Adjunct Professional Development Day Program
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Session A 9:30-10:20 am
A-1 LW 102 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Dual Enrollment but Were Afraid to Ask… - Amy Nearman, Dual Enrollment Coordinator Loudoun
This session is for teachers of Dual Enrollment courses and interested faculty members. Both veteran and new instructors often have the same questions regarding Best Practices in Dual Enrollment. We will discuss these commonly asked questions from registration to reporting final grades and everything in between. Included in the discussion will be:
· How do students register for the class?
· Does my class need to match the college course exactly?
· How do I involve parents and still maintain the integrity of college regulations?
· What if a student wants to leave my course?
· What if a student is failing the course or doing poorly? Can I assign an F?
· What if the student fails the first semester course?
· Do students need to submit transcripts to colleges? How do they do that?
· What is an EMPLID and what can I do with it?
· How do I complete student course evaluations?
· Can I also teach on campus?
· How do I incorporate blackboard?
· Can my students and I use the NOVA libraries?
· Who do I ask about curriculum questions?
A-2 LW 103 Teaching to Your Strengths: Adaptability in Hybrid Course Templates - Stephanie Campbell and Marc Dluger
This workshop will cover developing an adaptable hybrid course template, and how to use the template’s flexibility to play up your strengths as an instructor and bring out the best in your students.
A-3 LW 104 To Curve or Not to Curve – Michael Wallace
What should you do when a majority of your students underperform on an exam? Is it ever reasonable to grade on a curve? In this session Michael Wallace will offer suggestions for when curving grades is appropriate, along with several practical techniques you can use.
A-4 LW 105 Discussion on Discussions - Bridget Pool and Meena Nayak
Discussion is the second most widely used form of instruction. However, many of us struggle to facilitate a meaningful, focused, and goal-oriented discussion. Elements of the workshop include framing a deliberate discussion and managing an impromptu one, asking programmed vs. organic questions, dealing with talkers and enabling quiet ones, keeping it focused, and reeling in a straying discussion.
A-5 LW 226 Beginning Blackboard - Tierney Pitzer and Carolyn Davis
New to NOVA? Ready to dip your toes in the Blackboard pool? Need a Blackboard refresher? In this interactive workshop you’ll learn about the basics of using Blackboard (Bb). Topics will include: signing in to Bb; making changes to your Bb course shell; adding content to your Bb course shell; creating announcements; uploading a syllabus and other documents; creating folders; using some of Bb’s many tools. Bring a flash drive with a copy of your course syllabus, or email the syllabus to yourself, and leave the workshop with a functioning course site.
A-6 LW 106 Ten Things Adjuncts (and Other Faculty) Need to Know about Safety on Campus – Lt. John Weinstein
There are many resources NOVA offers to help keep you safe on campus. Come learn about these resources and the myriad capabilities of our professional police department.
A-7 LW 107 NOVA’s New Virtual Professional Development Center – Kim Grewe
NOVA recently launched a new Virtual Professional Development Center, a great resource for “just in time” professional development as well as real-time opportunities to interact with your colleagues. Come learn about this resource and how it could help you build Open Educational Resources (OER’s) into your courses.
A-8 LW 116 Getting My Students to Love Me, and Other Bad Ideas– Justin Hvitfeldt-Matthews and Zaimah Khan
While a positive relationship between students and teachers has been shown to correlate with student success, many faculty struggle with the best way to create and sustain such a relationship. Should we not smile for the first three weeks? Can we talk about our families? Should we be friends on Facebook? Join us for an interactive discussion of triumphs and failures as we work to connect with and educate our students.
Session B 10:30-11:20 am
B-1 LW 102 Ensuring Rigor in Teaching and Assessment in Dual Enrollment Classes - Allison Correll and Doug Campbell
This is a roundtable discussion where dual enrollment instructors can share ideas regarding maintaining college-level rigor in a high school setting. Instructors can exchange ideas regarding class policies (e.g. late work), engaging yet challenging assignments, and more.
B-2 LW 103 Hybrid Hangover: Learn from Our Mistakes to Avoid This Headache! Paula Rodgers and Fred Terranova
Interested in teaching a hybrid course but don’t know where to start? Do you currently teach a hybrid course and have insights to share? We’ll discuss the hybrid certification process, as well as various models for hybrid courses. We’ll share what worked well – as well as what didn’t – in our own hybrid experiences.
B-3 LW 104 But I Paid for This Class! – Eddie Perry
This session will discuss the rise of student customerization in colleges, and its effects on the learning environment. With tuition increasing across the board, some students have come to believe they are customers first, then learners. Strategies for confronting the “customer” orientation by forming a collaborative learning process will be provided.
B-4 LW 105 Researching across the Disciplines – Dana Beltran, Chrystie Greges and Robyn Russo
Are you tired of reading the same research papers? Do you wish students would develop better topics? Well…we have created a tool to help your students do just that! Whether your students are researching current events, history, or the sciences, our guide will help them find a topic and develop a research question.
B-5 LW 226 Creating Tests in Blackboard – Robert Dusek
So you don’t like the time consuming process of creating tests using BlackBoard? No problem! Let’s make them quickly and easily using Excel. And let’s make some challenging, automatically graded BlackBoard tests without giving out the answers (like in multiple choice questions) by using pattern match, contain and other options.
B-6 LW 106 Staying Safe in the Classroom – Lt. John Weinstein
Learn about methods for effectively handling disruptive students, and diffusing difficult situations.
B-7 LW 107 Going Old School through Modern Technology – John C. Kincheloe
In an environment where instructors are increasingly forced to abandon paper and face-to-face interaction, many of our tried and true techniques are disappearing in favor of using new internet tools. What is a tree-hugging troglodyte to do? Find out how this presenter goes old school in a digital world.
B-8 LW 116 What to Do when S%*! Happens – Georgeana Stratton
This workshop will discuss solutions for dealing with a variety of situations NOVA professors are likely to encounter (e.g. what to do if you have an emergency that prevents you from coming to class, or the campus is closed for only a portion of the class, or a student wants an incomplete).
B-9 LW 212 The Importance of Importance – Steve Clarke
"Writing in college is a big deal." What does that statement even mean? When speakers or writers do not understand how to construct an argument built around a claim of value, specifically relevance, the resulting statement is often vague or unclear. Once students are equipped with knowledge related to arguments about relevance, their writing becomes more focused, clear and sophisticated, regardless of the subject or discipline. This presentation will focus on the five ways to identify and explain relevance: depth of impact, indirect impact, scale, proximity, and symbolic importance.
Session C 11:30 am-12:20 pm
C-1 LW 102 ENG 111: Intro to Engaging Assignments and Efficient Grading – Allison Correll
Calling all ENG 111 instructors! Adjunct, dual-enrollment and full-time instructors are invited to exchange ideas regarding their “best” reading and writing assignments (most engaging/well received by students). We’ll also discuss efficient grading strategies, tips and tricks. Please bring ideas, and even sample syllabi. This session will be part workshop and part roundtable discussion.
C-2 LW 103 How to Make Your PowerPoints Suck Less than They Usually Do – Josh Pachter
If you have ever suffered from the dreaded “Death by PowerPoint,” perhaps it’s time to consider that you may be subjecting your students to the same fate. Back by popular demand, Josh Pachter (Loudoun’s AD for CST) offers practical advice for turning your PPT slides from distractions into visual aids.
C-3 LW 104 Lions, Tigers and (oh my!) BATs in the Classroom – Susan Idziak
In this interactive session participants will explore behavior alteration techniques (BATs) and the rules/policies instructors use to manage (or attempt to manage!) student behaviors both inside and outside the classroom. Discover which techniques may – or may not – be the most effective for optimizing learning, and why.
C-4 LW 105 How to Read like a Scholar – Karen Sutter Doheney
First-year college students struggle to make the transition between high school and college scholarship, especially in reading. This seminar-style presentation will cover three areas – comprehension, genres and content – and offer strategies to help students become stronger readers. Participants will be invited to share their own approaches across all disciplines.
C-5 LW 226 Blackboard Collaborate – Khanh Dinh
Find out how to use Blackboard Collaborate, Nova’s e-conferencing system, to augment your teaching. Online, hybrid and face-to-face instructors can make use of Collaborate by remotely interacting with students in real-time for office hours, instruction, assignment discussions and other meetings. Collaborate allows for two-way audio, white-board usage, application sharing, web browsing and text chatting.
C-6 LW 106 What Professors Need to Know about the Pathway to the Baccalaureate Program – Shannon Nieves and Deanna Toney
We will brief faculty on the following:
a. What are the College Pathway Initiatives (CPI)?
i. Pathway to the Baccalaureate Program
ii. Adult Career Pathways
iii. Great Expectations
b. Who are our students?
i. When to refer a student to one of our programs
c. What is the difference between Pathway students and non-Pathway students?
i. Debunk the myths and discover the truths
ii. Difference between Pathway Program Advisors, First Year Advisors, and Counselors
d. What is the Mid-Semester Progress Report, and why is it important for faculty to complete
it?
C-7 LW 107 Great Resources for Your Courses – Debbie Naquin
To provide a variety of learning experiences, most of us include links to outside websites and YouTube videos within our Blackboard courses. Learn to take your supplemental resource game up a level by adding direct links to OER Commons, Films on Demand and Atomic Learning.
C-8 LW 116 Listening to Music: Better than Therapy – John Wulff
Loudoun’s Music discipline will offer three musicians (VOCAL, PIANO and GUITAR) describing their art through performance. Each musician will offer two – one pop and one classical. The format will be inviting and instructional.
C-9 LW 212 Putting Those Smart Phones to Work – Using Socrative to Encourage Student Engagement – Christian Aguiar
In this hands-on presentation, participants will learn to use the Socrative app to create and deploy quizzes, surveys, and exit polls; to view, save, share and track results; and to get students to use their smartphones to engage with course material (and not just with Facebook).