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EDSIG Workshop
Roundtable discussion of microbiology teaching
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Sunday 4 July 2010 |
9.30am - 4.30pm
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University of Technology, Sydney
(UTS), City Campus |
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Corner Harris and
Thomas Streets, Ultimo, NSW 2007.
Enter the building
from Harris Street entrance and go up the stairs
to registration desk on Level 2. Delegates will
then be advised the direction of their lecture
room
(Room 2.40).
Located 20
minute brisk walk or 30 minute stroll from the
Convention Centre where Welcome Reception will
be held, starting at 6:00pm. A map will be
provided at the workshop registration desk.
Detailed Directions
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Workshop
Registration Fee* (incl GST) |
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$60 |
ASM
Member |
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$66 |
Non Member |
* Places are limited
Registration includes
How to Register
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Register online
(NB. You can register
for workshop without registering for the ASM
2010 Sydney Annual Conference)
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OR: if you have already registered for the
Annual Conference, then simply log in to the
Edit Environment using
your Access Key and register for the workshop.
Workshop Convenor
Dr Chris Burke Degree Coordinator, National
Centre for Marine Conservation & Resource
Sustainability, Australian Maritime College,
Launceston TAS
Hosted by EDSIG - Education Special Interest Group,
Australian Society for Microbiology
Overview
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Do you have an aspect or issue
about teaching that you would like to
discuss with interested colleagues?
This workshop is aimed at promoting
discussion of teaching microbiology.
The aim is participants to engage in
discourse on their experiences of teaching
microbiology: what works well, what doesn't,
what aspects of microbiology students find
difficult to learn and how best to teach
these. All participants are invited to
introduce topics of interest to them.
If you would like to make a short (10-15
min) presentation to describe your interest,
then please contact Chris Burke prior to 7
June in order for the program to be
finalised.
There will be morning and afternoon sessions
and two topics that have been raised are:
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MORNING SESSION: Threshold Concepts in
Microbiology
Chris Burke, University of Tasmania
Meyer and Land (2005) describe threshold
concepts of a discipline as those that, when grasped,
fundamentally alter the way in which a learner thinks
and views the discipline.
Commonly, threshold concepts
can also be described a form of “troublesome knowledge”
(Perkins 1999), meaning that they are difficult to understand
and can present blockages to learning amongst students.
My question is: what topics in microbiology can be considered as
threshold concepts, which must be learnt because they are
fundamental to understanding how microbiologists think
And from these or other topics, are any especially troublesome?
Peer Assisted Studies: Elwyn
Oldfield, University of Queensland
PASS is used to help students learn subjects
that are considered to contain difficult
material. They are integrative rather
then remedial.
Are they effective in improving student
learning?
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AFTERNOON SESSION: Providing
Effective Feedback to Engender Good Learning
Cheryl Power, University of Melbourne
There is no doubting the powerful positive effect that timely and constructive
feedback has on promoting good learning outcomes.
Chickering and Gamson (1987)
list feedback as one of their seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education.
Learning cycles of experimentation, feedback and assessment is listed as one of the
Nine Principles Guiding Teaching and Learning in the University of Melbourne (2002).
What is feedback? What constitutes good feedback?
It seems that feedback means different
things to different people.
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To students feedback seems to mean removing a degree of uncertainty from an exam experience and even an exam result.
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To teachers, feedback translates into telling students how they are progressing in their studies
whether they have the right ideas or understanding of a topic and, all too often, hours of effort
spent correcting reports papers and/or assignments.
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To administrators on the other hand, feedback is seen as keeping the students happy and confident.
Their response to a low feedback score on a quality of teaching survey is all too often to issue a
“please explain” memo, and to demand solutions.
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This workshop is designed to discuss the basics of what constitutes good feedback.
Some very interesting work on feedback by Bevan, Badge , Cann, Willmott and Scott (2008)
will be reviewed, and several speakers will present ways in which they provide students with feedback.
Come along and share your experiences
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References
BevBevan, R., Badge J., Cann, A., Willmott, C and Scott, J. (2008)Seeing Eye-to-Eye? Staff and Student Views on Feedback. Bioscience Education Vol 12, Dec 2008.
Chickering A,W. and Gamson, Z. (1987) Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education March bulletin, American Association for Higher Education.
James, R and Baldwin, G. (2002) Nine Principles Guiding Teaching and Learning in the University of Melbourne. The framework for a first class teaching and learning environment. Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Meyer, J. H. F. and Land, R. (2005) Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (2): Epistemological Considerations and a Conceptual Framework for Teaching and Learning. Higher Education 49(3) 373-388.
Perkins, D. (1999) The many faces of constructivism. Educational Leadership 57(3) 6-11.
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Detailed Directions
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), City
Campus, Building 4
Corner Harris and Thomas Streets, Ultimo, NSW
2007.
Enter the building from Harris Street entrance
(cnr Thomas St) and go up the stairs to registration
desk on level 2. Delegates will then be advised the
direction of their lecture room. No on-site parking
available at UTS - Only street parking or at nearby
carparks.
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Workshops ASM Sydney 2010 |
Lecture Rooms / Labs -
Sunday 4/7/10
at UTS, Building 4 |
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Education |
Lecture Room 2.40, holds 100 people theatre
style |
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Serology Sunday |
Lecture Room 2.38, holds 100 people theatre
style |
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Ocular Microbiology |
Lecture Room 2.36, holds 100 people theatre
style |
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Mycology |
Lecture Room on level three: 3.27 holds 65
people classroom style. |
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Advanced Imaging Workshop |
Lecture Room 2.34, holds 100 people theatre
style |
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Workshops ASM Sydney 2010 |
Lecture Rooms / Labs -
Thursday 8/7/10
at UTS, Building 4 |
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Bacterial Identification – Back to Basics
Revisited |
Lecture Room 2.31 holds 52 people classroom
style. Labs 2.02 & 2.10. UTS will provide gowns
& microscopes. |
Facilities:
Excellent in each room and lab. Desk top
microphone built into lectern, data projector, large
screens, DVD, CD, document camera with zoom
facility. PC compatible (no Macs), can plug in
laptop. Cannot save to desktop, therefore, for
smooth transition between speakers best to save all
presentations on one memory stick.
Directions to
get to UTS, Building 4:
Tell taxi drivers to take you to the ABC Building
on Harris St. Most know where that is. Cross the
road at the lights and you are at the Science
Faculty (UTS, Building 4).
From
Darling Harbour, walk through to Tumbalong
Park and through Chinatown to Ultimo Rd until you
reach Harris St (ask for a map at your hotel). Turn
left and you will see the shiny silver Science
Faculty building on the corner ahead of you. It’s an
8-10 minute walk. Or catch a cab ($7-10 depending on
traffic)!
The UTS City campus, Broadway, is
close to
Central railway station. After alighting at
Central Station take the exits to Railway
Square/George Street (via the "Devonshire Tunnel", a
pedestrian tunnel). Turn left at Railway Square
(towards the big brown tower that says UTS!) and
walk one block to Harris St, cross at the lights
and turn right at the Co-op bookshop (UTS Broadway
campus). Walk down the road until you get to Thomas
St. You should be outside the Science Faculty
building (Building 4) with the ABC building across
the road.
If you catch any
bus that
goes to Railway Square (George St), turn
towards the big brown tower that says UTS and walk
one block to Harris St, cross at the lights and
turn right at the Co-op bookshop (UTS Broadway
campus). Walk down the road until you get to Thomas
St. You should be outside the Science Faculty
building (Building 4, shiny and silver) with the ABC
building across the road.
It is easiest to
enter
Building 4 from the corner of Thomas and Harris Sts
and make your way to the lifts or use the stairs
directly in front of you as registration is at the
top of these stairs on Level 2. Do not use the
entrance and lifts that are halfway up the building
on Harris St as these are pin-coded and you will get
stuck on Level 4.
Below is a link to the campus map:
http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/citymap.html
The
registration desk and workshop rooms are on
Level 2; at the top of the stairs in the main
entrance.
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