Additional Events & Opportunities

Faculty Seminar on Teaching First-Year Students, 2012
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Freshman Connections and the Office of Educational Excellence are pleased to offer a three-part faculty development seminar to support Ball State faculty members in developing learner-centered pedagogies for first-year students. The sessions will be Mondays from 3-4:30 p.m. on September 17th, October 15th, and November 12th in BL 201.

FOCUS
Participants will read and discuss Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: a Practical Guide for Faculty, by Phyllis Blumberg, with a particular focus on the chapter on early and formative evaluation of students.

BENEFITS
Beyond the principle benefit of improving one’s pedagogy, participants will receive free copies of the text used in the seminar and a small honorarium. The interdisciplinary and interpersonal connections participants make in this seminar will have lasting professional and personal effects.

OUTCOME
Informed by what s/he learns, each participant will prepare a brief report describing a pedagogical innovation s/he will implement during the 2013 calendar year. This report should include documents that will be used in that implementation. It will be due at the final (November 12th) session. 

SEMINAR FACILITATOR 
Peg Shaffer, EdD
Assistant Director, Freshman Connections
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

ELIGIBIITY
Ball State faculty who teach classes with mostly first-year student enrollment. Preference will be given to faculty working with learning communities and/or faculty with five or fewer years of service at Ball State. Diversity of participants is valued. Enrollment is limited to 15 participants.

APPLICATION
To apply, send an email to Kathleen Jacobi-Karna in the Office of Educational Excellence that completes these four lines:

Name
Department
Years of Service at Ball State University 
Teach a “learning community” course?  (yes/no)

Application Deadline: September 7, 2012