The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to announce the following events. Visit www.ithaca.edu/cfe for updates. All events are open to faculty and staff.
Teaching and learning blog threads@CFE. This week's post is titled Mutual Mentoring: Reciprocal and Contextual.
Census and the Curriculum
Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 3:00 - 4:15 p.m., 319 Gannett Center (Register Here)
Presented by Jim Bondra, Business, Economics, and Sport Media and Management Librarian
Want to learn how to develop quantitative literacy, improve critical thinking, and develop analytical reasoning skills in your students? Come learn and explore how the U.S. Census can be used as a valuable teaching tool in your classroom. Examples and hands-on exercises will involve politics, marketing, sociology, and health. Other areas can be discussed and explored as well. The United States Bureau of the Census is one of the most prolific publishers of data in the world. Its data can be used in many aspects of our lives both academically and personally.
Using TaskStream Presentation (Showcase) Creatively in the Classroom
Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 11.00 am-12.00 p.m. (Register here)
Repeated on: Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Register here)
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
Shaianne Osterreich, Associate Professor and Ithaca Seminar Coordinator
Tony Tabone, Training and Documentation Coordinator
This workshop will introduce faculty to the Presentation (sometimes referred to as Showcase) side of TaskStream in the hopes that we can start thinking about how to encourage students to build reflective practice. This tool allows students to use the files they save on TaskStream to design web pages. Using the self-designed Presentations students and faculty can start documenting and sharing intellectual and co-curricular milestones in ways that they can share with their class communities or the public. We are interested in gathering feedback and brainstorming with interested faculty on ideas they have and resources people need to use these tools to enhance student engagement in the integrative learning process.
Culture and Health: An Intercultural Conversation about Teaching and Scholarship
Thursday, April 16, 2015, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. (Register here)
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
Co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Excellence and the Office of International Programs.
Facilitators: Dr. Angel Pichardo Almonte is a professor, medical doctor, and social movement leader from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Dr. Ester Valdera is a primary care physician at a public Dispensario Medico in Santo Domingo Norte, Dominican Republic.
We hope you will join the conversation and contribute to our understanding of the importance of the cultural lens for both our pedagogy and our scholarship.
Biographies of Facilitators
ICC + CFE Series on Effective Pedagogy
Monday, April 20, 2015, 319 Gannett Center
Dr. Michele DiPietro, Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Kennesaw State University
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. How Learning Works: Principles for Integrating Knowledge Across Disciplines (Register here)
A tenet of learner-centered teaching is that learning is the litmus test of any pedagogy. Therefore, one of the most important investments professors can make is to understand the learning process so that their teaching is intentionally learning-oriented. The book, How Learning Works, synthesizes 50 years of research on learning from the cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, developmental, and inclusiveness perspectives into seven integrated principles. In this interactive workshop, we will explain the seven principles, then zoom in on principles #6-7, pertaining to student development, classroom climate, and self-direction in learning. All these concepts relate to integrative learning. We will illustrate the seven principles with demonstrations, discussions, and other activities that highlight how each of the principles might enhance participants’ teaching, student learning, and further the goals of Ithaca College’s Integrative Core Curriculum.
10:15 - 11:15 a.m. How Learning Works: Faculty Voices (Register here)
This follow-up session builds on the workshop. The principles of learning are broadly applicable, but their full potential is realized when they are situated and understood in a specific educational context. We will use some cases constructed from faculty experiences, and we will deconstruct them using the principles from How Learning Works. A panel of faculty, as well as the session participants, will contribute perspectives and brainstorm strategies on how to resolve some common pedagogical impasses. The cases will cover hot moments in the classroom, cross-cultural communication, issues of power, privilege and oppression, and critical thinking.
Humanities Mixer
Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (Register here)
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center
The Center for Faculty Excellence and the Humanities Working Group are hosting a social mixer for humanities and other interested faculty on Tuesday, April 21, from 4:00 - 6:00 PM at the CFE. While the primary purpose of the event will be socializing, members of the working group will also briefly update (and celebrate!) some of the recent developments in the promotion of the humanities on campus. Refreshments will be served.
TELE Collaborative: LEARNING SPACE DESIGN SERIES [Fridays 3:45-5:00 p.m.]
Please join the TELE Collaborative as we host opportunities to visit and discuss learning space design across the Ithaca College campus throughout the spring. We will explore the innovation of the physical environment and discuss the impact that learning space design can have on teaching, student engagement and learning. The goal is to solicit ideas from faculty users and multiple units on campus as collaborative stakeholders. We intend to seek advice and recommendations for future classroom renovation and upgrades.
Friday April 10, 2015 – 3:45-5:00 – STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING – Center for Natural Sciences 206 (Register Here)
Michael "Bodhi" Rogers will be present to discuss the design of the physical space and pedagogical possibilities of the physics learning space in CNS 206.
Friday April 17, 2015 – 3:45-5:00 – OPEN WORLD CONFERENCING – Job 209 (LCEC) (Register Here)
Maria DiFrancesco will discuss the design of this learning lab and the range of conferencing activities that span the use of the LCEC (Language and Cultural Exchange Center) space.
Friday April 24, 2015 – 3:45-5:00 – LESSONS LEARNED – Gannett 319 (Register Here)
Rob Gearhart and Judy Ross-Bernstein, along with colleagues, will synthesize the outcomes of the Learning Space Series and determine next steps in the processes of collaborative stakeholders to seek advice and recommendations for future classroom renovations and upgrades.
Open to all faculty and staff.
Please visit the IC Events Calendar.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Laurie Wasik at wasik@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3734. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20150410090721158