Curriculum + Learning:
Events for Faculty and Staff

This year, the Curriculum + Learning area of the Provost’s Office is sponsoring events and activities loosely organized around the theme of learning. Institutions of higher education have gradually shifted from a conception of instruction focused on the teacher to one in which the question of how students learn is central. How do students learn? How can teaching be more closely aligned with how students learn? How can instructors, and the institution as a whole, determine whether students have learned what we’d like them to?

Classroom Teaching Tools:

• “Grading and Assessing Course Learning with Rubrics”
  Carolyn Comiskey, Director of Assessment and Curricular Support
  Change of Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2:00-3:30 p.m., 66 West 12th Street, Room 801

Program Assessment Series:

• MS, Urban Policy Analysis and Management
  Alex Schwartz, Associate Professor of Milano
  Thursday, February 28, 3:30-4:30 p.m., 66 W. 12th Street, Room 801
  
  
• BFA, Architectural Design, School of Constructed Environments
  Alexis Kraft, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Director, BFA Architectural Design/BFA Interior Design
  Tuesday, March 5, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 79 Fifth Avenue, Room 1618
  
  
• MA, Anthropology
  Janet Roitman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nicolas Langlitz, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  April 1, 1:00-2:00 p.m., 79 Fifth Avenue, Room 1618

Talking About Learning:

• Future Scenarios, Reflective Practice and 21st Century Learning”
  Lisa Grocott, Associate Professor, Parsons, Art, Media + Technologies, Dean of Academic Initiatives
  Monday, February 25, 12:15-2:45 p.m., 79 Fifth Avenue, Room 1618
  
  
• Metaphor in the Mind and Hands”
  Daniel Cassasanto, Assistant Professor of Psychology, The New School for Social Research
  Wednesday, March 6, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Orozco Room, 66 West 12th Street, 7th Floor
  
  
• “Making Space for Collaboration”
  Scott Pobiner, Assistant Professor of Information Design and Management, School of Design Strategies
  Wednesday, March 13, 3:00-4:30 p.m., 55 W. 13th Street, Hirshon Suites, 2nd floor

Applying Research on Learning to Teaching
The “Talking About Learning” series culminates with two talks by learning expert Todd Zakrajsek, who has published and presented widely on the topic of student learning, including workshops and conference keynote addresses in over 30 states and 4 countries in the past several years.

• Overcoming Apathy and Creating Excitement in the Classroom”
  Monday, April 8, 2:00-3:30 p.m,
  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
  What can instructors do to facilitate learning when they encounter students who seem uninterested and even apathetic toward course content and assignments?
  
  
• “How Students Learn: Strategies for Teaching from the Psychology of Learning”
  Tuesday, April 9, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.,
  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
  Participants will leave this workshop with an understanding of the basic concepts in human learning, how to present information so that students most effectively encode it into long-term memory, and how to help students know when they know.