Details on parking: Guests may park in the West campus garage or Wintergreen garage. This is about a 10-15 minute walk from Engleman. There is shuttle service available. Campus map:

https://www.southernct.edu/files/general/maps/scsu-map.pdf

Please join your colleagues for a day of lectures, workshops, discussion on methods of scientific teaching and food! Our expert keynote and workshop leaders come from around the Northeast. This event is open to all faculty and staff interested in teaching methodologies and strategies.

Registration and coffee/refreshments outside Engleman A120 begins at 9:30 a.m.

Keynote - Robert Bellin, College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, MA.

10a.m. Engleman Hall A120

Workshops to follow in assessment strategies, metacognition, student-centered adaptable learning environments, technology in the classroom and more!

Workshop Program 11:30-12:30

Academic Science Building Room 212 Sarah Maurer Ph.D CCSU Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry “The Origins of Life: Great Beginnings for Undergraduate Researchers”

Academic Science Building Room 319 Mark Graham Ph. D. and Alita Burmeister Ph. D. – Yale STEM PERL (Program Evaluation and Research lab) “CURE implementation in the classroom”

Academic Science Building Room 210 Robert Bellin Holy Cross “Continuation of keynote lecture Q&A”

Jennings 111 Carrie Sherwood, Ph. D. SCSU Science Education Program Coordinator and assistant professor Dept. of Education “Implications of the K-12 Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for post-secondary science instruction”

Lunch and poster session. Please bring your poster on YOUR ideas and innovations in teaching science. Lunch will be provided at the poster session.

12:30-3pm basement of Academic Science and Laboratory Building

Any questions please email jeffreyr1@southernct.edu