INLS 309:
SEMINAR IN TEACHING PRACTICE

Spring 2000

January 10February 7March 6April 3

All meetings will be "brown bag" sessions from 12:15 to 1:30 in Room 215.

January 10

Discussion of Donald Kennedy's book, Academic Duty (Harvard University Press, 1997). David Carr will lead us in a discussion of what faculty "duties" or "responsibilities" are or should be. Our discussion will focus on capturing an overview of the universitiy and what an individual faculty's role in it might be.


February 7

  We agreed to spend the spring semester focusing on design of courses, specifically core courses. To lead off this set of discussions, Paul Solomon and Bob Losee have agreed to walk us through how they designed INLS 150 and INLS 172 respectively. They will describe what their pedagogical objectives were, where they have made changes from past versions and why, what future changes they may be considering (and why). They will also share the kinds of assignments they give to students and again, describe the decisions that went into their choice of assignments. In preparation please review the online syllabi for these two courses.

I know that Paul and Bob expect to make somewhat informal and not very extensive remarks and then to respond to questions and to engage with us in a general session on course design. So, come prepared to ask questions, compare notes, engage in discussion. It should be fun and stimulating.


March 6

  Today's seminar will focus on one of the required LS courses: INLS 153. Please review the online syllabus for this course. David Carr will lead us in a discussion about this course and will provide some handouts for us.

From this core course design disucssion, we will segue into a discussion of questions and questionning techniques. To prepare for this discussion, you may wish to go to the following nice web site discovered by Barbara Moran, Teaching Tip Index and then follow the link to "Using Questions Effectively." There are three good, short "How to do it" excerpts on good questioning techniques.

Much more on this site. The two items on course design and preparing or revising a course are also relevant to today's session.


April 3

  What shall our last session for the semester be?

Date revised 3/3/2000.
Evelyn Daniel