CIRTL - Evidence-Based Introduction to Teaching (EBIT)

07-29-2019

Calling all STEM post-docs and new faculty! Teaching for the first time? Interested in improving your teaching? Join us at EBIT, a five-day, four-hour per day summer institute for post-docs and new faculty that uses the engineering principles of “Design, Build, Test, and Iterate” to develop course content and assessments. Take part in a genuine student-centered learning experience that will help you in your job search or help start your job off right!
Topics: Educational research techniques, learning objectives, targeted assessments, active teaching strategies, and Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Core Ideas. Professional development electives may also be offered.
Location: University of Colorado Boulder.
Dates: July 29-August 2.

Learning Outcomes
Associate: Evidence-Based Teaching
Describe and recognize the value of realistic well-defined, achievable, measurable and student-centered learning goals.

Describe several known high-impact, evidence-based effective instructional practices and materials and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.

Describe several assessment techniques and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.

Associate: Learning Community
Describe and recognize the value of learning communities, and how they impact student learning.

Describe several techniques and issues of establishing LCs comprising a diverse group of learners.

Recognize the value of and participate in local professionally-focused learning communities associated with teaching and learning.

Associate: Teaching-as-Research
Describe how to access the literature and existing knowledge about teaching and learning issues, in a discipline or more broadly.

Define and recognize the value of the Teaching-as-Research process, and how it can be used for ongoing enhancement of learning.

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