Program for the 2022 PDI

Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 10^th 2022

9:00 AM

90 minutes

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The Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) provides instructors with evidence-based teaching practices to help identify strengths and grow their teaching practice. Join instructional designers from TILT who will walk you through a visioning and goal-setting process that aligns with your definition of student success and the TEF. You will leave this session with a goal and action steps to carry out your goal. *Need to set a goal for annual review? This process can also help faculty interested in setting a goal for annual review.The TEF Developing and Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness Toolkit provides supervisors and instructors a common language and tools that can be used for annual review. The toolkit includes goal setting forms and suggestions for evidence that can be modified to meet instructors’ individual needs for annual review.

Teaching Faculty Participants will be able to… - Recognize the benefits of the seven Teaching Effectiveness Framework domains, their independence, interdependence - Identify teaching strengths related to a teaching domain - Analyze your current teaching practices and how they align with your vision for students - Create a personalized action plan of research-based teaching practices to incorporate into your teaching

Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan,Karen Falkenberg

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 10^th 2022

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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The Teaching Effectiveness Toolkit, developed by TILT in conjunction with campus stakeholders, includes a recommended process for departments and faculty to set teaching goals and evaluate goal achievement for annual review. The Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) provides instructors with evidence-based teaching practices to help identify strengths and grow their teaching practice. The TEF provides supervisors and instructors a common language and recommended tools that can be used for annual review. The Toolkit includes goal setting forms and suggestions for evidence that can be modified to meet instructors’ individual needs for annual review. This workshop focuses on collecting evidence. It would be helpful (but is not required) for attendees to have a teaching domain and goal in mind as they participate in the workshop.

Teaching Faculty Participants will be able to… -Describe the importance of triangulation of evidence sources -Review strengths/limitations several types of evidence -Describe the considerations for appropriate evidence sources and quantities (use of multiple sources with a balance on the variety and quantity for review) -Use a teaching goal to select corresponding evidence

Shari Lanning,Lori Kogan

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 10^th 2022

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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The Covid-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for higher education. This sudden and unexpected need to convert traditional classes to online has been met with an overwhelming amount of advice, tools and materials designed to help instructors with their online courses. Yet, one potential tool that could impact student engagement has received minimal attention: namely the human animal bond. The psychological and physical benefits associated with companion animals has been documented in numerous studies, yet little research has been done exploring the impact of including companion animals within educational environments. A pilot study exploring the effects of including a pet dog in virtual lectures was conducted. The inclusion of the dog significantly impacted the percentage of students who rated the lectures as excellent (49.0% versus 41.7%). The results suggest that the inclusion of instructors’ companion animals in virtual lectures can benefit all those involved. As a result of these pilot results, sharing ways in which pet dogs can be implemented in virtual lectures appears warranted. This session, therefore, will discuss practical tips to including a pet dog in virtual lectures, highlighting the potential benefits as well as animal welfare concerns.

All instructors

Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd,Karen Falkenburg,Katy Little,Chris Geanious

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 10^th 2022

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Have you completed professional development (PD) since summer 2019? You may be able to use these experiences towards earning a Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) domain in the Teaching Effective Initiative (TEI)! The TEI is a new CSU effort that provides recognition to faculty invested in growing their teaching practice by attending PD, implementing evidence based teaching practices, and reflecting on the impact to students. During this session we will provide a brief overview of the TEI and then use the remaining time for faculty to work on completing a TEI Post Implementation Reflection Form. TILT Instructional Designers will be on hand to assist with questions and brainstorming. If you would like to complete a Post Implementation Reflection form during the session, bring the following to the workshop: A list of the PD experiences you have participated in since summer 2019, Notes and/or other associated material that you may need to complete the Post Implementation Reflection Form, and Laptop or other device.

Faculty and instructors who have engaged in professional development since spring 2019 or who would like to learn more about the Teaching Effectiveness Initiative.

Ashley Harvey

General Teaching Topics

Monday, January 10^th 2022

2:00 PM

80 minutes

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In this workshop, we will explore the invisible emotional labor associated with online and in-person teaching at the college level and focus on seven emotion-regulation strategies and mindsets for college instructors drawn from education frameworks. Attendees will describe their emotional labor, examine their own attitudes towards students’ challenging behavior, explore what “pushes their buttons,” and identify helpful reframes for hard moments with students. The goal of this session is to help academic instructors increase their experience of genuine, positive emotion, so that they can enjoy teaching more, as well as successfully engage students and promote their success.

The goal of this session is to practice strategies that help academic instructors increase their experience of genuine, positive emotion, so that they can enjoy teaching more, as well as successfully engage students and promote their success.

Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd,Katy Little,Justin Switzer

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

9:00 AM

50 minutes

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The TILT-sponsored Teaching Squares offers teaching faculty an opportunity to observe colleagues in action and reflect on their own teaching practices. A teaching square is a group of four instructors who agree to observe each other a few times during a semester, using an agreed upon set of observation norms. Participants are coached in setting a personal teaching goal ​using the Teaching Effectiveness Framework and then observe others to give feedback and reflect on their own practice. The program is designed to be a non-evaluative, supportive and growth-based process. Teaching Squares are available for faculty teaching residential, hybrid, and online courses. Attend this informational session to see if Teaching Squares is a good fit for you!

Faculty, instructors, and GTAs

Jen Todd,Katy Little

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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TILT instructional designers will provide a tour of the online Best Practices in Teaching Courses (BPIT). These three-week, mostly asynchronous courses align with TILT's Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) and cover topics including critical thinking, student motivation, inclusive pedagogy and more. The BPIT courses are also connected to several other campus initiatives, including setting a teaching goal for annual review, the Teaching Effectiveness Initiative (TEI) and the new promotion and tenure application. Participants will have an opportunity to hear from faculty who have completed a number of these courses.

Goals: Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: -Align the BPIT courses with other campus initiatives. -Connect the BPIT courses to the evidence-based practices of the TEF. -Tour the BPIT: Critical Thinking course. -Consider the benefits of a reflective teaching practice. Audience: CSU instructors, faculty, GTAs

Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

1:00 PM

90 minutes

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The Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) provides instructors with evidence-based teaching practices to help identify strengths and grow their teaching practice. Join instructional designers from TILT who will walk you through a visioning and goal-setting process that aligns with your definition of student success and the TEF. You will leave this session with a goal and action steps to carry out your goal. *Need to set a goal for annual review? This process can also help faculty interested in setting a goal for annual review.The TEF Developing and Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness Toolkit provides supervisors and instructors a common language and tools that can be used for annual review. The toolkit includes goal setting forms and suggestions for evidence that can be modified to meet instructors’ individual needs for annual review.

Teaching Faculty Participants will be able to… - Recognize the benefits of the seven Teaching Effectiveness Framework domains, their independence, interdependence - Identify teaching strengths related to a teaching domain - Analyze your current teaching practices and how they align with your vision for students - Create a personalized action plan of research-based teaching practices to incorporate into your teaching

Khaleedah Thomas

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Ever wondered whether it’s okay to use copyrighted material when teaching? Have you had second thoughts about whether your use of an image, video, audio, or text infringes on someone’s copyright? If the answer to these questions is yes, then this is the PDI session for you! During this session, we will cover the basics of copyright law, explore exceptions to copyright that apply to the classroom, and discuss best practices for working through these copyright concerns.

This session will be of interest to instructors, graduate teaching assistants, and anyone interested in learning more about copyright in a classroom. Attendees will learn: (1) the basics of copyright law; (2) a framework for determining a work's copyright status; (3) the copyright exceptions that apply to educational environments; (4) how to conduct a fair use analysis; and (5) where to discover open resources.

Louise Allen,Courtney Ngai

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

1:00 PM

90 minutes

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CURE stands for Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience. Do you want to learn more about CUREs? Then take part in a 3-part workshop led by the Office for Undergraduate Research & Artistry. At the workshop you will learn what CUREs look like at CSU, meet and talk with people who are doing them, and learn tips from faculty with experience. You will start a plan for what integrating your research into a specific course might look like, including identifying desired outcomes (for both your research and your students). You will have a chance to give feedback on what support or resources would be necessary to help you incorporate authentic research into your courses.

Faculty will leave the session with: an increased knowledge of what makes a course a CURE-course, an increased awareness of CUREs and who teaches them across campus, A development plan for integrating their own research into a course, and a chance to provide feedback on the support and resources needed.

Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan,Karen Falkenberg

General Teaching Topics

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

3:00 PM

50 minutes

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The Teaching Effectiveness Toolkit, developed by TILT in conjunction with campus stakeholders, includes a recommended process for departments and faculty to set teaching goals and evaluate goal achievement for annual review. The Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) provides instructors with evidence-based teaching practices to help identify strengths and grow their teaching practice. The TEF provides supervisors and instructors a common language and recommended tools that can be used for annual review. The Toolkit includes goal setting forms and suggestions for evidence that can be modified to meet instructors’ individual needs for annual review. This workshop focuses on collecting evidence. It would be helpful (but is not required) for attendees to have a teaching domain and goal in mind as they participate in the workshop.

Teaching Faculty Participants will be able to… -Describe the importance of triangulation of evidence sources -Review strengths/limitations several types of evidence -Describe the considerations for appropriate evidence sources and quantities (use of multiple sources with a balance on the variety and quantity for review) -Use a teaching goal to select corresponding evidence

Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd,Katy Little,Justin Switzer

General Teaching Topics

Wednesday, January 12^th 2022

9:00 AM

2 hours

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The TILT-sponsored Teaching Squares peer observation program allows faculty, instructors, and GTAs to observe each other, learn from each other, and support each other in their quest to become better teachers. It is designed to be a non-evaluative, supportive and growth-based process. Participants are coached in setting a personal teaching goal ​using the Teaching Effectiveness Framework and then observe others to give feedback and reflect on their own practice. Teaching Squares is a 16-hour commitment over the course of the semester. This is the first of three meetings over the semester and is *required*​ for instructors participating in the Spring ​'22 Teaching Squares cohort.

Faculty, instructors, and GTAs who are actively teaching in Spring '22. Participants will be able to... -Explain the Teaching Square philosophy of support and respect -Begin to form connections with other instructors -Choose a growth area from the CSU Teaching Effectiveness Framework -Observe and give feedback to other instructors

Dr. Leann Kaiser,Thomas Rausch

General Teaching Topics

Wednesday, January 12^th 2022

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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Online and distance learning continues to be a prevalent instructional medium for adult and continuing education students. The onset of COVID-19 has accelerated the number of classrooms moving to a distance format. Now more than ever, instructors, educators, and trainers are challenged to find innovative ways to connect to their learners on a personable level. When students learn in an environment free of authentic connectivity, learning outcomes may suffer. Instructing online is susceptible to creating a learning environment free of the warmth and connectivity necessary for fostering authentic relations between course participants. The presenters will model several novel and innovative methods to reach students on a personal level to foster inclusion, connectivity, and authenticity among course participants in order to boost learning outcomes for students.

This session is suited for distance educators, trainers, and students who wish to learn about and discuss innovative methods to connect with students on a more personal level to enhance inclusion, connectivity, and authenticity. Ideas for helping learners connect with each other will also be presented and discussed. Learners will be able to: 1) Find innovative ways to connect to their learners with a personable touch in an online environment. 2) Use technology to support and enhance presence in a distance setting

Annie Krieg,Jen Todd

General Teaching Topics

Wednesday, January 12^th 2022

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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It's easy to imagine an upper-division project-based course with a small group of majors in one's field. What would project-based assignments, assessed with student-authored rubrics, look like in a high enrollment AUCC course with students from all over the university? In this 50-minute presentation we will share the impetus for this no test revolution, initial plans (piloted in Summer and Fall 2021 courses), and lessons learned.

Targeted Audience: any instructor Goals: Give students more agency in assessments without adding to instructor work load Move beyond quizzes and exams to foster more critical and creative thinking Apply techniques to any course at any level

Joseph Brown

General Teaching Topics

Wednesday, January 12^th 2022

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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The goal of this session is to share information about recent trends in academic integrity. Particular attention will be given to recent challenges in the classroom and potential strategies for combatting academic misconduct.

Any teaching faculty or academic support professionals.

Katie Gerst,Jessy Jiao

General Teaching Topics

Wednesday, January 12^th 2022

2:00 PM

50 minutes

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Research has shown that a method of inclusive teaching and testing (Cooperative Learning Groups) can be helpful and beneficial to students both in the short term and long term (Johnson, 2006). Research indicates that students not only show increased overall academic performance, but also increased overall well-being. To test CLG in a classroom setting, in Spring 2020, we implemented CLG in an aging developmental course here at CSU. Our preliminary study affirmed previous research in terms of academic performance, but we were unable to measure other variables such as well-being due to timing and funding restrictions. In this session, participants will learn about the importance of implementing inclusive teaching and testing strategies, specifically that of CLGs, how this strategy was used in an HDFS classroom, and how this technique can be applied to other classrooms.

The area of Scholarship of Teaching and Leaning as rapidly emerged over the last 20 years with a wealth of evidence-based practices related to instructional methods, course, design, and evidence of how students learn best. Yet, many faculty members still employ teaching methods based on their intuition, preference, and previous experiences of observing their faculty mentors (Schwartz & Gurung, 2012). Research indicates that evidence-based teaching strategies and inclusive learning environments are likely to have the largest impact on ALL student results and do not cost anything. This is the University’s vision, particularly with its focus on the Teaching Effectiveness Framework set forth by the Institute for Learning and Teaching. As such, the goals of this session is to: • Discuss the importance and benefits of inclusive teaching strategies for instructors and students. • Share CLG learning materials (potential group activities, discussions, exams, and individual reflection questions). • Examine ways to measure student outcomes related to CLGs. • Use this session as a platform to garner support for the implementation of cooperative learning methods in other classrooms.