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Resource center offers faculty 'unlearning' seminars
Sarah Hebbeler
Issue date: 9/21/06 Section: News
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By Sarah Hebbeler
staff reporter
The Grayson H. Walker Teaching Resource Center provides faculty and graduate students with informational seminars to help them improve their instruction.
The resource center has several seminars lined up for this fall ranging from Blackboard and Adobe Photoshop instructionals to helping professors "unlearn the learn," which involves professors overcoming misconceptions students may have about material presented in class.
Seminars are led by center employees, librarians and outside speakers.
One-on-one consultation and small group instructional diagnosis is available for instructors. Center employees reach a diagnosis after observing professors' teaching techniques. Then they talk to the class about the instructor and offer feedback to the instructor on their teaching style.
Sandy Watson, an education professor, said he is appreciative of the opportunities the Walker Teaching Resource Center gave him.
He was able to implement electronic mentoring into his education courses. Students in Watson's class were paired with other students across the United States and were able to communicate with each other via e-mail.
"I have received a great deal of positive feedback from students about the benefits of this type of mentoring relationship and I ultimately was able to publish an article about it in 'The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,'" he said.
Bento Lobo, accounting and finance professor, said that he has always found the Walker Teaching Resource Center to be helpful.
"Karen Adsit and Charles Hart are very knowledgeable and always eager to help and make suggestions," he said. "I've learned a lot from them and the seminars they put on and continue to call on them for help and advice."
In addition to instructing faculty, they also manage Blackboard.
It is their job to make sure the server does not go down, and to get it back up when it does.
Karen Adsit, the director of the center, said their goal is to make sure the learning environment is good for students.
Registration is preferred for the seminars, but not required. You can register for the seminars at www.utc.edu/TRC/Schedule.
staff reporter
The Grayson H. Walker Teaching Resource Center provides faculty and graduate students with informational seminars to help them improve their instruction.
The resource center has several seminars lined up for this fall ranging from Blackboard and Adobe Photoshop instructionals to helping professors "unlearn the learn," which involves professors overcoming misconceptions students may have about material presented in class.
Seminars are led by center employees, librarians and outside speakers.
One-on-one consultation and small group instructional diagnosis is available for instructors. Center employees reach a diagnosis after observing professors' teaching techniques. Then they talk to the class about the instructor and offer feedback to the instructor on their teaching style.
Sandy Watson, an education professor, said he is appreciative of the opportunities the Walker Teaching Resource Center gave him.
He was able to implement electronic mentoring into his education courses. Students in Watson's class were paired with other students across the United States and were able to communicate with each other via e-mail.
"I have received a great deal of positive feedback from students about the benefits of this type of mentoring relationship and I ultimately was able to publish an article about it in 'The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,'" he said.
Bento Lobo, accounting and finance professor, said that he has always found the Walker Teaching Resource Center to be helpful.
"Karen Adsit and Charles Hart are very knowledgeable and always eager to help and make suggestions," he said. "I've learned a lot from them and the seminars they put on and continue to call on them for help and advice."
In addition to instructing faculty, they also manage Blackboard.
It is their job to make sure the server does not go down, and to get it back up when it does.
Karen Adsit, the director of the center, said their goal is to make sure the learning environment is good for students.
Registration is preferred for the seminars, but not required. You can register for the seminars at www.utc.edu/TRC/Schedule.
