91探花

Please join us for this year's Let's Talk Teaching Day on Tuesday, September 6, at 10:00 a.m. in HSB 104. The theme of the day is "Finding Common Ground." We all teach, but what we teach, how we teach, why we teach, and even who we teach are often different. Are these differences important to our sense of ourselves as a faculty鈥攁nd to our notions of what a university education is for? How do these differences affect student expectations and performance as they move between Faculties and Schools during their degrees鈥攁nd how can we help them negotiate those differences? In short, how can we find鈥攁nd clearly articulate鈥攕ome "common ground" for our teaching at 91探花? A combination of larger group and smaller break-out group discussions will address such questions as Who is in our classrooms鈥攁nd why are they there? How does this make a difference in our teaching? How do we use class time? What is the point/purpose of class time? How do we think about the relationships among teaching, retention, and success? How does technology get used in our classrooms? What is the relationship between our technology use and (our expectations for) student learning? How do we articulate relationship between teaching and learning in our different Faculties and Schools? What is the point of a university education? How do we tell the story of life after university鈥攖o students, to parents, to community members, to ourselves? Our aim will be to generate some concrete strategies to take back to our Faculties and Schools, our units, and our classrooms that address "finding common ground."  Coffee and breakfast snacks will be served at 9:40; the day will begin at 10:00; lunch will be provided at noon; and we plan to wrap up between 2:30 and 3:00.  If you have any questions, please email Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca or (902) 620-5217.