Faculty

CELT Brown Bag Workshops are held frequently throughout the semester on a variety of topics of interest to faculty and/or anyone engaged in the classroom. Essentially informal conversations, these workshops are led by a member of the Tulane community on a topic of their choice. This is an opportunity for faculty at all ranks, from, adjunct to full professor, as well as graduate students, postdocs, and staff who are interested to meet and talk about teaching and showcase the innovative work they’re doing in their classes, with the aim of improving the classroom experience for students. Major Brown Bag themes include pedagogy, mentorship, diversity, technology, faculty wellness, and HR topics. The Brown Bag Workshops are among CELT’s most popular and well-attended programs.
RSVP for any/all programming with Ariel McFarland.

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Faculty Seminar on Service Learning

This seminar is an introduction to service-learning and a syllabus development workshop. It covers theory around pedagogy, campus-community partnerships, the place of civic and democratic values in the university, diversity & inclusion, and institutional identity. At the same time, it is grounded by a very practical goal: helping participants develop, revise, and improve their service-learning courses and syllabi.
For more information please contact Ryan McBride.

The CELT Faculty Book Club provides 10 educators, from across departments and schools, the opportunity to read and discuss books on a variety of pedagogy and learning theory topics. Conversations range from the macro level, how to improve the academy, to more micro topics relating to each participant’s individual class. Most importantly, the book club creates a structure in which participants can talk about teaching in a supportive environment around a common theme. The book club meets twice per semester, usually on campus, and CELT pays for the books, food, and refreshments. Please sign up with Ariel McFarland. 

Spring 2019 Book Club:

The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain
 By: Terry Doyle and Todd Zakrajsek

Learning to learn is the key skill for tomorrow. This breakthrough book builds the foundation every student needs, from freshman orientation to graduate school. Recent advances in brain science show that most students’ learning strategies are highly inefficient, ineffective or just plain wrong. While all learning requires effort, better learning does not require more effort, but rather effectively aligning how the brain naturally learns with the demands of your studies. This book shows you what is involved in learning new material, how the human brain processes new information, and what it takes for that information to stick with you even after the test.
Taking a small amount of time to read and act upon the material in this book will prove to be one of the best decisions you can make as a learner. What you discover will change the way you learn in college and will be helpful in your personal and professional life. You live in a world where you will have to be a lifelong learner, constantly updating your skills and changing jobs to compete in the global marketplace. Most college students today will have as many as 10-14 different jobs by age 38. Learning how to learn in harmony with your brain is crucial to your long-term success.
This succinct book explains straightforward strategies for changing how you prepare to learn, engage with your course material, and set about improving recall of newly learned material whenever you need it. This is not another book about study skills and time management strategies, but instead an easy-to-read description of the research about how the human brain learns in a way that you can put into practice right away. 
Did you know neuroscientists have shown that memories are made while you sleep, and by studying right before sleeping you can make stronger memories for your information? In this book the authors explain the role that sleep, exercise and your senses play in learning; how memory works and what makes the brain pay attention; the importance of your mindset towards learning and pattern recognition; as well as new breakthroughs in brain science that can enhance your ability to learn new information and make later recall (for tests or everyday life) easier.
This book will put you on the path to reaching your full learning potential.

Tuesday, February 12

5:00 - 7:00 pm 

114 Newcomb Hall Faculty Lounge 

Tuesday, March 19

5:00 - 7:00 pm 

114 Newcomb Hall Faculty Lounge 

At the end of each semester CELT hosts Faculty Grading Breaks to reward you for all your hard work. Past events have featured crepes and gelletes from Crepes Rendezvous, wine or champagne, and massage chairs. They are a great way to socialize, eat, and relax during the often stressful grading period at the end of the semester. Please RSVP with Ariel McFarland.

Spring 2019 Faculty Grading Break:

Monday, May 6, 2018
Location: Cudd Hall Lobby
Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm
 

Faculty Learning Communities are groups of 4 to 12 faculty members, engaged in a collaborative year-long study of a pedagogy, teaching-related, or leadership theme, held at least monthly.
The purpose of FLCs is to provide faculty with the opportunity to study a pedagogy related topic, in-depth & in a small cohort, foster interdisciplinary communication, and to produce materials (guides, workshops, scholarly articles) that can be helpful to the larger community. 

Fall 2018 Faculty Learning Communities:

Critical Service Learning
Learning Objectives:
Develop a solid understanding of critical service learning, in theory, and practice
Examine nuances of critical service learning in a New Orleans and Tulane context

 Difficult Dialogues 
Learning Objectives:
Identify best practices for engaging and supporting students in difficult dialogues;
Identify resources on Tulane’s campus and off-campus (e.g. online) to advance faculty competence and student engagement in learning through difficult conversations.

Teaching Large Classes 
Learning Objectives:
Improve the quality of student experience via enhancing student engagement:
* Foster a growth mindset among students in large classrooms
* Facilitate the student contributions of introverts and extroverts
Align classroom activities with assessments

What Predicts Success in Struggling Students
Learning Objectives:
Define “struggling student” (in pre-clinical years)
Identify potential contributors to academic challenges including quantitative data (admissions GPA, MCAT, pre-identification as “at risk” or first-generation college student) and qualitative data (knowledge of outside stressors, medical issues, learning difficulties or need for accommodations).

Imagine speed dating, but instead of romantic hopefuls sitting across from each other at small tables, picture Tulane professors, eager to join forces, interested in the development of an innovative, interdisciplinary class. This workshop brings together professors hailing from many different fields of study. Each round, two professors, paired randomly, sit down for 8 minutes and develop a class or paper they could work on together. After four or five rounds, the group then votes on the most creative idea and the most actionable idea.

Previously, one of the winning titles, from Architecture and Neuroscience was “Architecture in Sickness & Health:  Hospitals, Prisons, and Schools.”  Another, from Art History and Cellular Biology was “Imagining and Imaging Mutants through Natural History Illustrations.”

5-Minute Research Collaboration Fall 2018 Prize Winners: 

Amy Chaffee (Theatre) 

Lidia Zhigunova (German & Slavic)

Tulane University’s Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) invites all faculty, staff, post docs, and graduate students to the inaugural Sparking Success: A Faculty Development Conference, January 10-11, 2019, in New Orleans, LA. 

Conference presenters and registered attendees will be invited to a plenary session led by James M. Lang in the afternoon of Thursday, January 10. The plenary session will be followed by a reception for all attendees. Breakout sessions will take place on Friday, January 11. Refreshments will be provided, as well as a luncheon at the 1834 Club. All conference sessions will be held in Goldring/Woldenberg Hall on Tulane University’s Uptown campus.

Registration is closed.

Faculty members are teachers, researchers, writers, mentors, colleagues, administrators, collaborators, artists, activists, and humans. During a single day, we may play all of these roles at some time, and sometimes we play multiple roles at once. Some of these identities overlap with and reinforce each other, while others challenge us with their conflicting demands. Sparking Success is a platform where faculty of all disciplines and experience levels can share best practices, innovative approaches, and practical ideas to enhance any aspect(s) of faculty life.

CELT, in partnership with the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (OGPS) offer a day-long teaching workshop in mid-May for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have or anticipate having a teaching assignment. The workshop will offer both large format discussions as well as smaller, breakout sessions. Workshop topics typically include classroom management and setting boundaries, leading discussions, collaborative/group work, grading, and active learning.

If you have any questions about the GTA Workshop content, schedule, or would like to present as a workshop leader please email Emily Gatehouse at egatehou@tulane.edu.

Past Ready, Prep, Teach Workshop 2019:

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Past Ready, Prep, Teach Workshops:

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2012