Georgia Tech Retreat Exploring Effective Teaching (GTREET)

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Friday January 27, 2012 - Saturday January 28, 2012
      7:00 am - 2:59 pm
  • Location: Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center
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Contact

Felicia Turner
felicia.turner@cetl.gatech.edu
404-894-9418

 

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Georgia Tech Retreat Exploring Effective Teaching (GTREET)

Full Summary: Join Elizabeth Barkley, author of Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, and your Georgia Tech colleagues at GTREET on January 27th for an interactive exploration of how to increase student engagement in the courses you teach. 

The Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning welcomes Elizabeth Barkley, author of "Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty" (Jossey-Bass, 2010), for an interactive exploration of how to increase student engagement in the courses you teach.

8:00 a.m.  Registration and Breakfast 
8:20 a.m.   Welcome     
8:30 a.m.   Engaging Georgia Tech Students: What’s the Challenge?

  • Addressing the Five Key Elements of Student Engagement: Active Learning, Student Motivation, Building a Learning Community, Designing Tasks that are Appropriately Challenging, Teaching for Holistic Learning

11:45 a.m.   Lunch
1:00 p.m.   Highlights from Georgia Tech Faculty: What Works to Engage Students?  
2:45 p.m.   Integrating Student Engagement in Your Course         
3:45 p.m.  Continuing the Conversation                    
4:00 p.m.  Conclusion & Book Distribution

To register, go to: http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/civicrm/event/info?id=23&reset=1

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Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

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Categories
Career/Professional development
Keywords
CETL, student engagement, teaching
Status
  • Created By: Felicia Turner
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:14am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 9:56pm