President Kress will kick off the Teaching & Creativity Center’s yearlong series of conversations about how cognitive science applies to your classroom and to all classrooms. These conversations will focus on the book Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for Your Classroom. The author is Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Willingham, well known for his column Ask the Cognitive Scientist in the American Educator. Willingham will cap this series in person with a lecture-workshop at MCC on June 10, 2011.
President Kress will facilitate a conversation on Chapter One, “Why Don’t Students Like School?” The event will take place twice at the Brighton Campus: from noon to 12:50 p.m. on Oct. 7, and from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. on Oct. 12. Both sessions will be in the Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center Empire Room. President Kress also will lead off this year’s conversations on this book at the Damon City Campus on Oct. 4 from noon to 12:50 in the Community Room, Rm. 4-193.
Also this semester, Celia Reaves, of the Psychology Department, will facilitate a conversation on the Brighton Campus on Chapter 2, “How Can I Teach Students the Skills They Need When Standardized Tests Require Only Facts?” and Chapter 3, “Why Do Students Remember Everything That’s on Television and Forget Everything I Say?” That event will take place from noon to 12:50 p.m. Nov. 3 and from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. Nov. 4. Both sessions will be in the TCC, Room 315 of the LeRoy V. Good Library. The second conversation at the Damon City Campus will be on Tuesday, Nov. 9 from 3:30 to 4:30 in the Multipurpose Room, Rm. 4-013. The topic(s) and facilitator for this discussion will be announced at a later date.
To RSVP to any of the events, go to https://web.monroecc.edu/TCC/events.
Some copies of the book are still available to faculty members who wish to share in these conversations.
Brighton faculty who would like a copy should go to the above link. The book will be sent to them through interoffice mail.
Damon faculty may pick up a copy at the Damon library.
Questions? Contact Gene Marino <mailto:emarino@monroecc.edu> or Maryann Marino <mailto:mmarino@monroecc.edu>.
Gene Marino
Transitional Studies
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