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Designer and Teacher PD Library

Here, you will find professional development sessions that share best practices and builds skills in the following areas:

  1. Faculty design learning experiences to motivate students to be active participants in their learning.
  2. Faculty experiment with and adopt evidence-based instructional practices to improve student outcomes.
  3. Faculty investigate the impact of their teaching, reflect, and make changes to improve student outcomes.
  4. Faculty organize and manage time, materials, technology, and physical and virtual space to facilitate learner engagement and outcome achievement.
  5. Faculty experiment with and employ technology to increase learner achievement and engagement.

 

Topic: Accuracy in Grading

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Topic: Motivational Grading

Topic: Bias Resistance

Designer and Teacher Sessions

Applying Quality Matters to Course Design and Delivery (14:56 minutes)

Facilitated by: David SanFilippo (Applying QM Deck)

D2L: Student Data (58:55)

Facilitated by: LXD Team

Engaging Synchronous Sessions: Using Google Slides for Community, Consistency, and Collaboration (48:40 minutes)

Facilitated by: Margeaux Temeltas, Associate Director of Remote and Online Academics, UGC

Favoring Formative Assessment (53:17 minutes)

Facilitated by: Joseph D. Levy, Executive Director of Assessment and Accreditation, and Lynessa Rico, Assistant Professor, SBIT

Getting the Most Out of Online Videos: Guided Viewing (24:14 minutes)

Facilitated by: Phuong Thai-Garcia and Lydia Mantis (slides only)

Hypothes.is Online Annotation (59:51)

Facilitated by: Nathaniel Cradit

Impact of Generational Differences on Teaching and Learning (39:45 minutes)

Facilitated by: Neal Green, Jolene Martine, and Joao Goebel (slides only)

Implementing the Visual Literacy Framework to Promote Progressive, Sequential Learning for Multilingual Students (11:33 minutes)

Facilitated by: Mark Newman and Xiaoning Chen (Visual Literacy Deck)

Keeping Students Engaged in a Transition to Online Learning (60:04 minutes)

Facilitated by: Bettyjo Bouchey

Live Online Teaching: The Tools of the Trade (13:03 minutes)

Facilitated by: Martin Cortez Wesley (Tools of the Trade Deck)

Linguistic Bias in Grading Part I and Part II (41:24 minutes)

Facilitated by: Lauren Anderson and Eric VanDemark (Linguistic Bias and Grading Deck)

Music, Our Human Super Power (Deck Only)

Facilitated by: Kristin Lems

Preparing Your Course for Students (1 hour 1:10 minutes)

Facilitated by: Bettyjo Bouche

Pulling the Weeds in Your Remote Garden (45:55 minutes)

Facilitated by: Renee Gugel and Elizabeth Minor (slides only)

Reflective Practice for Rubrics  (1 hour 42:43 minutes)

Facilitated by: Joseph Levy, Janice Nilsen, & Rebecca Albertini

Scenarios, Situations and Simulations:  Engaging Students Online through Situated Learning Techniques (47:12 minutes)

Facilitated by: Deborah R. Popely (slides only)

Social-Emotional Learning and Alternative Digital Strategies for Successful Online And Remote Teaching  Part 1 and Part 2 (43:53 minutes)

Facilitated by: Neal Green & Alicia Meno

Synchronous Lecture Delivery (25:30 minutes)

Facilitated by: Bettyjo Bouchey (slides only)

Teaching Academic Honesty: A Collective Responsibility (59:16 minutes)

Facilitated by: Sara Leeman & Amy Hall, University Library (Deck if Available)

Teaching During Tumultuous Times (17:00 minutes)

Facilitated by: Sophie Degner (Tumultuous Times Deck)

Teaching Your Course: Engaging Students Synchronously (1 hour 1:22 minutes)

Facilitated by: Emma Zone

Teaching Your Course: Engaging Students Asynchronously - Part 1 (46:35 minutes)

Facilitated by: Roy Kaelin

Teaching Your Course: Engaging Students Asynchronously - Part 2 (56:12 minutes)

Facilitated by: Bonnie Flynn

Teaching Your Course: Data-driven Instruction (1 hour)

Facilitated by: Liz Teahan

Thinking by Design: Metacognition (56:26 minutes)

Facilitated by: Angela Elkordy, Assistant Professor, NCE

Using Culturally Responsive Practice in Your Teaching and Work (1 hour 30:13 minutes)

Facilitated by: Valerie Vistain and Keisha Rembert (Culturally Responsive Teaching Deck)

Using Visuals and Metaphors to Enhance Creativity and Engagement

Facilitated by: Karen Tardrew

Visual Literacy & Racial Depictions (56:53 minutes)

Facilitated by: Xiaoning Chen and Mark Newman

Wrapping-up Your Course (53:18 minutes)

Facilitated by: Rebecca Albertini

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