Faculty Teaching & Learning Series
Session Schedule
Thursday, June 17
9am - 11am
Mindful Practices for Well-Being
Wynne Kinder
This session will offer Mindful Practices for Well-being including how to:
- Practice self-awareness and regulation to maintain inner balance and resilience.
- Understand the critical connection between their own stress levels and nervous systems and those of their students.
- Integrate mindfulness-based approaches that can strengthen personal/professional skills – in and out of the classroom.
*This content available internally within the PCA&D Community. Contact learningcommons@pcad.edu for access.
11:30 - 12:30
Reflecting, Redistributing & Redefining Learning
Jessica Edonick
Over time, the classroom has become the central point where the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and tools is supposed to take place. But where does the classroom structure come from? Are we actually providing environments where students can learn? Is learning actually the acquisition of knowledge? Let’s find out! Participants will take part in discussions and information sharing on what students are experiencing in the classroom as it relates to their identities, self-narratives, health, and wellness, as well as cognitive abilities.
1:00 - 3:00
Why DIY cultural responsiveness? The Art and Design of Effective Cultural Responsiveness
Dr. Courtney Plotts
This interactive workshop will demonstrate the pitfalls and barriers to cultural responsiveness. Participants will gain knowledge and applicable skills in cultural responsiveness that are small changes to what they are currently doing in their professional practice. Guided practice and small group discussion are included.
*This content available internally within the PCA&D Community. Contact learningcommons@pcad.edu for access.
3:15 - 4:15
A Physical Therapist's Perspective on Wellness Tips and Postural Strategies for Students and Teachers in Today's Tech Classroom
Dawn M. Cox, PT, MSPT, CFMT
Dawn Cox will review specific sitting and standing postures for teachers and students to minimize stress to the body and enhance alertness for learning. She will share inexpensive everyday props to have accessible in the classroom to help aid students support their proper posture. She will also review some simple daily exercises one can do to enable students and teachers to attain proper postures and provide mini brain-breaks to improve focus. Lastly, there will be time for specific questions and problem-solving challenges about tech and how it affects the body in the classroom.
*Optional: For an enhanced session experience, you could have the following handy: a hand towel; bath towel or small blanket; throw pillow; bed pillow; 5-10 lb. dumbbell; foam roller; Thera-band.
4:30 - 5:30
Scaffolding Reading to Support Student Success
Dr. Alaina Tackitt
Scaffolding writing assignments by breaking them into process steps is a well-known best practice. Scaffolded writing assignments often begin with construction by submitting a topic, outline, annotated bibliography, or early draft. Starting at this point in the process overlooks the opportunity to focus on a key component of student success: Reading. I will discuss our flipped curriculum and provide an overview of how we scaffolded reading as the foundation of our structured sequence through Collaborative Reading, Reading Quizzes, Summaries, and Critical Response Tasks.
6:00 - 7:30
Using Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) to Stream Live Content
Ellie Cochran
Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS for short, is a free and open-source program for streaming live content to web platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. It’s used by indie video game streamers and professional content production studios alike and can be impressively powerful when used creatively. This workshop will cover the use of OBS for live streaming video content, as well as tips and tricks for running a professional-quality stream.
Friday, June 18, 2021
9:00 - 10:30
Demystifying the Learner: Neurodiversity, Executive Function, & Learning Interference
Amy Faust
This interactive session is designed to provide educators with an opportunity to co-construct a holistic framework on which we can build universally supportive pedagogy. We will discuss several unique learning challenges common to college students and begin to expand our understanding of neurodiversity. We will explore executive function & dysfunction and the crucial implications of the prefrontal cortex for emerging adults. Finally, as a group, we will begin a deep dive into the possible layers of interference college students may experience.
11:00 - 12:00
Inviting Our Students Back with Engagement Practices
William Illingworth
In this session, we will investigate what it means to engage our students through several specific practices. We will consider the impact these practices will have on welcoming our students back into the physical classroom so that we can reduce anxiety and improve the classroom experience. These ideas will include reflections on remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we might incorporate helpful digital practices into the physical world.
1:00 - 2:00
The White Noise that Organizes Us
Jeremy Vaughn
In this session, we will be looking at technology that promotes concentration, reading comprehension, and proofing. We will be looking at time management tools that can be accessed on a desktop and mobile app. These tools can be adopted to the needs of a class or individual student or for personal use.
2:15 - 3:15
Fostering Mental Wellness in the Classroom
Dr. Debbie Ribera
Focusing on mental wellness allows us to create inclusive classrooms that promote healthy behaviors, but many of us are not sure of our place in addressing issues of mental health with our students. This interactive workshop will help participants understand the why and the how of implementing mental wellness practices into courses. From considering syllabus statements to developing skills-based resilience practices, participants will identify specific strategies they can use throughout their courses.
3:30 - 4:30
Creating An Artwork Inventory Database Using Airtable
Douglas Witmer
This workshop will serve as an introduction to the online database platform Airtable. You will learn how to create an artwork inventory management system using Airtable’s free subscription level, based on the system Douglas developed for himself. Douglas will demonstrate the key features he uses regularly as a studio artist to catalogue and present his work. Douglas will also discuss how developing this database has changed his photography workflow.
In advance of the session, participants are encouraged to make their own free Airtable account using this invitation link.
And a pre-made template based on Douglas’s personal database is available here.