Promoting Active Learning through Flipped Classroom Techniques
In this session, Dr. Petko and Dr. Powless will share their experiences using flipped classroom techniques to promote active learning in their courses.
Helping Students Build a Positive Sense of Belonging
Faculty play a critical role in student support. In this session, the presenters will share several strategies to take advantage of their unique opportunities to interact their students, helping their students boost self-confidence and develop a positive sense of belonging.
Grading Effort and Process: How Rethinking What to Emphasize in Grading Impacts Student Learning Outcomes
This session will outline how two instructors revamped their grading processes for better student learning outcomes and more efficient grading by the instructors.
Effective Group Integration/Team Based Projects: Best Practices
The presenters will share the formation of groups in diverse courses (one is capstone) and provide steps to help faculty from group formation, to assigning tasks, to individual and peer assessment, as well as best practices, learned from successfully operating teams in their courses.
Meeting Students Where They Are
Adapting our classrooms to the needs of our students is an important aspect of good teaching and learning. In this session, you will hear about strategies to address the dynamic needs of students coming out of pandemic teaching and techniques that benefit all students through Universal Design for Learning (UDL).