EFL's Steve Myran will lead Thursday's Provost's Conversation, and you're invited!
<p align="center"> The Center for Learning and Teaching<br /> invites you to participate in<br /> <br /> <strong>The Provost’s Conversations on</strong><br /> <strong>Teaching and Learning</strong><br /> <br /> a brown bag lunch series *<br /> <br /> These conversations are intended to gather faculty members<br /> from all across the campus to share, to think,<br /> and to reflect on a wide range of teaching and learning issues.<br /> <br /> Come join the next conversation in this semester’s series:<br /> <br /> <strong>Making Productive Epistemic Beliefs Explicit:<br /> Tools for Moving Beyond Surface-Level Learning</strong> <br /> led by<br /> <strong>Steve Myran</strong><br /> <strong>Assistant Professor<br /> Educational Foundations and Leadership</strong></p> <p align="center"> <br /> <strong>Thursday, February 28 12:30-1:30pm<br /> Learning Commons Conference Room<br /> Perry Library</strong><br /> </p> <p align="center"> <em>Presented by the Center for Learning and Teaching, the Office of Distance Learning,<br /> and the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Carol Simpson</em></p> <p align="center"> For more information: <a href="http://clt.odu.edu/pctl" target="_blank">http://clt.odu.edu/pctl</a></p> <p align="center"> Questions? e-mail <a href="mailto:clt@odu.edu">clt@odu.edu</a> or phone 683-4252</p> <p align="center"> * CLT will provide light refreshments </p> <p> The Provost’s Conversations on Teaching and Learning are open to all faculty members, and offer the opportunity to reflect and share about the teaching and learning process.</p> <p> On Thursday, February 28, Steve Myran will lead a Conversation entitled “Making Productive Epistemic Beliefs Explicit: Tools for Moving Beyond Surface-Level Learning” from 12:30-1:30 in the Learning Commons Conference Room at Perry Library.</p> <p> Steve Myran, a veteran of urban public schools and an experienced principal or co-principle investigator on more than 20 grant-funded school improvement collaborations, is committed to helping to better utilize the tremendous scholarly knowledge base in applied settings.</p> <p> He is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the Darden College of Education whose work focuses on the gaps between theory and practice in the areas of instructional leadership, formative assessment, evidence based decision-making, and university/school collaboration. </p> <p> To these ends, Myran’s work is heavily invested in applied and design-based research principles that both address school personnel’s pragmatic and applied needs and encourage rigorous scholarship.</p> <p> For more information about the Provost’s Conversations on Teaching and Learning series, including highlights from past years’ Conversations and a calendar of upcoming Conversation dates, visit the Conversations’ website at <a href="http://clt.odu.edu/pctl">http://clt.odu.edu/pctl</a> – or you can view past Conversations on your iPad. To get the app, search the App Store for <strong>CLT ODU</strong> on your iPad or use your Web browser to view the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clt-odu/id528407622?mt=8">iTunes preview</a>. </p> <p> </p>
Posted By: Alison Schoew
Date: Mon Feb 25 08:10:49 EST 2013