Collaboration and Excellence in Teaching, Engagement, & Research
Session Recordings: Fall 2021
Introduction to TILT: Transparency in Teaching and Learning
This workshop is for faculty who have not yet attended a TILT workshop or need an introductory refresher on the TILT process. 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. Participants will discuss examples of what transparent teaching and learning looks like in practice and will discuss how to scale this approach across the disciplines.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
I’m TILTing: Now What?
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.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Dos and Don’ts for Post-Pandemic Teaching
What do we do now? Just ask students! During the pandemic, we learned many valuable technology skills that assisted us in our virtual classrooms. This session will review research regarding what students hope we will continue to do and what they hope we will not.
Presenters: Tammy Ruff, Senior Affiliate Faculty, Psychology; and Valerie Belew, Associate Professor, English; Fellow, The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Open Education: Creating Local and Equitable Curriculum (Session 1 of 2)
Nashville State now has multiple faculty members involved in two different OER grant initiatives. Please join your fellow faculty members (and a guest speaker from STEM!), as well as some select guest speakers in a two-part series on Open Education. In the first session, hear from faculty on their experience with OER, each team on where we are in the grant, and how the OER process has improved and personalized our courses. The EHCT grant team will also display our Universally Designed for Learning course shell, which will be available for all faculty through the Teaching Center!
Presenters: Robert Ladd, Quincy Rhoads, Mike Kiggins, Michael Anderson
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Student Driven Assessment of Student Belonging at Nashville State
The Student Voices Initiative was a 2020-21 grant from TBR to assess Nashville State students’ sense of belonging. What made this project unique was the focus groups were led by Nashville State students. Discussion will include the process of training the student focus group facilitators, recruiting students to participate in focus groups, ultimately with the most success in PSYC 1030 Introduction to Psychology classes, and the data from over 100 students. You will then go through the paces of a focus group to assess faculty sense of belonging at Nashville State. (If the workshop is in person, faculty should bring a pen to complete a survey; if virtual, faculty will complete an online survey.)
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Shame, Empathy, Emotional Literacy, and Operationalizing BRAVING in the Classroom
How does our empathy, emotional literacy, and willingness to acknowledge possible triggers for shame make a difference in the classroom? How do we create more empathy and understanding? Join us as we discuss operational strategies that can create trust in the classroom. We suggest that you download 03. “read along resources” at this site https://brenebrown.com/daringclassrooms/ since we are using Brene Brown’s document as a framework for the sessions.
Presenters: Yvonne Simerman, Assistant Professor, Sociology; and Valerie Belew, Associate Professor, English; Fellow, The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Helping Multilingual Students Succeed in Content Area Courses
Multilingual students often face a variety of challenges as they work with content in their major courses. This workshop will provide faculty with an overview of these challenges and give concrete strategies for making course content more accessible, thereby promoting student retention and success.
Presenters: Leda Longwood, Devora Manier, Connie Mathews, Elizabeth Stein, and Mary Elizabeth Wilson-Patton, ESL Faculty
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Building Assessments to Measure Student Growth and Combat Cheating
Join The Teaching Center and Online Learning as we examine building assessments to measure student growth while also helping to prevent teaching.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center; Jamie Edwards, Director of Online Learning
Implementation and Impact of a Values Reflection in NSCC 1010B
We collaborated with the University of Virginia’s Motivate Lab to implement a value affirmation intervention in NSCC 1010 in fall 2019. We reached over 600 students in over 60 sections of the on-ground course. We continued our collaboration in 2020-21, by developing a virtual version of the intervention. Session participants will role-play a shortened version of the intervention and then see the qualitative data (pre- and post-mindset surveys) and qualitative data (reflection coding results) from our fall 2019 study. We hope our experience will help you consider value interventions in your courses.
Presenters: Jessica Rabb, Professor of Biology; and Marla Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Down the Rabbit Hole Part II
Join us as we facilitate a workshop of our greatest hits. In 5-10 minute sessions, faculty from across campus will share teaching innovations, student engagement tools, teaching tips, and technological tidbits. These brief sessions will offer overviews rather than comprehensive information.
Presenters: Robert Ladd, Assistant Professor and Teaching Center Fellow and Valerie Belew, Associate Professor and Teaching Center Fellow
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Perception and the Impact of Self on Students
Join us as we analyze perception and the impact of perception on how students view themselves, faculty, college, and our courses. Strategies for analyzing perceptions and for shifting perceptions to consider new perceptions and develop stronger growth mindsets will be shared.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Discover your innovation style through the Basadur Profile
The Basadur Innovation Profile Inventory measures your unique blend of preferences for the four stages of the innovation process: generating, conceptualizing, optimizing, implementing. Over the next year, NSCC Faculty, Staff, and Administrators will begin to use this learning tool as we work to discover how we best work together towards the goals of the college. (Session does require pre-registration and completion of profile before workshop. Link to complete profile will be sent to participants prior to workshop)
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
First-Year Student Degree Plans in the First-Weeks
We will show participants the value of degree planning in NSCC 1010. Students save their degree plan in Degree Works so it may be accessed, edited, and audited by not only the student but also their advisor once the five-week course ends. Students learn how to use the degree planning tools at their disposal but also the value of their degree and the courses. At the end of the workshop, you will make a Degree Works plan as if you were a student. Attendees will need access to a computer for this workshop to use Degree Works (Google Chrome browser works best.)
Presenters: Jessica Rabb, Professor of Biology, and Marla Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Open Education: Creating Local and Equitable Curriculum (Session 2 of 2)
Nashville State now has multiple faculty members involved in two different OER grant initiatives. Please join your fellow faculty members (and a guest speaker from STEM!), as well as some select guest speakers in a two-part series on Open Education. In this follow up session, representatives from our partners, Lumen, Ecotext, and PanOpen, will show examples of their materials and supplementary systems. Please join us to see what OER has to offer, and how you can become a part of the OER movements within your field.
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Betting on our Students
This workshop will involve brainstorming and creating a template to explore the idea of betting on our students. It will also include a way to transfer the process to other situations (for example, asking students what it would mean to bet on themselves).
Presenters: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor – English and Communication Studies, and Fellow in The Teaching Center
Discover your innovation style through the Basadur Profile
The Basadur Innovation Profile Inventory measures your unique blend of preferences for the four stages of the innovation process: generating, conceptualizing, optimizing, implementing. Over the next year, NSCC Faculty, Staff, and Administrators will begin to use this learning tool as we work to discover how we best work together towards the goals of the college.
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.
Presenters: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor – English and Communication Studies, and Fellow in The Teaching Center
Developing Quality Rubrics for Assessment and Reflection Workshop
This seminar will focus on the value of effective rubrics for assessment and for providing quality feedback, what differentiates an effective rubric from a less effective rubric, and the use of rubrics for student and faculty reflection.
Presenters: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor – English and Communication Studies, and Fellow in The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Promotion and Tenure Preparation Workshop
As we work on our promotion and tenure documentation, we sometimes encounter roadblocks and don’t know what to include for a section. Join The Teaching Center and other colleagues seeking promotion or tenure to brainstorm ideas and to discuss what documentation best fits in a category.
Moderator: Amy Bryant, Associate Professor and Fellow in The Teaching Center
Betting on Our Better Angels: Are we biased, or is it noise?
This in-service is the first of a three-part series on how we, as individual faculty and an institution, can reduce our equity gaps by addressing issues that are often confused for bias but are not. We want to define and demonstrate how System Noise may be a more contributing factor to equity gaps than bias and reduce noise where we can not only close large equity gaps within our disciplines. Furthermore, correctly identifying and reducing system noise helps us identify true bias where it is happening.
Presenters: Robert Ladd, Assistant Professor and Fellow with The Teaching Center, and Valerie Belew, Associate Professor and Fellow with The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Robert’s Rules of Order: How to Lead and Participate in Meetings Workshop
NSCC committees use Robert’s Rules of Order to guide their meetings. Join us as we review the rationale for Robert’s Rules of Order, how to use Robert’s Rules of Order as a leader and committee member, and group roles that help us be more effective in our committee work.
Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor and Director of The Teaching Center, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor and Fellow in The Teaching Center
Developing Quality Rubrics for Assessment and Reflection Workshop
This seminar will focus on the value of effective rubrics for assessment and for providing quality feedback, what differentiates an effective rubric from a less effective rubric, and the use of rubrics for student and faculty reflection.
Presenter: Harlan Pease, Associate Professor – English and Communication Studies, and Fellow in The Teaching Center
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate. Attendance at the workshop is required for credit towards the certificate.
Our College Community: Best Practices in Self-Care
Has the pandemic taken a personal toll on you? Are you feeling stressed, anxious, angry, or fatigued? According to a nationwide survey done by the Chronicle of Higher Education and Fidelity Investments (2021), what we need most is empathy, support, and tangible actions to assist us with our well-being and self-care. Join us to learn more about finding ways to cope with these challenges in a healthy way.
Presenter: Dr. Sandra Wills, Assistant Professor, Psychology, and practicing psychotherapist
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate. Attendance at the workshop is required for credit towards the certificate.
The Interactive Floating Syllabus
Join us to learn about what can be done in Google sites to create an interactive, floating syllabus. I’ll share one I built and get people started with the basics of adding images, text, buttons and other goodies.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate. Attendance at the workshop is required for credit towards the certificate.
