Documentation:Teaching Practices Colloquium

TPC 2015

This wiki is intended as a planning page for the TPC committee, but we welcome any feedback from Faculty. If you do not wish to log in to your kumu account to post your comments, feel free to email Kelly Warnock at kwarnock@tru.ca.

Themes

• Laughter and joy in the classroom
• Joy of Learning
• Teaching and Learning can be fun
• Exhilarated Learning
• Feel great, Work Great, Be great!
• Creating Excitement in Your Classroom

Keynote Speakers

The following are some possibilities:

• Dr. Billy Strean: http://billystrean.com/
• Dr. John P. Smol: http://www.queensu.ca/stlhe2014/program/plenary-sessions/plenary-ii-dr-john-smol

Session Ideas

• Pedagogical Speed Dating
• Poster sessions combined with snack like chocolates/drink
• In 3-5 minutes, describe one fun activity you've done that brought smiles/joy/laughter to your class?

Social

Some ideas for the social, or fun activities throughout the day:

• Comedy routine
• funny song/dance/performance of some kind at end of keynote...if not live then a short video to have everyone smiling as they head off to w/shops??...or at end of day during social??)
• Badge system / scavenger hunt type of activity to connect the workshops
• 5 minute
• Interview faculty about fun activities they've done in class (ask Journalism for students to record)