Whether you’re employing a structured Socratic method, engaging in critical intervention, or just checking in to take the pulse of the room, conducting oral assessments in your classes can be a great way to get create a safe(r) space for learning, form stronger relationships with students and get feedback about where students are in their learning journeys.
Our panelists for this session include Toni Roberts, a professor of Sociology at Mount Allison University, Donna Seamone, a professor in Comparative Religions at Acadia University, and co-presenters Jen Kershaw and Hélène d’Entremont, Biology Instructors at Acadia University.
The panelists will discuss how they use this simple conversational tactic in their classrooms to perform pre-assessments, formative assessments, and summative assessments, and they will identify the benefits as well as the challenges to implementing oral assessments into your course design.
Bios:
Danielle Pierce is an instructional designer at Acadia University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in Creative Writing, and her Bachelor of Education degree. Danielle is also a dog-mom to two goldens, a yoga teacher and she writes fiction novels.
Toni Roberts has been at Mount Allison University for 19 years and is Director, Purdy Crawford Teaching Centre and professor in Sociology at Mount Allison University. Toni is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and winner of the D2L National Teaching Innovation Award. Toni's research interests include sexuality, gender and technology, digital environments and SoTL.
Donna L. Seamone is an Associate Professor of Comparative Religion and holds the Lumsden Chair in Religious Studies at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She also serves as a core faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Prior to coming to Acadia in 2006, she taught at Wilfrid Laurier University and McMaster University. Her research spans the interdisciplinary range indicated by her teaching and her main research proficiencies are in the performance of ritual and ethnographic approaches to the study of lived religion. She focuses on religious systems as cultures, on the interface between religion and culture and on issues of gender, ethnicity, race, class, and nature. She loves to teach and loves to learn.
Hélène d’Entremont started working at Acadia University as a microbiology technician in 1994 and has been an instructor since 2000 teaching Microbial Biodiversity, Cell & Molecular Biology, and more recently, Applied & Environmental Microbiology laboratories.
Jen Kershaw has been teaching botany courses and labs at Acadia for 6 years. Her background is in rare plant ecology. She has also worked as a classroom teacher in the public system teaching French. They just presented work on this topic at an Instructor’s Lab conference in San Diego.
25 сен 2024
