Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Recent Episodes
Andy Jones
The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program provides UC Davis faculty an opportunity to mentor and to learn from their peers who interested in innovative teaching and instructional technology. Participants learn about tools such as SmartSite, the new suite of Web-based course management tools that will improve upon and eventually replace the current tools faculty use to instruct and communicate with their students.
Leslie Madsen-Brooks is a teaching consultant at the Teaching Resources Center. At the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program for spring 2010 she presents, "The Undisciplined Instructor: Lessons from a Perpetual Amateur."
Both Andy Jones and Karma Waltonen, lecturers of the University Writing Program, inspire other teachers to try new teaching methods in the new year at the Spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
A lecturer of the University Writing Program, Sasha Abramsky speaks about how to engage students with media at the Spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Kevin Roddy, a lecturer of the medieval studies program, gives a talk on academic computing, mainly "The Insights and the Out-of-sight Sights," at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Peter Siegel, vice provost for information and educational technology explores the "treacherous waters of technological change and the nature of collaboration in the academy" at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Paul Salitsky, professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior, shares two programs essential to his profession: MacSpeech Dictate and TextExpander at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Andy Jones, lecturer for the University Writing Program, presents new uses for personal technologies, including teaching and learning with the iPad at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Drew Halfmann, assistant professor of sociology, gives a presentation on how teachers can encourage discussion in their classes.
Jack Hicks, an emeritus English professor at UC Davis, presents "Local Is Global: A Model for Teaching Humanities to Non-Majors."
UC Davis faculty participants discuss John Merrow's film "Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk" and how it relates to UC Davis, with Andy Jones leading the discussion.
James Shaffrath, a lecturer in neurobiology, physiology and behavior at UC Davis and winner of an Academic Federation award for excellence in teaching gives a primer to his audience for the best ways to teach.
Carlee Arnett, associate professor of German and Russian at UC Davis, gives a talk on "Training TAs to Design, Develop and Teach Content-Based Courses."
Ryan Galt, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Human and Community Development, talks about how professors should rethink their course design to build student competencies. Galt covers process, implementation, and outcomes.
UC Davis religious studies professor Keith David Watenpaugh talks about what he learned in teaching a class on genocide, fundamentalism and Iraq.
Anthropologist Ben Orlove of the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy reflects on teaching interdisciplinary courses, giving examples from seminars on environmental sustainability.
University Writing Program instructors Brad Henderson and Andy Jones talk about writing journals as a teaching and learning tool.