Tuesday, 03 Feb 2015
Webinar: Team-Based Learning (TBL): Active Learning and Differences in Learners (CIRTL Network)
Team-Based Learning (TBL) is an instructional strategy that promotes and reinforces individual learner accountability as a means for developing high performance student learning teams. In this session, we will discuss ways to implement TBL in core STEM courses. We will also share results from our research that examines the interaction between the active learning strategies used within TBL and the individual differences in learners.
Roundtable: Blended Learning Brown-Bag: Planning, Creating, and Recording Effective Mini-Lectures
The Blended Learning Brown-bag Roundtable is a monthly directed discussion and open-forum focused on blended learning practices and opportunities at Iowa State. Each forum will begin with a short presentation (15 min) followed by an open discussion. All are welcome and invited to bring a lunch.
Wednesday, 04 Feb 2015
Seminar Series: Faculty Peer Review a Win-Win Process -- Topic 1: An Overview of Peer Review
Award-winning Animal Science professor, Jodi Sterle, shares best practices and strategic techniques her department used to create a culture of change supporting peer evaluation of teaching in the promotion and tenure process. Learn practical tips for how a dedicated core of faculty can benefit from working together to support the recognition of teaching and strengthen curriculum across your department.
Thursday, 05 Feb 2015
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Create, Fund, and Institutionalize Unique Opportunities for Global Learning
Developing global competencies is vital for our undergraduates and ourselves. Award-winning Morrill Professor Gail Nonnecke, Horticulture and Global Resource Systems, and David Acker, Associate Dean of Academic and Global Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences share how they developed and funded global experiences for their students.
Friday, 06 Feb 2015
Adviser Exchange Series: Advising and New Student Orientation: Increasing Program Understanding to Facilitate a Seamless Student Transition
The role of academic advising during orientation and transition programs varies greatly across the institution. How much do you know about the schedule and activities of Iowa State's new student transition programs?
Monday, 09 Feb 2015
Meeting: Service-Learning Faculty Learning Community
Are you interested in developing, or enhancing, a service-learning component within your course? You are invited to join this dynamic, interdisciplinary group as we walk-through the process of integrating service-learning into the curriculum. These interactive sessions will include topical discussions, readings, and sharing of best practices. Facilitator: Suzanne Hendrich, University Professor
Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015
Webinar: Developing Simulations as an Educational Strategy (CIRTL Network)
Using the Constructivist's Learning Theory, we will discuss the world of simulations and how they can be used as a teaching strategy in the educational setting. Simulations, defined as an activity or event replicating real world practice, will be discussed highlighting this type of pedagogy's purposes, design features, and ways to utilize this teaching strategy in your classroom, laboratory, or in a clinical education setting.
Friday, 13 Feb 2015
Designing Your Course to Promote Student Success
Blackboard User Group (BUG): We will focus on simple design tricks for your Blackboard Learn course while providing an introduction to the Quality Matters Rubric. These elements will help your students navigate your course and encourage instructors to align overall course and learning objectives.
Monday, 16 Feb 2015
Language of Climate: Are you sending the message that cheating is okay in your classroom?
Education professor Bob Reason researches how individual student behaviors are encouraged and discouraged by classroom climates. Are you inadvertently telling your students that cheating is okay in your class? Dr. Reason shares current research on what drives students to cheat, best practices for preventing academic dishonesty in your classroom, and how you can address integrity with your students.
Tuesday, 17 Feb 2015
Webinar: Conducting Assessments During Your STEM Course (CIRTL Network)
Instructors of large enrollment classes will learn about ways to conduct ongoing formative assessment in their classes. A range of time-sensitive assessment activities will be described, from gauging simple comprehension to formal evaluation of class concepts.
Wednesday, 18 Feb 2015
Seminar: Using Role Playing to Inspire Critical Thinking - Game Based Learning Learning Community
Game-based Learning in Political Science Courses - Using Role Playing to Inspire Critical Thinking. Invited speaker for this session is Dr. Amy Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science.
Webinar: Academic Advising for Military Students
In February 2014, NACADA's Advising Veterans, Military Students & Family Members Interest Group and Advising Students with Disabilities Commission jointly sponsored Soldiers to Students: Academic Advising for Returning Veterans, in which panelists discussed issues that veterans may experience and shared strategies for assisting student veterans.
Thursday, 19 Feb 2015
Webinar: The Power of Personal Vision: Linking Undergraduate Engineering Education and Professional Persistence
Education professor Bob Reason researches how individual student behaviors are encouraged and discouraged by classroom climates. Are you inadvertently telling your students that cheating is okay in your class? Dr. Reason shares current research on what drives students to cheat, best practices for preventing academic dishonesty in your classroom, and how you can address integrity with your students.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Creating Large-Lecture Community through Effective Questioning
Award-winning faculty member Kevin Schalinske shares how he creates a comfortable atmosphere in his ~100 student biochemistry/molecular biology-rich advanced nutrition and human metabolism classes.
Friday, 20 Feb 2015
POSTPONED TO FALL 2015: Critical Thinking Seminar: Using students' reflections for assessment, self-critique and lifelong learning
In this seminar we will briefly review critical thinking: its meaning, essence, and some of the leading practices. Learning how to examine, assess, and critique critical thinking are essential skills for both students and their professors. The challenge of acquiring these skills has been documented for many decades starting with John Dewey's perspectives in the early 20th century.
Tuesday, 24 Feb 2015
Webinar: "Size Counts" and Other Fallacies of Successful Active Learning Strategies (CIRTL Network)
This session will be driven by YOU - perhaps you have a follow-up question from an earlier session about teaching scientific writing or in-class assessment. What questions do you have about active learning? Concerns? Experiences? The presenter, Dr. Jenny Hadingham of the University of Rochester's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, would prefer to focus on the issues around active learning that come directly from the audience.
Panel: Chinese Students, American Classrooms: What do students have to say?
A panel of international and domestic students share what issues they are encountering academically--What works for them in the classroom? What doesn't? Hear advice on best practices from the people those practices effect the most--our students.
Wednesday, 25 Feb 2015
POSTPONED to MAR. 4: Teaching and Learning Circle: Mindset: How we can Learn to Fulfill our Potential
Is it possible to teach our students how to be resilient in the face of failure? Mindset: The new psychology of success by Carol Dweck (2006) reveals that we can learn to be more resilient and "learn to fulfill our potential" by moving from a fixed to a growth mindset. Join us as we discover how a growth mindset can improve our personal and professional lives.
Seminar Series: Faculty Peer Review a Win-Win Process -- Topic 2: I Want to be Evaluated or I've Been Asked to be an Evaluator -- So, Now What?
Award-winning Animal Science professor, Jodi Sterle, shares best practices and strategic techniques her department used to create a culture of change supporting peer evaluation of teaching in the promotion and tenure process. Learn practical tips for how a dedicated core of faculty can benefit from working together to support the recognition of teaching and strengthen curriculum across your department.
Thursday, 26 Feb 2015
Adviser Exchange Series: Mapworks and the Student Success Collaborative: Using student survey and big data analytics to support student achievement
Join the presenters in learning about two critical tools that can assist advisers during advising meetings and interventions with students. This interactive session will utilize new theoretical perspectives presented in the book Rethinking College Student Retention (Braxton, et.al., 2014) to establish the foundation for why both Mapworks and the Student Success Collaborative are important tools for effective advising.