TEACHSOC: ASA Teaching Workshop Opportunity

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Here is the announcement requested last week!

Susan St. John-Jarvis, Assoc. Professor of Sociology
Corning Community College
1 Academic Drive
Corning, NY 14830
(607) 962-9526 or secretary 962-9239


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Dear Section Colleagues: Do join us if you can. And please encourage colleagues who are not section members to consider this as well. We'd also love to have them in the Section if they are so inspired! Best, Diane Pike   The Importance of Teaching for the Future of the Discipline: ASA Pre-conference Course for Experienced Faculty               This summer’s pre-conference course entitled “New Knowledge on Teaching and Learning: A Course for Senior Faculty“ will be held on Thursday, August 10, 2006, in Montreal. After years in the trenches, teaching has become a well-learned role for many of us, but times are a’changing and new ideas emerging. As experienced members, leaders, and mentors in our departments, colleges and universities, we need to be up to date on the latest information and trends in higher education and in sociology. Effective teaching attracts new students to the field, thus perpetuating our discipline and informing new generations about the value of sociology.               Perhaps “old sociologists” can learn new tricks. Experienced faculty educators and developers will present this informative and interactive pre-conference course for experienced faculty. The goals are to draw on the collective expertise of the group in order to provide ideas to take back to our campuses, to become informed about current curricular issues, to learn the latest issues and encourage development of “cultures of teaching and learning”, to become mentors and leaders in our departments, to share teaching tools and techniques, and to pass on enthusiasm and excitement about what we do.               Plenaries, speakers and roundtables will include sessions facilitated by leaders in teaching and learning on current topics: developing a culture of teaching and learning; latest findings on “liberal learning” and study in depth; issues in your type of institution (community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities); models for mentoring junior faculty; learning theory and styles; classroom assessment techniques; and new curricular trends: using the internet and web-based assignments, incorporating race, class, and gender in the sociology curriculum, internationalizing the curriculum, integrating data analysis across the curriculum, and other topics.   Those interested can register on the ASA registration website. For further information, please contact Jeanne Ballantine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Greg Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). -- Diane Pike, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology Director, Augsburg College Center for Teaching and Learning Chair, ASA Section on Teaching and Learning “If you teach, you belong!” Augsburg College Box 132 2211 Riverside Ave. Minneapolis MN 55454 612-330-1228  fax 612-330-1649 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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