Apr. 19 - May 3, 2010
"More Award-Winning Tools, Tips, & Techniques for Classroom Instruction"
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This 60 minute seminar will consist of ten demonstrations / presentations from award- winning teachers. They will
each provide their most successful and favorite teaching tip for engaging, students and boosting learning in the classroom.

Presenters Include:

Joseph Lowman, Deparrment of Psychology; University of North Carolina at Chapel hill

 Joseph Lowman is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A clinical
 psychologist by training, he has a long-standing interest in the college classroom and the training of college
 instructors. Since publishing Mastering the Techniques of Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 1984; 2nd ed. 1995) he
 has been a frequent speaker at national teaching conferences and a presenter at faculty development events
 on individual campuses. An active faculty development consultant, Joe’s own teaching has been recognized
 with teaching awards several times on the Chapel Hill campus, where he regularly teaches undergraduates as
 well as graduate students. His major research interests are the qualities of exemplary college instructors and
 evolutionary personality.



Claude Cookman, Associate Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications; Indiana University School of
 Journalism

 Dr. Cookman is a huge proponent of teaching excellence and regularly presents at workshops and conferences.
 He is the recipient of the IU President’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999, IU Teaching Excellence Recognition
 Award, 1998, 1999, 2000, IU Student Choice Award for distinguished teaching, 1994, and a 1976 Pulitzer Prize
 Awardee for Feature Photography. Dr. Cookman is also co-author of More Quick Hits: Successful Strategies by
 Award-Winning Teachers.



James Yount, Professor of Life Science; Brevard Community College








John P. Bean, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Indiana University

 A nationally recognized scholar in the development and estimation of theories of college student
 retention, Dr. Bean has written broadly in the area of student outcomes, research methodology, and
 faculty issues in higher education. John teaches doctoral level courses in organizational theory,
 academic policies, and research methods at Indiana University Bloomington.





Rebecca Shaheen, Professor, Nursing Department, Adjunct Faculty, Computer Department;
Community College of Allegheny County

 Rebecca Shaheen DNP, MSN, RN has taught in undergraduate and graduate programs for both nursing
 and computer applications. For more than 30 years, she has developed curriculum and guided instruction
 as a Director of Staff Development and as a Professor/Chair of Nursing. She has a reputation as a leader in
 technological adaptations within curriculums and her strengths include the ability to create non-threatening
 atmospheres whereby technology can be creatively introduced. This technology can then be implemented
 into the curriculum and adapted to instructional modalities as well as utilized to evaluate student learning.



Scott Jeffrey, Program Director of the Geospatial Applications Program and Director of the Center
 for Science and Technology

 He received a B.S. in Geography from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a M.S. in
 Geography and Anthropology from Louisiana State University. He will begin pursuing a PhD in Geographic
 Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Spring of 2008. In conjunction
 with students from the Geospatial Applications Program current research and projects include mapping
 poison exposures with the Maryland Poison Center and mapping economic development and change in
 Catonsville, MD. Past projects include GPS and Remote Sensing map for the Banneker Museum and a Service Learning map
 directory for Dr. Michael Sanow.


Scott P. Simkins, Ph.D., Director of Academy for Teaching and Learning; North Carolina A&T State University

 Scott Simkins is the Director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning and is an Associate Professor of
 Economics at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past decade, he
 has co-led multiple National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded projects exploring the adaptability of teaching
 innovations originally developed in the natural and physical sciences. Scott is a frequent presenter at workshops
 and conferences regionally, nationally, and internationally, focusing on cross-disciplinary sharing of educational
 research and pedagogical practices. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on pedagogical
 innovation and is co-editor (with Mark Maier) of the book, Just-in-Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines,
 Across the Academy, published in November, 2009 by Stylus Publishing in conjunction with the National Teaching and Learning Forum.