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  The Dean, Chairpersons, and select faculty members of the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University visited several UPD academic units for their benchmarking activity last December 9, 2022. Consultations were held with the College of Arts and Letters, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, General Education Center and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development to strengthen their research, extension, and instruction capabilities. We are grateful to…

  As part of our ongoing efforts to expand our Teaching Effectiveness Course (TEC) offerings, we would like to invite graduate faculty members to participate in the pilot run of TEC 2: Reflections on Graduate School Teaching. The course will run on November 28 (10:00-11:30 AM; 1:00-3:00 PM) and November 29 (9:00-10:30 AM), 2022 (3 hours max per session). The workshop will be conducted via Zoom.   This short course…

  Taking off from our webinar on critical thinking last September and in line with the goal of OAT-OVCAA to deepen our pool of facilitators for future offerings, we would like to invite interested faculty members to a training for trainers on Integrating Critical Thinking in Instruction. This will be conducted on 19 November 2022 (Saturday), from 9 AM-3 PM. Dr. Nadya Patel from the Singapore Institute of Technology will…

We would like to thank the faculty members from the UP CUs and SUCs in NCR and Central Luzon for participating in the Teaching and Learning Activities for SUCs (TaLAS) Course 1: Building a Teaching Effectiveness Program from September 21– 23, 2022 via Zoom. We would also like to thank the UP Diliman Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development – Office of Extension Coordination, UP Office of…

We would like to thank faculty members for attending this morning’s webinar on Either I talk more, or my students won’t! Making Critical Thinking Explicit and Visible with Dialogic Thinking with Dr. Nadya Patel of Singapore Institute of Technology. Here are some resources that might be helpful for you: 1. Recording of webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVtekgTFx0 2. Slide deck of Dr. Nadya Patel: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eh34KGl-q8JOpjF_TBM1aJwZefTedvMy/view?usp=sharing OAT Team