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Date: Wednesday Oct 9th
Time: 3:00 - 4:15 PM
Location: C640

Description: I teach this lecture using a flipped-class approach.  Students do the assigned reading from the textbook and watch a video that I made on the content for each day, and in class we work on a few example problems after which the students are given some free time to work on whatever they like (online homework, lab calculations, etc.).  If they have any questions about something they’ve been working on, this gives them a chance to ask me about it in person without having to come to my office.

Date: Thursday Oct 10th
Time: 9:00 -11:45 AM
Location: TH241

Description: My classes involve a mix of lecture, question & answer, small group work, creative quizzing, discussions based on readings or professor questions.  Students sit in groups of 5 or 6 around circular tables and actively engaged in discussions and activities. Over the next few weeks we examine How Memory Works, Self/Social/Emotional Development, Social/Cognitive views of Learning, Motivation, Attribution Theory and Goal Orientation...and more. Visitors are welcome to come and go.

Dates: Oct 10, 15, 24, 29, & 31
Time: 3:00 - 5:45 PM and/or 6:00 - 6:45 PM for lab
Location: TH 201 (lab in AH147)

Description: This course takes a Team Based Learning approach to statistics, encouraging students to actively engage in course concepts. The course is focused on how statistical analysis can inform decision-making in clinical and research settings, ensuring students see the relevance of their learning. Labs are also open to visitors and often involve students working through real datasets and statistical problems that mirror the types of research they would encounter in the field.

Date: Tuesday Oct 15th
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Location: SA6008

Description: This course involves active learning and involves optional peer discussion. During a typical class, students will work on and have conversations about the problem given to them. Shorter problems may involve interactive multiple-choice polling, allowing for instant feedback and dialogue. Between exercises, I often include brief reminders of the content they were meant to have read before class. This course uses open resources that are typically used outside of class.

Dates: Tuesday Oct 15th or Thursday Oct 17th
Time: 10:30 - 11:45 AM
Location: PE275

Description: This foundational course introduces students to the discipline of cinema studies, and provides them an understanding of the formal properties of cinema as a medium. Those interested in approaches to lecturing for and group work within a large introductory class (100+ students), the analysis of cinematography, and theories of “the female gaze” are welcome to attend. If you’re simply curious about cinema studies in general, please considering sitting in as well!

Dates: Tuesday Oct 15th or Thursday Oct 17th
Time: 3:00 - 4:15 PM
Location: W731

Description: This collaborative, student-centered class focusses on several forms of contemporary American filmmaking practices, and provides a historical overview of production, distribution, and exhibition trends as well providing thorough-going instruction in the fundamentals of film criticism. Those interested in collaborative approaches to teaching and group-driven instruction within a mid-sized class (30+ students) are welcome to attend. We’ll be having our first conversation about the importance of criticism, and how to wrestle (ideologically!) with the pleasures of a “bad” film.

Date: Monday Oct 21st
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 PM
Location: L1170B

Description: This course is for pre-service teachers who are not English majors, but are interested in learning about specific English Language Arts instructional methods. Students will be in the middle of a four-week study of language arts “strands” (or modalities) as literacies, investigating how these are unique, but also related. This class will have a combination of lecture and small group activities, including a “close viewing” of a short film, in order to facilitate their understanding of what their own instructional practice might ‘look like.’

Dates: Thursday Oct 24th or Oct 31st
Time: 12:00 - 1:15 PM
Location: W561

Description: Our class on October 24th is a peer review session for an upcoming assignment, and so there will be no formal instruction. Students are given a minimum checklist of aspects of the assignment that are to be completed before our peer review (but may do more if they choose), and spend most of the class in their groups offering feedback to their colleagues. At the end of class, there is a 15 minute window to submit a self-reflection on the process. Our class on October 31st is a seminar discussion of our course reading for the semester (Doppelganger by Naomi Klein). For this class, we are reading chapter 11 ("Calm, Conspiracy... Capitalism"). The discussion is largely student-led, but some likely topics include critical thinking & conspiracy theories, mis/dis/information, talking politics in the classroom...

Dates: Tuesday Oct 22nd
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Location: SA6008

Description: This course involves active learning and involves optional peer discussion. During a typical class, students will work on and have conversations about the problem given to them. Shorter problems may involve interactive multiple-choice polling, allowing for instant feedback and dialogue. Between exercises, I often include brief reminders of the content they were meant to have read before class. This course uses open resources that are typically used outside of class.

Dates: Thursday Oct 24th
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Location: AH177

Description: In this course, students are provided with calculus problems to solve. I encourage active learning and peer discussion in this process.