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SLATE
SLATE (Strengthen Learning And Teaching Excellence)
SLATE hosts a variety of programs for Kennedy School faculty through the academic year. Below are some key dates to note.
Please contact Lee Warren, Director of Professional Pedagogy, or Anne Drazen, Associate Dean, SLATE Initiative, with any questions or for additional information.
New Faculty Orientation
This program helps new faculty develop insights about how best to teach professional students at the Kennedy School. New faculty have the opportunity to talk with and listen to current faculty about managing HKS classes and to hear about our students and what it is like to teach at HKS. Part of the program is to participate in a case discussion and to briefly practice teaching and receive feedback.
Dinner Thursday, August 27, 2009
Full-Day Friday, August 28, 2009
Half-Day Monday, August 31, 2009
Half-Day Friday, September 4, 2009
Case Teaching Seminar
This four week seminar offers pedagogical training for effective case teaching and provide each participant with an opportunity to practice and receive feedback on case teaching.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:15 - 10:45am
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:15 - 10:45am
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:15 - 10:45am
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 9:15 - 10:45am
Faculty Teaching Seminar
These lunchtime sessions include helpful information and discussions on teaching at HKS.
Seminar 1
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Time: 11:45am - 1:00pm
Topic: Teaching courses with multiple populations: with different content preparation, from different schools, backgrounds, countries, ethnicities, etc.
Seminar 2
Friday, October 2, 2009
Time: 11:45am - 1:00pm
Topic: Discussion of a Christensen teaching case: Trouble in Stat 1B; focus: introducing new formats for a course, changing expectations
Seminar 3
Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: 11:45am - 1:00pm
Topic: Faculty-driven Assessment tools: how to find out how the students are doing, what they know or don't know, whether they are engaged with the course...
Seminar 4
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 11:45am - 1:00pm
Topic: Syllabus development
Click here to access handouts from prior seminars.
October 20, 2009 HKS Faculty Meeting
SLATE hosted Ken Bain as a guest speaker at the HKS faculty meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The topic of his discussion was "What research says about effective teaching and learning."
Ken Bain holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently the Vice Provost for Instruction and Director at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He has been the founding director of four major teaching and learning centers:
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Center for Teaching Excellence at New York University,
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Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University,
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Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, and
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Research Academy for University Learning at Montclair State University.
SLATE Mission
SLATE aims to ensure that HKS faculty match their intellectual distinction with a mastery of classroom skills and a toolkit of tested materials, so that all participants in the HKS enterprise can make the most of every precious opportunity to learn.
No other professional school of public service has mounted a comparably ambitious effort to promote pedagogical excellence.
SLATE’s mission has three aspects, each led by a faculty co-chair:
- Preparing and distributing Curricular Materials such as classic case studies, teaching notes, multimedia cases, cross-disciplinary exercises, and simulations
- Developing, disseminating, and recognizing Teaching Capacities required for excellence in professional-school education
- Forging Assessment Tools that will help faculty gauge student learning
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