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WAKONSE TEACHING CONFERENCE: MAY 26 - MAY 31
WAKONSE UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE: May 25 - May 31
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The Program

Take everyone away from campus, from their phones, from offices and professional obligations. Prepare them for full days of workshop activities exploring teaching through highly interactive large and small group presentations, discussion groups and hands-on experiential sessions. Promote informal opportunities for support and networking to occur.


Our Role

  • Identify the talents and concerns of all participants .
  • Make everyone a participant: presenter, reactant, mentor, discussion leader, musician, photographer, entertainer, role model.
  • Make teaching the focus of the program. Explore it, model it, practice it, critique it, promote it, refine it.

 

Your Role

  • Come as an individual or as a campus team.
  • Identify others on your campus who want to improve their teaching.
  • Ask for nominations from deans or department chairs.

Outcomes

  • A collaborative exchange of talent, ideas and resources among participants.
  • Renewed interest, support and understanding of one's role as a college teacher.
  • Better teaching!
  • Increased concern for the general issues of the academy.
  • A more supportive campus climate for those concerned with teaching.

Cost & Registration

Cost & Deadline: $700 until April 1; $750 after April 1, if space is available.
The cost includes lodging, meals & resource materials.

Registration will begin in January 2012

Send Payments to:

Wakonse Foundation
323 Green Meadows Circle
Columbia, MO 65203

Cancellation & Refund Policy

If you must cancel for any reason, please notify me in writing at the address below.  Cancellations received fewer than 14 days before this event will not be eligible for a refund, but can receive credit toward the following year’s conference. 

Send your written notification to:
Joseph Johnston
323 Green Meadows Circle
Columbia, MO  65203
JohnstonJ@missouri.edu

Planning Your Travel:  The conference begins with dinner at 6:30 pm on May 26th, but you can arrive any time in the afternoon.  The conference ends with breakfast on May 31st.

For More Information

Call Joe Johnston: 573-882-0699

 
       
         
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