OFD Workshop Series 2011

• The Essentials
  • Intended Audience (Beginners, 220, MWF)
  • Other options
    • - FLS101 Distance
    • - FLS101 Summer
  • Departmental Resources (Professor, TA's)
  • Location (Roomy, Full Technology, Mic's)
    • - Professor's view
    • - Students's view
    • - 360 view
  • In-class (Perform, negotiate meaning, test, microteach)
  • Out-of-class (Prepare, software, tutorials)
  • Testing (Quizzes, tests, oral, final)
  • (White Paper)
  • TA ownership
    • - Divide and conquer
    • - Daily Activity / Seating Chart
  • Sociocultural LearningTheory
    • - Lev Vigotsky
    • - ZPD
    • - Scaffolding and experts
    • - False beginners

Go2

• Affective Filter
• Costs to the department
• Costs to the TA's
• Costs to the university
• Curriculum Safeguards (Eagan/Jaeger paper)
• The Rassias Method
• TA Training
  • First semester
  • Second semester
  • Third and fourth semesters
  • Weekly training/review meetings
  • Micro teaching
  • Exam preparation and grading
  • Honor code enforcement and confrontations
• Technician Articles
  • Annoucement
  • Keep Class Size Down
  • Students Not Pleased
  • Students Suffer
  • Successful Student

Go2