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Sheri Beattie
Online Course Development- Academic Affairs, Saginaw Valley State University
Using Technology to Support an Active Learning Classroom
Everyone wants to include active learning in his/her classroom to encourage students to better engage with the content. However, how do you select technology that supports active learning? What will best allow your students to connect with the material and allow you to teach your content in a way that will hold both the attention of the students and help them focus on the material? This session will discuss some of the technology that you can use in your classroom to support your goal of active learning using technology. |
Michelle Bigard
Counseling Center, Central Michigan University
Walking the Labyrinth
The labyrinth is an ancient mediation tool used to encourage reflective thought, enhance problem solving, foster creativity and aid relaxation. Its path is viewed as a metaphor for one’s journey in life. Participants will be given an opportunity to walk the labyrinth, process their experience and explore its applications for themselves and the classroom. A detailed handout, resource list, and facilitation guidelines will be provided.
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Milt Cox
Fipsi Project on Learning Communities/ Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and University Assessment, Miami University
Why the Affective Domain Matters in Teaching
Faculty committed to research-based teaching are now realizing the enormous role that the affective domain plays in the learning process. For optimum learning to occur, students’ perceptions, attentiveness, and consciousness must be positive. In this interactive workshop, participants will review some of the research, but more importantly, they will explore and experience some positive ways to engage students.
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Kurt Ellenberger - Honors, Grand Valley State University
& Kathryn Sieler - Music, Grand Valley State University
Teaching and Performance: Performance Strategies to Enhance Classroom Engagement
The performance aspect of teaching can be both daunting and exhilarating. Like it or not, when we walk into a classroom we walk onto a “stage” of sorts, yet, as scholars, our training in this is minimal at best. Performing artists are well versed in the preparation and skills required for successful delivery. Effective teaching relies on effective communication and presentation at its foundation. This workshop will provide strategies for maximizing delivery and making the classroom more vibrant and dynamic, with increased student engagement and learning as the outcome. |
Melissa Ganus - Business, Seattle Community Colleges
& Stephan Carroll - Santa Clara University
Getting Faster, Getting More Provocative: How We Can Use the Latest Discoveries and Developments from Neurosciences, Positive Psychology and Future Studies to Measurably Improve Teaching and Learning
If our top level learning objectives include helping our students develop skills for flourishing in their own lives and for participating in the world as global citizens, then what do we most need to be teaching? In this interactive session, we will first introduce you to a list of our favorite new tools and techniques for improved skill development and assessment across subject areas. Then we’ll give you choices and use the rest of the session to get hands on experiences with what you are most curious about. Before we finish, you will have practical next steps you can take for adapting any of these to your own courses.
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Jennifer McCrickerd - Philosophy, Drake University
Teaching Ethics: Changing Behavior, Not Just Changing Answers
In this lively presentation I provide an overview (1) of research on the disconnect between people’s claims about what is moral behavior and their own behavior and then (2) of educational theory relevant to facilitating behavior of any sort. We will then discuss philosophical, psychological and neurological research relevant to the development of skills of ethical decision-making and behaving. Participants will then discuss strategies to facilitate moral development and possibilities for assessing these strategies. |
Don Perini - Bible, Religion and Ministries, Cornerstone University
The Art of Relationships
The Art of Relationships Research reveals that developing good relationships with students improves pedagogy. Yet are you overwhelmed with the amount of time that is needed to develop these types of relationships? This session will provide you a strategy and a language for building “significant” relationship that will change how your students learn.
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Tamara Rosier - Academic Dean, Kuyper College
Teaching Students to Think and to Learn: An Informational Procesing Approach
How can we teach in a way that increases the likelihood of students remembering the information we teach? What are the techniques for encouraging students to participate actively in their own learning? Understanding the basics of informational-processing theories will help professors teach their students to manage and monitor information and strategize about their learning. This session will provide accessible theoretical frameworks and useful strategies to encourage student learning. |
Stewart Ross - Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State University
An Introduction to the Taxonomy for Significant Learning in Forming Learning Goals
There are many ways in which faculty can improve teaching and learning for themselves and their students. No area is more beneficial than creating significant learning experiences for students. This interactive workshop was created for any discipline area, as participants learn about the Taxonomy of Significant Learning while developing learning goals for their students. Recently, many faculty have started to design and redesign their courses using Fink’s Taxonomy of significant learning: foundational knowledge, application, integration, caring, human dimension and learning how to learn. In this presentation faculty will “dream” about what a perfect class might look like and then apply those ideas to the taxonomy, leading to significant learning outcomes for students in their courses.
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