[ED-TECH] Lunch and Learn: Donn Tilson, 2005 Excellence in Teaching award winner

Ed-Tech list members,

On Tuesday, March 7, 12:30-1:20 pm, Donn Tilson, 2005 Excellence in Teaching award winner, will share his extensive experience using classroom-based service-learning projects to enhance his teaching. Donn has used individual projects, group projects, and class projects. He has partnered with businesses, non-profit groups, and other UM units. He has found a number of ways to assess the work, including presentations, discussions, written reports, and journals. I encourage anyone interested in active learning and cooperative learning to attend and hear how Donn has taken the classroom into the world and increased his students civic involvement.

Lunch will be served. Registration is required and limited. Please register at www.snurl.com/donntilson or go to the "Lunch and Learn Series" area in the www.miami.edu/iac web site.

Mar, 7 - Classroom-based Service-learning Projects: Developing Civic Involvement

2005 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner
Donn Tilson
School of Communication

How can we engage our students in active learning and cooperative learning? How can we more fully prepare them professionally for the challenges that lie ahead while fostering a greater sense of civic responsibility? Classroom-based service-learning projects, if structured and directed properly, can enhance teaching and promote learning. Such an approach can further develop a variety of student skills -- from problem-solving, oral/written communication, technical and managerial to social and consensus-building -- while, more important, instilling a sense of commitment to service of the community. In the final analysis, developing students into professionals who value civic involvement ultimately may be a teacher's greatest contribution not only to education but to society.

Tuesday, March 7, 2005
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Whitten University Center
Room 226 A/B, (Flamingo Ballroom A/B)

A recording of the presentation will be posted on the www.miami.edu/iac web site, for those people who are unable to attend.

Bill Vilberg

305-284-3949 (work); 786-218-3052 (cell); 305-255-9138 (home)