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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear Faculty:
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The next NSM Faculty Development Workshop is scheduled for
<b>Friday, March 24, </b>from <b>11:30 am – 12:45 pm</b> in <b>Science Teaching Laboratories, Room 108E.
</b>Lunch will be provided; please RSVP using the link below. A flyer is attached. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Topic: “Active Learning Methods for the Classroom”</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Presenters:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dr. Lindsay Schwarz and Shari Mauthner
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">College of Pharmacy, University of Houston<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">What is
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Active Learning? “Anything that involves students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing." (Bonwell & Eison, 1991, p. 2). Felder & Brent (2009) define active
learning as "anything course-related that all students in a class session are called upon to do, other than simply watching, listening and taking notes" (p. 2). Research suggests that students lose attention in lecture after 10-20 minutes. Active Learning,
by introducing the elements of practice and higher order thinking, reinforces concepts and skills, while accommodating other learning styles. We will discuss how much time in a typical class could be devoted to active learning, how to incorporate active learning
in your class, venues for active learning (large vs small classroom settings) and engage the audience in some active learning exercises we have successfully used in our classes in the College of Pharmacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">RSVP:
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(246, 138, 28); "><a href="http://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-faculty7">www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-faculty7</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">I hope you will join us
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">on March 24<span style="color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Donna Pattison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">____________________________________<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Donna L. Pattison, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Instructional Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Affairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">University of Houston<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Department of Biology and Biochemistry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">713-743-2642<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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