{"70563":{"#nid":"70563","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Celebrating Teaching Day 2011","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELunch will be provided\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E10:30\u003C\/strong\u003E        Resource Fair and Poster Display \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E11:15\u003C\/strong\u003E        Welcome from G. P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson, President\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E11:45\u003C\/strong\u003E        Luncheon and Honors for Faculty \u0026amp; STEP\/SLIDER Fellows\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E12:15\u003C\/strong\u003E       Welcome from Provost Raphael Bras\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E12:30\u003C\/strong\u003E       \u0022Teaching as if Learning Mattered\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E      Guest Speaker: Dr. Teri C. Balser\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAssociate Professor, Dept. of Soil Science\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n      Director, Institute for Biology Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n      Carnegie Foundation\u0027s 2010 U.S. Professor of the Year\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n      University of Wisconsin-Madison\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIncreasingly, there are calls in higher education to improve the quality of teaching that happens in our classrooms. We are given lists of \u0022best practices,\u0022 and we are exhorted to \u0027teach scientifically.\u0022 We read articles and organize book groups on \u0022what the best teachers do,\u0022 and \u0022how people learn.\u0022 But still, the overwhelming evidence appears to be that true learning is rare among our undergraduates. Why is that? In this presentation we will have the opportunity to consider the various factors at play in the classroom that impact learning, and discuss how our teaching might be different if learning was our primary goal.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETeri Balser is an associate professor of soil and ecosystem science, and Director of the Institute for Biology Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received a dual A.B. in Biology and Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of California-Berkeley. She was recently named the 2010 Doctoral U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching, and was also the American Association of Public and Land Grant Institutions 2009 National Excellence in College and University Teaching award winner. She is a co-founder of the newly formed Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER). Teri\u0027s research interests range from the impact of human disturbance on soil carbon sequestration and nutrient cycles, to the development of interdisciplinary and pro-environmental identities, to the impact of various educational practices (games, groups, non-traditional pedagogies) on student attitude and motivation to learn science. She is also particularly interested in the effect of classroom psychological climate on student learning. She was a 2008 American Society for Microbiology Biology Scholar, a 2007 University of Wisconsin System Teaching Fellow, and a 2006 U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career award winner.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo register, go to: \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/eventmgmt\/viewForm.php?f=341\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/eventmgmt\/viewForm.php?f=341\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Join your campus colleagues in celebrating teaching at Georgia Tech and to discuss practices and strategies that enhance student learning.  Help us celebrate CETL\u0027s 25th Birthday!!","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Celebrating Teaching Day 2011"}],"uid":"27276","created_gmt":"2011-02-18 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:55:59","author":"Felicia Turner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-03-17T11:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-03-17T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-03-17T14:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-03-17 15:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-03-17 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-03-17 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1268","name":"Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1601","name":"CETL"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"4355","name":"faculty development"},{"id":"3823","name":"learning"},{"id":"4371","name":"TAs"},{"id":"737","name":"teaching"},{"id":"3076","name":"teaching assistants"},{"id":"4382","name":"teaching enrichment"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFelicia Turner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECETL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=ft24\u0022\u003EContact Felicia Turner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-9418\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}