The Center for Teaching and Faculty Development

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Upcoming Events

We are always interested in broadening our offerings and meeting faculty requests. Check out the list of workshops below to see what is currently being offered by the Center. If you have an idea for us to explore, we'd love to hear about it. Please either email the Center at ctfd@sfsu.edu or give us a call at 338.6456.

Mental Imagery in the Classroom
Lead: Adam Burke, Assistant Professor in Health Education and Director of the Institute for Holistic Healing Studies
Date and Time: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Burk Hall 333

Learn how mental imagery can help your students target and achieve educational success! This session will focus on enhancing goal-directed behavior through a simple imagery technique known as priming. Easy to learn, priming can be used for empowering student learning, self-enhancement, and to foster overall confidence and success. It has also demonstrated proven results in enhancing individual performance. Join Dr. Burke in a demonstration of this fun, relaxing and practical skill you can use to help yourself and your students.

The Informative and Formative Classroom: Session III (Rubrics: How to Save Time and Increase Student Achievement)
Lead: Center for Teaching and Faculty Development/Meg Gorzycki
Date and Time: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Burk Hall 333

This series of workshops will introduce and foster discussion about theories of best practice across the pedagogical spectrum. Peer conversations and exercises will help focus instructors on how to successfully apply best practice theory to curriculum design, student assessment, program evaluation and professional development as an educator. The workshops are designed to build on one another, but prior attendance or attendance at all four is not required or necessary.

Session III: Rubrics: How to Save Time and Energy and Increase Student Achievement

Using rubrics can save faculty time and help clarify our expectations for students! Explore the relationship between the rubric and student learning, the limitations of the rubric relative to assessment of formative elements, and alternative assessments that maintain high standards of mastery. Instructors should bring anonymous samples of student work and grading rubrics to help assess the utility of the rubric and the efficacy of the graded work in reaching the assignment’s stated outcomes.

Peer Response in Writing
Lead: Patricia Irvine, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, College of Education, and Mary Soliday, Director, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)/Writing in the Disciplines (WID)
Date and Time: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Burk Hall 321

Interested in introducing peer response to writing? Unsure of where to begin? Join Patricia Irvine and Mary Soliday for an informative session that will offer guidelines, provide sample rubrics for your students and you, and cover the benefits and challenges of using peer response in the classroom. Handouts included!

The Informative and Formative Classroom: Session IV (How Evidence-Based Teaching Benefits Students and Faculty)
Lead: Center for Teaching and Faculty Development/Meg Gorzycki
Date and Time: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Burk Hall 333

This series of workshops will introduce and foster discussion about theories of best practice across the pedagogical spectrum. Peer conversations and exercises will help focus instructors on how to successfully apply best practice theory to curriculum design, student assessment, program evaluation and professional development as an educator. The workshops are designed to build on one another, but prior attendance or attendance at all four is not required or necessary.

Session IV: How Evidence-Based Teaching Benefits Students and Faculty

What is evidence-based teaching? How can it help you better understand student achievement, design or redesign courses and assignments? How can it help you advance your professional achievement and growth? Join us to explore the basics and discuss the possibilities!

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