Visiting fellow to headline summer series with session on collaborative learning and effective leadership

Visiting fellow in educational development, Joanne Maddern of Aberystwyth University in Wales, will kick off this year’s Summer Series on Teaching and Learning with a dynamic and energizing workshop on reflective leadership and collaboration in education, Tuesday, August 13, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Through her practical experience and training in personal and educational coaching, Dr. Maddern will make a case that instructors should pay more attention to the underexplored ‘affective’ and neurological states involved in effective leadership and authentic collaboration. She will look critically at models and images of effective leaders.

This interactive workshop will examine how to trigger the neurological states best suited to effective collaboration and leadership in increasingly pressured neoliberal university environments, and will consider how this can engender rapid organizational learning.

Maddern spent several years as a lecturer in geography and American studies at Dundee University, Scotland, before returning to Aberystwyth to take up her current role as learning and teaching development coordinator across the entire university. She is the director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education at Aberystwyth, and recently undertook a radical restructuring of the whole program based on consultation across university faculties.

She is interested in internationalization and keen to explore and create cross-Atlantic networks as well as examine the differences and similarities between Welsh and Canadian teaching enhancement programs and practices.

For more information on Maddern, visit http://ctl.uwindsor.ca/ctl/maddern.
Other Summer Series topics include:

  • Prepping Your First Day and Designing for Engagement
  • The Clicker Primers
  • Project and Group Work
  • Assessment: How Do You Know What They Know?
  • Academic Integrity in Collaborations
  • Introduction to Teaching and Learning in a Lab Setting
  • Teaching With Gadgets: Educational Technologies Discussion and Demonstration
  • Teaching and Learning in a Research Group Setting

Instructors are also invited to register for the free barbecue luncheon which will close the Summer Series at noon Thursday, August 15.

Full workshop descriptions and presenter biographies are available at http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/workshops/69/.