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The Center for Teaching Excellence will hold a colloquium and hands-on workshop April 3. Both events are free and open to faculty and staff.
"Benefits of Classroom Response: Systems for Peer Instruction and Assessment" will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the College of Nursing, Room 409.
One of the major recent reforms in education involves pausing within a lecture to ask conceptual questions during class and receiving equally important feedback from students in a timely manner. This gives students opportunities to work with new material and faculty can collect immediate student feedback. Backed by evidence of tremendous learning benefits, this reform has spread to teaching medium-size and large classes in almost all disciplines. Participants in the CTE events will learn productive ways to use the classroom response systems to integrate peer instruction and formative assessment into the lecture to increase student engagement, interest, and learning.
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The colloquium's presenter will be Timothy Stelzer, a research associate professor from the University of Illinois and a co-developer of the iClicker. A high-energy particle theorist, Stelzer is a member of the Physics Education Group at the University of Illinois, where he has led the development and implementation of tools for assessing the effectiveness of educational innovations in introductory courses and expanding the use of Web technology in physics pedagogy. He is a regular on the University of Illinois' "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students."
The hands-on workshop, "Using iClicker Effectively," will take place from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Center for Teaching Excellence, Thomas Cooper Library, Room 511. Participants will learn how to use student response systems in the classroom, and they will be able to test the product, ask questions, and share ideas.
Space is limited in the hands-on workshop. To attend, RSVP to cte@sc.edu.
For more information, go to www.sc.edu/cte or contact the CTE at cte@sc.edu or 7-8322.
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