By focusing on personal style and delivery, they will help each participant enhance his or her particular capabilities as a teacher speaking to students. Participants will have the opportunity to practice speaking before a small group and will receive feedback to help them enhance their teaching skills. Participants are expected to attend both sessions. Come exchange ideas about teaching and learning with other GSIs who share similar interests. Lunch is provided.
Students often sit in large lectures taking notes without really thinking about the content.
To make these lectures more interactive and to encourage student thinking and participation, the presenters of this seminar have collaborated to develop their own approaches to large classes based on a peer teaching model created by Eric Mazur of Harvard. This system frees disucssion section instructors to concentrate on interactive learning, instead of conducting more traditional homework review sessions. Come exchange ideas about teaching and learning with other GSIs who share similar interests. Lunch is provided. This seminar provides a guide to integrating collaborative learning into course design.