Teaching and Learning Innovation Series, Spring 2018
The Teaching and Learning Innovation (TLI) Series features interactive, hands-on workshops focused on the development of excellent teaching and learning through:
- offering new methods for classroom and academic instruction
- presenting creative ways to engage students in learning
- using new teaching strategies to enhance academic experience
- examining teaching and learning approaches in new ways
- learning to use new and available tools
TLI Resources
The Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLI) Series features professional, engaging online videos and interactive face-to-face sessions and workshops that enhance professional development at EKU. The documents attached at the bottom of the page are intended to help speakers prepare for the video recording process and face-to-face interactive sessions.
Past sessions have been recorded; you may find those sessions by following this link.
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Technology: Utilization of Audio Feedback and Voice Threads
Dr. Molly Bradshaw and Sarah Antle
Tuesday, January 23, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Technology
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations
The purpose of this presentation is to explore strategies for utilization of voice and audio feedback in the classroom. Examples will be provided and comments from EKU students presented. By the end of the presentation, the audience may consider use of this technology for their classroom agenda.
Objectives:
Explore mechanisms/platforms for providing students with voice and audio feedback.
Discuss best practices for utilization of audio/voice feedback
Review examples and critique assignments using this technology.
Examine the comments of EKU students regarding their perspective of this technique.
Click here to watch "Technology: Utilization of Audio Feedback and Voice Threads"Previous registration for "Technology: Utilization of Audio Feedback and Voice Threads"
The QEP and Program-level Assessment
Dr. Jackie Jay
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Conference Room
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Scholarship
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations, Critical Reading
Beginning in Fall 2018, all academic programs will be expected to link at least one of their existing objectives with critical reading or create a new objective. This workshop will explain these expectations in detail and provide concrete examples of how specific programs have already incorporated the QEP into their program-level assessment.
Click here to view a video of this session
Previous registration for "The QEP and Program-level Assessment"Developing Critical Readers through Metacognitive Strategies
Dr. Jill Parrott
Tuesday, January 30, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Metacognition
*DEEP Week Presentation
Instructors often report that their students can't or don't read assigned texts in their classes. In this hands on workshop, participants will think about the role of reading for learning in their courses and practice metacognitive strategies that can help students read with purpose and develop as critical readers.
Objectives:
Think about the role of reading for learning in your classes.
Practice metacognitive strategies to improve critical reading.
Click here to register for "Developing Critical Readers through Metacognitive Strategies"Developing Critical Readers through Metacognitive Strategies
Dr. Lisa Bosley
Wednesday, January 31, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Metacognition
Instructors often report that their students can't or don't read assigned texts in their classes. In this hands on workshop, participants will think about the role of reading for learning in their courses and practice metacognitive strategies that can help students read with purpose and develop as critical readers.
Objectives:
Think about the role of reading for learning in your classes.
Practice metacognitive strategies to improve critical reading.
Click here to register for "Developing Critical Readers through Metacognitive Strategies"The QEP and General Education
Dr. Erin Presley
Tuesday, February 6, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Metacognition, Foundations
This workshop will focus on incorporating the QEP into General Education courses, specifically the assessment of SLO 1: Students will demonstrate critical reading of academic texts and materials. Elements 3A, 3B, and 5A are piloting critical reading activities during Spring 2018, and the other elements will begin activity development during the following academic year. Participants will receive guidance on activity development, implementation, and assessment with specific examples and feedback; both sessions will cover the same material.
Click here to watch a video of "The QEP and General Education"Driving Student Interaction with Blackboard Collaborate
Jonathan Sikora
Wednesday, February 7, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Technology
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations
Explore some of the more interactive features of Collaborate and discuss how to use these features to keep your students more engaged in the session. We will examine uses of the status and feedback tool, polling, breakout groups, and the whiteboard and will discuss different applications of these tools in your class.
Click here to watch a video of "Driving Student Interaction with Blackboard Collaborate"
Classroom Management
Dr. Sara Zeigler and Dr. Rusty Carpenter
Wednesday, February 7, 2:00-3:00p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations
In this interactive session, facilitators will provide strategies for classroom mangement. Participants will use examples and cases to explore effective and ineffective approaches in the classroom.
Objectives:
Recognize effective classroom management techniques
Identify common classroom management challenges
Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of approaches
Develop strategies for preventing problems
Learn conflict de-escalation techniques
Click here to watch a video of "Classroom Management"
Textbook Reading Strategies
Dr. Lisa Bosley
Tuesday, February 13, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: *Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Metacognition
While our students are reading every day on BuzzFeed, Twitter, Facebook, or other media sources, they’re often unused to the types of reading tasks we ask them to do in our classes. In particular, textbooks can be overwhelming because of their density and unfamiliar language. This session will review metacognitive reading strategies that can be applied to textbook reading and provide practical approaches to course design that will help students read with purpose, retain information, and learn from textbooks more independently. (Instructors are encouraged to attend the Developing Critical Readers through Metacognitive Strategies workshop prior to this session but it can be taken on its own.)
Objectives:
Identify challenges with textbook reading assignments
Clarify purpose in assigning textbook reading
Practice metacognitive strategies to help students read textbooks more effectively
Identify strategies to improve textbook reading engagement and compliance
Click here to register for "Textbook Reading Strategies"Aim High, Go Far: High Impact Practices (HIP)
Dr. Randi Polk and Dr. Socorro Zaragoza
Thursday, February 15, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Scholarship
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations
This session will focus on diversity and community building as well as how high impact practices (HIP) can be paired to help student learning.
Objectives:
Participants will learn about opportunities to enhance diversity in and out of classes.
Participants will work collaboratively to create lessons or opportunities to integrate HIP.
Click here to register for "Aim High, Go Far"Introduction to Universal Design (part 1 of 2)
Dr. Lori Davis
To be rescheduled due to instructor illness
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Technology, Diversity
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Are you focused upon minimizing barriers to learning? Join Lori Davis, Director, Center for Student Accessibility, for a discussion about limiting obstacles to the educational environment utilizing the principles of Universal Design.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will:
1) Identify and recognize typical barriers all students may face due inaccessible educational formats.
2) Understand how barriers can be minimized in the learning environment.
3) Define the term Universal Design and describe its principles and processes.
4) Learn several quick fix solutions to integrate accessible formats into instruction.
Click here to register for "Introduction to Universal Design (part 1)"Critically Reading the Screen
Dr. Jill Parrott
Thursday, February 22, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Noel Studio Conference Room
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy and Technology
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading
Multimodal texts--those that occupy more than one approach simultaneously such as websites, which have textual, visual, and often audio elements--can be challenging for students to read critically and for us to teach with an eye toward metacognition. How does one annotate a blog post? How can a student read a YouTube video with purpose? Can a piece of music be summarized? This session will provide instructors with a brief background in multimodality and practical classroom approaches to help students improve their reading of multimodal texts to be more critical and metacognitive.
Objectives:
Review theories of multimodality
Review metacognitive reading strategies
Apply metacognitive reading strategies to multimodal texts
Discuss plans to help students read multimodal texts metacognitively
Diversity in the Classroom
"Constructing a learner-centered syllabus that supports student empowerment, motivation and achievement"
Dr. Timothy Forde
TBD
TBD
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Diversity
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
The QEP and General Education
Dr. Erin Presley
Wednesday, February 28, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Noel Studio Conference Room
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Foundations, Metacognition
This workshop will focus on incorporating the QEP into General Education courses, specifically the assessment of SLO 1: Students will demonstrate critical reading of academic texts and materials. Elements 3A, 3B, and 5A are piloting critical reading activities during Spring 2018, and the other elements will begin activity development during the following academic year. Participants will receive guidance on activity development, implementation, and assessment with specific examples and feedback; both sessions will cover the same material.
Click here to register for "The QEP and General Education"What if We Didn't Grade Students?
Dr. Matt Winslow and Dr. Erik Liddell
Wednesday, February 28, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Breakout Space Three
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations
Grading students’ work provides an opportunity to provide feedback to students and for students to assess their performance in classes. But what would happen if grades were not provided (while still retaining feedback)? We will describe recent pieces on grade-free pedagogy, and our experiences with institutions that had some version of a grade-free policy. Discussion will focus on the benefits and limitations of going grade-free, and practical advice for adopting such an approach. Attendees can get a head-start by reading this blog: http://www.jessestommel.com/why-i-dont-grade/
Click here to register for "What If We Didn't Grade Students?"Developing Critical Readers through Metacognitive Strategies
Dr. Jill Parrott
Wednesday, March 7, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Metacognition
Instructors often report that their students can't or don't read assigned texts in their classes. In this hands on workshop, participants will think about the role of reading for learning in their courses and practice metacognitive strategies that can help students read with purpose and develop as critical readers.
Objectives:
Think about the role of reading for learning in your classes.
Practice metacognitive strategies to improve critical reading.
Click here to register for "Developing Critical Readers"The QEP and Program-level Assessment
Dr. Jackie Jay
Thursday, March 8, 11:00-12:00 p.m.
NEW LOCATION - Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations, Critical Reading, Metacognition
Beginning in Fall 2018, all academic programs will be expected to link at least one of their existing objectives with critical reading or create a new objective. This workshop will explain these expectations in detail and provide concrete examples of how specific programs have already incorporated the QEP into their program-level assessment.
Click here to register for "The QEP and Program-level Assessment"Increasing Student Motivation to Read Class Assignments
Dr. Lisa Bosley
Tuesday, March 20, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Metacognition
Faculty often lament their students’ lack of attention to course reading assignments and spend valuable class time summarizing key points from the reading. What if students came to class prepared to work with ideas from their course texts? This session will present classroom practices and assignments that encourage active, critical reading.
Objectives:
Review theories of student motivation and self-efficacy
Practice metacognitive strategies to create an inquiry-based approach to texts
Practice metacognitive strategies to generate interest in reading assignments
Discuss strategies to hold students accountable for class reading
Click here to register for "Increasing Student Motivation to Read"Creating an iGen Pedagogy
Dr. Charlie Sweet, Dr. Hal Blythe, Dr. Shirley O’Brien, Dr. Jonathan Gore, Dr. Beth Polin
Monday, March 26, 11:00-12:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Breakout Space Three
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Technology
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations, Discussion Boards, Thinking Critically and Creatively
The iGen—sometimes called Generation Z or the Screenagers—are those born after 1995, and they now populate your classes. IGen-ers are different, even from millennials (whom they think are old), and they represent a challenge to current pedagogy. Learn what you can do to connect and promote deep learning with this generation.
Objectives:
Participants will develop a knowledge of the iGen-eration.
Participants will learn to apply this knowledge in order to create deep learning in their students.
Click here to register for "Creating an iGen Pedagogy"Universal Design (Part 2 of 2)
Dr. Lori Davis (and others panel members TBD)
TBD
TBD
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Technology, Diversity
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Critical Reading and Information Literacy
Dr. Jill Parrott & Trenia Napier
Monday, April 2, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy
DEEP Course Inclusion: Critical Reading, Metacognition
Students' use of self-selected texts in research projects is often shallow, demonstrating a lack of deep understanding of authors' arguments, conceptual frameworks, methods, and conclusions. In a collaboration between QEP and EKU libraries, this session will offer ideas for facilitating student research projects by promoting metacognitive strategies to help students select, read, analyze, and synthesize scholarly articles and other research materials.
Objectives:
Identity purposes in assigning research projects
Review research on students' use of self-selected texts in research projects
Identify challenges in working with self-selected texts in classes
Practice metacognitive strategies to help students read self-selected texts more critically
Discuss strategies for providing feedback on students' use of self-selected texts in their writing
Click here to register for "Critical Reading and Information Literacy"Barrier to Learning: Why We Can No Longer Afford High Textbook Prices
Victoria Koger and Linda Sizemore
Tuesday, April 17, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Technology
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations
Are textbook costs affecting your students? Do you want to alleviate some of the burden of textbook costs? Join us to find out how you and EKU Librarians can work together to find solutions using library resources and open education resources to promote student success.
Click here to register for "Barrier to Learning"Blackboard Ally
Jonathan Sikora
Wednesday, April 18, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Noel Studio Discovery Classroom
Core Learning Thread: Pedagogy, Technology
DEEP Course Inclusion: Foundations, Discussion Boards, Flipping the Classroom
We will explore the tools available with Blackboard’s Ally product and how it can be used to ensure that you are providing accessible course material. We will discuss how the Ally tool evaluates content and what information it gives you to help improve that content. We will also look at the accessible versions of files it will create and discuss ways students can use those files.
Click here to register for "Blackboard Ally"