Graduate School March Workshops
Post date: Feb 26, 2015 2:7:40 PM
Title: Teaching Seminar - Facilitating Discussions that Work
Date: 3/18/2015 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Description: Discussions "work" when we facilitate well through questioning. Careful planning, clear goal setting, and adept facilitation can turn a conventional recitation into an active learning experience, transform "tennis-ball" exchanges into in-depth discussions, and foster our students' further inquiry and interest. But becoming an artful, provocative, and productive questioner is difficult. Fortunately, it's also a teaching competency that we can improve right away. Workshop attendees learn to develop good interpretive questions that will advance their classroom objectives and increase students' participation.
PREP THEME: collaboration/diversity
CCTP COMPETENCY: creating effective learning environments
Presenter: Melissa McDaniels
Location: A224 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd, East Lansing MI 48824
Title: Write-In at the Graduate School
Date: 3/20/2015 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Description: Are you working on a thesis or dissertation chapter, a proposal, or an article? Do you need a quiet place to write, or a space to collaborate with your peers on a piece of writing? Come to the new Graduate School in Chittenden Hall for our first Friday dedicated to writing. Participants must come with a specific writing goal and be prepared to write until noon! Graduate writing consultants from the Writing Center will be on hand to help with goal setting and accountability after you leave the session, and to help facilitate the formation of writing groups that can keep you moving toward your goal. Coffee and tea will be available while you write, and pizza will be provided for lunch at the end of the writing session. During lunch we will debrief and set future writing goals.
In the additional comments of the on-line registration, please indicate whether you are interested in working in a dedicated quiet space or a collaborative space.
Location: Chittenden Hall, 466 W. Circle Dr.
Title: Communicating with your students - Giving clear and concise definitions in your classes
Date: 3/23/15 4:30-5:30 PM
Description: Graduate assistants have the job of communicating complex, challenging, and sometimes abstract concepts to undergraduate students. This can be further complicated for international TAs as they must not only explain an idea, but also do it in a language that is not their mother tongue. In this workshop, participants will learn and practice a way to give concise explanations of terms, from simple notions to field-specific academic vocabulary, with hands-on activities.
Chris Garth, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Zeynep Altinsel, TA Program, MSU
Location: A118 Wells Hall
Title: The Academic Job Search
Date: 3/25/2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Description: To be successful and efficient in the academic job search process it is essential to understand the diversity of opportunities in American academia. Large or small, public or private, two- or four-year this workshop will provide participants with a better understanding of the different types of academic institutions; how to look, apply for, and secure positions at various types of institutions; and what to expect as a new faculty member at different types of institutions. From this workshops students will learn how and where to find academic positions, how they might evaluate positions, and how to prepare application materials for different types of institutions.
Location: Chittenden Workshop Room
466 W Circle Dr, East Lansing MI 48824
Title: Research Mentor Training
Date: 3/27/2015 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Description: Based upon an internationally recognized evidence-based mentoring training curriculum (http://www.researchmentortraining.org/), this workshop is designed to provide participants with some of the most important skills and ideas required for high-level mentoring of undergraduate or graduate students in a research environment. This will be an ideal, in-depth professional development experience for graduate students or postdocs who will be mentoring research assistants over the summer months. Graduate students and postdocs will have the opportunity to come learn about (and share) best practices in mentoring research assistants. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share strategies about the most effective way to both provide students with an excellent learning experience and get their own work done.
PREP THEME: ethics / collaboration / diversity
CCTP COMPETENCY: Understanding the University Context & Creating Effective Learning Environments
Presenters: Melissa McDaniels and Beronda Montgomery
Location: 136 Brody; 241 W Brody Rd, East Lansing, MI 48825
To register: http://grad.msu.edu/workshops/