The Human Mind
Student Seminars (25 points)

 

Outcome: Each student or team will develop and lead a thirty-minute, interactive workshop (a scheduled seminar in a specific field). 

 

Individually or in teams, students will select a topic under our theme to research and present. The topic should be one about which you care and that offers some compelling questions and/or controversy.  In other words, it must involve more than just collecting information from various sources and reporting on it. The workshop leaders will present their workshops in a manner consistent with their own views of effective teaching and learning, based on the research conducted on memory and learning for the Model School project. The topic choice should be submitted in writing by April 12.

 

Each student or team will develop and submit a research pathfinder by April 22. The pathfinder will help assure that topics selected are well researched prior to the workshop.

 

 

  

Organizer for the Thirty-Minute Workshop

 

Introduction: Attention grabber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Background: Essential question, seminar goals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities/Discussion question: What will your audience be doing?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consult rubric for pathfinders

Samples from last semester:  Pasteur   Monet

 

Consult guidelines for oral presentations

 

 

 

Rubric for Workshop

Pathfinder submitted- Your ticket to present

 

 

1=poor   2= fair    3= good

Engaging introduction- Sets the tone for what is to come

 

 

 

Topic and questions easily identified-

 

 

 

Command of information about topic- The presenters should convey confidence and credibility

 

 

 

 

Level of preparedness- The presenters should be ready to go at the assigned time. Materials should be ready and have a professional, polished appearance.

 

 

 

 

Level of organization- Team members should know who is responsible for various parts of the presentation. All papers, notes, other media should be easily accessed for a smooth presentation. Transition between parts and presenters should look smooth and polished.

 

 

 

 

 

Ability to match theory with practice- Students will connect the strategy and activities used in the workshop with the research and theories on memory formation and retention.