Speaker: Nathan Sanders (University of Toronto)
Title: Effective teaching in phonetics and phonology
Time: Friday, November 1, 3:30-5pm
Location: 32-141
Abstract: In this talk, I offer some reflections from my own experience concerning how instructors can be more effective when teaching phonetics and phonology. First, I discuss ideas to consider when developing course content, such as topic organization, applications of course concepts, and inclusivity. Second, I discuss innovative methods for supplementing traditional assessment, such as creative projects and alternative grading. Finally, I illustrate some tools I designed to support student learning: various educational games and a data set generator. My hope is that these ideas, methods, and tools may be as useful to other instructors as they have been for me.