Educational Services for Students (ESS) and the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will collaborate to deliver a summer University 400C Future Faculty Certificate Program, which is series of six sessions for graduate and professional students considering careers as faculty members.
The seminar will be limited to 15 participants. Students need to register through SIS for UNIV 400 C Future Faculty Certificate. There will be no charge for the program, the textbook, or for the lunches provided at each seminar.
For the 2015 Summer Session, classes will be held Tuesdays, June 2-July 7, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Herrick Room, which is on the ground floor of the Allen Memorial Medical Library Building (at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road). Attendees are asked to use the Adelbert Road doors.
Participants will be expected to complete weekly readings and write weekly journals. Anyone accepted into the program is expected to attend all sessions and complete all journal assignments. Those who satisfactorily complete the program (with a pass) will receive a certificate.
The required textbook for the course is How Learning Works: 7 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose et al. (2010). Once officially registered for UNIV 400C through SIS, students may pick up this textbook at Educational Services for Students in Sears Building, Room 470.
The seminar objectives will focus on the following (as well as others devised by the class and the seminar facilitators):
- Developing a student-centered curriculum that recognizes students’ individual learning styles
- Writing an effective course design that demonstrates a sense of cultural competency
- Creating a good classroom climate and improving motivation
- Giving effective lectures and leading class discussion
- Making assessments more meaningful
Contact Mano Singham, director of UCITE and adjunct associate professor of physics, at 216.368.1224, or Judy Olson-Hammer, director of ESS, at 216.368.5230.