Description:

University Teaching Roundtable (UTR) - No Easy Answers: Inspiring Students to Tackle Messy Problems

WHEN: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
            12:00PM - 1:30PM

WHERE: Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
              627 Dartmouth Place
              Evanston

Questions such as “will this be on the test?” are common in university classes, and students can be more concerned with getting the “right” answer (or what they think is the right answer) than the longer process of working out or thinking through complex problems or dilemmas. How do we inspire our students to try out something new when the immediate answer isn’t apparent? How can we teach students to have confidence to try, to figure out when they are stuck, or to tackle problems when the answers aren’t easily apparent? How do we demonstrate that we and other experts also embrace the struggle through complex problems? Bringing together approaches from engineering and the social sciences, this workshop provides pedagogical strategies for getting students to embrace complex and ambiguous problems with confidence.

Lead by:

Jill Hardin Wilson is the IEMS Assistant Department chair for Undergraduate Studies. Her research interests are in optimization and in educational innovation for teaching the foundations of industrial engineering. — Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction

& Noelle Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Global Health Studies Program and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies Global Health Studies — Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Lecturer

*Registration Required. Please register.

Location: Current location is not wheelchair accessible. Please note we may move the location at the Evanston Campus if needed. Please keep a look out for the location announcements closer to the event data.