Rank and Tenure Course #1
Description:
With students experiencing ever-increasing distractions in the classroom, faculty need to prepare twice as hard to hold their attention. As famed educational psychologist Lee Shulman posited, I have concluded that classroom teaching is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our species has ever invented. Years of research have turned this frightening activity into a manageable and effective process for learning. In this course faculty will take a deep dive into the many lessons of cognitive neuroscience and psychology about learning. We will learn to maximize student understanding through basic principles from working memory, cognitive load, motivation, retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving, and metacognition.
Participant Learning Outcomes (PLO):
- Identify the structures of the brain and their functions as related to processing, learning, retention, metacognition, and problem solving.
- Describe the basics of the human cognitive process and based on the new science of learning evaluate how different facets of life affect learning, memory, and retention.
- Analyze and translate cognitive neuroscience research on the science of learning into teaching and learning strategies.
- Summarize the neuroscience behind retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving.
- Relate lesson content and activities with how students learn, in order to improve effectiveness.
- Create a SoTL project in one of your current courses to identify
Date/Time/Location:
Tenative: Please review email/Blackboard for any changes.
| DATE | TOPICS | TIME |
| 9/2/2022 | Where do we start? Meet the brain | 9:00-10:30AM |
| 9/9/2022 | Basics of Human Cognitive Process | Online - Blackboard |
| 9/16/2022 | The new science of learning | 9:00-10:30AM |
| 9/23/2022 | Metacognition | Online - Blackboard |
| 9/30/2022 | Retention, Attention, and Motivation | 9:00-10:30AM |
| 10/7/2022 | Physiological factors of learning | 9:00-10:30AM |
| 10/14/2022 | Make it all stick | Online - Blackboard |
| no class; time to work on SoTL project | ||
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| no class; time to work on SoTL project | ||
| SoTL presentations time TBA (depends on # of participants) |
Professional Learning Points:
The Rank and Tenure courses do not count towards the Professional Learning points or stipend
Deliverable:
There will be homework along the way.
Homework can include, but is not limited to:
- Readings
- Journal Articles, Blackboard content postings, other
- There is no book to buy; everything will be availiable in Blackboard
- Course research
- Blackboard Discussions
The overall assessment of the course is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project presentation on December 9th, 2022 (PLO #7)
Deadline for the project is the date December 9th, 2022.
Presented by:
Dr. Lori Petty- Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning
To register for a CTL class please complete this Google Form
If you have any questions please email ctl@actx.edu or call 371-5920.