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STEM Teaching Slam: How Are We Engaging Our Students?
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
In this workshop, we will begin by hearing from *you* — outstanding STEM instructors at UVM — on ways that you’re engaging your students today. If you choose to participate in the “Teaching Slam”, you will have three minutes and one slide to share something you’ve done recently to improve your course or engage students, after which the assembled community will make a collective, thunderous SLAM noise to let you know that your voice has been heard, and your work well received. To begin the 2nd half of the workshop, Dr. Auerbach will briefly share best practices honed over the last 13 years of instruction in the UMass Amherst Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) program. Workshop participants will then form teams of faculty to reflect on and answer the following questions:
- What is one aspect you wish to further improve in the engagement of your students?
- How would you know such improved engagement will have been accomplished?
- What is one new teaching approach you will try to further engage your students?
We anticipate that each workshop participant will leave the workshop with at least one new actionable teaching innovation and have an improved sense of what other instructors in the STEM community are doing to engage their students.
Please reach out to Courtney Giles (cdgiles@uvm.edu) if you would like to participate in the Teaching Slam.
Facilitator: This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Scott Auerbach, who is a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at UMass Amherst, and holds the Mahoney Family Sponsored Executive Directorship of the UMass iCons Program. The iCons Program — in its 13th year — is a certificate in real-world problem solving in fields of biomedicine and clean energy, for STEM and Business undergrads at UMass. iCons students hone skills in problem-based learning, team-based learning, student-driven learning, and metacognitive reflection, and have found career success in education, entrepreneurship, industry, law, medicine, policy, and research.