Monday, March 28th, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Este Jordan
Join us and your colleagues for an ongoing onboarding community called Reflect, Connect, and Learn. These monthly meetings are designed to provide a full year of onboarding support for faculty in their first year at KSU. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss how your research is going. – March 28, 2022
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 | 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
Facilitator: Linda Stewart
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), postdocs and graduate students interested in teaching are all invited to an informal online session to talk about teaching. Strategies, questions, or issues for discussion will be generated by participants. Possible topics include student motivation, gathering student feedback, grading, classroom management, inclusive classrooms, culturally responsive teaching, and more. Join us to meet your colleagues and exchange ideas, problem solve, and share strategies. – March 23, 2022
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 | 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Facilitator: Michelle Head
This session will focus on best practices for assessing students It’s About Engagement Critical Reflection assignments. A grading rubric, complementary to the IAE Critical Reflection rubric, will be shared and discussed how it can be used to assess the final reflection assignment in an IAE designated course. In addition, practices for utilizing the grading rubric to provide scaffolded feedback throughout the semester will also be discussed. – March 23, 2022
Monday, March 21st, 2022 | 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Facilitator: Tris Utschig
As part of KSU’s It's About Engagement (IAE) initiative, this webinar will show how we can use the backward design process achieve your undergraduate research, service-learning, or internship-coop goals with students in a course. While many teachers plan their courses grounded in these design principles, there are unique challenges to consider in the context of IAE courses. What does backward design look like in your contexts? How might it help you envision your project, activity, or semester? Join this informational webinar to discover how backward design applies to an engaged curriculum. – March 21, 2022
Friday, March 18th, 2022 | 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Michele DiPietro
The seventh chakra sits on the crown of the head, technically beyond our physical body, signifying a level of consciousness that transcends the individual and makes us all part of something greater and fully self-actualized. An important part of this process is the idea of legacy, what we are living behind us that will endure beyond our professional life. An underdeveloped crown chakra still clings to attachments that weigh us down and do not let us transcend. In this workshop we will unpack the mechanics of the crown chakra, review the recent research on self-actualization (Kaufman 2020) and introduce tools to plan our legacy. – March 18, 2022
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 | 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Facilitator: Linda Stewart
In the new 20th anniversary edition of The Courage to Teach, Palmer encourages experienced and novice educators to share stories and ask questions about who we are as teachers and why it matters. The book’s premise is “Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher” (p. 10). The present moment demands that we reconnect with ourselves and one another to prioritize conversations about teaching. Let’s talk about selfhood, identities, students, mentoring, communities, trust, undivided lives, teacher leaders, educational movements, transformation, and much more. – March 16, 2022
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Este Jordan
Join us for a leadership development book chat about Donna Hicks’ (2018) Leading with Dignity. After leading international negotiation and diplomacy efforts for decades at the highest levels, Dr. Hicks has identified dignity, “our inherent value and worth” (p. 2), as the most important factor in her work. She contends that we cannot reach our goals unless we understand, lead with, and create a culture of dignity. In this book chat, we will discuss her ten elements of dignity and apply them to our own leadership contexts. – March 15, 2022
Monday, March 7th, 2022 - Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 | 8:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m
Facilitator: Mandy McGrew
The Teaching Academy for Part-time Faculty is a two-day learning event facilitated online and offered during spring break each year. The academy is designed to introduce faculty members who teach part-time to research on how people learn and to teaching strategies found to foster deep learning in our students.
This virtual experience includes both synchronous meetings (everyone logged in at the same time) and asynchronous sessions (time to work on your own off-line). The academy requires attendees to participate in group discussion board conversations and personal reflection exercises. There will also be activities to help you apply the theories and research to your own courses. – March 07, 2022
Monday, February 28th, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Este Jordan
Join us and your colleagues for an ongoing onboarding community called Reflect, Connect, and Learn. These monthly meetings are designed to provide a full year of onboarding support for faculty in their first year at KSU. This meeting of the virtual series will connect participants with an experienced faculty developer who has provided teaching consultations and instructional design support to KSU faculty for ten years. It will provide space for asking questions that have arisen during the first couple of months teaching in this new environment. This is an opportunity to reflect on how things are going, build relationships with other new faculty, get those burning questions answered, and learn new things. – February 28, 2022
Thursday, February 24th, 2022 | 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
Facilitator: Linda Stewart
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), postdocs and graduate students interested in teaching are all invited to an informal online session to talk about teaching. Strategies, questions, or issues for discussion will be generated by participants. Possible topics include student motivation, gathering student feedback, grading, classroom management, inclusive classrooms, culturally responsive teaching, and more. Join us to meet your colleagues and exchange ideas, problem solve, and share strategies. – February 24, 2022
