Roundtable Dinners & Discussions
These dinners are a monthly forum for discussion and connections within a large group. For one evening a month, a guest introduces a topic of general interest or a provocative issue for discussion. With guiding questions posed to begin and facilitate the discussions at each roundtable, discussion will take place over dinner provided by Delta. These discussions are relevant to a wide audience with specific connections to what participants are learning in other Delta programs and courses. All participants in any Delta program will be invited to these monthly Roundtable Dinners.
2009-2010 Roundtable Events
Join us for our first ever Delta Roundtable LUNCH
(and the last Roundtable event of the semester)!
DATE: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
TIME: 12:00-1:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Tripp Commons Memorial Union
TOPIC: "When Bad Things Happen to Good Classes!"
After all your thoughtful planning and preparation for the semester, it is now half way through the semester and you are perplexed by all of the challenges arising in your classroom – e.g., most students have failed a recent exam, a student is unhappy about the amount of feedback on her paper, and you have been writing a letter of recommendation and wonder if the letter is too strong. Should you drop the exam because you think the students really do know the material? If you give one student additional feedback, do you owe the same effort to all of the other students in the class? Should you tone down your letter, and risk the student not getting an interview because of what you (don’t) say? Through case studies and lively discussion with colleagues, we will explore the ethical considerations involved in tackling such teaching challenges and other classroom conundrums.
Registration is required for Roundtable Dinners and is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. CLICK HERE to start the registration process. Registration will remain open until Tuesday, November 10 at noon.
Next Scheduled Roundtable Dinners
Tuesday, February 17 from 6-7:15pm
Wednesday, March 17 from 6-7:15pm
Wednesday, April 21 from Noon-1:15pm
2009-2010 Roundtable Dinners
September 16th: Aaron Brower, Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Social Work
Keeping Your Head Above Water: Practical Suggestions for Improving Student Learning Without Drowning
2008-2009 Roundtable Dinners
September 17th: Robert Mathieu, Astronomy and Center for Integrating Research, Teaching and Learning
Student Course Evaluations: Everybody does them. What do we learn from them?
October 15th: Gwen Drury, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and Socially Erogonmic Environmental Design (SEED)
Interchangable parts, social capital and the puzzle of collaboration: What's space got to do with it
November 19th: Damon Williams, Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate
Enhancing Learning through Diversity
February 16th: Christine Vatovec (Land Resources) with faculty intern partner, Teri Balser (Soil Science and Institute of Cross-College Biology Education) and Tim Wagner with faculty intern partner, Steve Ackerman (both of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
Solving Teaching Problems (Teaching-as-Research Projects)
March 11th:
Janet Batzli (BioCore) and David Gagnon (Doit Academic Technology)
Collaborative Work Group: Pedagogical Pariah or Useful Learning Opportunity?
April 2nd: Wren Singer, Adrianna Gurman and Carol Pope (Center for the First-Year Experience)
Challenging and Supporting the First-Year Student
2007-2008 Roundtable Dinners
September 19th: David Shaffer, Educational Psychology
University at Play
October 17th: Nicola Ferrier and Paul Nealey, Engineering Faculty
Balancing Research, Teaching and Family Commitments: One Couple's Story
November 14th: Sharon Dunwoody, Faculty from School of Journalism
Framing Science - look at a current controversy about whether scientists should purposively "frame" their information for different audiences.
February 13th: Ann Austin, Professor, Michigan State University
The 21st Century Faculty Member
March 5th: Basil Tikoff, Faculty in Geology and Geophysics
The Audacity of Scientific Hope: Imagining a scientifically literate citizenry and doing something about it at UW-Madison
April 23st: Jolanda Vanderwal-Taylor (Dept of German) and
Nancy Westphal-Johnson (Undergrad Education/ L&S Academic Administration)
LEAP Initiative - Liberal Education and Science Careers:
Do the essential learning outcomes of liberal education
enhance scientific endeavors and careers?
2006-2007 Roundtable Dinners
September 27th: Patrick Farrell, Vice Chancellor and Provost
Systems Thinking in Education for Math, Engineering, and All the Sciences
October 25th: George Mejicano, Assistant Dean of the Medical School
The Wisconsin Idea in the 21st Century
December 6th: Holly Kerby, Instructor of Chemistry and Creative Writing/Drama MATC
What theater can teach us about learning science:insights, stories, and practical suggestions about communicating science to diverse audiences
January 31st: Lori Berquam, Interim Dean of Students
What you don't know about current students that you should: current students as classroom consumers
March 7th: Dr. Teri Balser, Professor of Soil Science
Getting them engaged: Activating learning in the classroom
April 18th: Alice Pawley, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Content, context, and disciplinarity: drawing a line around what we teach
2005 - 2006 Roundtable Dinners
September 20th: Dr. Molly Carnes, UW Medical School
Attracting Bees with Honey: Increasing Student Diversity in Research.
October 19th: Peter Bosscher, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching In Situ: Do We Need Classrooms?
December 7th: Angela Byars-Winston, Counseling Psychology
Retaining STEM Students of Color: Connecting Institutional Efforts
with Student Needs
February 1st: Spring Semester Kick-off
Sharing Teaching Successes
March 1st: Sharon Dunwoody (Journalism) and Steve Ackerman (Atmospheric
and Oceanic Sciences)
Informal and Outreach Science Education
April 12th: Karen Klomparens (Dean of the Graduate School) and
John Beck (School of Labor and Industrial Relations) Michigan State University.
Communicating Expectations and Working with Others
Previous Roundtable Speakers
| April 2005:
Trina McMahon, Lisa Torrey, and Angela Kent, "Integrating
the three pillars: drawing upon the Delta learning community to
design, implement, and assess an interactive "virtual lab"
to support a variety of learning styles."
March 2005: Steve Ackerman, "From airplane rides to radio shows: sharing research with the public." February 2005: Jo Handelsman, "Scientific Teaching: Training a new generation of science faculty" December 2004: Susan Horwitz, "Where are the women in computer science? Using active recruiting and group problem solving to increase their numbers." October 2004: Bernice Durand and Roselyn Williams, "African-American STEM students in HBCUs and majority-serving universities." September 2004: Herb Wang, "Education, Outreach, and Environmental Justice." April 2004: Cathy Middlecamp, "Teaching Chemistry: The Intellectual Challenge of Diversity." March 2004: Pupa De Stasio, "Blue and Yellow don't make Green: Simplifying Light, Color, and Color Mixing." February 2004: Mark Cook, "Animal Rights and Animal Science: The Human/Animal Symbiosis as a Format for Critical Thinking." December 2003: John Wiley, "Passion in Science and Teaching." October 2003: Richard Davidson, "Biology is not Destiny: Modern Views on the Biology of Mind."
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September 2004 Roundtable
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February 2004 Roundtable
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