Program for the 2022 PDI

Aaron Fodge,Jamie Gaskill

Green Initiatives and Issues

Monday, January 10^th 2022

10:00 AM

50 minutes

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The pandemic has yielded huge increases in bicycling and walking around the country. This session shares transportation opportunities for employees to save money while improving their physical and mental health. Participants will receive personalized bicycle and transit routes to CSU.

Employees commuting to CSU Employees curious about bike and transit routes to CSU New Employees exploring housing and transportation options

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

Dan Baker,Sam Bechara

Curriculum Development

Monday, January 10^th 2022

1:00 PM

50 minutes

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Cognitive science has discovered many techniques for people to learn more efficiently. Instead of expecting students to employ these techniques on their own, why not build them into the structure of the courses you teach? This interactive workshop will introduce and help you brainstorm the introduction or expansion of the concepts of motivating, practicing, retrieving, and interleaving into your classes.

Goals: By the end of the workshop participant will be able to: = Define the learning concepts of motivating, practicing, retrieving, and interleaving = Have a rough outline of how to use the learning concepts of motivating, practicing, retrieving, and interleaving in their own classes Target Audience: Anyone who teaches or wants to learn more efficiently

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.

Dawson Metcalf,Kirsten Slaughter-Rice,Katie Wimp,Jason Scott,Shawn Utecht,Tom Peppard

Personal/Professional Enrichment

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

11:00 AM

50 minutes

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This session is geared toward Administrative Professionals and how to create sustainable and equitable change in our organizations and departments. Participants will receive information about the Administrative Professional Council, the importance of shared governance in the decision-making process, and how one can become involved with the council.

Goals: Share information to how APs can approach creating change within their organizations/departments. To explore the concept of shared governance and how it leads to a more equitable decision-making process. To better understand the mission of the Administrative Professional Council at CSU, and the role it plays in forming new policies and practices at the institutional level. Targeted Audience: Administrative Professionals at CSU

Colleen Webb

Student Affairs

Tuesday, January 11^th 2022

1:00 PM

90 minutes

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This session will introduce best-practices tips for mentoring students and postdocs with a focus on equity and inclusion. These best-practices should be considered when mentoring all types of mentees regardless of background or experience of the mentee. However, mentors should be culturally responsive and mentor through a lens of equity and inclusion to best support the success of mentees, including those groups that have been traditionally underserved. In addition to introducing best-practices for mentoring, we will cover brief, applied examples and the resources available at CSU to support mentoring, including the Graduate Center for Inclusive Mentoring.

1. Introduce best-practices for mentoring graduate students and postdocs illustrated with brief examples 2. Encourage lens of equity and inclusion when mentoring 3. Familiarize audience with resources at CSU to support best-practices mentoring

Ashley Harvey,Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez,Meara Faw,Kevin Nolan,Jill Putman

Other

Wednesday, January 12^th 2022

9:00 AM

90 minutes

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The workshop is an extension of the First Four Weeks Initiative that specifically focuses on the use of Canvas tools for teaching teams (GTAs or faculty) to reach out to students early in the semester, especially those who are at risk of not succeeding in class. The workshop will provide tools for institutionalizing student outreach communications in Canvas courses so that these tools can easily be implemented by instructors and GTAs in future courses. In addition, training content is aligned with the Student Motivation domain of CSU’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework. Instructors participating in the Early Performance Feedback Program are encouraged to attend and will benefit from this workshop.

1. Highlight Canvas tools in MyAnalytics and the gradebook for identifying underperforming students. 2. Involve and empower GTAs in implementing student outreach communications and creating a sustainable structure for these communications. 3. Encourage teaching teams (faculty and GTAs) to set shared goals for student outreach. 4. Provide a sustainable structure within Canvas courses for recording student outreach communications such that they can be more easily implemented in future courses. 5. Guide Early Performance Feedback instructors on student outreach strategies.

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.