- Perception and the Impact of Self on Students
- January 21, 2022
- 10:30 – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- Active Learning: a Panel Discussion on Keeping Students Engaged
- January 21, 2022
- 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
- Zoom
- Achieving the Dream and Every Learner Everywhere
- 2022 Operationalizing Equity, Social Justice, and Inclusion to Transform Teaching and Learning Webinar Series
- Webinar 1 – Curating Inclusive Course Content that Centers Students and Equity
- Thursday, January 27, 2022
- 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- Zoom
- Career Competencies in the Classroom
- Friday, January 28, 2022
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am
- Zoom
- Candid Career Information Session
- Friday, January 28, 2022
- 11:10 am – 12:10 pm
- Zoom
- Using Results from Welcome Surveys to Build Community, Connections, and Engagement
- Monday, January 31, 2022
- 11:10 am – 12:10 pm
- Zoom
- I Am Not A Writing Instructor: How to Create a Rubric That Works in Your Discipline
- Friday, February 4, 2022
- 10:30 – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- Why Educators Need Boundaries: Strategies to Create Them and Keep Them
- Friday, February 11, 2022
- 10:30 am – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- TBR Open Educational Resources Grant Program Pre-application Informational Webinar
- February 11, 2022
- 1:00 – 2:00 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Technology Enhanced Learning: Increasing Student Engagement Through the Use of Technology
- Wednesday, February 16, 2022
- 2:00 – 3:30pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Technology Enhanced Learning: Increasing Student Engagement Through the Use of Technology
- Thursday, February 17, 2022
- 10:00 – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- The Southern Word Showcase and Writer Slam: What they are and why your students should be a part of them
- Friday, February 18, 2022
- 10:30 – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Study Abroad: On the Road Again: A Study Abroad “How to”
- Tuesday, February 22, 2022
- 9:00 am
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Undergraduate Research
- Thursday, February 24, 2022
- 2:00 pm
- Zoom
- High Impact Practices (HIPs)
- Friday, February 25, 2022
- 9:30 am – 10:15 am
- Zoom
- Ideas That Stick
- Friday, February 25, 2022
- 10:30 – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors First Year Experience/Seminars – FYE Roundtable
- Monday, February 28, 2022
- 12:00 noon
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Honors Education: It would be our honor…to have lunch with you: Honors Roundtable, Bringing HIPs to Community Colleges
- Monday, February 28, 2022
- 12:00 noon
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Learning Communities: Roundtable Discussion
- Monday, February 28, 2022
- 1:00 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Technology Enhanced Learning: Increasing Student Engagement Through the Use of Technology
- Monday, February 28, 2022
- 6:00 – 7:30 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Work-Based Learning
- Thursday, March 3, 2022
- 10:00 am
- Zoom
- Achieving the Dream and Every Learner Everywhere
- 2022 Operationalizing Equity, Social Justice, and Inclusion to Transform Teaching and Learning Webinar Series
- Webinar 2 – Operationalizing Equitable Teaching and Learning Practices
- Wednesday, March 9, 2022
- 12:00pm – 1:00 pm
- Zoom
- TBR Advising Academy – Refresh, Renew, Reclaim
- Thursday, March 10 – Friday, March 11, 2022
- Zoom
- TBR Spring 2022 Student Affairs Virtual In-Service
- Thursday, March 10, 2022
- 8:00 am – 3:20 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Global/Cultural Awareness
- Monday, March 21, 2022
- 2:00 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Technology Enhanced Learning: What it takes to code your course as a High Impact Practice (HIP)
- Monday, March 21, 2022
- 3:00 – 5:00 pm
- Zoom
- Faculty Forum with Dr. Rothstein
- Wednesday, March 23, 2022
- 2:15 pm
- Zoom
- Work-Life Balance and Boundaries at Work
- Friday, March 25, 2022
- 10:00 – 11:00 am
- Zoom
- Teaching tail over teakettle: A top down experience in reversing curriculum order targeted at promoting student engagement, teaching positive mindset, and sowing love of learning.
- Friday, March 25, 2022
- 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
- Zoom
- Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices
- Thursday, March 31, 2022
- 9:30 – 10:30 am
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Undergraduate Research
- Thursday, March 31, 2022
- 2:00 pm
- Zoom
- Conflict Resolution Is Not an Oxymoron!
- Friday, April 1, 2022
- 9:30 – 10:30 am
- Zoom
- These HIPS don’t Lie: A Panel Discussion on the Effectiveness of HIPS
- Friday, April 1, 2022
- 10:30 – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- Service Learning: Lessons Learned from Implementing a HIP during a Pandemic
- Friday, April 1, 2022
- 11:30 am – 12:00 noon
- Zoom
- all identities – taking the next step – Virtual Conference
- Thursday, April 7 – Saturday, April 9, 2022
- Zoom
- What’s in a Word? Strategies to Support Academic Vocabulary Development and Retention
- Friday, April 8, 2022
- 10:30 – 11:30 am
- Zoom
- Faculty Forum with Dr. Rothstein
- Friday, April 8, 2022
- 2:00 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Learning Communities
- Monday, April 11, 2022
- 1:00 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors First Year Experience/Seminars
- Monday, April 11, 2022
- 2:00 pm
- Zoom
- Achieving the Dream and Every Learner Everywhere
- 2022 Operationalizing Equity, Social Justice, and Inclusion to Transform Teaching and Learning Webinar Series
- Webinar3– Designing Assessments through a Culturally Responsive Lens
- Tuesday, April 12, 2022
- 2:00pm – 3:00 pm
- Zoom
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Study Abroad: Roam Around the World: Incorporating Virtual Study Abroad in the Classroom
- Wednesday, April 13, 2022
- 2:30 pm
- Zoom
- Introduction to TILT
- Thursday, April 14, 2022
- 9:00 – 10:00 am
- Zoom
- Connection Check-in
- Monday, April 18, 2022
- 11:30 – 11:45 am
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Global/Cultural Awareness
- Monday, April 18, 2022
- 2:00 pm
- Connection Check-in
- Thursday, April 21, 2022
- 9:45 – 10:00 am
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Honors Education
- Friday, April 22, 2022
- 12 pm
- TBR HIP Ambassadors Technology Enhanced Learning: What it takes to code your course as a High Impact Practice (HIP)
- Friday, April 22, 2022
- 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
- Connection Check-in
- Monday, April 25, 2022
- 9:00 – 9:15 am
TBR HIP Ambassadors Undergraduate Research
- April 28, 2022
- 2:00 pm
Summer Check-in
Friday, May 27, 2022
9 am
- Achieving the Dream and Every Learner Everywhere
- 2022 Operationalizing Equity, Social Justice, and Inclusion to Transform Teaching and Learning Webinar Series
- Webinar 4– Democratizing Learning Environments
- In this webinar, participants will engage in dialogue and discourse with panelists as it relates to co-creating environments that support and humanize students’ academic experiences while affirming their strengths and potential in the classroom. Additionally, panelists will address inclusive practices, instructional strategies, and digital tools that foster a climate of belonging, open dialogue, student-centered engagement, and the co-construction of knowledge in the classroom and beyond.
- Wednesday, May 4, 2022
- 12:00pm – 2:00pm
- Remote – The Connected Faculty Summit
- REMOTE is a free virtual event where frontline faculty and decision makers from global universities and colleges share highly relevant strategies and interventions for all learning modalities – classroom, blended/hybrid, and online. REMOTE helps to design and deliver the best possible experiences and outcomes for teachers and learners – from learner variability, adaptive learning, to effective use of tools and equitable use of digital learning.
- Hosted by: Arizona State University
- Wednesday, June 8 – Thursday, June 9, 2022
Beegle Poverty Immersion Institute Training: June 14 – 15, 2022
The Diversity and Equity Committee is excited to offer faculty, staff, and administrators an opportunity to attend the Beegle Poverty Immersion Institute in June 2022.
This training, offered by Dr. Donna Beegle, Communications Across Barriers (https://www.combarriers.com/ ), will focus on “gaining Poverty Competency” and setting a foundation for understanding the influence and impact poverty has on student retention and post completion success. Dr. Beegle has trained colleges throughout the United States, including colleges in the TBR system— Northeast State Community College, Chattanooga State Community College, and Volunteer State Community College. You can find more information about the Coaching Institute here https://www.combarriers.com/povertyinstitute
During this training participants will:
- Learn to communicate more effectively with those living in poverty.
- Use activities, modeling, and dialogue to understand and practice the core concepts.
- Leave with concrete strategies and materials that can be used right away to make a difference.
This will be the 3rd cohort of NSCC faculty, staff, and administrators to attend the Beegle Poverty Immersion Institute training this fiscal year.
TRAINING INFORMATION (this is a virtual training):
Training Dates/Mode
- June 14 – 15, 2022
- This is a 2-day training and you must be able to attend both days.
- This training will be virtual.
New Adjunct Faculty Workshop
Monday, July 11, 2022
10 am – 11 am
Thursday, August 11
8:30 am – 8:50 am
Kick-off of CONNECT Fall 2022
Join The Teaching Center as we kick-off CONNECT Fall 2022.
Thursday, August 11
9 – 9:30 am Guided Tour for Beginners on Scheduling Apps (L, S)
Join us for a step-by-step beginners’ guide to Calendly. During the session, you can follow along to set-up your Calendly account with a Q&A session at the end of the session. Would you like a head start? Try this self-help guide. https://nscc.libguides.com/advising/faculty_comm
Presenter: Jessica Rabb
Thursday, August 11
9:45 – 10:45 am Best Practices for 7-Week Terms (L, E, D, S)
Join the Office of Online Learning and The Teaching Center to explore best practices for 7-week terms and resources available to you as you develop and teach courses in 7-week terms.
Presenters: Anna Everett, Online Learning, Jamie Edwards, Online Learning, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Thursday, August 11
11 am – 12 pm Tenure and Promotion Updates and Q & A
Join us to learn about the promotion and tenure processes at Nashville State Community College. Even if you aren’t pursuing promotion or tenure this year, come to this session to learn and ask questions to know what you need to do now to be ready for the future.
Presenters: Dr. Sarah Roberts and Dr. Eli Nettles
Thursday, August 11
12:15 – 12:45 pm Advanced Session – Using Scheduling Apps (L, S)
If you have been using a scheduling app, join us to learn how to make it work better for you and students with Q&A.
Presenter: Jessica Rabb
Friday, August 12
9 am – 10 am NSCC TILT Survey Results Analysis and Discussion (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Join your colleagues who are TILTing in their classes to discuss the impact of TILTing on their students and on their teaching and to consider ways to improve our TILTing for future students. Results from the NSCC Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 TILT pilot survey will be shared.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Fellow, The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Friday, August 12
10:10 am – 11:10 am Applying the Master Syllabus Template
Prepare your syllabus for the upcoming semester discussion what information and expectations you should consider presenting to your students.
Presenter: Jamie Edwards, Director of Online Learning
Friday, August 12
11:20 am – 12:20 pm New Adjunct Faculty Workshop (L, E) – Zoom
Adjunct faculty are essential at Nashville State Community College, and The Teaching Center thanks you for being a part of our faculty family at NSCC. Please join The Teaching CENTER for a virtual orientation to teaching at Nashville State Community College. We are looking forward to meeting you.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Fellow, The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Friday, August 12
1 pm – 2 pm ACUE 2022-2023 Cohort Kick-off (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Moderators: Amy Bryant, Tammy Ruff, and Neely Ann Sheucraft
Location: Zoom
Event is limited to ACUE 2022-2023 Cohort participants. ACUE 2022-2023 Cohort participants, please check your email and Outlook Calendar invitation for the Zoom meeting information.
Friday, August 12
1 pm – 2 pm
Ready, Set, GO!: Tips and Tricks for Fall Semester Prep Online
Start the Fall semester off strong! This workshop will provide you with tips and tricks for maximizing your fall term prep in D2L. Topics will include:
- Copying or importing existing course components
- Updating your course content for the current term
- Welcoming “Getting Started” content and introductory activities for online
- Establishing course expectations and communication routines
Workshop Organizer: Dr. Anna Everett, Online Learning
Monday, August 15
9 am – 10 am Learning from Watermark Survey Results (L, E, A, D, S)
Every fall and spring, students complete the Watermark Survey about our classes. Individual faculty have access to their individual reports, but we don’t know how our own results are compared with the college as a whole. Join The Teaching Center as we analyze our NSCC college-wide Watermark survey report. We will use the college-wide report to allow us to see a big-picture perspective of the Watermark survey results for faculty to use the college-wide results and own individual results for planning for the upcoming semesters. Join us for a data-informed conversation about Watermark by spending time analyzing college-wide results and using these results to inform their planning for future courses. Note: The workshop will focus on college-wide results, only. No individual’s results will be shared.
Presenter: Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Monday, August 15
10:10 am – 11:10 am Specification grading in STEM courses (S, CRTP)
In the traditional grading system, there is a variation in students’ grades depending on who is teaching the class. A student may earn a lower grade in one section for the same amount of effort than in another. In a way, there is a gap between the desired learning level to the success level. This perceived gap is also not measurable. In a traditional grading system often, it is assumed that a teacher fails or passes students.
Contrary to the traditional grading system, students will have ownership of their grades in specifications grading. Students will have clarity about their desired grade, where they stand, and what action they can take to reach the goal. In this presentation, I like to discuss how we can measure student success in a new way that hopes to motivate and encourage students to work for their desired grades.
Presenter: Jesmin Akther
Monday, August 15
11:20 am – 12:20 pm HIPs – The What, Why, When, and How (L, E, D, S, CRTP)
Join us as we explore what high impact practices (HIPs) are, why high impact practices are emphasized, when to implement, and how to implement in our courses.
Presenter: Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Monday, August 15
12:30 – 1:30 pm “Maslow” before “Bloom:” Why and how to incorporate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) (L, E, S, CRTP)
Please bring an open mind 🙂
Presenter: Kurstin Bush, Education Instructor and Coordinator, and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Monday, August 15
1:40 pm – 2:40 pm Lights, Camera, Learning!: Course Videos Made Easy
Want to make your online course more interactive and engaging, but not sure where to start? Fear not. This workshop will show you just how easy it is to create fun, interesting videos that can draw students into your course and reinforce learning. No fancy recording studio required.
We will go over:
- Basic tools and techniques for recording video,
- Using Kaltura to caption videos,
- Tips for integrating assessments into videos,
- Finding and adding YouTube videos to your course.
Workshop Organizer: Dr. Anna Everett, Online Learning
Tuesday, August 16
9 am – 10 am What I Learned About Teaching From Being a Student (L, S, CRTP)
In this session, I will share some insights I gained about teaching and applying best practices from studying chess via YouTube instruction. You do NOT need to play chess to benefit; in fact, you might benefit more if you don’t play chess.
Presenter: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor of Communications and English and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Tuesday, August 16
10:10 am – 11:10 am Building Better Communication from Committee to College (L, A)
Do you represent your colleagues on a committee? Are you represented by a colleague on a committee? Join us for a discussion about representation and how we can better communicate with each other about what is occurring in our committees, how to solicit voices from your colleagues to help your decision-making, and how to engage actively with those who represent you. We will collaborate to build some guiding principles for representation and communication to help build better communication from our committees to our colleagues.
Presenters: Jay Chambers, Assistant Professor/Clinical Coordinator, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Tuesday, August 16
11:20 am – 12:20 pm Make Your Course “Smart”: Save Time and Engage Your Students Using Automation Tools in D2L
Do you wish you had more time? Or that your students read your emails? This workshop will introduce Intelligent Agents, a powerful tool inside D2L that can both save you time and personalize course communications for your students. Intelligent Agents can automatically identify students who meet certain criteria in your course and send them a message tailored to their current learning needs in the course. For instance, you can set an IA to identify students who scored below a particular threshold on an assignment. It will then automatically send a message with helpful resources or reminders about course grading policies to students who meet those criteria. You can even set up IAs to send messages of praise for a job well done! While writing each of these emails on your own would normally take hours, IAs allow you to add a greater sense of personal care and connection to your online course, with minimal time invested.
Join us to learn how to:
- Set up Intelligent Agents,
- Script Intelligent Agent messages, to improve student motivation and engagement,
- Streamline or automate other course communications.
Workshop Organizer: Dr. Anna Everett, Online Learning
Tuesday, August 16
1 pm – 2 pm STEM, TILT, and Rubrics, Oh My! (L, S, CRTP)
This session will focus on using TILT and Rubrics principles and applying them to STEM assignments and activities.
Presenters: Gracie King, Associate Professor, STEM, and Maria Smith, Associate Professor, STEM and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Wednesday, August 17
9 am – 10 am Introduction to TILT (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Back by faculty request! If you have never attended a TILT workshop, join The Teaching Center for the Introduction to TILT workshop. Research indicates that transparent assignment design significantly enhances students’ success, with even greater gains for historically underserved students. This presentation will cover the key principles underlying the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework and provide evidence for its efficacy.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Fellow, The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Wednesday, August 17
9 am – 10 am Student Communication – A Faculty Panel (L, S)
Join fellow faculty as we share what is working and what we’ve learned from what didn’t work as well to help us continuously improve communication with students.
Moderator: Scott McRoberts, Senate Chair
Wednesday, August 17
10:10 am – 11:10 am A Conversation about 21st Century Skills (L, E, S, CRTP)
Let’s talk! What skills do students need to have in the Information Age? Are we assessing those skills in our courses? Are we teaching the way we were taught, i.e. using 20th century skills for a 21st century student?
Presenter: Kurstin Bush, Education Instructor and Coordinator, and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Wednesday, August 17
11:20 am – 12:20 pm Bring Your Own Gradebook: Open Workshop for Gradebook Set Up and Troubleshooting
Is your gradebook giving you a headache? Bring it to us! Online Learning staff will be available to assist with individual gradebook issues and questions in this open workshop.
There is no presentation scheduled for this session, but if you are looking for a general overview of the basics of D2L Gradebook set up, please see our recorded Online Learning Gradebook Workshop video (linked here).
Workshop Organizer: Dr. Anna Everett, Online Learning
Wednesday, August 17
1 pm – 2 pm Work-Life Balance and Boundaries at Work (L, A, S, CRTP)
Presenter: Audrey Cross
Thursday, August 18
9 am – 10 am Thinking about Grades as Conflict (L, S, CRTP)
We may feel conflicted about the grades we give, but unless a grade appeal occurs, we often don’t see giving a grade as a conflict. In this session, we will examine how students may perceive grades as sources of conflict, and we will look at conflict styles and conflict management strategies to see how we can turn these conflicts into positive, learning-focused, opportunities.
Presenter: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor of Communications and English and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Thursday, August 18
10:10 am – 11:10 am Building Community in Your Class Starting Today (L, E, S, CRTP)
Building a classroom community is a culturally responsive teaching practice, but how can we build this community starting today? We will share strategies and processes to start building community with our students now before the semester starts, as the semester begins, throughout the semester, and beyond.
Presenter: Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Thursday, August 18
11:20 am – 12:20 pm Online Learning Open Office Hours
Feel free to jump into Online Learning’s Virtual Office Hours to ask questions related to D2L, supported learning technologies, or general help setting up your courses.
Thursday, August 18
1 pm – 2 pm Online Learning Open Office Hours
Feel free to jump into Online Learning’s Virtual Office Hours to ask questions related to D2L, supported learning technologies, or general help setting up your courses.
Friday, August 19
9 am – 10 am The Active Learning Cycle: what it is and why you should consider using it. (L, S)
This session will explore what the Active Learning Cycle is, look at some evidence for its efficacy, provide some examples of it at work, and finally workshop some strategies for implementing it in your classes.
Presenter: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor of Communications and English and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Friday, August 19
10:10 am – 11:10 am Living freely in a haiku: Adventures in turning curriculum order on its head and what I learned about the human body and education at this year’s National Human Anatomy and Physiology Conference (L, E, S, CRTP)
Do you feel like it’s hard to be creative in your classroom due to an increasing number of rules and regulations regarding curriculum? Would you like to learn more about how to use kinetic movement of your students’ bodies to help them learn concepts in your classes, no matter the subject area? Have you ever wanted to know how to make a reel or TikTok video to give a mini lesson to your students on a difficult concept using classroom materials, your phone, and your imagination?
If so, come to this in service with an open mind curiosity and the patience to listen to the speaker discuss these topics and also talk about all the really cool things about the human body that she learned this year at her favorite conference. 🙂 And yes, we will also discuss haiku’s and their increasing relevance to modern life.
Presenter: Gracie King, Associate Professor, STEM
Friday, August 19
11:20 am – 12:20 pm Online Learning Open Office Hours
Feel free to jump into Online Learning’s Virtual Office Hours to ask questions related to D2L, supported learning technologies, or general help setting up your courses.
Thursday, August 25
10 am – 11 am
Discover the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) and how it can help your students become lifelong learners This workshop will show how TEL can help faculty in any discipline help their students find good peer-reviewed materials. TEL is a resource for all Tennesseans and paid for through the Tennessee State Library and Archives to support lifelong learning.
Presenter: Sally A. Robertson, Serials/Cataloging Librarian
Friday, August 26
10 am – 10:45 am
Completing Our Faculty Evaluations
Full-time faculty annual evaluations are due by Wednesday, August 31. Join The Teaching Center as we review the faculty evaluation form, reflect on items that could be included, and provide ideas to help you finish (or start) your faculty evaluation.
Moderators: Neely Ann Sheucraft and Amy Bryant
Friday, August 26
1 pm
The 7-Week Course, A Panel Discussion (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
This panel discussion will center on the good, the bad, and the not so ugly experiences with the new 7-week courses. We will hear from Kurstin, a professor with a lot of experience with 7-week courses, a professor who was new to the 7-week format, and a student who was a part of that 7-week cohort. Please join us for this open, honest conversation on what worked, what didn’t, and what to expect.
Presenters: Kurstin Bush, Robert Ladd, Lori Ann Proffitt
Tuesday, August 30
8:30 – 9 am
Community Building Week 1 – How did it go? (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Join us as we reflect on our classroom community building practices from week 1 and discuss what went well and how we can improve as we continue to build community in our classes during the semester.
Moderator: Amy Bryant
Friday, September 2
8:30 – 9 am
Promotion and Tenure Preparation Workshop
Are you thinking about promotion or tenure and want to know more about preparing your materials? Join The Teaching Center for a promotion and tenure preparation workshop. We will review the promotion and tenure applications, discuss the three performance criteria, and provide examples of evidence that you can include.
Presenter: Amy Bryant, Associate Professor and Director, The Teaching Center
Friday, September 2
9 – 9:45 am
How to Write a Teaching Philosophy Workshop
This workshop will cover what to include in your Teaching Philosophy, some options/strategies for organizing content, some brainstorming activities to help generate content, and it will examine some examples of what not to do.
Presenter: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor – English and Communication Studies, and Fellow in The Teaching Center
Friday, September 9
10 am – 11 am
Developing Courses for Accelerated Terms Collaboration Time
Join The Teaching Center to collaborate and share as we develop courses for accelerated terms. Bring your ideas, your triumphs, and challenges that haven’t been solved yet to share with colleagues. Note: There is no presentation scheduled for this session; the entire session is dedicated to colleagues working together as we develop courses for accelerated terms.
Moderators: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Fellow, The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Wednesday, September 14
3 – 4:30 pm
Join Tennessee Open Education for a virtual seminar covering foundational aspects of OER selection, attribution, and usage on Wednesday, September 14 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm Central.
This session will convey critical information underpinning successful OER use, including key insights on:
Distinguishing OER from other instructional materials,
Recognizing and attributing OER properly, and
Practical steps to find relevant, quality OER.
Presenters include:
- Elizabeth Spica is a Creative Commons-certified Global Network Member entering her second year of law school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She currently serves as a Legal Fellow for Wikimedia Foundation, and prior to law school, she worked for both traditional and OER-based textbook publishers and pursued research in efforts to help lower student textbook costs. Elizabeth believes in a world where everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge and is excited to meet with everyone about their OER projects.
- Rachel Fleming is Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they manage the UTC Library’s Affordable Course Materials Initiative, support open campus publishing in UTC Scholar, and provide scholarly communications training and support. Fleming has fifteen years of experience in library technical services including collection development, collection management, serials, and acquisitions.
- Ryan Korstange is Director of Academic Affairs at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, and coordinator of various statewide textbook affordability initiatives.
Friday, September 16
9 – 9:45 am
ACUE Cohort Check-in (CRTP)
Moderators: Tammy Ruff and Neely Ann Sheucraft
Location: Zoom
Event was limited to ACUE Cohort participants.
Friday, September 16
10 am
What I Learned About Teaching From Being a Student
In this session, I will share some insights I gained about teaching and applying best practices from studying chess via YouTube instruction. You do NOT need to play chess to benefit; in fact, you might benefit more if you don’t play chess.
Presenter: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor of Communications and English and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Monday, September 19
11 am
Community Connection
Do you have a desire to connect? Are you open to learning more about your colleagues? How about some good old-fashioned communication? Our community connects when we spend time together. Join us for support, laughs, and just being together.
Hosts: Amy Bryant, Tammy Ruff, Neely Ann Sheucraft
Friday, September 23
9 am
Is it just me?
There is no doubt that student disengagement is a problem for many in higher education. Is this part of the pandemic fallout? Join us to discuss ways to reach students who are disconnected and unmotivated. How can we assist students with reengagement?
Moderators: Tammy Ruff and Neely Ann Sheucraft
Tuesday, September 27
8:30 – 9 am
Community Building Mid Semester – Classroom Community Check-up (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Join us as we reflect on our classroom community building practices from the first month and discuss what went well and how we can improve as we continue to build community in our classes during the semester.
Moderator: Amy Bryant
Thursday, September 29
9 am – 10 am
Advising Students Who Need A Math Credit
In this session, I will discuss the minimum test score needed to register for a particular math course, the pre-requisites for math courses, and math lab support.
Presenter: Maria Smith, Associate Professor of Math and Fellow, The Teaching Center
Friday, September 30
10 am – 11 am Conflict Resolution Is Not an Oxymoron!
Join us as we discuss what conflict is, the five styles of conflict management, how to resolve conflict in a positive way, how to communicate effectively during conflict, and how to manage our emotions during conflict. Also, we will present some strategies for how to psychologically, professionally, and emotionally learn to accept conflict as a part of the human condition.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Fellow, The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Wednesday, October 5
11 am
OER With EcoText
In the opening sessions, we will be exploring the available catalogue of materials which EcoText provides with our EcoText representative. This will be a multidisciplinary exploration of OER materials, what that means, and how they function. Join us to see what materials may already be available for your classes, or which materials you may wish to remix for your own materials.
Moderator: Robert Ladd, OER Facilitator
Friday, October 7, 2022
8:30 – 9 am
Promotion and Tenure Drop-in Session
Bring your questions! Join The Teaching Center to share questions and brainstorm ideas as you work on your promotion or tenure application.
Facilitators: Kurstin Bush and Amy Bryant
Friday, October 7
12:30 pm
OER With EcoText
Following our introduction to EcoText’s catalogue, our EcoText representative will be walking us through the process of creating new OER materials with EcoText and their developers. This will be an inside look of what would be available to you as a faculty member creating OER and how EcoText developers work with you; this will be followed by a Q&A with faculty.
Moderator: Robert Ladd, OER Facilitator
Wednesday, October 12
11 am
OER With PanOpen
In the opening sessions, we will be exploring the available catalogue of materials which PanOpen provides with our PanOpen representative. This will be a multidisciplinary exploration of OER materials, what that means, and how they function. Join us to see what materials may already be available for your classes, or which materials you may wish to remix for your own materials.
Moderator: Robert Ladd, OER Facilitator
Thursday, October 13
12 pm
Grants (L, E, A, D, S)Nashville State has a Grants pre-approval process that all who wish to apply for an external grant, or apply for an extension to an existing grant, must go through. Donna Whitehouse will walk us through the process preparation, completing the necessary form, submission, and follow up.
Friday, October 14
11 am
OER With PanOpen
Following our introduction to PanOpen’s catalogue, our PanOpen representative will be walking us through the process of creating new OER materials with PanOpen and their developers. This will be an inside look of what would be available to you as a faculty member creating OER and how PanOpen developers work with you; this will be followed by a Q&A with faculty.
Moderator: Robert Ladd, OER Facilitator
Tuesday, October 18
8:30 – 9 am
Community Building – Closing the Loop on Mid-semester feedback (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Join us as we reflect on how we used mid-semester feedback from our students and how we can improve as we continue to build community in our classes during the semester.
Moderator: Amy Bryant
Wednesday, October 19
11 am
OER With Lumen
In the opening sessions, we will be exploring the available catalogue of materials which Lumen provides with our Lumen representative. This will be a multidisciplinary exploration of OER materials, what that means, and how they function. Join us to see what materials may already be available for your classes, or which materials you may wish to remix for your own materials.
Moderator: Robert Ladd, OER Facilitator
Friday, October 21
9 – 9:45 am
Developing Courses for Accelerated Terms Collaboration Time
Join The Teaching Center to collaborate and share as we develop courses for accelerated terms. Bring your ideas, your triumphs, and challenges that haven’t been solved yet to share with colleagues. Note: There is no presentation scheduled for this session; the entire session is dedicated to colleagues working together as we develop courses for accelerated terms.
Moderator: Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Friday, October 21
11 am
OER With Lumen:
Following our introduction to Lumen’s catalogue, our Lumen representative will be walking us through the process of creating new OER materials with Lumen and their developers. This will be an inside look of what would be available to you as a faculty member creating OER and how Lumen developers work with you; this will be followed by a Q&A with faculty.
Moderator: Robert Ladd, OER Facilitator
Tuesday, October 25
9 am – 10 am
Building Better Communication from Committee to College (L, A)
Do you represent your colleagues on a committee? Are you represented by a colleague on a committee? Join us for a discussion about representation and how we can better communicate with each other about what is occurring in our committees, how to solicit voices from your colleagues to help your decision-making, and how to engage actively with those who represent you. We will collaborate to build some guiding principles for representation and communication to help build better communication from our committees to our colleagues.
Presenters: Jay Chambers, Assistant Professor/Clinical Coordinator, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Thursday, October 27
12 pm
Goal Writing (L, E, A, D, S)
We are all called upon time to time to write goals – be it for our annual evaluation, institutional effectiveness, preparing for grants, or more. Donna Whitehouse will walk participants through several methods to think about, and then write, a variety of goals. Come prepared with sample goals, ideas, and future needs.
Presenter: Donna Whitehouse
Friday, October 28
9 am – 9:50 am
Soft Skills are the Essential Skills for Success: Are you listening?
Listening is often a skill that we assume that we can do well and often have had little training in how to do well. Join us for a discussion of the difference between listening and hearing, the different listening styles that we can use, and how adjusting our listening styles can help us be better listeners and stronger communicators with students, colleagues, and in life.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Fellow, The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Friday, October 28th
10-10:30 am
Community Connection
Do you have a desire to connect? Are you open to learning more about your colleagues? How about some good old-fashioned communication? Our community connects when we spend time together. Join us for support, laughs, and just being together.
Hosts: Amy Bryant, Tammy Ruff, Neely Ann Sheucraft
Friday, November 4
9 – 9:45 am
ACUE Cohort Check-in
Moderators: Tammy Ruff and Neely Ann Sheucraft
Location: Zoom
Event is limited to ACUE Cohort participants.
Tuesday, November 8
8:30 – 9 am
Community Connection
Do you have a desire to connect? Are you open to learning more about your colleagues? How about some good old-fashioned communication? Our community connects when we spend time together. Join us for support, laughs, and just being together.
Host: Harlan Pease
Monday, November 14th
10-10:30 am
Community Connection
Do you have a desire to connect? Are you open to learning more about your colleagues? How about some good old-fashioned communication? Our community connects when we spend time together. Join us for support, laughs, and just being together.
Hosts: Amy Bryant, Tammy Ruff, Neely Ann Sheucraft
Tuesday, November 15
8:30 – 9 am
Community Building – As the Semester Comes to a Close (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Join us as we reflect on community building this semester, what went well and how to replicate these, what didn’t go well and how to avoid these, and how to help students maintain this community past the end of the semester.
Moderator: Amy Bryant
Friday, November 18
9 am – 9:50 am
Soft Skills are the Essential Skills for Success: Focus on communication, nonverbal communication, and presence (L, S, CRTP)
We communicate with others anytime we are in the presence of another person. Are we aware of the messages that we are sending with our words, facial expressions, and bodies? Join us as we analyze how communication messages can be interpreted much differently than we intend; how to be more competent communicators in our words, facial expressions, and body movements; and provide tips and strategies to be a more competent communicator.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Fellow, The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director of The Teaching Center
Monday, November 28
10:30 am – 11 am
Reflecting As the Semester Comes to a Close (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP)
Join us as we reflect on this semester, what went well and how to replicate these for future semesters, what didn’t go well and how to avoid these, and sharing what we’ve learned during Fall 2022.
Moderator: Amy Bryant