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[Report] Certificate Award Ceremony Conducted for the 19th UTokyo FFP / the 1st UTokyo Global FFDP

The Certificate Award Ceremony for the 19th “The University of Tokyo Future Faculty Program (UTokyo FFP)” and The University of Tokyo Future Faculty Development Program (UTokyo Global FFDP) was held on Zoom on Thursday, September 15th, 2023.
Fifty-four participants completed the 19th UTokyo FFP, and fourteen participants completed the 1st UTokyo Global FFDP. Each of them received a certificate. They had a congratulatory address from Prof. Yasushi Asami, Director of the Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, The University of Tokyo.

Later, UTokyo FFP alumni appeared as guest speakers and explained their various activities after completing the program and introduced the alumni network. From UTokyo Global FFDP, the representative of the 1st edition gave a speech.

UTokyo FFP is a program for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty/staff members to enhance their teaching competences by creating syllabi, conducting microteaching and so on.

UTokyo FFP has produced a total of 903 people who completed the program coming from every graduate school at The University of Tokyo.

The 20th UTokyo FFP is scheduled to start in October, AY2023, and the application is open now through the following link.
→https://dev2.utokyofd.com/ffp/attend.html

The 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP is scheduled to start in April, AY2023.

 

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【Report】UTokyo Global FFDP 2nd Edition: DAY 8

The eighth and last session (DAY 8) of the 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP was held in-person on Tuesday, July 25th, 2023. The topic of the session was “Reflection on our learning“. The following are some of the key moments (highlights) of the session.

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAY 8

First, we discussed three relevant statements connected to different topics addressed during the program and that had also appeared in the initial survey and in short surveys that the participants responded during the course:

  1. １．Teaching in person and teaching online are entirely different practices
  2. ２．Faculty should make their teaching practice open to others (public)
  3. ３．A syllabus should be considered a non-modifiable “contract” between teacher and students

For the first two statements, the participants took part in a teaching and learning technique called “fishbowl“. The groups were conformed based on their responses to the different surveys in order to promote a debate with diverse perspectives.

During the second part of the class, the participants answered a set of quizzes with questions related to the contents addressed in the course; they had also answered these questions at different moments throughout the course.

The responses were used to address pending questions or unsolved doubts; at the same time, data from the participants’ responses across the course were used to track their learning path and reflect on it.

 

Lastly, we spent the end of the class hearing some comments and feedback from the participants and planning new events to continue contributing to their professional development.

Hence, although UTokyo Global FFDP of this academic year has ended, we will continue to provide other learning opportunities in English. Amongst them, UTokyo FD Open, a series of events on educational topics open to everyone regardless of your institution, check the information in this link:  https://dev2.utokyofd.com/en/event/post-13371/

Thank you very much for reading the reports. Stay tuned for our further updates!

 

Dr. Gabriel Hervas (Lecturer. Project Associate Professor)

Ms. Airi Kawakami（Staff. Project Academic Specialist）

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【Report】UTokyo Global FFDP 2nd Edition: DAY 6・7

The sixth (DAY 6) and the seventh (DAY 7) sessions of the 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP were held in-person on July 11th and July 18th, 2023. These two sessions involved “teaching practice & feedback“. After designing a brief class on the previous class, the participants were now invited to teach it in front of their peers and to share their feedback (twice).

The experience was great, to the point that the participants are interested in doing this again, only that now with a longer class. We will make our best effort to organize new opportunities to that end.

The following are some of the key moments (highlights) of the sessions.

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAY 6・7

For these sessions, we divide the group of participants in small groups. These groups are guided by a supporter who facilitates the group discussions, keeps track of time and, also, shares feedback. These supporters are participants of the 1st edition of UTokyo Global FFDP and of FFP (Japanese version of the program). We would like to express our gratitude for their support! Without them, this experience would be impossible.

Once in their groups, each participant delivered a brief class. These classes were extremely varied in terms of the contents addressed, but also in the use of teaching and learning strategies or of educational technology. Each time a participant finished delivering the class, the peers individually filled a feedback form. This written feedback is later (in the next day) summarized and anonymized and shared with the participants.

After a break, the second part of the class involved the participants in sharing the most relevant aspects of their feedback with the guidance of the supporter. In this way, the participants offered/received both oral and written feedback for each class that they delivered.

As the closure, everyone came back to the main room. There, the supporters and the lecturer summarized what happened in each group and the main takeaways.  Also, the participants shared their thoughts about their experience doing this exercise.

Again, we were very grateful to the participants, observers and supporters for their work!

Stay tuned for new reports of UTokyo Global FFDP after DAY 8!

 

Dr. Gabriel Hervas (Lecturer. Project Associate Professor)

Ms. Airi Kawakami（Staff. Project Academic Specialist）

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【Report】UTokyo Global FFDP 2nd Edition：DAY 5

The fifth session (DAY 5) of the 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP was held in-person on Tuesday, June 27th, 2023. The topic of the session was “review & class design“. The following are some of the key moments (highlights) of the session.

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAY 5

First, we started the class reviewing the contents of the previous class with the participants’ ideas.

We spent the first part of the class practicing poster tour/gallery walk. The participants were divided in four groups that worked in creating four posters, each addressing the main contents of one of the previous four sessions of the course. This was not only a moment to recall and retrieve ideas, but also to develop a more profound understanding of the poster tour/gallery walk technique by experiencing it (what we call, experiential learning).

Following this, we explored different ideas regarding the design and improvement of a class and its instruction (key moments, events, etc.).

With this preparation, the participants (in groups) shared the design and structure of a class that they are preparing to teach in the following sessions of this course. While sharing their design sheets, they receive feedback from their peers to improve them. In the next two sessions of the course, the participants will deliver this brief class and receive feedback from their peers (two times in two different weeks).

Lastly, as always, we summarized the session and presented the structure of the following classes. Also, the participants filled in a small survey.

Stay tuned for new reports of UTokyo Global FFDP after DAY 6!

 

Dr. Gabriel Hervas (Lecturer. Project Associate Professor)

Ms. Airi Kawakami（Staff. Project Academic Specialist）

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【Report】UTokyo Global FFDP 2nd Edition：DAY 4

The fourth session (DAY 4) of the 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP was held in-person on Tuesday, June 20th, 2023. The topic of the session was “course & syllabus design“. The following are some of the key moments (highlights) of the session.

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAY 4

First, we started the class reviewing the contents of the previous class with the participants’ ideas through an online resource to gather their responses in real-time.

After that, we made explicit for the participants part of the design of the course. In particular, we explained how we have been reviewing each day the learning of the previous classes.

For us, this was key for two reasons: (a) doing this makes visible for the participants part of the rationale of the learning experience they are going through, and (b) these are ideas that the participants can also implement in their own classes (hence, it is also a learning material).

During the class, we reviewed different ideas regarding course and syllabus design that appeared in the video that the participants watched before the class (backward design, constructive alignment, potential components of a syllabus, etc.).

Following this, we explored different educational notions (goals, objectives, intended learning outcomes), by examining how different universities define and use these terms.

In relation with this, we learnt about how to write learning outcomes, amongst others, considering Bloom’s taxonomy.

With this preparation, the main activity of the class involved the participants in reviewing their syllabi and in sharing ideas and feedback to continue improving them. We were glad to see that all the participants discussed very actively (even during the break)!

Lastly, we explained the following sessions (the participants will teach design a class and will teach it in front of their peers so they can receive feedback).

Stay tuned for new reports of UTokyo Global FFDP after DAY 5!

 

Dr. Gabriel Hervas (Lecturer. Project Associate Professor)

Ms. Airi Kawakami（Staff. Project Academic Specialist）

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【Report】UTokyo Global FFDP 2nd Edition：DAY 3

The third session (DAY 3) of the 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP was held online on Tuesday, June 6th, 2023. The topic of the session was “assessment, evaluation and feedback“. The following are some of the key moments (highlights) of the session.

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAY 3

First, we paid explicit attention to the participants’ learning process and gains by:

  • a) Comparing the responses to the same/similar questions on different moments of the course

  • b) Reviewing their emerging learning on teaching and learning techniques and on the use of rubrics by making use of questions that the participants had created before the class

Also, during the class we discussed our feedback and ideas to create multiple-choice questions. Among others, we talked about the use of certainty-based marking/confidence assessment. The idea is that points are assigned for each response based on how confident the learner feels answering each question.

The images on the following slide belong to/are extracted from: Wu, Q., Vanerum, M., Agten, A., Christiansen, A., Vandenabeele, F., Rigo, J. M., & Janssen, R. (2021). Certainty-Based Marking on Multiple-Choice Items: Psychometrics Meets Decision Theory. Psychometrika, 86(2), 518-543.

Another highlight of the class is when the participants learnt about speed-dating as a teaching and learning strategy through experiential learning (they went through the experience of speed-dating). While doing this in an on-line setting can be challenging, we were glad to see smiles on their faces at the end!

 

During the class, we built on the emerging learning of the participants (after watching a couple of videos before the class). In groups, they discussed the creation of a rubric to assess groupwork and a created a table summarizing key ideas about the different natures and purposses of assessment.

Lastly, we discussed with the participants ideas on the features of quality feedback.

At the end of the class, we looked through the information about the next class and the tasks to fulfill before that.

Stay tuned for new reports of UTokyo Global FFDP after DAY 4! The next session will be held in-person!

 

Dr. Gabriel Hervas (Lecturer. Project Associate Professor)

Ms. Airi Kawakami（Staff. Project Academic Specialist）

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【Report】UTokyo Global FFDP 2nd Edition：DAY 2

The second session (DAY 2) of the 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP was held online on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023. The topic of the session was “teaching and learning methods, strategies and techniques”. The following are some of the key moments (highlights) of the session.

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAY 2

During the class, we first summarized the contents of DAY 1 using the participants’ responses to what they learnt. The responses were collected through a reflective writing task which we had asked the participants to submit by DAY 2.

Also, we used ChatGPT to create a classroom assessment technique (CAT). We discussed “flipped classroom”, reviewing the explanation generated by ChatGPT by forcing the AI to offer a not fully correct explanation.

We learnt about different teaching and learning techniques using experiential learning (i.e., we learnt about jigsaw through jigsaw). We learnt 4 techniques: Think-pair-share, jigsaw, gallery walk, and fishbowl. The picture shows a breakout room.

Then we discussed and shared ideas about teaching and learning techniques strategies with the whole class.

At the end of the class, we granted options to the participants to continuously keep track of their own learning gains. We asked them to fill in the online form, and we will discuss the results in the next class, DAY 3.

Stay tuned for new reports of UTokyo Global FFDP after DAY 3!

 

Dr. Gabriel Hervas (Lecturer. Project Associate Professor)

Ms. Airi Kawakami（Staff. Project Academic Specialist）

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【Report】UTokyo Global FFDP 2nd Edition：DAY 1

The first session (DAY 1) of the 2nd edition of UTokyo Global FFDP was held online on Tuesday, May 16th, 2023. The topic of the session was “the science of learning”.

The following are what we call the “highlights of the day“, key moments of the session that we share with our participants as a reminder of the class and of their good work. In addition, we accompany these highlights with a follow-up/feedforward document addressing in more detail some ideas that emerged in class and/or other connected aspects that might be of interest.

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAY 1

The participants shared and discussed key aspects on the science of learning based on the content of a video that they had watched prior to the class (the course is, overall, based on flipped classroom).

In UTokyo Global FFDP, we conduct an “initial survey” before the course begins. Its purpose is to grasp the students’ prior ideas, interests and needs and to adjust the course accordingly. In class, we discussed their previous ideas about the science of learning and its practical implications using the results to that survey to make visible their emerging learning gain.

 

During the class, we discussed the idea of “scaffolding” and we shared ideas to keep in mind to design courses and classes that contribute to learning based on this idea.

Also, we discussed a potential utility of chatbots such as ChatGPT to “facilitate” teachers’ work, for instance, in summarizing students’ work (only in situations when there is no potential risk for the students’ and their learning and after a careful review by the teacher).

Lastly, another highlight of the session was when we discussed the range of options that we can find from a learner-centered to teacher-centered approach and discussed the idea of “direct instruction“.

Stay tuned for new reports of UTokyo Global FFDP after DAY 2!

 

Dr. Gabriel Hervas (Lecturer. Project Associate Professor)

Ms. Airi Kawakami（Staff. Project Academic Specialist）

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Introduction of “Global FD Presentation ” held on November 8th

The Global Faculty Development (GFD) Program would like to invite you to the presentation which will be held on Tuesday, November 8th.　The theme is “ An Introduction to LGBTQ+ on Campus”.

Please read the datails as follows : Introduction of “Global FD Presentation ” held on November 8th