Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (FCETL)

Spring 2017 Workshops

The events are sponsored by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Updated as of 01/10/2017

January February March April May

January

Starting Monday, January 23rd

12:15pm-12:45pm (FDC118)

Mindfulness Meditation

Facilitated by Dr. April Hejka-Ekins, Politics andPublic Administration

Cultivating wellbeing in the midst of life’s daily stresses can be achieved by the practice of training our minds to abide in the clear, present moment of awareness.

Faculty, staff and administrators are invited to attend Mindfulness Meditation sessions.

Mondays and Thursdays

at the Faculty Development Center

from 12:15-12:45 p.m.

Sessions are held in front of the fireplace in the Reference Room (FDC 118). When that room is occupied, another room in the FDC is always provided.

We meet year around, excluding state holidays.

If you are interested, have questions or would like to schedule an introduction to meditation prior to our Monday and Thursday sessions, please contact the facilitator, Dr. April Hejka-Ekins at (209) 667-7486 or by e-mail: .

April, who is a retired Professor Emeritus from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, taught for 27 years at CSU Stanislaus, directed the MPA program for over a decade and still teaches for the department as a part-time instructor.

April has been practicing Buddhist Meditation since the 1990’s with a background in both the Zen and Vipassana traditions. She is currently participating in a nine month program at the Mindfulness Training Institute. ______

Tuesday, January 24th

8:30am-12:00pm (FDC 118) and break-out sessions from noon on

Instructional Institute Day 2017

Classroom Assessment Reconsidered: Promoting and Assessing Significant Learning

Presented by Elizabeth F. Barkley, Ph.D. is Professor of Music History at Foothill College, Los Altos, California.

This intensive workshop takes college instructors through all the steps required to promote and assess significant learning in an efficient, effective manner that is seamlessly integrated with their teaching. Using a course of their choice as the focus, participants will construct a detailed course-level assessment plan that includes 1) identifying significant learning goals that connect course work to program-level goals; 2) designing effective, pedagogically sound instructional activities; and 3) developing a strategy for analyzing and reporting on learning outcomes in ways acceptable to a variety of stakeholders.

Elizabeth F. Barkley, Ph.D. is Professor of Music History at Foothill College, Los Altos, California. With almost four decades as an innovative and reflective teacher, she has received numerous honors and awards, including being named California's Higher Education Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, formally recognized by the California state legislature for her contributions to undergraduate education, selected as "Innovator of the Year" in conjunction with the National League for Innovation, presented with the Hayward Award for Educational Excellence, and honored by the Center for Diversity in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Additionally, her Musics of Multicultural America course was selected as “Best Online Course” by the California Virtual Campus. She was also named one of two Carnegie Scholars in the discipline of music by the Carnegie Foundation in conjunction with the Pew Charitable Trusts. Her books include Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (co-authored with Claire H. Major, Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2016), Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (co-authored with Claire H. Major and K. Patricia Cross, Wiley/Jossey-Bass, Second Edition, 2014), Student Engagement Techniques (Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2010), Crossroads: The Roots of America's Popular Music (Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2007), and three interactive digital textbooks for Kendall Hunt in conjunction with Great River Learning: Crossroads: The Music of American Cultures (2013), World Music: Roots to Contemporary Global Fusions (2012), and co-author with Robert Hartwell of Great Composers and Music Masterpieces of Western Civilization (Kendall Hunt, 2015).

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Monday, January 30th

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb – Orientation

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Structure your course to fit your teaching style. Set up the navigation menu, content areas, and tools as you want them.

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Tuesday, January 31st

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb – Orientation

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Structure your course to fit your teaching style. Set up the navigation menu, content areas, and tools as you want them.

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February

Wednesday, February 1st

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb – Orientation

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Structure your course to fit your teaching style. Set up the navigation menu, content areas, and tools as you want them.

Thursday, February 2nd

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb – Orientation

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Structure your course to fit your teaching style. Set up the navigation menu, content areas, and tools as you want them.

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Monday, February 6th

10:30am– 12:00pm (FDC114)

RESEARCH PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES: FACULTY EXPERIENCES AND SOLUTIONS

Facilitated by Dr. Virginia Montero Hernandez, Ed D Program

This Faculty Learning Community (FLC) contributes to effective research pedagogy by bringing together faculty members from across disciplines to discuss their experiences mentoring undergraduate and graduate students engaging in research activities.

Participants in the Faculty Learning Community will:

1. Discuss challenges they experience when teaching students to conduct research.

2. Identify critical research-oriented skills undergraduate and graduate students are expected to develop as part of their educational experiences at the university.

3. Share effective instructional techniques and tools to help (templates, tables, articles, etc.) students develop research skills.

Participants in the Faculty Learning Community should be willing to commit to:

● Meet once a month for one hour or hour and a half to discuss instructional solutions to advise undergraduate and graduate students in research activities.

● Share ideas and materials they have implemented successfully in research-based courses and activities.

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Monday, February 6th

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Content

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Organize your content by time, topic, module, case study, unit, or other structure. The Learning Module tool is another option.

Tuesday, February 7th

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Content

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Organize your content by time, topic, module, case study, unit, or other structure. The Learning Module tool is another option.

Wednesday, February 8th

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Content

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Organize your content by time, topic, module, case study, unit, or other structure. The Learning Module tool is another option.

Wednesday, February 8th

4:00pm – 5:00pm (FDC114)

PEDAGOGY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

“Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning – Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy

Facilitated by Dr. Marina Gerson, Director of FCETL

Research has identified the importance of helping students develop the ability to monitor their own comprehension and to make their thinking processes explicit, and indeed demonstrates that metacognitive teaching strategies greatly improve student engagement with course material.

This book -- by presenting principles that teachers in higher education can put into practice in their own classrooms -- explains how to lay the ground for this engagement, and help students become self-regulated learners actively employing metacognitive and reflective strategies in their education.

Key elements include embedding metacognitive instruction in the content matter; being explicit about the usefulness of metacognitive activities to provide the incentive for students to commit to the extra effort; as well as following through consistently.

Recognizing that few teachers have a deep understanding of metacognition and how it functions, and still fewer have developed methods for integrating it into their curriculum, this book offers a hands-on, user-friendly guide for implementing metacognitive and reflective pedagogy in a range of disciplines.

Offering seven practitioner examples from the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the social sciences and the humanities, along with sample syllabi, course materials, and student examples, this volume offers a range of strategies for incorporating these pedagogical approaches in college classrooms, as well as theoretical rationales for the strategies presented.

By providing successful models from courses in a broad spectrum of disciplines, the editors and contributors reassure readers that they need not reinvent the wheel or fear the unknown, but can instead adapt tested interventions that aid learning and have been shown to improve both instructor and student satisfaction and engagement.

Part One: Pages 1-52

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Thursday, February 9th

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Content

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Organize your content by time, topic, module, case study, unit, or other structure. The Learning Module tool is another option.

Monday, February 13th

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Media Files

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Images, video, presentations: upload, link, share, or what? Use third-party tools to enhance your course content. Use Mashups to include external website material.

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Tuesday, February 14th

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Media Files

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Images, video, presentations: upload, link, share, or what? Use third-party tools to enhance your course content. Use Mashups to include external website material.

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Tuesday, February 14th

4:00pm-5:00pm (FDC 114)

Fiction Book Club

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Wouldn't you like to be part of an on-going campus book club focusing on a selection of non-fiction writing? Please participate in our book discussions, and have the opportunity to share impressions and opinions as a member of a campus reading cluster. This month's fiction selection is The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.

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Wednesday, February 15th

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Media Files

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Images, video, presentations: upload, link, share, or what? Use third-party tools to enhance your course content. Use Mashups to include external website material.

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Thursday, February 16th

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Media Files

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Images, video, presentations: upload, link, share, or what? Use third-party tools to enhance your course content. Use Mashups to include external website material.

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Monday, February 20th

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Assignments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and submit assignments in your Bb class. Make it efficient and effective for you and them. Use Plagiarism prevention as needed. Use Group Assignments.

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Tuesday, February 21st

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Assignments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and submit assignments in your Bb class. Make it efficient and effective for you and them. Use Plagiarism prevention as needed. Use Group Assignments.

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Wednesday, February 22nd

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Assignments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and submit assignments in your Bb class. Make it efficient and effective for you and them. Use Plagiarism prevention as needed. Use Group Assignments.

Wednesday, February 22nd

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 114)

Information Literacy Reframed

Facilitated by Tim Held, Library

Information Literacy Reframed: The new ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Facilitated by Tim Held, Library The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), has been a leader in the information literacy movement. General Education and WASC now require assessment of information literacy. While we all teach research and critical thinking skills, we probably define information literacy differently as individuals and as discipline experts. Join a discussion of the new ACRL Framework for Information Literacy pedagogical concepts and how you can implement them to improve your student research success.

Wednesday, February 22nd

4:00pm-5:00pm (FDC 114)

Critical University Studies Book Club

THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: My Journey Through Madness

Facilitated by Dr. Chris Nagel, Dept. of Philosophy and Modern Languages

Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has ongoing major episodes of the illness. The Center Cannot Hold is the eloquent, moving story of Elyn's life, from the first time that she heard voices speaking to her as a young teenager, to attempted suicides in college, through learning to live on her own as an adult in an often terrifying world. Saks discusses frankly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, the voices in her head telling her to kill herself (and to harm others); as well the incredibly difficult obstacles she overcame to become a highly respected professional. This beautifully written memoir is destined to become a classic in its genre.

The title is a line from "The Second Coming," a poem by William Butler Yeats, which is alluded to in the book.

The discussion would be facilitated by Dr. Chris Nagel, Department of Philosophy, 2014-2015 CSU Stanislaus Faculty Center Fellow, and District 1 representative to the National Council of AAUP

Part One: Pages 1-172

Thursday, February 23rd

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Assignments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and submit assignments in your Bb class. Make it efficient and effective for you and them. Use Plagiarism prevention as needed. Use Group Assignments.

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Thursday, February 23rd

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 114)

Information Literacy Reframed

Facilitated by Tim Held, Library

Monday, February 27th

11:00am-12:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Assessments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and take tests and quizzes with less chance of Internet, browser, or computer issues.

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Tuesday, February 28th

1:00pm-2:00pm (FDC 103)

Bb Best Practices – Assessments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and take tests and quizzes with less chance of Internet, browser, or computer issues.

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Tuesday, February 28th

4:00pm-5:00pm (FDC 114)

Non-Fiction Book Club

Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago by Dr. John Mayer

Wouldn't you like to be part of an on-going campus book club focusing on a selection of non-fiction writing? Please participate in our book discussions, and have the opportunity to share impressions and opinions as a member of a campus reading cluster. This month's selection non-fiction is Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago by Dr. John Mayer.

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March

Wednesday, March 1st

1:00pm -2:00pm (FDC103)

Bb Best Practices – Assessments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and take tests and quizzes with less chance of Internet, browser, or computer issues.

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Thursday, March 2nd

11:00am - 12:00pm (FDC103)

Bb Best Practices – Assessments

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Help students find and take tests and quizzes with less chance of Internet, browser, or computer issues.

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Monday, March 6th

11:00am - 12:00pm (FDC103)

Bb Best Practices – Implementation

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Sharing ideas, successes, obstacles, issues, concerns, resolutions, and anything else we wish to discuss in an open forum session.

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Tuesday, March 7th

1:00pm -2:00pm (FDC103)

Bb Best Practices – Implementation

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Sharing ideas, successes, obstacles, issues, concerns, resolutions, and anything else we wish to discuss in an open forum session.

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Wednesday, March 8th

1:00pm -2:00pm (FDC103)

Bb Best Practices – Implementation

Facilitated by Bob Koehler, OIT

Sharing ideas, successes, obstacles, issues, concerns, resolutions, and anything else we wish to discuss in an open forum session.

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Wednesday, March 8th

4:00pm – 5:00pm (FDC114)

PEDAGOGY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

“Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning – Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy

Facilitated by Dr. Marina Gerson, Director of FCETL

Part Two: Pages 53-121

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Thursday, March 9th

1:00pm – 2:00pm (FDC103)