EFFECTIVE TEACHING: A WORKSHOP
Richard M. Felder
Hoechst Celanese Professor
Emeritus of Chemical
Engineering
North Carolina State University
Rebecca Brent
President, Education Designs,
Inc.
Cary, North Carolina
UCT: 19/20 October 2008
Wits: 27/28 October 2008
UKZN: 30/31October 2008
This workshop provides tools and strategies for engineering and science instructors to make their
classes more effective.
Separately and together, Drs. Felder and Brent have presented over 300 workshops and
seminars on effective teaching, course design, mentoring and supporting new faculty members,
and faculty development in science and technology on campuses throughout the United States
and in Europe, Asia, South America, and South Africa. They co-direct and facilitate the annual
National Effective Teaching Institute under the auspices of the American Society for Engineering
Education.
Topics addressed during the course include the following:
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Learning and teaching styles. Defining and assessing learning styles of students. How a
single teacher can address the needs of students with the full spectrum of learning styles.
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Outcomes-based education. Planning, teaching, and assessing courses to address the ABET
Engineering Criteria and the Washington Accord.
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Lecturing and active learning. Common lecturing mistakes and how to avoid them. Getting
students actively involved in learning, even if there are 200 of them in the class.
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Assessment of learning and skill development. Assessing different learning objectives.
Designing tests that are both rigorous and fair.
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Cooperative learning. Defining conditions of cooperative learning. Criteria for forming
project teams, helping them to function effectively, and assessing individual effort.
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Crisis clinic. Problems commonly encountered by instructors (difficult students, cheating,
time management) and how to deal with them.
Our track record:
The workshop has been given on campuses throughout the United States and in South America,
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East. It has been exceptionally well received by the
participants. Of the 3329 participants who submitted evaluations since 1996, 79% gave the
workshop the top rating of “Excellent,” 20% rated it “Good,” fewer than 1% rated it “Average,”
and none rated it “Fair” or “Poor.” Following are representative participant responses.
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“The ideas presented in this workshop are among the best and most useful that I have ever
heard. I appreciate the fact that, while they represent a great change in the way material is
presented, they do not involve throwing out what I am doing now.”
“The presenters were competent, confident, and VERY comfortable. They did a good job of
using the audience's expertise.”
“The workshop was presented in a way that was very noncritical. Instead of feeling like you
are a `bad teacher,’ you felt more like you now have tools to be a more effective or a `great’
teacher.”
Course Details
University of Cape Town:
19th and 20th October.
(Administered by Prof Duncan Fraser as part of the ASEE 7th Global Colloquium
on Engineering Education. Please contact him for further details - see below)
Wits University:
27th and 28th October
University of KwaZulu-Natal:
30th and 31st October
Fees
R1950
R1800
R1650
delegates per Department or School
1
2
3 or more
Enquiries / Registrations:
For more information about this workshop and to register online, please visit our website
www.wits.ac.za/Enterprise/index.html or alternatively you can contact Tennyson Mashiloane:
(011) 717 1188: E-mail: Tennyson.Mashiloane@wits.ac.za or Joshna Panday (011) 717 4592;
E-mail: Joshna. Panday@wits.ac.za
For enquiries about the course at the University of KwaZulu- Natal, contact Dr J. Pocock
(Programme Coordinator Academic Support and Advancement Programme) , e-mail:
pocockj@ukzn.ac.za, Tel 031 260 3377
For enquiries about the course at the University of Cape Town, contact Prof Duncan Fraser,
email Duncan.Fraser@uct.ac.za, Tel 021-650-2515, or visit the ASEE website, www.asee.org.
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Our Internationally Acclaimed Presenters:
Richard M. Felder, Ph.D., is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical
Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He has
authored or coauthored over 200 papers on chemical process engineering and
engineering education and presented hundreds of seminars, workshops, and short
courses in both categories to industrial and research institutions and universities
throughout the United States and abroad. He has won R.J. Reynolds Award for
Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Extension, the AT&T Foundation Award
for Excellence in Engineering Education, the Chemical Manufacturers Association
National Catalyst Award, the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in
engineering education, the 2002 AIChE Warren K. Lewis Award for contributions
to chemical engineering education, the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division
Lifetime Achievement Award for Pedagogical Scholarship, and a number of
national and regional awards for his publications on engineering education. Many
of his publications can be viewed at <http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public>.
Rebecca Brent, Ed.D., is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm
in Cary, North Carolina. Her academic degrees are from Millsaps College (B.A.,
1978), Mississippi State University (M.Ed., 1981), and Auburn University (Ed.D.,
1988). Her interests include faculty development in the sciences and engineering
and simulation and multimedia development in teacher education. She received the
1990 Research Article Award from the Organization of Teacher Educators in
Reading and the 1993-94 East Carolina Alumni Association Teaching Excellence
Award.