Schedule

Team	Date	Team Members	Short Topic Description
Team A	11/30	Tim and Aaron	Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research
Team B	11/30	tba and tba	tba
Team C	12/07	Marina, Antonio and Ana	High Impact Practices
Team D	12/07	Sunny and Emily	Differentiated Instruction in Postsecondary Environments
Team E	12/14	tba	tba
Team F	NA	NA	NA

Suggested Main Preparation Steps:

• Select a few topics of interest either not discussed in class before or “closely” related to a topic discussed earlier in class. Previous years projects can be found here: 2011 schedule page and 2010 micro-teaching project page.


• Share your ideas with classmates at the Blog your Micro-Teaching Ideas page. This will help with team formation.


• Get familiar with educational databases and other electronic resources:
• Library database: Education Full Text and ERIC;
• Resources providing lists of education-related Journals can be found on the "T&L Journals (SoTL)" page of this site.


• Review the literature and select one article (or at the most two short articles) or other electronic resources that you will assign to the rest of us as a pre-class assignment prior to your micro-teaching.


• Submission deadlines: Email a pdf of the selected article(s) to your course instructor at least one week before your scheduled micro-teaching date.


• Try to identify a few (at the most two or three) main messages or BIG IDEA(S) that you believe everybody should take away from your micro-teaching unit in order to gain knowledge or higher-order of thinking skills that may enhance effective instruction in a global college classroom;


• Design a 40-45 min. class “discussion” time to reach your pedagogical objectives. This time may be structured in anyway you see fit to maximize effectiveness of your discussion-based teaching in order to help your students (i.e., your classmates) gain new insights and come out of the session with clear take-home messages. The following list includes examples of what you may elect to do during the "in-class" portion of your micro-teaching to complement the material covered in the pre-class assignment:
• A handout highlighting micro-teaching unit goal and class activities in a way to engage your students in a meaningful discussion of the subject;
• View or review electronic resources (web-pages, You-Tube videos, etc.) as an introduction to class discussion;
• Plan for individual, pair, small groups or whole-class discussion activities;
• Invite a panel of guests to provide a "real-life" perspective of the subject of discussion.

Suggested Implementation Steps:

Each team will conduct the discussion facilitation for one hour with in steps described below

• The class will review the material on the course schedule page and submit your blog entries (as expected for a regular class) with the usual deadline (Thursday 9:00 pm).


• The day of the microteaching, the time allocated to each team facilitation will be as follows:


• 5-8 min.: Each student completes a short questionnaire to highlight their views on the topic (based on pre-assigned reading) prior to the discussion;


• 40-45 min.: The team conducts the facilitation of the topic to be (un)covered in class in a "discussion" format;


• 5-8 min.: Each student provides written comments on new insights and perspectives gained throughout the discussion.


• Students' post-discussion insights and newly gained perspectives will be posted afterward on the website.