Welcome to the Faculty Teacher´s Day!

8 June 2016

On August 18, this year´s Teacher´s Day takes place. It will be a an eventful day with lectures followed by workshops in different subjects, and a dinner.

Date: August 18

Location: Umeå Folkets Hus

Start: 8:30

End: 17:30 followed by dinner

Invited speakers Daniel Barker (Norra Real, Stockholm), Karin Due (NMD) and Ali Foroutan-Rad (ITS). Daniel and Karin will speak Swedish so the programme for English speakers starts at 11:00.

There will be parallel workshops divided into three sessions. You pick one workshop per session. Registration for workshops is done at location on a first-come-basis.

Session 1

*Who are our students? Images and identities of future engineers, scientists and science teachers. (English by request), Karolina Broman and Maria Berge (NMD)

*Teaching strategies for gender equality in the science and technology classroom - bring your course syllabus for discussion (English by request), Sofie Areljung, Karin Due (NMD)

*Workshop on Peer Instruction and Problem Solving in Math (Swedish), Daniel Barker (Norra Real)

Session 2

*Research Based Education (Swedish), Ulf Holmgren (TFE), Agneta Bränberg (TFE/UPL)

*Digital tools – Google Docs, Office 365, Cambro, etc (English by request), Niklas Brinkfeldt (UPL)

*Critical thinking (English), Lars Karlsson (CS)

Session 3

*Legal issues connected to thesis work (Swedish), Petra Kanon (Legal Affairs officer)

*What is advanced level? What should it be? (English by request), Rolf Zale (EMG), Fredrik Georgsson (TekNat fak)

*Forms for net based examination (English by request), Niklas Brinkfeldt (UPL)

A parallel track for PhD-students and other new teachers are given in English starting 11:00 ending 16:30. Separate registration needed.

Please register using the following link

https://www.aurora.umu.se/enheter/teknat/personal-och-organisation/larardagen/

Deadline for registration June 23.

Welcome!

Questions? Please contact:

fredrik.georgsson@umu.se

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