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5th Annual Conference on Advancing
Teaching and Learning
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at the TLTC, and
Friday, March 6th at the Merket Alumni Center
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The TLTC is proud to announce that the 5th Annual Conference on Advancing Teaching and Learning will feature Dr. Diane Halpern, a renowned teacher and scholar who has written extensively on the topic of critical thinking. On Friday, March 6th, 2009, Dr. Halpern will present two sessions related to the development and establishment of critical thinking in the classroom. A complimentary lunch is provided at the noon hour and there are no registration fees for this conference. However, we do ask that you register in advance so that we can plan appropriately. Registration for this conference will open soon; however, questions about the conference may be directed to Suzanne Tapp (suzanne.tapp@ttu.edu) at 806.742.0133.
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Friday Sessions
Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking:
How to Make Critical Thinking a Learning Outcome
10:30 to 12:00
Certainly critical thinking is one of the buzzwords in academia and a life-long learning goal in many of our classes. Please join us as Dr. Diane Halpern, well known for her research on critical thinking, leads the keynote session for the Advancing Teaching and Learning Conference. According to Dr. Halpern, “the twin abilities of knowing how to learn and knowing how to think clearly are the most important intellectual skills for the educated workforce of the future. The real question is can we teach critical thinking so that the skills generalize across domains and last long into the future. Empirical research has shown that with appropriate instruction, college students and other adults can become better thinkers.” In this interactive session, Dr. Halpern will present a short sampler of applications from cognitive psychology designed to improve thinking skills.
12:00 to 1:00: Lunch
The Pushme-Pullme Pressure of Combing
Academic Careers with Family Responsibilities
1:00 to 2:30
In Dr. Halpern’s second session, she will address the question, “What is the effect of children and other family care responsibilities on academic careers?” Dr. Halpern writes that “Data from a variety of sources show that the answers depend on whether babies are born ‘early’ or ‘late’ in one’s career (relative to tenure decisions), and whether the faculty member is female or male.” Drawing on her new book, Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family, she will examine compatibility of beliefs about parenting and academic roles and present data from interviews with academics from “a diverse array of professions and across cultures [which] show how they are able to be dually-successful.” Recommendations will be shared for individual faculty members, institutions, and public policies because no one should have to choose between a family and an academic career.