Office of the Provost

Faculty Development Day Archives

2011-2012

Innovative Teaching and Collaborative Opportunities

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, University Hall

Schedule:

8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast Available - Atrium

9 a.m.: Welcome from the Provost - Amphitheater

9:30 - 11 a.m.: Keynote Daniel Wilson - Amphitheater

11:15 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Breakout Groups

Ben Mardell - UH 2-048
Susan Gere, Jared Kass, Nancy Waring, and Lisa Fiore - UH 2-078
Nathan Felde and Richard Phung - UH 3-103
Joanne Szamreta, Jan Wall, and Robin Roth - UH 3-101

12:15 - 12:30 p.m.: Pulling It All Together - Amphitheater

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Working Groups - UH 3-094

Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects, Charles Eaton - UH 3-092
Creativity Commons, Gene Diaz - UH 3-100
Technology Updates, Karen Muncaster and Karen Boudreau-Shea - UH 3-103
Rank and Promotion Committee - UH 3-101

2010-2011

Transformational Frameworks in Teaching and Learning: Visual Literacy, Diversity and Sustainability

Thursday, May 26, Amphitheater and Atrium, University Hall

Schedule

8:45 - Continental Breakfast available (Atrium)

9:00 - Welcome by Provost Martha McKenna (Amphitheater)

9:15-9:45 - Panel Presentations: Frameworks in Teaching and Learning (Amphitheater)

Visual Literacy - Susan Cusack, Nathan Felde
Diversity Institute - Sharlene Cochrane, Marjorie Jones, Rakhshanda Saleem
Sustainability at Lesley - Erik DeGiorgi, Cristin Ashmankas, Susan Rauchwerk

10:00-11:00 - Discussion Groups - to plan inter-school, interdisciplinary application and implications of these Frameworks for our Teaching and Learning

11:15-11:50 - How-To Workshops - choose one of the following (Classrooms)

Are you planning to apply for a promotion? - Eleanor Roffman and Geoff Koetsch
Applying for a sabbatical or faculty development grant? – Susan Rauchwerk
Want to start or participate in a study circle? – Marjorie Jones
Would you like to publish a book for teachers or students? - Linda Dacey
Thinking about ways to provide community outreach? – Amy Rutstein-Riley
Need a refresher on current APA formatting? - Kathy Holmes, Anhar Mulla
Want to find out more about grants and Office of Sponsored Projects? - Gene Diaz, Charley Eaton

12:00-1:00 - Lunch in Interest Group Tables – meet new folks by choosing a table group based on the following common interests (UH 2-048)

Rode my bike to work today
Have a small vegetable garden at home
Attended high school outside of the United States
Teach classes in more than one school at Lesley
Will attend an international conference this summer
Speak more than one language
Play a musical instrument
Planted a tree in the last year
Have been involved in community organizing
Have my own website

1:00-3:00 - School-Specific Activities

4:00 - President’s End-of-Year Event and BBQ (Doble campus tent)

Visual Literacy 2: How the Brain Understands It

Thursday, January 20th, 2011, University Hall 3-094
Explore and examine how the brain processes and understands visual information with Dr. Todd Rose.

Visual Literacy 2

Schedule

8:30 - Continental Breakfast
9:00 - Welcome
9:15 - Keynote and Q&A, Dr. Todd Rose
10:40- Break
11:00- Small groups emerge based on interest
12:15- Lunch, Rank and Promotion Workshop

At the May 2010 Faculty Development Day, we focused on Visual Literacy, examining broad implications for our diverse areas of expertise. On January 20th, 2011, Dr. Todd Rose will go deeper to share how the brain processes and understands visual information. We will use the keynote to generate areas of interest to examine further both in small groups and together.

Dr. Todd Rose brings a background in cognitive neuroscience, dynamic systems, and developmental psychology. Currently, he is research scientist at the Center for Applied Special Technology [CAST], on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and was a post-doctoral fellow with the Laboratory for Visual Learning. He is interested in the ways perception, attention, and working memory interact to shape learning and has researched the impact of fixational eye motions on visual learning, and the influence of working memory on reading fluency. He lectures nationally and internationally on learning disabilities, the importance of working memory in classrooms, and the role of neuroscience in education.

Check out this link to view Dr. Rose’s lectures and course materials: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/academics/catalogue/display_course_popup.shtml?vcourse_id=H107&vtermcode=2010-1S