On-Demand Professional Development
20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of May 9, 2016)
Dates: Available May 9, 2016 – May 15, 2016
Session Title: How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety?
Presenter: Kristin Roush, Ph.D. (Psychology Professor – Central New Mexico Community College)
Overview:
Sometimes students get in their own way. They panic before exams and fill their heads with worries about failure. They create excess anxiety that clouds their thinking and prevents them from performing optimally. Then their exam results don’t adequately reflect what they have learned. This reinforces their fears and makes it worse the next time around.
It can be a vicious cycle that is bad for your students and bad for you. But you can break the cycle by teaching students how to think differently about testing and about themselves. You can learn how to do that in How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety? This Magna 20-Minute Mentor with Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D., presents the mindful self-compassion technique and shows how it can help students change how they feel and how they think about testing so they are better able to demonstrate their learning on exams.
When you are finished with this program, you will be able to:
- Understand the difference between fear and anxiety
- Appreciate that test anxiety decreases the validity of test results
- Recognize the difference between traditional test anxiety interventions and the Mindful Self-Compassion approach
- Be able to articulate the benefits of mindful self-compassion
- Be able to facilitate students’ use of mindful self-compassion applications
- Learn several specific techniques to reduce test anxiety
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 May 9th. 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
Going for gold at the intersection of education and technology: Making Quality Matter
Date: May 23, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: GEB A304
Presenter: Deb Adair (Executive Director – Quality Matters)
Overview:
QM is an organization that takes a hard look at the quality of online and blended learning courses and programs and seeks to support faculty and institutions in continually improving student learning outcomes. We look back in reliance on the research literature to help us understand what has been working and why. We look ahead at the innovations in the field to understand what quality might look like as we build towards the future. In the middle, in the boundary spanning role we play, we see the heart of higher education, our educators, ready to move forward but wary of the process. Is the benefit of change worth the cost to achieve it? What is the urgency, anyway? How do we move forward in teaching with technology, in all formats, in a way that maximizes the affordances of technology while respecting the gold standard of faculty-student engagement?
Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-MakingQualityMatter
The Truth About Flipped Classrooms
Date: June 1, 2016
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: GEB A304
Presenter: Dr. Julie Schell (Director of OnRamps and Strategic Initiatives & Clinical Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Texas Austin)
Overview:
Instructors all over the globe are turning their students’ worlds around by flipping their classrooms. In a flipped class, teachers move information coverage out of the lecture hall so that they can better leverage in-‐class time to address student difficulties and misconceptions. In this interactive session, Dr. Julie Schell will flip the webinar by providing brief introductory, pre-‐workshop activities to participants. She will use responses from these activities in the workshop and discuss the three basic steps for effectively flipping any classroom. Throughout the presentation, participants will confront and resolve a series of common myths about flipped teaching.
Note: This is not a session on how to create lecture videos.
Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-FlippedClassrooms
Professional Sessions
Contemporary Issues in Comorbid Conditions of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Date: May 13, 2016
Time: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: University of Memphis – Holiday Inn Memphis
Overview:
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Division of Rheumatology is hosting a daylong symposium on comorbid conditions seen in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The symposium will focus on key clinical topics in the diagnosis and management of comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular disease, infections and malignancies etc. This is primarily designed for primary care providers, rheumatologists and other subspecialists involved in the care of RA patients. The seminar will provide a unique opportunity for clinicians to learn from and interact with leading national faculties in order to increase clinical knowledge and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Objectives:
- Enhance their knowledge about pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Recognize comorbidities e.g: cardiovascular disease, malignancies, serious infections, pulmonary disease, osteoporosis seen in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients
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Understand the impact of the comorbid conditions in the management, course and outcome of Rheumatoid arthritis
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Review the management of these comorbid conditions
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Understand how collaborative management between primary care providers, other medicine subspecialists and rheumatologists is necessary and crucial for optimal outcome
Registration:
Registration fee is $25 per attendee. Fellows, residents and students are Free!
The preferred method for registration is via the online registration link located at www.utconferences.com/rheumatoidarthritis2016. Online registration is available until May 13, 2016.
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
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/tlc/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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