2022 Presenters

A community of practice (CoP) is a situated learning environment whereby newcomers become oldtimers in the context of individual, group activity, and identity.

This scalable, low-cost, high-quality approach has the potential to dramatically transform an institutions approach to creating diverse and inclusive learning environments for its students.

Addressing sensitive or emotionally-charged topics using facilitated discussions in an amicable environment can generate determinative solutions and a sense of camaraderie among its participants.

United Arab Emirates explored the microsystem of teachers’ experiences with education reform within the action research model for professional development.

The Inclusive STEM Teaching course advances instructor’s awareness and ability to cultivate inclusive learning environments. Learn how this course has engaged faculty across the nation.

Authentic assessments bridge classroom material with real-world challenges. Our BSc assessment scan identified few authentic examples, but there were hidden gems! Strategies will be shared!

Classroom leadership refers to the professor’s engagement level with the students as well as the professor’s ability to lead students to knowledge. Student reports of classroom leadership vary. What changed in classroom leadership post COVID-19?

Problems with traditional preparatory courses will be addressed. Our implementation of a concurrent course was able to reverse these problems and lower achievement gaps.

This presentation describes an innovative educational exercise between universities in México and the United States to enhance cultural self-efficacy and business skills.

This workshop introduces a replicable model for teaching Cultural intelligence (CQ), a globally recognized way to learn how to work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds.

Yoda said, “Do or Do Not. There is no try.” Despite what Yoda said, take a risk, try is the path to success.

Enhancing student learning can be achieved by improving cognitive engagement. This session will reflect on lessons learned during the pandemic to improve approaches to engagement.

Participants will explore strategies and practices that enhance inclusive and effective learning environments for a multicultural student body in the classroom and the field placement.

Through active discussion and the sharing of concrete tools, participants will develop and refresh practices for critical self-reflection as a tool to challenge burnout in teaching and educational leadership.

In the midst of a global pandemic our stories of hope matter. What narratives of hope have emerged that are shaping our future society?

Mentorship is a pedagogical strategy that can be used to build successful, sustainable, long-term relationships in faculty and university partnerships.

This presentation will provide pedagogies for teaching the diverse learners. How to establish a learning community to engage minority and indigenous students will be discussed.

This study utilized a Peer Research Consultant to facilitate incorporating research into an online flipped database management for business course. Check out the poster!

Academic performance improves when students are engaged. Brain breaks are essential for students to remain alert for learning. Come and learn about tried-and-tested brain breaks!

Student learning of graphical design skills was supported through open-ended design projects for students with varying background knowledge and spatial visualization skills.

Learn about a novel interprofessional telehealth standardized patient experience involving predoctoral dental medicine and optometry students that’s focused on communication, collaboration, and roles and responsibilities.

Faculty development programs change attitudes and beliefs of faculty when crafted well. The mindset of the incoming faculty is paramount to creating change.

Conventional assessment can feel transactional, exclusionary, stressful, and “mindless.” Come explore how mindful assessment disrupts inherited practices to honor presence, process, and equity in learning.

This session will present actionable strategies to utilize blended learning in your laboratory courses to achieve a modern, accessible, and efficient course design.

Different students demonstrate learning differently at different times, each with differing motivations for doing so—flexibility with assessment and grading practices/policies required.

Sharing best teaching practices, technologies, and mindsets/beliefs, developed or underscored during the pandemic, to consider keeping as we move back to F2F instruction.

In professors’ pedagogical training knowledge is consumption—the “what” of learning. This presentation explores an approach that prioritizes immediate practice, application, feedback, and production.

Student groups may contain social loafers when completing course assignments. This study uses quantitative data to analyze this behavior and suggests instructor responses.

Shared Curriculum Ownership (SCO) includes students in course design to enhance diversity and inclusion. The Student Selected Materials assignment can help meet SCO goals.

To support students to become expert learners, engaging, flexible, and supportive learning environments are necessary. Universal Design for Learning provides strategies for creating these environments.

Based on brain science, videos using a 10- minute attention span rule provides students with multiple channels of learning with visual, written, and auditory formats.

A students-as-partners approach allowed faculty to oversee the development of an open educational resource, while offering 95 students experiential learning opportunities in teaching and learning.

Applying principles of Cognitive Load Theory, learn how course activities can be designed to elicit positive emotions that enhance, rather than impede, the learning process.

Structuring classroom discussions using protocols offers all participants an opportunity to listen to and respond to others providing everyone an equal voice in the discussion.

Discover what social psychology research on “wise interventions” can teach us about how to pursue equity in any college classroom.

This proposal is a presentation of an experiential activity to engage students to appreciate the concept of teamwork.

A community of practice (CoP) is a situated learning environment whereby newcomers become oldtimers in the context of individual, group activity, and identity.

Strategic burnout prevention for students is increasingly viewed as an essential competency. Expand your well-being toolbox through this interactive mindful approach to prioritizing self-care.

Want to design a specifications grading system but aren’t sure where to start? We have examples and flowcharts. Please bring your course learning outcomes.

Anti-racism can be applied as a lens to examine our teaching and address inequities. Join us to explore, discuss, and reflect on anti-racist teaching practices.

Situational leadership and transformational leadership are directly derived from andragogical principles of helping adults learn. Employees or followers as adults prefer andragogical leadership to pedagogical leadership as evidenced in teaching the four domain.

This discussion will focus on student professionalism, including online platforms, correlation to professionalism in future practice and potential remediation in a "Think Pair Share" format.

We share our process in co-constructing a faculty learning community that centers DEI toward creating more socially just and inclusive teaching in college classrooms.

Brave spaces allow us to challenge ourselves, to get out of our comfort zone, to make mistakes, to be vulnerable, and to learn new things.

Drawing on student writing and research on high-impact educational practices (HIPs), this study discusses why writing about food fosters first-generation students’ sense of institutional belongingness.

Using signature assignments, the transparent assignment template, and ePortfolios affords students the opportunity to showcase their creativity, competence, and knowledge.

Yoda said, “Do or Do Not. There is no try.” Despite what Yoda said, take a risk, try is the path to success.

Action research allows practitioners to be more effective at teaching and development of students and supports educators in making sense of their educational context.

This session will discuss the creation of a Center for Teaching and Learning podcast and explore whether or not podcasts are an effective faculty development tool.

Utilizing small group communication theory and practice can improve your students’ experience and the quality of their assignments regardless of discipline.

Learn about the use of technology-mediated communities of practice as an effective setting to create collegiality and connection while fostering teaching, learning, and scholarship.

“When one teaches, two learn. - Robert Heinlein” Peer-assisted learning (PAL) has shown that shared learning builds knowledge in a positive, informal, and social environment.

Based on brain science, videos using Medina's 10- minute attention rule provides students with multiple channels of learning online with visual, written, and auditory formats.

High social presence in asynchronous learning is possible. Come for a robust discussion on social presence in strictly online courses!

Trauma impacts students frequently. Implementing a trauma-informed pedagogy can be an effective response in reducing the impact of trauma and maximizing students’ academic success.

The integration of visual representations allowed students to demonstrate deep knowledge in non-linguistic ways in a Literacy and Leadership course. Suggestions and examples will be shared!

Post-COVID, love, authenticity, courage, and empathy may be beneficial in promoting the return of positive learning environments for improved faculty-student relationships and sense of belonging

Survey results indicate that compared to conventionally graded students, Advanced Writing students on Grading Contracts reported significantly less grade-related anxiety and greater enjoyment and self-expression.

Original research examining mindfulness in freshmen undergraduate college students is shared. Methods to integrate mindful practices to improve academic performance and well-being will be shared.

This presentation informs attendees about one institution's challenges and opportunities that arose from moving courses from using paid publisher content to free-to-student learning materials.

Engaging reluctant students on high-resistance course material is a challenging task for educators. A newly-adapted approach proved extremely effective at overcoming student reluctance. Join us!

Involvement in poverty simulation experiences by baccalaureate students from four disciplines will be discussed. Disciplines include nursing, education, business, and speech-language pathology.

The session provides an opportunity to interact with the practical underpinnings of service-learning and learn about strategies to equip students to live civic-minded, compassionate lives.

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the practice of mindfulness and benefits of decreasing stress and burnout in students.

How do the impacts of student-written, student-facilitated case studies on critical thinking, participation, and learning compare to instructor-facilitated case studies and traditional lecturing?

Many colleges and universities have faculty learning communities (FLCs) as part of their development programs. We will discuss questions about building and sustaining FLCs.

Teaching with simulations is a great way to infuse experiential learning within a controlled environment. There are many benefits to student learning when playing simulations.

Transdisciplinary approaches offer an alternative that values shared goals, collaboration, cross-disciplinary conversation, and a basis for transformative action for problems in higher education.

In this session, the presenter is providing an innovative video case study approach to learning and applying motivation concepts.

Drawing on current research on second-language acquisition, I discuss methodologically sound procedures for incorporating lyrical music as warmups to communicative vocabulary-building lessons.

Participants will discuss seven steps that can help them find and design a teaching and learning project that could become a SoTL presentation and publication.

Research has shown that happiness and humor can make students more responsive to learning new information and therefore, smarter! Come and see how!

This workshop introduces a replicable model for teaching Cultural intelligence (CQ), a globally recognized way to learn how to work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds.

Faculty accompany students in their college experience: challenging them, but also supporting and empowering. Come consider a new framework, Academic Accompaniment, and potential practical strategies.

Though film adaptations are popular learning tools, getting students to consider (and engage in) the interpretive process of adaptation, and the relationship between form, content, and meaning, can enrich learning even further.

This session will introduce the use of photovoice and preconception checks for student engagement and guidance on how to implement them.

This session examines how faculty builds engagement in the classroom through acknowledging psychological distress and coping strategies of students amid COVID-19.

Cognitive load in asynchronous discussions is explored through five discrete tasks: understanding expectations, crafting the first post, reading posts, creating reply posts, and integrating feedback.

Mentoring is a critical component to retaining new faculty hires. Come and learn about models of mentoring programs in higher education.

In order to successfully promote faculty development, we must seek to leverage meaningful partnerships with various offices on our campuses, especially library and research offices.

This study was conducted to assess the existence of Math Anxiety in our Technical College. To give possible guidance to improve student success.

Strategies and activities to engage students from all backgrounds. Invite students into an egalitarian class experience. Inclusive approaches that teach soft skills, content and value of class member.

Teaching history can be fun. Music can be used to help students remember information. In active learning experiences music creates a soundtrack for learning activities.

Our team will discuss the various innovative technologies utilized to improve collaborative and active learning in order for students to deepen their understanding of content.

Many secondary students struggle to successfully transition to college; new metacognitive instruments provide faculty new opportunities to improve their teaching and help students succeed.

Using an ePortfolio can demonstrate that a student has developed a new or deeper sense of leaning complex or sensitive subject matters via innovative means.

To maximize learning educators should understand how education looks for Generation Z's, including fostering students' development and personal growth in addition to traditional teaching.

Promoting faculty metacognition is essential to student learning. Come learn about the attitudes and thoughts of high school and community college faculty on their teaching.

Mindfulness can improve engagement, intentionality, and wellbeing. Come to learn ways you might incorporate it in the classroom, faculty development programming, and broader campus initiatives!

Using appreciative coaching and motivational interviewing as models, participants will discuss and practice ways to help improve teaching and reach their potential as educators.

To share experience integrating the expertise of two faculty from different disciplines to give our students a multi-layer approach to current healthcare issues.

This session describes methods to reduce instructor resistance to change and challenges participants to reflect on how open pedagogy engages students and fosters faculty growth.

Come discuss why metacognition is the leading indicator of student success in higher education yet still not a leading theory of instruction in most classrooms.

This session will present actionable strategies to utilize blended learning in your laboratory courses to achieve a modern, accessible, and efficient course design.

This session will provide an opportunity to reflect on the benefits of synchronous and asynchronous teaching while also compiling best practices. Optimum balance between the two methods will be explored.

Join us to discuss two signature programs that make connections between campus, local communities, and the broader world, forming collaborative student-citizens capable of cross-cultural problem-solving.

This presentation describes an advising program informed by the Integrated Model of Student Resistance to help students navigate the changes inherent in transitioning to graduate studies.

Best practices for infusing videos at key points in your course to support effective learning. Discover effective strategies for course video use, length and design.

The Pandemic significantly impacted college courses. Students provided feedback about what they would like to see kept and dropped from pandemic teaching in post-pandemic classes.

Discuss the power of an asset-based mindset around neurodiversity, common barriers to learning for Autistic students, and approaches to supporting the success of neurodivergent learners.

Discover effective strategies for effective distance learning course planning and design. Learn the process and tools used to teach the right content most effectively.

The session demonstrates how faculty members can facilitate solidarity with students by using humane messages that promote unique identities, innovative intentions, and proactive agency.

This presentation illustrates a storytelling framework as a pedagogical methodology in teaching a General Education course and demonstrates its efficacy in producing positive outcomes.

Using project-based learning to teach classroom assessment courses in undergraduate teacher education programs is effective! Come and see!

We long to belong, and a sense of belonging in the classroom can translate into better outcomes, both social and academic. Come learn some effective strategies to create this environment in your classroom.

In this experiential session, we’ll share our approach to building a faculty writing community. Bring a focused writing goal and come ready to work!