Collaboration and Excellence in Teaching, Engagement, & Research
Session Recordings: Spring 2021
Making Sense of What Worked and What Hasn’t Worked Yet After A Teaching Year Like No Other
We started this year’s professional development focusing on motivation and culturally responsive teaching practices. Now with over 60+ Professional Development Workshops and Better Together Sessions completed, we’d like to close out the year with a special 2-part professional development event co-hosted by Motivate Lab and NSCC’s Teaching Center. During this event, we will provide time and space to reflect on our successes and challenges that we faced over the past year in our teaching. We also will offer a framework to learn how to better motivate our students and ourselves and how we can start connecting our culturally responsive teaching practices training to that framework.
Presenter: Dr. Kenn Barron, Professor of Psychology, James Madison University, Motivation Research Institute
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Making Sense of What Worked and What Hasn’t Worked Yet After A Teaching Year Like No Other
We started this year’s professional development focusing on motivation and culturally responsive teaching practices. Now with over 60+ Professional Development Workshops and Better Together Sessions completed, we’d like to close out the year with a special 2-part professional development event co-hosted by Motivate Lab and NSCC’s Teaching Center. During this event, we will provide time and space to reflect on our successes and challenges that we faced over the past year in our teaching. We also will offer a framework to learn how to better motivate our students and ourselves and how we can start connecting our culturally responsive teaching practices training to that framework.
Presenter: Dr. Kenn Barron, Professor of Psychology, James Madison University, Motivation Research Institute
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 is a short workshop focused on integrating UDL one small step at a time. Let’s get together and watch one of the 3, 2, 1 UDL videos about small application and changes to assignments. Can we use these in a lesson? Let’s brainstorm together.
March 18, 2021
12:30 – 1:00 pm
This CRTP workshop counts as half of a professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
4 C’s: How to Structure Instruction for Deep Knowledge
Using a narrative framework, specifically the 4C’s: causality, conflict, complications, and character, has been shown to improve engagement, as well as deep understanding. Let us discuss what deep knowledge means, whether it applies, and how we can use the 4Cs to improve our Zoom sessions.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Academic Plans for SAP Appeals -What You Need to Know
Join us for an important informational session on the Academic Plan for SAP appeals. We will cover what it is, why it is important, and the role of the Academic Advisor in the completion of the plan. Handouts will be provided.
Apps and Tips to Keep You Sane (or at least make it appear that way)
This session will assist faculty in giving all students more access to faculty by freeing up time devoted to “housekeeping” tasks and reinventing the wheel when a better wheel exists already (probably as an app.) Example: Setmore is a scheduling app that allows faculty to send a link (or include it in their contact information) for students to quickly schedule appointments while sending the faculty information from the student needed for the appointment. Setmore also sends reminders to the student and faculty and does away with missed appointments, or at least it has this past semester.
This CRTP workshop counts as one 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).
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Brave Leaders and Courage Cultures in the Classroom Workshop
Learn how to create a classroom environment that is inclusive and allows students to feel free to express themselves in a safe environment. Join us for an introduction to Permission Slips, Container Building, and “What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way,” which are concepts based upon Brene Brown’s https://brenebrown.com/daringclassrooms/ website. We suggest that you visit the website and download item 03. “read-along resources”. We are using this document as a framework for the sessions.
Our students have access to Office 365 products through their myNSCC account, and we do, too, through Outlook. Learn how to collaborate using these applications.
Coding Camp: Collect Qualitative Data from Student Responses
As part of our QEP, Improving the First Year Experience, we ask students at the beginning and end of their first year how Nashville State will affect their personal growth. Working with Motivate Lab, I’ve learned how to collect data from these responses in a technique called “coding.” I’ll share Motivate Lab’s coding data on our 2018-19 cohort, and then you will help me code the 2019-20 responses. Thanks!
Join us as we take a critical look at the equity and openness of our syllabi for students; this will be based upon a presentation developed by The Center for Urban Education (CUE, http://cue-equitytools.usc.edu/) about the inquiry tools we can use to evaluate syllabi in promoting “racial and ethnic equity and equity-minded practice.” The goal of these inquiry tools is to help us “achieve equity in outcomes for racially minoritized students.” Using research and CUE tools, we will answer these questions: What is the purpose of a syllabus? Do students use the syllabus during the semester? How can language in the syllabus affect students? Why are the content and style of syllabi important? This is the first part of a two-part series.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Creating an Equity-minded Syllabus – Part 2 of 2
In this workshop, we will look at our options for incorporating equity-mindedness into NSCC’s Master Syllabi and work on individual syllabi to incorporate tenets presented in the first session with design, equity, and accessibility in mind; we will also discuss examining outcomes with a critical eye for student accessibility and success. Faculty need to bring a copy of their syllabus.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Developing a meaningful advisement relationship with students led by Rene Garcia, ATD
Evidence shows that a strong relationship with a faculty advisor can be a critical contributing factor to student retention and success. At NSCC, all faculty participate in student advising. Some of the students are majoring in an area that aligns with their faculty advisors’ work, but not all. That lack of alignment can be a challenge.
However, advisement is much broader than simply advising on a major. This session will look to help define advisement and review key steps faculty advisors can take to move from a registration focused advising agenda to career and degree planning, developing a stronger advisor/advisee relationship along the way.
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
How does Nashville State help and hinder a student’s sense of belonging in college? We worked with UVA’s Motivate Lab to train students to lead virtual focus groups in fall 2020 to gather answers to this question. In this workshop, we will share the preliminary results.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Exploring Culture, Identity, and Learning in the Community College Classroom
What is “culture?” How does it impact learning? Is being “color-blind” really helping our students? What are cultural discontinuities and how do they impact student achievement? This workshop defines key terms, explores research on the connections between culture, identity, and learning, and includes an opportunity to discuss possible ways to integrate that information into the development of our classes at NSCC.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Fostering Learner-Instructor and Learner-Content Interactions with Kaltura
Moore’s theory of interaction proposes three types of interaction essential to effective distance learning: learner-instructor, learner-content, and learner-learner. This workshop reviews Moore’s theory of interaction, then explores how Kaltura, a video-capture tool embedded in NS Online, can facilitate learner-instructor and learner-content interaction. Participants will view examples of Nashville State faculty using Kaltura to facilitate learner-instructor and learner-content interaction. Participants will review how to create a close-captioned video using Kaltura and share that video with their students through D2L. Participants will be provided the link to the .pdf guide and the video for how to use Kaltura through NS Online.
Going Down the Rabbit Hole–Ways to Make Your Trip Interesting
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.
This CRTP workshop counts as one 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.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
HIP, HIP, Hooray! Workshop
This workshop will introduce/review the minimum definitions of TBR’s High Impact Practices (HIPs). The presenters will discuss the eight quality dimensions of HIPs done well, identify examples of HIPs that are currently in place at NSCC, and workshop together to explore ways in which small teaching adjustments or additions can lead to large strides in student learning and engagement.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
How to Connect with your Advisees…Now
A review of free scheduling software you can use, how to send advisees an email in Outlook, how to update your email signatures so they have an advising focus, texting apps for advisees, and useful links that can remind you and them of the courses they need to take and the registration process. This workshop will be recorded for faculty to access on The Teaching Center Professional Development Library website.
Do you know how to organize your gradebook, switch between grade settings, create a checklist for your students, create a link to a quiz in the content section, create a survey…. Do you want tips and tricks that will help make your D2L/elearn experience less frustrating? I want to help you do that.
How to Use Vulnerability in the Classroom to Create a Sense of Belonging and Community
“We must be guardians of spaces that allow students to breathe, be curious, and to explore.” —Brene Brown #daringclassrooms website
This session explores the integration of “Permission Slips,” “Containers,” and “Living into Our Values” into a classroom setting. When students know that the classroom is a safe place to explore, create community, and express themselves, they can become more engaged with their classmates and instructors.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
I Am Not a Writing Instructor: How to Create a Rubric That Works in Your Discipline
Many instructors require students to write as part of the course curriculum and may need ideas about how to evaluate writing assignments. John Robert and Valerie for a session on best practices for creating a grading rubric for writing assignments. We will present a template that can be customized for our specific courses, and we will also look at ways to grade holistically/formatively.
Are you tired of reading “great post”? We’re using online discussion boards more than ever for our web and virtual courses, so let’s get together and brainstorm ways to improve them. We’ll talk about updating our settings in NS Online, adding options for Universal Design for Learning, incorporating FlipGrid, and more. Please join us for this interactive in-service and share your own ideas about what’s working well for you and what you want to try next.
Do you need to fulfill the TILT Workshop requirement for the CRTP Certificate? Join The Teaching Center for an introduction to the TILT Method Workshop for faculty who have never attended a TILT Workshop. Recent 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 of 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.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Keep Calm and Zoom On: Managing Zoom Fatigue in the Classroom
If you have been spending endless hours in virtual meetings and leading multiple virtual class sessions, you are likely very familiar with Zoom fatigue. You may know the feeling, but not the definition. Zoom fatigue describes the tiredness, worry, or burnout associated with consistently using virtual platforms of communication. Join us as we outline some of the common underlying causes and discuss practical methods to minimize it. Keep in mind, it is not just happening to faculty, but students as well.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
“Living Into Our Values” by Brene Brown
How does clarifying our own values and helping students clarify theirs enhance student motivation? How can we give “engaged feedback?” What are some of Nashville State’s values that we can mirror in our classrooms? We suggest that you download 03. “read along resources” (Part 2) at this site https://brenebrown.com/daringclassrooms/ since we are using this document as a framework for the sessions.
Presenters: Yvonne Simerman, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Valerie Belew, Associate Professor, English, and Teaching Center Fellow
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Making Sense of What Worked and What Hasn’t Worked Yet After A Teaching Year Like No Other
We started this year’s professional development focusing on motivation and culturally responsive teaching practices. Now with over 60+ Professional Development Workshops and Better Together Sessions completed, we’d like to close out the year with a special 2-part professional development event co-hosted by Motivate Lab and NSCC’s Teaching Center. During this event, we will provide time and space to reflect on our successes and challenges that we faced over the past year in our teaching. We also will offer a framework to learn how to better motivate our students and ourselves and how we can start connecting our culturally responsive teaching practices training to that framework.
Presenter: Dr. Kenn Barron, Professor of Psychology, James Madison University, Motivation Research Institute
Media literacy teaches students how to responsibly, access, analyze, evaluate, and create information. Presenters will introduce the core concepts of media literacy and discuss a variety of resources to get your students thinking critically about information consumption.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Nashville State’s Value
January 12, 2021
We just wrapped up a project with UVA’s Motivate Lab that asked NSCC 1010 students to consider the value of attending Nashville State. Our results support the link between finding personal value and motivation. We’ll help you consider how you can help students discover the value of your course and the assignments.
No Recording Available
Rumbling with Vulnerability in the Classroom
We will explore Part One, sections one and two: “The Call to Courage,” “The Cave You Fear to Enter,” “Gritty Faith and Gritty Facts,” and “Care and Connection.” By examining some of our own beliefs about vulnerability and trust, we can determine how our personal perceptions can impact the classroom and the roles we play in creating a positive and safe learning environment. In this workshop, we will continue discussion and participation in Brene Brown’s daring classrooms hub at https://brenebrown.com/daringclassrooms/. We suggest that you visit the website and download item 03. “read-along resources”. We are using this document as a framework for the sessions.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Setting Goals and Managing Outcomes
Jan 14, 2021
In this workshop, I would like to leverage my practices of providing transparent outcomes as a way of discussing the importance and implementation of meta-cognition and encouraging students to establish real, tangible goals in relation to the course outcomes. I would like to demonstrate how I help students set goals, and how I use choice to motivate students. We will also brainstorm methods for use in other curriculums and possible methods to improve and align students more closely with our desires for student success.
TBR Let’s Talk about Race Workshop 2: Dismantling Colorblind Ideologies
January 12, 2021
“I don’t see race…racism is a thing of the past!” Or is it? This session examines the impact colorblind ideologies have on color-bound issues and communities of color. This session will seek to explore ways of countering these ideologies both individually and within an organizational context.
No Recording Available
Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary: Welcoming Transgender and Non-binary Students in Our Classrooms
According to Brielle Harbin of Vanderbilt University’s Teaching Center, “Students on campuses across the country have become increasingly vocal in resisting binary thinking with respect to gender identity and expression.” As more and more students claim their transgender and non-binary gender identities, it’s important for instructors to have a degree of fluency with gender non-binary vocabulary and an understanding of how to make trans, non-binary and other gender non-conforming students feel welcomed. This session will cover the spectrum of trans and non-binary gender identities and offer a set of best practices for making these students feel recognized and respected in our classrooms.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
March 26, 2021
TILT 2.0
Welcome to TILT 2.0! You’ve implemented TILT, so what’s next? Join The Teaching CENTER for an open forum where we will discuss the successes and stumbles from using TILT and share ways to improve implementation. The session will include Q&A, suggestions on how faculty can analyze results and measure success, and how to continue to use TILT to be more culturally responsive in your classes.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Tired of Being Ignored?
Wondering if students check their email? You are not alone. So, how can we reach our students and advisees? This workshop will provide you with ideas such as texting, push notifications, short videos, and apps that can catch students’ attention. Share your tips, too.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Turning weakness into strength: Using ADD “deficits” to create student centered and engaging classes
This workshop will demonstrate how creating an ADD friendly classroom benefits students by increasing interest and engagement and how it benefits instructors by increasing flexibility and adaptability. Specifically, I will present a mini-lecture on the neuroscience of attention and memory as if it were a real class designed for non-science majors so that everyone can participate regardless of their academic background. I will use the lecture to demonstrate “ADD friendly” strategies and techniques that I have found to be extremely effective at increasing student participation and learning. Attendees will be treated as if they are real students in my classroom, complete with a quiz at the end and discussion. Bring a piece of paper and something to write with to the Zoom workshop.
Presenter: Gracie King, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) – Meeting the Needs of All Our Students
January 14, 2021
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on providing all students with equal opportunities to succeed. It addresses removing barriers to content access and emphasizes multiple intelligences and learning styles. It emphasizes flexibility that maximizes the strengths and abilities that students bring to the classroom. In this session, we will introduce the key principles and features of UDL, discuss its integral connection with issues of student access to curriculum, and explore best practices and ways to apply the UDL principles to material development.
This CRTP workshop counts as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate.
Using Online Rubrics in NS Online
Students prefer feedback that is both frequent and timely (Reis, 2012) and balanced and specific (Fiock & Garcia, 2019). Faculty want to provide that kind of feedback for students, but how do we do so for every student and every assignment? Grading with the NS Online rubric tool can help faculty provide this kind of feedback. Attaching rubrics to assignments makes criteria visible for students, and grading with NS Online rubrics moves quickly for faculty while still providing options for customized feedback. In this workshop, participants will discuss how well-written rubrics support student learning, view examples of rubrics in NS Online, practice creating simple rubrics, and learn how to attach rubrics to grade items in NS Online.
This workshop will help you equitably engage students on Zoom. How do we capitalize on our fall virtual experiences to improve your Zoom classrooms this spring? There will be time set aside to share your successful Zoom strategies.
