Teaching Excellence Series

In recent years Teaching Award Winners met for discussions on important topics relevant to the FSU teaching community. The monthly forums featured a recent Teaching Award Winner who shared specific strategies on how they have made their teaching both rewarding and effective and opened it up to discussion. This was an opportunity for Faculty and Teaching Assistants to not only get ideas on how to enrich their teaching but also to ask questions and share classroom experiences with colleagues.

Archived Presentations

• 3/25/2009 Connecting with Students: Fostering Faculty-Student Interaction in Large and Small Classes with Professor Nat Stern
• 1/28/2009 Getting Your Students to Stay in Touch - With You, With the Course, With the Material with Professor Radha Bose
• 11/20/2008 Strategies for Effective Seminars for Undergraduates with Frank Gunderson, Ph.D.
• 10/22/2008 Engaging Students with Technology with Joseph Calhoun, Ph.D.
  • Part One
  • Part Two
• 9/18/2008 Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Return: The Value of a Positive Attitude, Positive Reinforcement, and Sincerity Professor William Woodyard
• 3/27/2008 Writing to Learn Dr. Susan Nelson Wood
• 2/27/2008 How to Scream at Your Students and Get Away With It! Dr. James Doran
• 1/24/2008 Those Who Can Teach: How to Make Your Classroom Better Mark Zeigler
• 11/28/2007 The Importance of Group Dynamics in College Teaching Dr. Frederick R. Davis
• 10/25/2007 How Ordinary Classrooms can be Transformed into Active Learning Communities Dr. Elizabeth Goldsmith
• 9/26/2007 Seriously Funny: What I've Learned About Teaching (And Why You Shouldn't Listen to Me) Dr. David Kirby
• 3/29/2007 Increasing Students Engagement in Large Classrooms Dr. Ken Goldsby
• 2/28/2007 Building a "Real World"Classroom Dr. John W. Parks
• 1/18/2007 Enhancing Faculty-Student Interaction Dr. Sissi Carroll
• 11/09/2006 Making a Lecture Effective and Engaging Dr. Michael Brady
• 10/19/2006 Instilling Critical Thinking Skills Dr. Lance DeHaven-Smith
• 9/18/2006 Set High Expectations, Students Rise to the Challenge Dr. Sally Karioth

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• Notes
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  • See Viewing Presentations on a Mac for Mac related issues.
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Perspectives

"That's a very good question..." (now, how do I answer it?)
It is normal and reasonable to want students to believe that we are knowledgeable about the courses we are teaching. However, it is abnormal and unreasonable to expect that we will be able to answer all of the questions our students will ever ask.

Encouraging Active Learning in Large Classes
Dr. Nora Underwood, assistant Professor of Biological Science and a University Teaching Award Recipient (2006) shares strategies for an easy (and low-tech) method for encouraging active learning in large classes.

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