Program for the 2022 PDI

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Debora Colbert

Director, Professional Development

Monday, January 10th

9:00 AM

Session Title
A Vision, A Goal, A Plan: Improve Your Teaching Effectiveness*
Presenters:
Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Monday, January 10th 2022
Start Time:
9:00 AM
Session Length:
90 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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.
Goals and Target Audience:
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

11:00 AM

Session Title
Collecting Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness
Presenters:
Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan,Karen Falkenberg
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Monday, January 10th 2022
Start Time:
11:00 AM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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.
Goals and Target Audience:
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

1:00 PM

Session Title
Teaching Effectiveness Initiative: Post Implementation Reflection Workshop
Presenters:
Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd,Karen Falkenburg,Katy Little,Chris Geanious
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Monday, January 10th 2022
Start Time:
1:00 PM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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.
Goals and Target Audience:
Faculty and instructors who have engaged in professional development since spring 2019 or who would like to learn more about the Teaching Effectiveness Initiative.

2:00 PM

Session Title
The Future of WordPress
Presenters:
John Purdy
Category:
General Technology Issues
Date:
Monday, January 10th 2022
Start Time:
2:00 PM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
Join us for a discussion about the Future of WordPress. What does the WordPress mission of "Democratizing Publishing" mean for our campus? We will broadly touch on the "State of the Word" and the long-term Roadmap (https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap) and how it effects us as Content Creators, Developers, and myriad of other roles that we hold on a daily basis.
Goals and Target Audience:
Staff and Faculty that use WordPress or are otherwise interested in Web Publishing and Development.

Tuesday, January 11th

9:00 AM

Session Title
What is the Teaching Squares Peer Observation Program?
Presenters:
Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd,Katy Little,Justin Switzer
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Tuesday, January 11th 2022
Start Time:
9:00 AM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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!
Goals and Target Audience:
Faculty, instructors, and GTAs

10:00 AM

Session Title
Moving Kuali Research to the Cloud in 2022
Presenters:
Chris Carsten,Andy Reynolds,Shannon Irey
Category:
Research
Date:
Tuesday, January 11th 2022
Start Time:
10:00 AM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
CSU will be moving our Kuali enterprise applications, Kuali Research Sponsored Programs and Kuali Financials, from on-premises management to the Kuali Inc. hosted environment in early 2022. This session will provide an overview of the new landing page for Kuali Research; demo the Dashboard's new options for activity transparency, navigation, and searches; and solicit user feedback to inform documentation development and future decision-making about how to use proposal development module functionality.
Goals and Target Audience:
Goals: Provide information about changes to the Kuali Research application as a result of moving to a cloud environment; give users the opportunity to ask questions and provide input about the new features; gather feedback to improve documentation and training materials. Targeted Audience: Department research administrators and research professionals who work in the Kuali Research Proposal Development module.

11:00 AM

Session Title
Tour TILT's Best Practices in Teaching Online Courses
Presenters:
Jen Todd,Katy Little
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Tuesday, January 11th 2022
Start Time:
11:00 AM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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 and Target Audience:
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

1:00 PM

Session Title
A Vision, A Goal, A Plan: Improve Your Teaching Effectiveness*
Presenters:
Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Tuesday, January 11th 2022
Start Time:
1:00 PM
Session Length:
90 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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.
Goals and Target Audience:
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

3:00 PM

Session Title
Collecting Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness
Presenters:
Jennifer Todd,Tonya Buchan,Karen Falkenberg
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Tuesday, January 11th 2022
Start Time:
3:00 PM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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.
Goals and Target Audience:
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

Wednesday, January 12th

9:00 AM

Session Title
Teaching Squares Kick-off Session for Spring '22 - Residential, Hybrid & Online Faculty
Presenters:
Tonya Buchan,Jennifer Todd,Katy Little,Justin Switzer
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Wednesday, January 12th 2022
Start Time:
9:00 AM
Session Length:
2 hours
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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.
Goals and Target Audience:
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

11:00 AM

Session Title
No Test Revolution: Student-Created Assignments and Rubrics
Presenters:
Annie Krieg,Jen Todd
Category:
General Teaching Topics
Date:
Wednesday, January 12th 2022
Start Time:
11:00 AM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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.
Goals and Target Audience:
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

1:00 PM

Session Title
Teaching Effectiveness Initiative: Post Implementation Reflection Workshop
Presenters:
Tonya Buchan,Jen Todd,Karen Falkenberg,Katy Little,Chris Geanious
Category:
Other
Date:
Wednesday, January 12th 2022
Start Time:
1:00 PM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
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)!
Goals and Target Audience:

2:00 PM

Session Title
AED Orientation
Presenters:
Frank Gonzales
Category:
Date:
Wednesday, January 12th 2022
Start Time:
2:00 PM
Session Length:
50 minutes
Room:
LSC 308-310
Description:
An AED is a small, portable device that analyzes the heart’s rhythm and prompts the user to deliver a defibrillation shock if it determines one is needed. Attend this training to get an overview of how this device works, where they are located on campus and what you can do to help in an emergency. The first aid component will include an overview of general emergency response as well as soft tissue injury, cuts, seizures, strokes, concussions, nosebleeds, burns, choking, emergency contacts, and the use of first aid kits. Hands-only CPR will also be covered in this course.
Goals and Target Audience:
This training teaches individuals how to appropriately respond in emergency situations, while overcoming barriers to act. It is a vital training for all ages and walks of life.