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Workshop Descriptions

Want to “Transform Your Teaching”? Joan can facilitate workshops for you and your colleagues on a variety of topics. All workshops are designed around an active learning approach and emphasize participation, collaboration, discussion, and reflection. Two hour, half-day, full day and multi-day workshops are available and can be customized for your specific needs and interests. Contact Joan for further information.

Topics include:

• The Psychology of Learning
• Learner-Centered Teaching (LCT)
• Goals, Objectives and Learning Outcomes
• Teaching Tips and Techniques
• Active Learning
• Assessment

Operating within the LCT philosophy, these interactive workshops present both the theory behind the practice and practical applications to re-energize your teaching.

Selected Workshops

Brief Descriptions

• The Psychology of Learning: Theory and Practice — Discover the theory behind the practice of teaching as well as how to apply that theory to your teaching. Find out how to vary your teaching methods to increase your chance of reaching all your learners. Learn how to combine principles from Behaviorist, Cognitive/Constructive, and Humanist models of learning to create engaging and effective Information Literacy Instruction.
• CPR for Teaching: Creating a Learner-Centered Teaching Approach through Collaboration, Participation, and shared Responsibility for Learning — Find out what it means to take a learner-centered approach to teaching. Examine the principles of this approach and how it ties to various theories of learning. Learn how to emphasize collaboration, participation, and shared responsibility to create a learner-centered atmosphere for your Information Literacy Instruction.
• The Teaching Tripod: The Connection Between Learning Outcomes, Teaching Activities and Assessment — Learn how starting from a learning outcomes approach can help your frame your instructional endeavors. Practice developing learning outcomes. Then learn how to use those outcomes to plan your teaching activities as well as the ways you will assess these outcomes.
• Listen! Engage! Inspire! The Art and Craft of Teaching — Learn how to increase your teaching effectiveness. Get tips on how to plan for and develop your instructional endeavors. Discuss and then try out ideas related to presentation skills, motivating learners, pacing and time management for instructional sessions, and expanding contact time beyond your in-person instruction. Share your experiences with your colleagues and learn new ones that can re-energize your Information Literacy Instruction.
• Assessing Information Literacy Instruction: Why? What? And How? — Learn the talk and walk the language of assessment. Find out why assessment is important, what types of assessments are available to you, and how to apply assessment principles to your Information Literacy Instruction. A variety of assessment options (both formal and informal approaches) will be examined.