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Effective Instructional Strategies Ͼ

This session counts towards your CIRTL Teaching Certificate

Location

The Commons : 332

Date & Time

February 28, 2025, 11:00 am12:00 pm

Description

If you are interested in a teaching career or are actively pursuing the nationally recognized CIRTL certification,consider attending this event/discussion. SEA CIRTL Fellows must attend.

This "Effective Instructional Strategies" workshop/discussion will generally serve as a tool to learn different teaching methods and strategies used to engage, assess and motivate students in the classroom for any discipline.

About our speaker:

Dr. Jamie Gurganus is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Computing Education Program and the Associate Director STEMed Research in COEIT. She also serves as the Director for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) in the graduate school. Her research is focused on solving problems relating to educating and developing engineers, teachers, and the community at all levels (k12, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate). A few of these key areas include engineering identity and mindsets, global and entrepreneurial  competencies, failure culture, first year experiences in engineering, capstone design thinking, integrating service and authentic learning into the engineering classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using traditional and non-traditional manufacturing. She seeks to identify best practices and develop assessments methods that assist in optimizing computing and engineering learning. 

If you plan to attend the session, please RSVP by clicking the green "Going in person" button below.

If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to gspd@umbc.edu

If you want to learn about CIRTL Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning please contact Dr. Jamie Gurganus at jgurganus@umbc.edu.

This event will not be recorded.