1. Winter Break EASL Retreat
January 6, 2017

2. Welcome And Workshop Goals
Reflect on current teaching beliefs and consider if/how the EASL environment aligns with your teaching philosophy and practice.
Practice using EASL classroom space and technology.
Sample a variety of active learning techniques and plan when and how to use them in your course.
Pre activity: Let us know your comfort level and interests by completing this brief pre-survey:

3. Workshop Roadmap Team formation
Mini-lecture on Course Design/Alignment
Choose Your Own Adventure (small group or large lecture)
Peer to peer instruction/modified jigsaw
Reflective writing and Discussion
Lunch

4. Team Formation Slide
Use the first question to ask folks to line up, then have people who want to do lecture step forward to form another line; countdown from there.

5. Why Alignment Matters

6. Case Study
Julia Child wants you to bake a King Cake. She hands you a recipe and demonstrates each step in sequence while describing it. To see if you’ve learned, she takes the recipe away and asks you to bake the cake in front of the class. Use Bloom’s taxonomy to identify the kinds of learning Julia expects, and predict the likely outcome. Discuss with your team.
At your table, discuss what you think will happen with this learning task.

7. What is Active Learning?
Debrief discussion: alignment between student/faculty expectations alignment between learning goals, activities, and assessments

8. Creating Significant Learning
Debrief discussion: alignment between student/faculty expectations alignment between learning goals, activities, and assessments

9. On a glass board, monitor, or on paper respond:
One-Minute Paper
On a glass board, monitor, or on paper respond:
Reflect on a recent learning task
with which your students struggled. Why didn’t it unfold as you anticipated?
Time: 5 mins write, 5 mins share, 10 mins discuss
5 mins. Pair up and discuss 5 minutes Large group debrief 10 mins.

10. What is Active Learning?
Pair up and discuss. Where did you get off track?

11. Active learning strategies
Gesture to the handout. Which of these activities have we already completed?

12. Different Approaches to Technology Integration
The SAMR way and the Wiebke Way

13. The Struggle is Real
Pair up with a colleague and debrief your “struggle”
How can this space or these strategies help?
On the white boards, list a few keywords from your discussion. Time: 10 mins.

14. Gallery Walk Use your whiteboard markers to provide feedback.
Use a “*” to indicate congruence/”good idea”/aha!
Use a “?” to indicate when more information is required
Time: 5 mins.

15. Assignment Language
Based on insights of what space can do, redraft your assignment/activity – where does it fall with Bloom and on the scale?
Share key elements with group
Group feedback focus: What strategies can you suggest to keep students on track?

16. What is Active Learning?
Pair up and discuss. Where did you get off track?

17. active learning strategies - reviewed
Gesture to the handout. Which of these activities have we already completed?

18. Coming Back Together
Back in original groups: Share with each other what you have learned about teaching in EASL and in Lecture:
Compare 3 Active Learning Takeaways from both sessions.
Identify themes or patterns that suggest the KEY principles of Active Learning.
Share by writing on the Boards

19. Connecting the Dots Mindset Alignment Activity Assessment
Lindsay Debrief

20. Beyond the Retreat Spring into Mell: Workshop Series
Grant opportunities
Teaching Feedback Services
Call for Proposals to teach in EASL spaces
Active Learning Happy Hour
Course (Re)Design Seminar

21. https://aub.ie/EASLWinter2017
Feedback Opportunity
Please take a minute to complete this 3-question feedback survey related to our work together today:

22. Thank You!