New Year’s resolutions don’t ever workout without effort, dedication, and a little positive reinforcement. So say your resolution is to work on your teaching craft in 2016? GATA Winter Academy can start you off on the right foot.
This January we’ll be offering a highlight reel workshop lineup at GATA Winter Academy 2016. On Wednesday, January 6th, the GATA Network will be presenting a full day of back-to-back workshops on the most talked about topics from this fall’s GATAcademy.
What: GATA Winter Academy 2016
Where: Erie Hall Basement
When: January 6th, 2016
Why: Developing sound teaching strategies!
It doesn’t matter if you’re a teaching pro or just starting out in the classroom – Winter Academy has something to offer for teachers of all levels. This event is completely free for GAs, TAs, and those interested in teaching and learning. You can sign up for just one workshop or all three (space permitting). This year’s workshops are led by a group of talented and experienced instructors:
- Conducting Effective Labs and Tutorials with Phil Graniero and Jacqueline Stagner
- Active Learning with Kristy Smith and Dwayne Barris
- Introducing Blackboard with Lorna Stolarchuk, Tomas Dobos, and David Cracknell
To find out more about these workshops and reserve your seat, click here: http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/workshops/92/.
This Tuesday, November 24th, the Writing Support Desk will be hosting a free workshop in conjunction with the UWill Discover conference and will be discussing how to write an effective abstract.
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 24th
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Location: 302 Leddy West
Any graduate or teaching assistants who are planning on submitting to a conference or journal but have no experience writing an abstract are encouraged to attend. In addition, as the UWill Discover conference is geared toward undergraduate students, graduate and teaching assistants are encouraged to highlight this free and valuable workshop to students who may be interested in submitting to the UWill Discover conference this January.
GATA Network Coordinator
- Sustaining, growing, and coordinating a network of GAs and TAs.
- Engaging in activities that foster the development of an increasingly learning‐centred culture on campus, particularly among GA/TAs.
- Promoting critical reflection on, and formative evaluation of, pedagogical practice.
- Modeling and encouraging scholarly teaching practices for GA/TAs.
- Creating teaching and learning resources specifically focused on the challenges facing GA/TAs.
- Continuing and coordinating a decentralized, inter‐departmental GA/TA professional development network at the University of Windsor.
- Providing insight and collaborative support for a variety of projects, workshops, publications, and presentations involving professional development in teaching and learning for graduate students and teaching assistants.
- Meeting with departmental representatives to identify issues and topics most relevant to their GA/TAs.
- Locating and recruiting members to act as peer mentors, workshop facilitators, publication contributors, and departmental liaisons.
- Establishing, coordinating, and facilitating GA/TA learning communities.
- Helping GA/TAs design and facilitate effective pedagogical workshops.
- Participating in activities relevant to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
- Attending weekly group meetings with the Centre for Teaching and Learning staff to discuss teaching and learning issues, methodologies, philosophies, processes, and controversies, as well as opportunities for teaching and learning development on campus.
View the full posting: GATA Network Coordinator Nov9_2015.
***DEADLINE: Monday, November 30th, 2015***
GATA Digital Outreach Coordinator
- Designing, implementing, and coordinating digital outreach and social networking for the GATA Network.
- Engaging in activities that foster the development of an increasingly learning‐centred culture on campus, particularly among GA/TAs.
- Promoting critical reflection on, and formative evaluation of, pedagogical practice.
- Modeling and encouraging scholarly teaching practices for GA/TAs.
- Participating in activities relevant to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
- Creating teaching and learning resources specifically focused on the challenges facing GA/TAs.
- Providing insight and input into the design of a decentralized, inter‐departmental GA/TA professional development network at the University of Windsor.
- Providing insight and collaborative support for a variety of projects, workshops, publications, and presentations involving professional development in teaching and learning for graduate students and teaching assistants.
- Meeting with departmental representatives to identify issues and topics most relevant to their GA/TAs.
- Researching key teaching and learning issues and strategies relevant to GA/TAs.
- Choosing and implementing the best digital outreach for the GA/TA Network.
- Attending weekly group meetings with the Centre for Teaching and Learning staff to discuss teaching and learning issues, methodologies, philosophies, processes, and controversies, as well as opportunities for teaching and learning development on campus.
View the full posting: GATA Digital Outreach position Nov9_2015.
The vaguely winter feeling in the air suggests that the fall final exam season is nearly upon us, and GAs and TAs know all too well that can only mean that grading season is just around the corner. You know, when hot chocolate and candy canes become weapons in your arsenal providing the sugar and caffeine to stay awake longer and mark more papers…
…which is totally unhealthy.
Let the record show that we here at the GATA Network have always been about marking smarter, not harder. We know that the end-of-term papers that pile up can be daunting whether it’s your first time marking or your fiftieth.
More on marking and the stress that comes with it:
Announcing The Minimal Marking Workshop
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That’s why we’re announcing the return of the GATA Network Workshop Series with Minimal Marking: Get More “Bang for Your Buck ” When Marking Student Writing. On Friday, November 27th, the CTL’s Visiting Fellow Claire Lamonica will be discussing the “minimal marking” strategy in a special workshop completely free to GAs and TAs.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice minimal marking, discuss its benefits, and determine how it can be implemented in their roles as markers. Claire brings a wealth of teaching and marking experience from her work in both writing instruction and educational development.
What: Minimal Marking: Get More “Bang for Your Buck ” When Marking Student Writing
When: Friday, November 27th, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Where: Lambton Tower 2103
How: Reserve your spot, visit http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/workshops/52/
What Is Minimal Marking?
Instead of developing more elaborate ways of cramming more marking into less time in marathon-type grading sessions, why not learn how to make the assessment process more efficient? That’s exactly the thinking behind “minimal marking,” an approach the streamlines the feedback process so that you spend less time repeating yourself about grammar and other mechanics.
Essentially, instead of highlighting and correcting every error encountered in a student’s paper, minimal marking is a system that suggests systematically alerting students to those errors with a quick mark, which the student then corrects on their own.
Read more on minimal marking:
- Richard H. Haswell, “Minimal Marking,” College English, Vol. 45, No. 6 (Oct. 1983), 600-604. Retrieved from http://users.ipfw.edu/wellerw/minimal_marking.pdf.
- Abraham Romney, “Minimal Marking: An Oldie But A Goodie,” Retrieved from http://writing.uci.edu/minimal-marking-an-oldie-but-goodie/
- Anne McNelly, “Minimal Marking: A Success Story,” The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 5, Iss. 1, Article 7. Retrieved from http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cjsotl_rcacea/vol5/iss1/7/
Undergraduate research can play an important role in students’ development as scholars and professionals, not to mention the valuable contributions student researchers make to their fields each year. That’s why UWill Discover celebrates the exciting work of Windsor’s undergraduate students.
The UWill Discover undergraduate research conference is returning for 2016. This year’s event will focus on “border culture,” a broad consideration of the cross-border realities of our university. Cross-disciplinary panels focusing on physical and conceptual borders are encouraged, as are interdisciplinary projects and proposals.
UWill Discover is an opportunity for undergraduate students of all disciplines to share their exciting work with both the academic community and the general public. Each presentation is also eligible for some serious cash prizes. Presentations can take any of the following forms:
- Digital Posters
- Oral Presentations
- Performance Pieces (Dramatic Art, Music, Dance, etc.)
- Demonstrations or Installations
Accepted participants will also record short videos overviewing their projects. Last year over 80 students from 7 faculties presented at UWill Discover on a range of topics.
Click here to view the UWill Call for Proposals 2016, or visit the UWill Discover event website for more info on constructing and submitting your abstract: http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/uwilldiscover/2016/
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