Spring CIE seminars, course to focus on college teaching

Purdue instructors and graduate students can enhance their teaching skills, exchange ideas with colleagues, and get practical hints on their craft from some of the campus's award-winning professors in seminars offered by the Center for Instructional Excellence. Staff members also will find the information and insight into classroom instruction helpful.

Beginning Jan. 26, the College Teaching Workshop 1 (CTW 1) series on the basics of teaching at Purdue will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays in Hicks Undergraduate Library, Room B853. Topics include how to build rapport with students, encourage active and experiential learning, develop appropriate assessments of learning, foster academic integrity, establish course policies and procedures, give effective instructional presentations, and construct a course plan and syllabus that support an effective learning environment.

A two-hour micro-teaching session begins at 9 a.m. Feb. 23. Participants may register for single workshops or for the series (of 10) as a whole.

For graduate students, participation in the workshops counts toward the Graduate Teacher Certificate program sponsored by the Purdue Teaching Academy, which CIE administers. Graduate students interested in completing a certificate should click on the "Enroll" link on the website to receive details.

Interested graduate students who have questions should email neubauer@purdue.edu.

For more information and registration for each of the CTW 1 sessions, details can be found at www.purdue.edu/cie/workshops/workshops1.html.