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AEC Pedagogy Brownbag Series: Taking Time for Teaching 1-credit graduate student seminar. Graduate student credit requirements are here. 
As graduate students in AEC, most of you will have an opportunity to teach here and later in your career. But teaching isn’t a “you’ve got it or you don’t” kind of skill—like any other, it is a skill that can be acquired with study and practice.
Please join us to learn from a body of pedagogy research and the community of teachers in our department in our Pedagogy Brownbag Series: Taking Time for Teaching. Each meeting, we will focus on a teaching topic to introduce some best practices, tools, and how to apply them in the classroom and online, and actively explore pedagogy questions for AEC classes.
All seminars are held from 12-1 in 200C Ballard Extension Hall
October 6: Beau Olen - Taking Time for Teaching: Teaching the Teachers
November 3: Jen Alix-Garcia and James Sterns - Undergraduate Curriculum Review: A Discussion
December 1: Clark Seavert and students - AgBizLogic Lab Presentation
March 16: Nadia Streletskaya (1-2 PM) - Using Experiments to Teach and How AEELab Plays Into it
April 20: David Lewis - Hybrid teaching at OSU – Reflections from Hybridizing AEC 250
June 1: Jason Beasley and Roshan Adhikari - Teaching Reflections of PhD students
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Below are materials and slides from the 2017-18 series.
* April 20, 2018: Hybrid teaching at OSU – Reflections from Hybridizing AEC 250 - Dave Lewis
* March 16, 2018: Using Experiments to Teach and How AEELab Plays Into it - Nadia Streletskaya
* December 1, 2017: AgBizLogic Lab Presentation - Clark Seavert and students
* November 3, 2017: Undergraduate Curriculum Review: A Discussion - Jen Alix-Garcia and James Sterns
* October 6, 2017: Taking Time for Teaching: Teaching the Teachers - Beau Olen
How to Make a Good Teacher - article from The Economist
Teaching the Teacher - article from The Economist
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Below are materials and slides from the 2016-17 series.
* June 9, 2017: Crafting a teaching statement—Christy Anderson Brekken
6 Principles of University Teaching
* May 12, 2017: Best Practices for Teaching Assistants—Steve Buccola, Chris Mihiar, Yukiko Hashida, and Matt Sloggy
A Short List of Helpful Links for TAs
Handbook for Economics Teaching Assistants (LSE)
A handbook from the London School of Economics. This mainly focuses on leading a session, but includes useful teaching tips such as how to deal with disruptive students.
https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/handbook/printable/gta.pdf
Teaching Assistant Handbook (Iowa State)
A more general guide for teaching assistants.
http://www.fau.edu/ctl/TA_Handbook_Iowa_State_University.pdf
“Teaching Assistants Key to Classroom Support” (Georgia Tech. News Center)
By Victor Rogers, published October 13 2016
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/10/13/teaching-assistants-key-classroom-support
On-Campus resources: Center for Teaching and Learning
* April 14, 2017: Aligning ABM and EEP Curriculum Outcomes—Rob King
Elasticity and Hypothesis (pdf) Elasticity Questions (pdf) Taking Time for Teaching Notes (pdf) Learner Outcomes Seminar (PowerPoint)
* March 3, 2017: Active Learning in Practice—James Sterns
Active Learning (pdf) Link for University of Minnesota Surviving Group Projects web site.
* February 17, 2017: Gathering and Using Student Input to Improve Our Courses—Larry Lev
For more information: Beyond the mandated (and not all that useful) SET questionnaires, there are multiple tools that instructors can use during the quarter and the Department conducts exit interviews with all graduating undergraduates. Example of student feedback Mid-course Assessment
* January 13, 2017: Creating and Using Rubrics—Mallory Rahe
For more information:
OSU Center for Teaching and Learning: Resources for Assessment http://ctl.oregonstate.edu/resources/find/six-principles?term_node_tid_depth=31
University of Minnesota: Creating Rubrics for Writing Assignments http://writing.umn.edu/tww/responding/rubrics.html
* December 2, 2016: Games and Simulation Activities in the Classroom (David Kling) Slides (pdf)
* October 28, 2016: Pedagogy 101—Before You Set Foot in the Classroom (Christy Anderson Brekken) Slides (pdf)
For more information:
Kay Sagmiller (2014) OSU Center for Teaching and Learning: Six Principles of University Teaching
Jan Plass, PhD, NYU, Co-Director of the Games for Learning Institute (G4LI)
Jim Eison, PhD. Using Active Learning Instructional Strategies to Create Excitement and Enhance Learning
* October 7, 2016: Why Care About Pedagogy? Slides (pdf) Seminar Notes