch (Visual Arts) Danny Weltman (Philosophy)
(tentative)
How we’ll support you this Summer
Reflection and support meetings, every
Friday at __________ (stay tuned!)
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You are excellent researchers
Teaching-as-research lets you apply your
research skills in a new context. Instead of
the lab, archives, community, or coffee shop,
the research occurs in the classroom.
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Goal: By midnight on June 19,
you’ll submit a proposal giving
title of your project
research question (what do you want to learn?)
experimental design and methods (how do you
want to do it?)
expected significance (why do you want to do
it?)
present state of knowledge (at least one
reference to what’s been done already)
resources required, if any
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(Submit your proposal using a Google form linked to the SGTS blog.)
Goals for today
1. Tell the people about your project.
2. Give and get feedback, especially about
ethical / privacy / harm concerns:
your project cannot harm students’ success
there can be no repercussions for a student who
does not participate in voluntary tasks
Is the research question narrow enough that
you can accomplish something?
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