This section summarizes the professional development activities that I have partiicpated in, including workshops attended as part of the Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching and academic conferences attended.
From the official program website, "The Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching (CoAT) program offers graduate students a chance to demonstrate their commitment to teaching excellence through training, evaluation, and recognition." This section lists the workshops I have attended under the CoAT program and provides the accompanying workshop reflections.
Facilitator: Prof. Alton Banks, NCSU
Date: Nov. 11, 2006
This workshop provided an introduction to the Felder-Silverman learning styles (Active-Reflective, Sensing-Intuitive, Visual-Verbal and Sequential-Global) and described how these styles represent the different means by which people acquire, process, and relate information.
Facilitator: Erin Robinson, NCSU
Date: Oct. 17, 2007
A non-traditional student is one classified as having any number of traits, such as being over 25, supporting a family, or having a full-time job and attending school part time. The workshop highlighted statistics regarding the rise in the number of non-traditional students, specific challenges these students face, needs they have, and strategies for accommodating those needs.
Facilitator: Barbie Windom, NCSU
Date: Oct. 26, 2007
This workshop focused on the different types of questions that can be asked (e.g. open-ended vs. closed-ended) and the different scenarios in which they can be used to improve the effectiveness of student-teacher dialogue.
Facilitator: Dr. Barbi Honeycutt, NCSU
Date: Mar. 13, 2008
This workshop discussed strategies for overcoming the limitations of using active learning strategies in large classroom with a high number of students, an immovable classroom setup, and/or persons distributed about the classroom.
Facilitators: Erin Robinson and Dr. Barbi Honeycutt, NCSU
Date: Mar. 19, 2008
This workshop provided insights and concrete takeaways on effective organiziational and pedagogical strategies for advising students outside the classroom.
Facilitator: Dr. Barbi Honeycutt, NCSU
Date: Nov. 17-22, 2008
Introduced classroom assessment techniques to help instructors understand what material the students have learned, but more importantly to help the students measure their own progress and encourage them to think critically on whether they are learning or not.
I have been fortunate enough to attend several academic conferences focused on education in computer science and software engineering, including SIGCSE, FIE, CSEE&T and the educator's track at ICSE and the Agile Development Conferece. I have presented research at many of these conferences and assisted in organzing the 2006 Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training.
SIGCSE is the premier conference on computer science education and is hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.
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The Agile development conference is a gathering of academics and industry practitioners interested in a burgeoning area of software engineering known as agile software development.
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The CSEE&T focuses on education and training in the software engineering discipline of computer science and offers tracks on industry training and collegiate education.
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FIE is a conference sponsored by the IEEE Education Society that brings together educators across multiple engineering disciplines.
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ICSE is popularly considered the premier academic conference on software engineering. It is a research-heavy conference with additional tracks for experience reports and an educator's track.
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