2022 Celebration of Teaching
Wednesday, November 2, 12:00-1:00 pm, Stinson Lounge and CLC 309
Returning after a two-year hiatus, the CTE's annual Celebration of Teaching highlights teaching excellence by providing a venue for faculty to share how they promote students’ intellectual, moral, and spiritual development.
The Celebration will include a series of posters and visual presentations demonstrating effective, innovative teaching strategies from colleagues across the university. Last years' Teaching as Research cohort will also share the findings of their grant-funded Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research projects. Find the full listing of presenters and topics below.
Faculty are welcome to stop by at any time during the hour. Lunch will be provided.
Poster Presentations
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Teaching As Research/SoTL
Faculty Perceptions of Barriers and Benefits to Service and Community-Engaged Pedagogy
Presenter: Tammy Sonnentag (Psychology)
The study examines faculty’s perceptions of the barriers (e.g., too much course content to cover; not enough class times) and benefits (e.g., promotes deeper/critical thinking about the real-world) to service and community-engaged learning among those who do and do not employ this learning in their courses.
Critical Conversations in Online Reading Groups
Presenter: Jody Googins (Education)
This project studies the outcomes of online reading groups for graduate students in a History and Philosophy course. It specifically examines how course structure that embeds reading groups can raise sociopolitical awareness and the implications for the teachers who foster this growth.
Student Perceptions of Soft Skills Multisource Feedback in a Graduate-Level Athletic Training Program
Presenter: Tina Davlin-Pater (Sport Science & Management)
A new multi-source soft skills assessment tool and process was used in the masters of science in athletic training education program. The goal was to provide students with individualized feedback related to soft skills that would serve to facilitate improvement and growth. A study was done to examine athletic training student’s perceptions of the new, multisource soft-skills assessment process and the feedback they received.
Exploration of Ungrading as an Alternative Method of Assessment
Presenter: Laura Carney (Sport Sciences & Management)
This project looks into the use of “ungrading” in a 300 level major course comparing grading and ungrading between 2 sections. Students in the ungraded section completed the same work as the graded section; however, received feedback only. The investigation looked into both quantitative and qualitative measures of success from quality of work and measures of student’s confidence in their work. Additionally, the project explored the application of this new technique from both the instructor perspective and the student’s adoption of the idea.
Using backchannel communication to improve student response and participation in undergraduate mathematics: private chat and understanding student learning
Presenter: Christina Hammersmith (Mathematics)
Backchannel communication was used both inside and outside undergraduate mathematics classrooms to determine if it helped to improve communication, reduce math anxiety , and increase student-professor communication.
Exploring the Impact of Narrative Persuasion on Student Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty: A Qualitative Approach
Presenter: Thomas Wagner (Communication)
This study explored the impact of student reflection exercises on attitudes. Senior capstone students (n = 28) completed community engaged learning (CEL) advocacy projects and submitted four journal reflection entries in three-week intervals. The reflection component of CEL, completed through journal reflections, is a critical component for students’ attitude formation.
Innovative Teaching
The Missing Link
Presenter: Heather Moore (Nursing)
The Missing Link is a classroom activity which replicates the identification and decision-making process for nursing interventions in a low-stakes environment. The process allows for group problem solving, assessment based on provided information, and process of elimination which simulates diagnosis by exclusion.
Mentoring as part of leadership & service in a capstone course
Presenter: Kathleen Timmerman (Mathematics)
As part of a senior capstone redesign, graduating seniors are required to demonstrate proficiency in four different pillars that encapsulate our Jesuit values. In order to fulfill the pillar for Leadership & Service, senior students lead study groups for students in a sophomore level computer science course, creating a unique, beneficial environment for all involved.
Debate - Dialogue - Discussion: A Metacognitive Exercise for Building Communication Skills
Presenter: Madeleine A Mitchell (Classics and Modern Languages)
I present a compare/contrast model of three common communication approaches: debate, discussion and dialogue, which I have adapted for my FYS, and which highlights underlying goals and motivations for each communication approach. I’ll also share a lesson plan which has students analyze, practice, and critique the three approaches.
Flipped Classroom Methods
Presenter: Amy Buot (Mathematics)
I will exhibit the various aspects of how I taught Elementary Statistics (Math 116) in a flipped classroom environment. I will specifically showcase how I held students accountable for learning outside of the classroom, how I engaged student learning via various forms of group work during our scheduled class time, and how this style of teaching created a community within the classroom and created an environment for students to succeed.
Assigning student roles for in-class group work
Presenter: Howard Francis (Mathematics)
I will share a folder from my "Active Learning Toolkit" that I bring to class each day, which includes cards specifying the role and related responsibilities each student will take in their group that day. This helps prevent group work becoming "four people working independently then checking their answers," which often happens.
Navigating Student Anxiety
Presenter: Kelly Austin (English)
We are encountering record levels of anxiety and other mental health diagnoses in our students. I'll present exercises and practices I use to facilitate engagement from students with anxiety, as well as ways I direct students to campus resources.
Global Education through the Global Read Aloud
Presenter: Lauren Angelone (Education)
In my Instructional Technology course, my students are using Twitter to participate in the Global Read Aloud with teachers and students from around the world. We have connected with a teacher in Ontario, Canada, whose 5th grade students are providing questions each week via Twitter as we read Thirst, a YA novel by Varsha Bajaj about the water crisis in India.
Guiding Conversations: Using Children's Literature
Presenters: Teresa L. Young (Education) and Vanessa Rigaud (Education)
In this presentation, we will discuss selecting outstanding multicultural books, specifically picture books. Using an adapted checklist from Yokota, we will share a few outstanding books and questions to use in the classroom to spark conversation.
Ungrading in Senior Capstone Courses
Presenters: Ashley Hinck (Communication) and Leslie Rasmussen (Communication)
Dr. Rasmussen and Dr. Hinck have spent two semesters utilizing ungrading in their senior capstone classes. This poster presentation will discuss 1) why senior capstone and Community Engaged Learning classes are ideal locations for ungrading and 2) the logistics of ungrading in these classes (assignment sheets, syllabi, etc.), and 3) the challenges of past semesters and future changes Dr. Hinck and Dr. Rasmussen hope to employ next time.