Visit from Dr Dee Fink

CTL is delighted to be hosting Dr Dee Fink, professional and international consultant in higher education, who will conduct presentations and workshops to our academic community in the area of teaching and learning.

There will be a number of sessions planned across Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th February designed to provide you with the five transformative teaching practices, the principles of course design for significant learning, and the opportunity to apply these principles to your teaching practice.

Day 1: Monday 25th February

Plenary Session: The Joy and Responsibility of Teaching Well
Date: Monday 25th Feb
Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Venue: General Purpose Building - GP1.01
Morning tea will be provided

In this presentation, Dee Fink will lay out some of the reasons why higher education has become even more important than it was in the past and some of the evidence indicating we need to do a much better job of teaching than we currently are.  The argument is then made that, in order to make significant improvements in their teaching, academics need to re-think four issues:  WHAT we teach, HOW we teach, how we "GEAR UP" to teach, and WHO we are.

Workshop: Designing Courses for More Significant Student Learning
Date: Monday 25th Feb
Time: 12:00-4:00 p.m.
Venue: Tree House
Catered lunch will be provided

This workshop examines the role of course design in the overall act of teaching, and then leads you through a new way of designing courses to create significant learning experiences for your students.

Day 2: Tuesday 26th February

Presentation: 5 Transformative Teaching Practices
Date: Tuesday 26th February
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Venue: Tree House
Afternoon tea will be provided

There are numerous new and good ideas about teaching "out there" that have been developed in the last two decades.  But not all are equally powerful; some have the power to make a major transformation in the level of student engagement and the quality of student learning.  In this presentation, Dee Fink will describe five teaching practices that have this power.

Please register for any of these sessions at http://tinyurl.com/dee-fink-register or email ctl@newcastle.edu.au