Leading Good Classroom Discussions

Friday, April 15, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

 

This workshop is a webinar ONLY – please do not come to the CTE office.

 

To attend the webinar, log-in as a guest at https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/f782493a8fe0409c9d9feb780233db03. This is a Blackboard Collaborate Session.

 

The workshop starts at 12:00 p.m. and we kindly request participants to enter the workshop at least 15 minutes prior to the start time and no later than 12:05 p.m. 


Details

The ability to ask 'good' questions - thought-provoking, critical thinking, at a deeper level of thinking - and applying this technique in discussion sections and courses is often an overlooked and underdeveloped skill of instructors. With experience, instructors learn that effective discussion sessions take significant planning and preparation as well as practice.

In this workshop, effective methodologies and best practices for asking good questions and techniques and styles for leading and facilitating classroom discussions will be addressed and modeled. Instructors, GTAs, and GIAs at all levels of teaching and experience are welcome.


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Facilitator


Michelle L. Hardee
Program Manager, Graduate TA Training
Center for Teaching Excellence


Michelle L. Hardee is the program manager for graduate student teaching assistant training and professional development in the Center for Teaching Excellence. She received her Ph.D. in marine science from the University of South Carolina and a master's from Grice Marine Laboratory at the College of Charleston. Throughout her 19-year teaching career, Hardee has been actively involved in marine science education and teacher training. She taught throughout her graduate program, as an instructor at Coastal Carolina University and as an adjunct professor of geology at the College of Charleston and is currently an instructor in the Marine Science Program at UofSC. She is a staunch advocate of all graduate students and of the critical need that GTAs develop pedagogical knowledge and professional skills for any future career pathway.