After each session that the Faculty Center holds throughout the year, you will be able to find any handouts or supplemental material here. Please access this page frequently, especially for sessions that you were unable to attend.
In this session, attendees considered different ways to assess learning in their classrooms, and the challenges of balancing rigor with differing student expectations of explicit assessment. This was an interactive learning session, using examples of ways students are currently assessed in various courses. Attendees walked away with a classroom activity and developmental checklist rubric to assess student learning. Attendees also received a blank matrix (attached below) that can be used as a guide to map an interconnection of rubrics and your assessment activities in a big picture view of the course and how it functions.
Backward Design, Imagine Your Classroom Recording
Consider rubric content and design before determining assessment activities and in-class structure. Discussion included types of rubrics (analytical and holistic) and why you might choose one type over another. Rubric examples of each type are attached in the handout.
Learn about 5 featured SU Libraries resources in 15 minutes. In a hands-on session, Tasha Cooper will share highlights from featured journal, ebook, video, data, business or other resources available through SU Libraries. The session handout is a database exploration exercise that could be adapted to any class.
A discussion and demonstration of SURFACE, Syracuse University’s open access repository for research and scholarship. This session covered what it means to make your research available open access, how you can use SURFACE to boost the impact of your publications, and how to negotiate and leverage your rights as an author in order to make your work freely available to a global audience.
Presented by Taylor Davis-Van Atta, MSLIS ’17 candidate, member of the SURFACE steering committee, and publisher of the journal Music & Literature.
Diving Beneath the Surface Slide Deck
Click below to view the recording of the session:
Do your students really know how to effectively complete their readings? We shared ways to help students focus: read/think/highlight/analyze. Specifically,
1) how to prepare students for reading comprehension and analysis, 2) proper highlighting techniques, and 3) using analyzed information to pull out main concepts and talking points.
Additionally, we shared: 1) how students should study and 2) how they can predict questions for exams from the text.
Reading Across the Curriculum Handout
Reading Across the Curriculum Slide Deck
Click below to view the recording of the Reading Across the Curriculum session:
Adobe Spark allows both web and mobile users to create and share visual content – like posts for social media, graphics, web stories, and animated videos. The goal with the new Spark suite is to allow anyone, including instructors and students, the ability to create and share visual stories without needing to be professional designers. The tools also don’t require a lot of time to use.
Session materials are below:
Click below to view the video recording of the Adobe Spark session:
The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning hosted an IceBox talk featuring Steve Sawyer on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. The talk focused around using an iPad and an application called AirSketch as an alternative to whiteboards and static presentations. Click on the link below to view the presentation:
This session covered ways to create and design a flipped lesson from start to finish. What is a flipped lesson plan? Flipping means you reverse the way you design the learning environment so students engage in activities, apply course concepts and focus on higher-level learning outcomes during class time. Session materials are below:
This session covered some new, refreshing ways to engage your students using new technologies that are available today. The technologies are either free, easy, with no registration required for students and/or a combination of all three. If you are looking for some new ideas for classroom engagement, both online and face to face, this is the session for you. Session materials are below:
Cool Instructional Technologies Recording (Participoll, Symbaloo, Kahoot, AnswerGarden, Padlet)
Cool Instructional Technologies Handout (Participoll, Symbaloo, Kahoot, AnswerGarden, Padlet)
Every year Peggy Takach, Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and a handful of iSchool instructors attend the Teaching Professor Conference. The Teaching Professor Conference provides a thought-provoking forum for educators of all disciplines and experience levels to share best practices that advance college teaching and learning. The three-day conference features pre-conference workshops that provide hands-on learning, provocative plenary presentations, carefully selected concurrent sessions on a range of relevant topics, poster presentations highlighting the latest research, and ample opportunities for conversations with fellow attendees.
This year Peggy attended along with Angela Usha Ramnarine-Rieks and Michael Fudge. After each conference a workshop is scheduled to share new information learned from attending the conference. The topics for this workshop are as follows:
- Reading Across the Curriculum
- Exploring Backward Design Approach for Curriculum Development
- Student Engagement
The materials below were what was used in the workshop:
Teaching Professor Conference Workshop Recording
Active Learning Strategies For Your Classroom – Mike Fudge
Exploring Backward Design – Angela Usha Ramnarine-Rieks
Reading Across the Curriculum Presentation – Peggy Takach
Reading Across the Curriculum Handout – Peggy Takach
This session focused on engaging and creative ways to build a slide deck. Whether you are using PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, etc. this session gave some new, creative ideas to creating your presentation slides.
The Exemplary Course Design in Blackboard session focused on best practices in four main areas: Course Design, Interaction & Collaboration, Assessment, and Learner Support. The session was supported by an Exemplary Design Program Rubric
- Students learn key concepts better when they have opportunities to actively monitor their understanding.
- Knowledge is socially constructed and people learn best in supportive social settings when working with peers.
- Students become better learners when we challenge them to answer questions that require the use of higher order thinking skills.
Below are two documents that were discussed during the session. The first one is the presentation that was used to discuss questioning techniques and the second one is a handout of Bloom’s taxonomy and sample questions that can be used at each level of Bloom’s taxonomy.
The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the iSchool hosted an adjunct get together on Monday, August 8th from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and discussed the upcoming Fall 2016 semester. Introductions were made and there were networking opportunities available. The agenda included such topics such as “What to expect on the first day”, “Lessons Learned from previous semesters” and “Culture of Teaching”. Below are three documents that were discussed during the session. The first one is the presentation that Art Thomas gave on the culture of the iSchool; the second one is the tentative Fall 2016 FCTL Professional Development Opportunities; and the third one is the complete list of tools that are available to students which can be discussed on the first day of classes.
The Culture of Teaching at the iSchool, Art Thomas, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs – Associate Professor of Practice
FCTL Professional Development Opportunities – Fall, 2016
Tools for Students to Use at SU
Adjunct Get Together, Presentation by Peggy Takach
Description: Tired of using the same techniques, activities and lesson plans? This session outlines techniques to inject new life into your classroom, including numerous creative teaching tips and strategies and best practices for infusing technology into the curriculum.
We will also talk about 3 creative online tools that you can use right now to help stimulate creativity and excitement back into the classroom. These tools will help to build friendly competition, poll your students for instant feedback, and create personal learning environments that your students can utilize to help them stay organized and for project-based learning.
Learning goals:
- Be reinvigorated and inspired to enhance your teaching and adapt new techniques
- Reframe or modify your approach to teaching by incorporating engaging and student-centered learning tools
- Create exciting learning-centered environments driven by creativity, engagement, and the maximization of student learning
After this workshop, you will be able to:
- Implement techniques to help invigorate your classroom, whether online or face-to-face.
- Assess the potential for meeting your instructional goals and challenges.
- Formulate a plan for moving beyond gaining an initial understanding of selected tools to using them for specific instructional purposes.
Invigorating the Classroom Presentation
This session will consider the purpose of measuring student engagement. We will identify which activities not only engage students but also produce quality analysis, which is critical to designing and adapting both online and face-to-face courses.
Some of the questions that we will show you how to answer are:
- When are students logging into my course?
- Which course resources/tools are being used most frequently?
- Which discussions boards generate the most traffic?
- What are the patterns of performance in an online assessment?
- What are some of my opportunities for improvement?
Unleashing Analytics in the Classroom PowerPoint Presentation
Tired of using the same techniques, activities and lesson plans? This session outlines techniques to inject new life into your classroom, including numerous creative teaching tips and strategies and best practices for infusing technology into the curriculum.
Learning goals:
- Be reinvigorated and inspired to enhance your teaching and adapt new techniques
- Reframe or modify your approach to teaching by incorporating engaging and student-centered learning tools
- Create exciting learning-centered environments driven by creativity, engagement, and the maximization of student learning
This workshop will focus on what are the different types of videos and what are some tools that you can use to create, edit and share videos.
YouTube video on basic video shooting techniques – by Penn State University