Spring 2008

Thursday, March 6, 2009 - Jerry Irish Remarks, "The Art of Leading Discussion, Smith Campus Center, Room 201, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 3, 2008 - Wine and Cheese - Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee. Pomona Faculty, Smith Campus Center, Room 212, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Monday, April 14th - Blue Room Luncheon - Eric Mazur, Physics Department at Harvard will be giving a talk on, "The Scientific Approach to Teaching: Research as a Basis for Course Design." Discussions of teaching -- even some publications -- abound with anecdotal evidence. Our intuition often supplants a systematic, scientific approach to finding out what works and what doesn't work. Yet, research is increasingly demonstrating that our gut feelings about teaching are often wrong. In this talk I will discuss some research my group has done on gender issues in science courses and on the effectiveness of classroom demonstrations. Frank Blue Room, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 15th - Workshop - "Team Teaching of Interdisciplinary Courses," Michael Green, Department of Philosophy, Eleanor Brown, Department of Economics, Ann Davis, Department of Philosophy and Laura Hoopes, Department of Biology and Chair of the Teaching and Learning Committee team taught interdisciplinary courses last fall. They would love to talk with you if you’ve tried this and have good ideas, and are willing to share their experiences and current insights with anyone who would like to try this and hasn’t done so already. Pomona Faculty, Smith Campus Center, Room 201, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 24, 2008 - Wine and Cheese - Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee. Pomona Faculty, Smith Campus Center, Room 212, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.