A hallmark of the Yale-NUS education is comradery in learning. This is even more important and necessary in the current context, when faculty are stretched and students are struggling with focus and motivation. Mindfulness pedagogy offers a different way to engage especially during a time when so many are distracted, anxious, and struggling with...
Read more »Academic success requires persistence and focus. But many students, especially today, struggle with maintaining attention. Between social media and the pandemic, our focus is pulled in so many directions it can be hard to maintain attention on the task at hand. In this two-part workshop series, develop strategies for maintaining focus when you n...
Read more »Faculty concerns about distracted students intensified as we shifted online, but maintaining student attention has always been a challenge. This keynote draws upon scholarship from history, neuroscience, and education to show that distractions are endemic to the human condition, and can’t be walled out of the physical classroom or online course....
Read more »One of the exciting features of Yale-NUS’ teaching culture is our Peer Observation Program. Come learn about the goals underlying peer observation, how to minimize unintentional bias, and develop your approach for providing useful feedback to your colleagues. This is a valuable professional development workshop for junior and senior faculty alike!
Read more »Discussion is a central element of the Yale-NUS experience. The earliest curriculum reports describe ‘articulate communication’ as a primary objective of our educational model, and the Common Curriculum runs on ‘discussion sections,’ as they are commonly described by students and faculty alike. These can be taught in a variety of formats accordi...
Read more »Join us for a 2 hour workshop and learn specific strategies for holding courses and promoting discussion and student-to-student interaction using Zoom, including a focus on Familiarity with Zoom Function, Fostering a Welcoming Community, and Creating Expectations/ Norms of Engagement. We will show how you can use a number of Zoom tools to promot...
Read more »To help you feel more familiar and confident teaching in a distanced classroom, the CTL, ERT, and Infra will be hosting small groups of faculty to visit a classroom with the distancing protocols that will be in place when classes begin in August. We will go into the class in small batches, and everyone can...
Read more »Many of us will be teaching most of our students in a classroom, but with some number of students taking our classes remotely for a few weeks or the entire semester. What are the different options to teaching in this kind of hybrid situation? Join the CTL and Susan Ko, History Professor at CUNY, Yale...
Read more »BYOB (Beverage) and BYOTI (Teaching Ideas). This will be a very informal chat for faculty to discuss their experiences in the past semester and plans for the coming year. We plan to host a few sessions in June and again in July if there is interest. We will be hosting this online to give us...
Read more »Many of us will be teaching face to face next semester, though some may be operating online. If you would like to learn techniques for online instruction, join us for a 2 hour workshop and learn specific strategies for holding courses and promoting discussion and student-to-student interaction using Zoom, including a focus on Setting up...
Read more »Join us for a collegial conversation about the what, how, and why of experiential learning in the social sciences and other disciplines as well. We will have three Featured Faculty join us – Valentina Zuin (Urban Studies), Jean Liu (Psychology), and Lee Cuba (Sociology) on hand to share their own approaches and spark the conversation. Come...
Read more »Join us as we award the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award and the Early Career Teaching Award. The Teaching Innovation Grant Projects will also be on display for your review and learning.
Read more »Students taking courses in philosophy and the history of ideas are often puzzled by the literary conventions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical practices they encounter in texts from different cultures and historical periods. In response to this challenge, scholars in the Philosophy as a Way of Life network (2019-2021), a project funded b...
Read more »The CTL will host a workshop with Dr. Mick Healey on strategies for engaging students in capstone research and as partners in research. This is topic on which he has been researching and training faculty around the world for many years. A Geographer by training, Mick has served as director of the Centre for Active...
Read more »One of the exciting features of Yale-NUS’ teaching culture is our Peer Observation Program. Come learn about the goals underlying peer observation, how to minimize unintentional bias, and develop your approach for providing useful feedback to your colleagues. This is a valuable professional development workshop for junior and senior faculty alik...
Read more »Difficult, uncomfortable, and offensive moments emerge while teaching, sometimes when we least expect them. A student saying something unknowingly cruel. The professor makes a joke that unintentionally offends. Preparing for these moments can help us respond in ways that restore a productive and trusting learning environment. Please join us for ...
Read more »Join us for a workshop on “Integrating Peer Review” into your teaching with the Writer Centre’s Tait Bergstrom and Assistant Professor of Sciences Dave Smith. Explore methods of integrating peer review to enhance student learning across the disciplines. Peer review is an effective way to promote peer-to-peer learning, and give students more feed...
Read more »The CTL invites you to join for a casual conversation among colleagues, featuring Jeremy Kua and Philip Johns. We often think of Liberal Arts in terms of curriculum, but is there a distinctive liberal arts style of teaching in science, and other divisions as well? The conversation can start there with some initial thoughts by...
Read more »In this collegial conversation, we encourage faculty to pool their experiences, insights, and strategies for designing assignments and assessing in ways that are mindful of our students’ diverse educational backgrounds and learning needs. Additionally, the CTL will introduce some methods of designing assignments, grading, and providing feedback ...
Read more »One of the exciting features of Yale-NUS’ teaching culture is our Peer Observation Program. Come learn about the goals underlying peer observation, how to minimize unintentional bias, and develop your approach for providing useful feedback to your colleagues. This is a valuable professional development workshop for junior and senior faculty alik...
Read more »Join us in celebrating a great year of teaching! *This event is open to faculty and staff only. RSVP now at bit.ly/2WuZfjY Snacks and drinks will be served.
Read more »A talk by Shelen W H Ho, Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy, University of Reading Malaysia. Today, the education authorities in the ASEAN region are revamping the higher education system to embrace the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). In the higher education framework, student outcomes are more focused on higher order...
Read more »Judith Simmer-Brown, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies at Naropa University, where she is a Founding Faculty member and has taught for over 40 years. Naropa University has pioneered contemplative education, bringing mindfulness and contemplative pedagogies into every academic discipline and every classroom in ...
Read more »A workshop led by Ho Li-Ching, Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This workshop draws on the most recent and relevant education research on how to conduct effective classroom discussions for diverse learners. The workshop will focus on helping faculty and in...
Read more »A talk by Ho Li-Ching, Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Political leaders create and modify stories and narratives in order to construct a form of social reality and provide a sense of continuity between the past, present, and future (Anderson 2003; Byman ...
Read more »Despite progress in recent years, girls continue to suffer severe disadvantages and exclusion in education systems throughout their lives. Girls’ education is both an intrinsic right and a critical lever to reaching other development objectives. But the challenges of gender equality remain significant and the many distinctive cultural contexts f...
Read more »Join us as we award the inaugural Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award and the Early Career Teaching Award. The Teaching Innovation Grant Projects will also be on display for your review and learning.
Read more »The session will introduce NUS Institute for the Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology (ALSET) and its programmes to encourage faculty at all levels to participate in impactful pedagogical research. ALSET’s team will present its role within NUS and how it complements other units such as CDTL and the Teaching Academy. They wi...
Read more »Rubrics provide a powerful tool for grading, assessment and feedback, and act as a transparent guide to students’ learning. Rubrics are made up of a set of evaluative criteria and performance scales that clearly outline essential components of an assessment task and communicate to students on how they are being assessed. They can also provide...
Read more »Information literacy skills and attitudes empower students to be thoughtful researchers and effective participants in the information environment. Encompassing research skills, these skills and attitudes equip students with the abilities to select relevant, reliable sources for their papers, avoid plagiarism, and critically evaluate information....
Read more »Addressing psychological literature on constructivism, William Rando will share with the community the ways in which new information, or even new skills, are learned more deeply when they are integrated into the learner’s prior knowledge. Lessons from the University of Chicago Common Core will shed light on approaches to teaching and learning th...
Read more »As new universities get established to cater to the growing needs of mass higher education, they respond differently to the expectations and demands of their stakeholders that often compete with their research and teaching missions. An understanding of these responses, and how they shape the evolution and future of new universities, is vital to ...
Read more »The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is offering training to all Yale-NUS College faculty members on how to conduct summative peer observation: Monday, August 27, 9:30am – 11:00am (Breakfast will be provided) Please RSVP to let us know you are coming – https://bit.ly/2ACgRV1
Read more »The CTL invites you to a Teaching and Tonics event, a collegial sharing and discussion session on “Starting a New Semester and Creating an Inclusive Classroom Environment.” This is an informal opportunity for our new and more seasoned faculty to share their strategies and get some new ideas. Professors Shaffique Adam (Physics) and Malcolm Keatin...
Read more »The University of Hong Kong (HKU) at over 100 year old is the oldest higher education institution in Hong Kong. The curriculum at HKU underwent a major reform in 2012 when the university education in Hong Kong changed from a 3-year to a 4-year system. In the new curriculum for science students, we incorporated compulsive learning modules to gi...
Read more »Disability studies is a burgeoning field, and is studied across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Join Kevin Goldstein and Takashi Obana for lunch to share their experience studying disability in academia, such as the current hot topics of critical disability studies, differences between social and medical models, and how they navig...
Read more »Information literacy skills and attitudes equip students to be thoughtful researchers and participants in the information environment. These skills and attitudes also help students select relevant, reliable sources for their papers, avoid plagiarism, and think critically. Join Nancy Gleason from CTL and Bethany Wilkes from the Library to get sug...
Read more »A talk by Karen Litfin, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington Contemplative Education integrates introspection and experiential learning into academic study in order to support intellectual and social engagement, develop self-understanding as well as analytical and critical capacities, and cultivate skills for ...
Read more »Hosted by the President’s Office, ERT and the CTL The Yale-NUS College Teaching Innovation Grant (TIG) is designed to foster reflective enhancements in teaching methods and provide support to faculty in their pedagogy, curriculum design and application of technology. This dinner recognizes the efforts of TIG recipients and provides you an opport...
Read more »A faculty workshop led by Dr. Harry Hubball, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia. Drawing on extensive international research and supervision experiences with academic leaders in research-intensive universities, this interactive workshop focuses on rigorous and systematic educational inquiry to enhance curricula...
Read more »Led by Thomas Bartscherer, Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities and former Director of the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College Workshop Description: “What makes us think?,” asks Hannah Arendt in The Life of the Mind. Presumably, anyone would agree that a central aim of liberal education is to make us think, and...
Read more »The Centre for Teaching and Learning is offering a training to all Yale-NUS College faculty members on how to conduct summative peer observations at the dates and times shown below: Monday, October 9, 3:00pm – 4:30pm (Classroom 16) Wednesday, October 11, 2:00pm – 3:30pm (CTL) Friday, October 13, 9:00am – 10:15am (CTL) Wednesday, October 25, 9:30...
Read more »Yale-NUS will host Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, who will present a workshop on how to promote active learning in the classroom, as well as a public talk on Scientific Approaches to Science Education. Mark your calendars!
Read more »Lucas Swineford, Executive Director of Digital Education at the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, will be visiting Yale-NUS and delivering a talk titled “The Digital Education Landscape” on 23 March 2017 (Thursday), 5PM – 6PM at Saga Lecture Theatre 1 Abstract: The term “online education” had been used for many years to de...
Read more »This workshop will be conducted by Joanne Roberts, Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Bryan Penprase, Director of the CTL, on Wednesday, March 22nd, 11:30-1:00PM, EC Program Room 1. The Teaching Portfolio is a key part of tenure and promotion at Yale-NUS as well as NUS-wide teaching awards. In this workshop, we will discuss the...
Read more »Students and faculty at Yale-NUS College have a wide diversity of background experiences. This diversity is a strength of the College, but it can also lead to some challenges in the classroom. In this workshop, Sara Amjad, Student Affairs Intercultural Engagement Manager, and Kristi Lemm, Psychology faculty member and CTL affiliate, will discuss...
Read more »What are some of the best practices in advising a capstone? How should a capstone be graded? These were questions that will be addressed by the Center for Teaching and Learning in the Capstone Advising Workshop. We will discuss the guidelines and regulations for the capstone project, as well as share some resources on how...
Read more »Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, Member of the Faculty of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and President Elect of the Optical Society. Mazur is a prominent physicist known for his contributions in nanophotonics, an internationally recogni...
Read more »Brian Brophy has worked with students in the United States, India and other countries to develop their abilities to understand complex social issues and to also learn more about themselves. As a professor, theatre and acting has been his medium, and it can also apply to fields outside of theatre. Hear from Brian about his...
Read more »Why do some students become involved and interested in their studies and why do they continue in a particular academic discipline? Do these highly motivated students learn more and obtain higher grades in their courses? In recent years, Judith Harackiewicz and her graduate students have studied the factors that influence academic motivation and...
Read more »We are delighted to announce our visit by Jennifer Frederick and Scott Strobel. They will both be in Singapore for several days: Scott will be giving a public talk and Jennifer will be conducting a workshop for Faculty. Please mark your calendars and come to these events! Public Talk : “Plastic-Eating Fungi & Other Wonders...
Read more »“Results from Technology-Enhanced Teaching at UCLA.” February 4, 4:30PM East Core, Library, Program Room 2 A formal talk to faculty and staff about tech-enhanced teaching in the introductory biology courses at UCLA. The talk will mention our strategies for transforming the curriculum in Introductory Life Sciences at UCLA; the role of technology...
Read more »Introduction of traditionally unorthodox tools in K-12 schools in Ludhiana (India) inspire students, teachers, and parents alike to face and challenge commonly held belief systems which often are an impediment to learning and education. I will discuss our efforts in the following three areas: (i) Science learning by demonstration and activities,...
Read more »We are delighted to announce our two first Visiting Scholars of Pedagogy to Yale-NUS College. They will both be in Singapore for several days and are giving talks about teaching, and working intensively with faculty on the scholarship, philosophy and effective techniques of good teaching. Please mark your calendars and come to these events! Nove...
Read more »What is the connection between student learning, performance and grading? How should I grade my class? And how have these things been done at Yale-NUS College? These topics and more will be discussed in our faculty discussion on Grading.
Read more »Daniel Bernstein, a world-renowned expert on teaching and assessment, former President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Educator in Residence at NUS will be giving a talk entitled – “What Does a C Grade Mean?”. This talk will include lunch and begins at noon in the Programme Room 2...
Read more »What are some of the goals of Week 7 and experiential learning? And how can that connect to your classes and the common curriculum? Come share your thoughts with your colleagues at our Experiential Learning faculty discussion.
Read more »"An unexamined course is not worth teaching" - to misquote Plato's Apology. In the same way that we desire for our students to reflect on what they are learning, we should also reflect on how we are teaching. A good mid-semester survey can save the course, fix some stubborn problems and breathe fresh ideas into your teaching, making both your li...
Read more »"It's about them!" (inverse -> "it's not about you") "Think about them!" (inverse -> "don't think about yourself") "Know what you are doing!" (corollary -> "tell them what you are doing!")
Read more »During August 4-6, our new faculty and many experienced faculty joined in a series of workshops to discuss teaching at Yale-NUS with the new Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, Bryan Penprase, and the Associate Director, Nancy Gleason. During the talk ideas for designing courses with Assessable Learning Objectives, the Bloom Taxonomy ...
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