Celebration of Teaching Schedule
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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| 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Preconference Workshops - Creativity in the ClassroomRedesign Teaching to Maximize Student CreativityeLearning Compass: The present and future of eLearning at Mizzou |
| 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Keynote Presentation, Sir Ken Robinson |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Book Signing |
| 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Reception honoring this year's award recipients and campus authors |
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 – Concurrent Sessions
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| 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. |
Pixels and/or PrintThey are in the news a lot these days, but “etextbooks” mean different things to different people. Multimedia, mobiles, print-on-demand, the cloud, new authoring tools, and integrations with Blackboard are transforming textbooks. Join us as we explore some of the possibilities, pitfalls, and policies of etextbooks. We will look into:
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Observing Teaching Behaviors and Conducting Peer EvaluationsOften, observations of teaching are based more upon the individual preferences of the observer as opposed to data-driven information on teaching behaviors to inform practice and enhance the peer evaluation process. This workshop will focus on measurable teaching behaviors, as well as how to conduct and report teaching observations. Finally, participants will discuss the peer evaluation of teaching process and glean useful tips for how to serve on or chair a peer evaluation team. | |
Internships: Learning Beyond the ClassroomWith economic uncertainty clouding the job outlook, many companies and organizations are identifying internships as a route to productivity. Furthermore, with increased competition for entry-level positions, internships are a key to students’ post-graduation success. Come learn all about internships. Starting with definitions and learning models, we’ll explore the intricacies of helping students find employers and employers find students, the benefits of internships to your classroom and department, and the role of the institution throughout. | |
Fostering Success: Knowing What to ExpectThis session will focus on setting and communicating course expectations within various learning environments. The session will focus on identifying common pitfalls in setting expectations, discussing barriers to achieving expectations, and providing strategies to enhance the learning experience of both learner and educator. | |
Your Slides Matter: Making Great PowerPoint PresentationsMaking effective PowerPoint presentations is a critical skill for instructors. This session will show you how to avoid the pitfalls that plague many presentations. In addition, you will learn how to design powerful, highly visual slides and the best way to employ them. | |
Access for All in the College Classroom: Participatory Action ResearchUniversal Design for Learning (UDL) is becoming a widely used framework for ensuring access to learning for all students. In this session, we’ll describe how a collaborative team of faculty and graduate students implemented UDL in a graduate-level course on science education. We’ll showcase how we modified existing materials and activities as a way to support the full participation and learning of a visually impaired student and students for whom English is a second language. |
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| 9:45 - 10:45 a.m. |
Technology in the Classroom: What Do Students and Faculty Expect?Most instructors start the semester by announcing their expectations of students. This session is a conversation about how to develop mutual expectations between faculty and students , focusing particularly on the use of technology in the classroom by both students and faculty, thereby enhancing the classroom environment and student engagement in learning through creating a sense of shared responsibility. |
Addressing Disruptive Behavior in the ClassroomAn interactive session addressing helpful steps to diffuse disruptive behavior in the classroom and an overview of how the Office of Student Conduct handles student conduct incidents regarding disruptive behavior. | |
Things that Make Students Go ‘Hmm’: Designing Assignments to Stimulate Critical ThinkingFacilitating the development of critical thinking skills among students is a common goal among faculty, but putting intention into practice is challenging. The implementation of thought-provoking assignments may be constrained by large class sizes that limit faculty feedback, by students who are reluctant to go beyond memorization, and by challenges to communicate ideas effectively in writing. Join us for a discussion of strategies for encouraging students to put on their thinking caps. | |
Plagiarism: Reasons and Reflections on a Complicated Academic IssuePlease join the Campus Writing Program (CWP) for a discussion and interactive workshop on defining plagiarism, understanding reasons it exists, and devising teaching strategies to limit its occurrence. | |
Graduate Teaching: Nurturing Colleagues and PartnersThis panel will address strategies that faculty members can use when mentoring graduate students in a variety of situations: as advisors to their dissertations; when using them as TAs in undergraduate courses; and in the graduate seminar itself. | |
Making it Personal: Strategies to Engage Students in the ClassroomFour successful MU professors will demonstrate and discuss strategies used to engage students when the material may otherwise seem trivial, irrelevant, difficult, or dull. These strategies are designed to inspire, stimulate and assist students, engaging them not only in the content, but also make them active participants in their own learning. Each strategy presented can be used in multiple venues and are not solely dependant on instructor personality. | |
The Varieties of Creative ExperienceCreativity has some common features, but also differs in expression in different domains. We will explore the difference between everyday creativity and eminent creativity, and discuss the mixture of creative types that you will find in any classroom: the spatial-visual creatives driven by the search for beauty or elegance; the scholarly creatives driven by curiosity; the interpersonally creatives driven by connectedness, and the musically creatives by entrainment. |
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| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Congratulations! You’ve Been Selected for Mizzou Course Redesign. Now What?In spring 2011, panelists embarked on separate journeys to use technology for the purpose of transforming some of MU’s largest courses. Panelists identified one or more problems with an existing course and proposed measureable goals. One year later, all have learned valuable lessons. Find out about theprocess, the proposals and what each would do differently in the future. Projects included courses in mathematics, biological science, human development & family studies, journalism and nursing. |
Social Media and the Law: Social Media’s Impact on UniversitiesSocial media has had a tremendous impact on how people communicate. However, many university employees and students are not aware of the various policies and laws governing the use of social media, or the potential liability they may face for their misuse of social media. This presentation will address these issues, and provide guidance on how to navigate many common pitfalls university employees may face through their use of social media. | |
It Is Personal: Academic Advising Best Practices for Student Success In AND Beyond the ClassroomWhen we take an individualized approach to academic advising, we open the door to guiding our students through a wide range of personal situations. These problems can vary from academic transitions to personal crises. While every situation and student is different, there are some practices to consider when helping on such a personal level. In this session, hear from faculty and professional advisors about how they use their philosophies on advising when working with students. | |
Useful or Not?: Student Learning Objectives and Program AssessmentThis panel looks at MU’s new emphasis on student learning objectives when academic units undergo their 5-year program assessment. In addition to providing the context for this change, the panel will feature two experienced chairs/directors who will describe their experiences in creating and using student learning objectives, with plenty of opportunity for audience discussion. | |
Discovering the Scholarship in Your Teaching: Conducting Pedagogical Research to Improve Teaching and LearningIn this workshop session, panelists will share their experiences in a newly formed interdisciplinary collaboration organized for the study of teaching and learning. Participants will discuss teaching as a scholarly endeavor. Specific problems of interest will be explored along with systemic ways of evaluating best practices in the classroom. | |
Communication as a Tool for LearningCommunication is a key to learning: we write and talk our way into deeper understanding of content and issues within our disciplines. In this session, hear from faculty in different program areas regarding their uses of writing to learn strategies, assignments that build on writing and student interaction, and overall course syllabi that integrate effective writing, oral and other communication media practices. In addition, we will discuss use of web-based tools and development of local resources and projects for improving student learning and communication about campus-based environmental issues. | |
Using Student-Centered Learning Communities to Foster Interdisciplinary ResearchThe Mizzou Advantage Undergraduate Research Team program inspires innovative collaboration among traditionally unrelated academic disciplines. This panel focuses on how interdisciplinary research benefits both faculty and students by fostering creative problem solving. Following a brief description of the program, faculty mentors from two research teams will discuss what they have learned so far and describe some of the triumphs and tribulations of mentoring an interdisciplinary cohort of undergraduate students. |
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| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch Presentation, “College Life through the Eyes of Students: Linking What Students Say About College Life to Our Roles as Teachers, Advisors and Mentors”How might understanding the everyday lives of students-- their goals, activities and attitudes toward college, through their eyes, assist us in being more effective teachers, advisors, and mentors? Grigsby will give a brief overview of College Life through the Eyes of Students (2009) and engage participants in a discussion of how understanding patterned variations in what students report about their everyday lives, motivations and struggles can strengthen our teaching, advising and mentoring. |
| 1:45 - 2:45 p.m. |
Teaching and TenurePromotion and tenure decisions are based on demonstrated accomplishment and excellence in teaching, research and service. Most of us have a pretty good idea about the components of a strong research case. How can you make a strong case for your teaching excellence? A department chair, a dean and a chair of the campus P&T committee will offer hints and strategies based on their experience. |
Faculty, Copyright Issues, and University Rules and PoliciesFrom fair use to ownership of course materials, issues of copyright and intellectual property have become increasingly important in teaching. We will address the issues faculty most commonly ask about. We will discuss fair use, the TEACH act, and advice for adhering to the law. We will also discuss ownership of course materials, provide resources for understanding university policy, and offer advice about developing written agreements regarding course materials produced with university support. | |
Strengths-Based Teaching: Unlocking Your Teaching PotentialTeaching is a very personal process. We each have a unique approach and bring our own life experiences to the class. Beyond that, we also each have our own teaching strengths. Identifying and building on your strengths can help you to enhance your current teaching and investigate new angles to engage your students. By combining strengths-based strategies with your personal style, you will be able to unlock your teaching potential resulting in an enhanced learning environment for any department or class. | |
Quality Peer Review in Online LearningThis session will provide concrete strategies and examples for ensuring a high-quality e-learning experience for classroom-based, hybrid, and online courses by leveraging peer reviews. Reviews include alignment of course outcomes, unit objectives, assessments, and interaction strategies; developing a robust syllabus; providing clear and detailed grading criteria; creating student- and web-friendly course materials; and fostering a personal, collaborative learning community. | |
How to Get Your Students’ Attention without Wearing a Clown SuitThis session will provide an overview of strategies that you can implement to enhance classroom engagement. Activities and questioning techniques will be discussed and modeled. | |
What Do I Do with the Student at My Door?A brief presentation of the resources available at the Counseling Center, Academic Retention Services, and the Learning Center followed by a discussion of how to assess what students need and how to make effective referrals. Please come with questions/issues you would like to discuss. |
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| 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. |
Creating, Communicating, and Implementing ExpectationsOne aspect of teaching is communicating expectations with the students – expectations that instructors have of the students and expectations that the students should have of the instructor. Expectations include things from formal university policy that will be enforced to classroom behaviors to learning outcomes. A panel of faculty will discuss not only how they establish the expectations for their courses and students, but will also include how they hold students accountable to these expectations. How flexible should faculty be? How does a faculty member decide things about being fair? |
Integrating Cultural Competency into College Curriculum: Cultivating the PipelineThis session will include methods and ideas for including culturally relevant information into your curriculum and will highlights how shifting demographics will impact higher education. | |
Promoting Excellence in WI Teaching: Self Reflective Perspectives from a Working Group of Seasoned WI FacultyThis semester, MU’s nationally recognized Campus Writing Program (CWP) invited seven highly experienced Writing Intensive (WI) faculty to participate in a monthly Interdisciplinary Seminar. In this session, members of the group will share the knowledge and insights they gained from this collegial event, including the work involved in maintaining quality teaching in WI courses, peer tutoring, assignment design, and teaching large WI classes. This presentation will emphasize faculty development and the co-evolution of diverse WI curricula. | |
Social Media and the Law: Social Media’s Impact on UniversitiesSocial media has had a tremendous impact on how people communicate. However, many university employees and students are not aware of the various policies and laws governing the use of social media, or the potential liability they may face for their misuse of social media. This presentation will address these issues, and provide guidance on how to navigate many common pitfalls university employees may face through their use of social media. | |
Moving Targets: Learning and Unlearning with MobilesMobiles are disrupting the information landscape, not excepting the classroom and lab. They are the default devices for access, communication, reading, research, news, and, increasingly, for writing, presentation, creation, and learning. We may thrive by learning what works and what does not in the new world given to us by mobiles. | |
Managing the UnexpectedThis panel will briefly present information on a range of issues that student frequently encounter/experience including learning disabilities, mental health issues and behavioral issues. Most of this session will be in the format of question/answer and discussion. The goal is to engage attendees in a dialogue about the most challenging issues/concerns they face with students and to discuss strategies for effectively addressing the array of issues in direct and compassionate ways. |
Educational Technology Consultations
Drop by the Hospitality Room for light refreshments and good conversation. Staff members from Educational Technologies at Missouri (ET@MO) will be on hand to hear your ideas and share best practices on effectively integrating technologies into your teaching.