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Teaching and Learning at Lunch Series

This bi-weekly Teaching and Learning at Lunch (T&L@Lunch) series open to all Duke Kunshan faculty members. We hope that the event provides DKU faculty a venue and an opportunity to share, collaborate, reflect and develop in teaching practices, and to foster DKU faculty learning community through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). 
 
Some sample lunch topics are included, but not limited to -
  • What to do on the first day of class 
  • Teaching diverse student body inclusively
  • 7-week structure - challenges and strategies
  • Friday activities and student service learning
  • Generating interest among students for each other's courses 
  • Myths of learning styles
  • Student group work and collaborative learning
  • Power of student peer review and instruction
  • Unintentional plagiarisms 
  • Discussing difficult or controversial topics in a classroom
  • Low-stakes and high stakes writing 
  • What a flipped classroom looks like
  • Evaluating teaching effectiveness beyond student end-course surveys
  • Teaching thinking skills and motivating student deep learning
  • Balancing teaching and research
  • Technology and teaching
 
We welcome your suggestions for any topics and would like your volunteering to lead some topics' discussions. 
 
Place: Academic Buliding Room # 3031 (inside the Global Health office suite.) Lunch will be provided! 

 

 

 

Date:
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Other (see event description)
Campus:
Duke Kunshan Campus
Categories:
Lunch Events  
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