Winter Break EASL Retreat January 6, 2017

Welcome And Workshop Goals Reflect on current teaching beliefs and consider if/how the EASL environment aligns with your teaching philosophy and practice. Practice using EASL classroom space and technology. Sample a variety of active learning techniques and plan when and how to use them in your course. Pre activity: Let us know your comfort level and interests by completing this brief pre-survey: https://aub.ie/winter17pre

Workshop Roadmap Team formation Mini-lecture on Course Design/Alignment Choose Your Own Adventure (small group or large lecture) Peer to peer instruction/modified jigsaw Reflective writing and Discussion Lunch

Team Formation Slide Use the first question to ask folks to line up, then have people who want to do lecture step forward to form another line; countdown from there.

Why Alignment Matters

Case Study Julia Child wants you to bake a King Cake. She hands you a recipe and demonstrates each step in sequence while describing it. To see if you’ve learned, she takes the recipe away and asks you to bake the cake in front of the class. Use Bloom’s taxonomy to identify the kinds of learning Julia expects, and predict the likely outcome. Discuss with your team. At your table, discuss what you think will happen with this learning task.

What is Active Learning? Debrief discussion: alignment between student/faculty expectations alignment between learning goals, activities, and assessments

Creating Significant Learning Debrief discussion: alignment between student/faculty expectations alignment between learning goals, activities, and assessments

On a glass board, monitor, or on paper respond: One-Minute Paper On a glass board, monitor, or on paper respond: Reflect on a recent learning task with which your students struggled. Why didn’t it unfold as you anticipated? Time: 5 mins write, 5 mins share, 10 mins discuss 5 mins. Pair up and discuss 5 minutes Large group debrief 10 mins.

What is Active Learning? Pair up and discuss. Where did you get off track?

Active learning strategies Gesture to the handout. Which of these activities have we already completed?

Different Approaches to Technology Integration The SAMR way and the Wiebke Way

The Struggle is Real Pair up with a colleague and debrief your “struggle” How can this space or these strategies help? On the white boards, list a few keywords from your discussion. Time: 10 mins.

Gallery Walk Use your whiteboard markers to provide feedback. Use a “*” to indicate congruence/”good idea”/aha! Use a “?” to indicate when more information is required Time: 5 mins.

Assignment Language Based on insights of what space can do, redraft your assignment/activity – where does it fall with Bloom and on the scale? Share key elements with group Group feedback focus: What strategies can you suggest to keep students on track?

What is Active Learning? Pair up and discuss. Where did you get off track?

active learning strategies - reviewed Gesture to the handout. Which of these activities have we already completed?

Coming Back Together Back in original groups: Share with each other what you have learned about teaching in EASL and in Lecture: Compare 3 Active Learning Takeaways from both sessions. Identify themes or patterns that suggest the KEY principles of Active Learning. Share by writing on the Boards

Connecting the Dots Mindset Alignment Activity Assessment Lindsay Debrief

Beyond the Retreat Spring into Mell: Workshop Series Grant opportunities Teaching Feedback Services Call for Proposals to teach in EASL spaces Active Learning Happy Hour Course (Re)Design Seminar

https://aub.ie/EASLWinter2017 Feedback Opportunity Please take a minute to complete this 3-question feedback survey related to our work together today: https://aub.ie/EASLWinter2017

Thank You!