Lessons Learned from your JMU Colleagues

The Ins and Outs of Cooperative Learning

Move your students beyond listening and watching with interactive techniques designed to enhance attention, focus, interest, and engagement in learning. Many of these instructional techniques can be embedded in large or small group lectures to promote dialogue, problem solving, application, and higher order thinking. In this workshop you will experience a variety of active learning strategies and leave with practice ideas you can immediately implement to enhance deeper learning in your course.

Facilitator:

Karen Santos - Professor, Exceptional Education and Executive Director, CFI

Biographical Sketches:

Karen E. Santos is Executive Director of the Center for Faculty Innovation and a professor of education. Karen received a B.S. degree in Communication Disorders and Deaf Education from Northwestern University, and M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Virginia. She was named the outstanding teacher at James Madison University and received the Carl Harter Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998. She received the JMU Madison Scholar award in 2002 and Provost Award for Excellence in 2003.
Karen provides numerous state and national workshops for teachers and administrators in the areas of differentiation of instruction, curriculum access and team teaching. She is co-author of two books and numerous journal articles.