On-Demand Professional Development
20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of March 14, 2016)
Dates: Available March 14, 2016 – March 20, 2016
Session Title: How Do I Build Community in My Classroom?
Presenter: Milton D. Cox, Ph.D. (Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment – Miami University)
Overview:
Community is an essential ingredient in the educational experience. Studies show that community building can increase retention, improve students’ cognitive intellectual development, and promote contributions to society. Even in cyberspace, learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Establishing community results in increased and more productive communication between instructors and students in flipped classrooms and enhances the effectiveness of distance education. Whether they’re teaching in online, traditional, or blended classrooms, higher education faculty today need to make a conscious effort to create community in their classrooms. Yet that can go against the grain of academic culture and independent, self-reliant faculty.
Find out why it’s essential for you to know how to create community with Milton D. Cox, Ph.D., founder and director emeritus of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment at Miami University, Ohio. Drawing from his background in learning communities and promoting excellence in college teaching, Dr. Cox delivers a concise, content-rich seminar you can put to work in your next course.
Mixing research findings, personal experience, and practical tips, Dr. Cox will show you how community in the classroom supports student learning and will share proven practices for increasing community in the classroom. This seminar can make a significant difference in how you teach and how your students learn.
Starting with the concept of social capital and moving on from there, you will examine the power, role, and outcomes associated with community.
You’ll learn:
- The three ways community can assist you in flipping the classroom
- The vital support function community plays in online education
- The three assessment items shown to improve through cooperative learning
- The ways the academic environment can hamper community building
This session also gets down to the nuts and bolts of building community, and you’ll learn field-tested techniques such as:
- Adapting your syllabus to start building community immediately
- Structuring cooperative learning groups to maximize student contact
- Using cooperative learning groups to boost student confidence
- Six keys to enhancing community in online courses
In 20 minutes, How Do I Build Community in My Classroom? will take you through four levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, moving from comprehension to application, analysis, and synthesis. After viewing this seminar, you’ll be able to:
- Identify and use activities to build community in the classroom
- Demonstrate how to use small groups to build community
- Appraise the different ways community can be engaged in the flipped classroom
- Formulate learning outcomes that result from engaging community
If you’ve dreamed of finding a way to improve your connection with students, this student engagement program is for you. Whether you’re an old hand with community learning groups or this is your first foray into trying to establish community in your classroom, we provide you with information you can use.
The session link and login information to this 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor will be available in the announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard on March 14th . Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.
Go2Knowledge (Your Link to On-Demand Professional Development)
UTHSC has purchased an institutional membership to Innovative Educators. Our membership provides all UTHSC faculty and staff access to on-demand events available through the Innovative Educator’s digital library (Go2Knowledge).
The Go2Knowledge library contains over a hundred sessions that fall within six of the following categories:
- At-risk populations
- Campus safety
- Organizational development
- Student success
- Teaching and learning
- Technology
Printable certificates of completion are available for each session. For information related to accessing sessions available through Innovative Educators/Go2Knowledge please visit the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.
Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources
TLC’s Showcase in Teaching and Learning
Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:3o PM
Location: Student Alumni Center (SAC)
Overview:
The UTHSC Teaching and Learning Center Showcase will highlight successful teaching strategies used by faculty at UTHSC! Two keynote speakers will address instructional ideas that can be used by all teaching faculty. Faculty will also have the opportunity to participate in concurrent sessions packed with useful ideas.Time will be set aside for faculty to mix, mingle, discuss, and share ideas and successful (as well as not so successful) strategies.
Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/tlc-showcase-4-28-2016
Professional Sessions
Microaggressions and Workplace Bullying (Two-Session Live Webinar)
Dates: March 15, 2016 & March 22, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:3o PM
Location: GEB A104
Register to Participate:
March 15, 2016 – http://bit.do/WorkplaceBullying031516
March 22, 2016 – http://bit.do/WorkPlaceBullying032216
Overview:
This 2-session live webinar for UTHSC faculty and staff is co-sponsored by Faculty Affairs, Office of Equity and Diversity, and Human Resources.
Learn how to proactively identify and remove microaggressions and bullying from your office, department, and institution. During this two-session webcast you will examine critical issues related to microaggressions in higher education, including:
- Physiological and psychological impact on co-workers
- Role-based and hierarchical interactions
- Impact on organizational climates
- Implicit biases you and your coworkers may have
To view the agenda for each of the sessions please go to: http://www.academicimpressions.com/webcast/microaggressions-and-workplace-bullying#Agenda
New Faculty Orientation
Date: April 1, 2016 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM (A light breakfast and lunch will be served)
Location: SAC (Student Alumni Center) – Dining Hall
Register to attend: http://bit.do/NFO-Spring2016
Overview:
The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) will be hosting New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.
This orientation is for ALL new faculty hired after January 1, 2015, who have NOT YET attended a New Faculty Orientation. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM. Orientation will begin at 8:00 AM.
TLC Reception and Networking Event
Date: April 14, 2016
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Madison Plaza – East Dining Area
Overview:
Join Colleagues and the Teaching and Learning Center Advisory Board, Directorship, and Staff for tea and coffee in the Madison Plaza Dining area.
Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-reception-04-14-2016
Did you know….
You can also visit the Professional Development Calendar to access a list of upcoming sessions sponsored by Academic/Faculty Affairs or other groups on campus at: https://academic.uthsc.edu/cii/calendar.php
You can apply credit received for professional development outside the university to your faculty training records? Simply complete the HR Request for Additional Training Credit form found at http://www.uthsc.edu/hrtraining/pdfs/additional_training_credit_form.pdf and forward it, along with a copy of the program’s agenda, to the HR Training Department at 910 Madison, Suite 727.
Why do this? The University of TN believes that professional development and training of its employees are central to the university’s mission, vision, and values. Having credit received elsewhere to your UTHSC training records is very useful to your department and college – for things such as annual reviews and program accreditations.
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