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Mar 31

Escape from RCOE: Online Student Engagement through a Digital Escape Room Experience

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Online

Looking for a fresh way to inject some fun into your teaching? In need of a novel way to introduce content to students or have them show their understanding? Come explore the digital escape room concept! You'll participate in the "Escape from RCOE" digital escape room, learn how to create one of your using Google Sites and Google Forms, and discuss how you might apply this idea to your own teaching context. Register"
Workshops
Mar 25

Toward a Pedagogy of Compassion: Why Student Laziness Does Not Exist Offered by,

Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Online in Zoom

Dr. Devon Price, author of the new book Laziness Does Not Exist, presents a research-based approach to dismantle the "laziness lie" in college classrooms. In this workshop, Dr. Price will address the psychological underpinnings of instructors' perceptions of student motivation. They will discuss the hallmarks of a compassionate pedagogy, which involves trusting students to articulate their own needs, reducing barriers to educational access, and ending punitive approaches to assessment, grading, and attendance. The first 40 people to register will receive a copy of Dr.
Special Events, Workshops
Mar 19

Early Career Teaching Tips Potluck

Friday, March 19, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online

A few months into the semester, and we're all probably about ready for a teaching tip or two to invigorate our courses. During this "virtual potluck," each participant will share one teaching idea, or they'll bring a specific teaching question to the group for brainstorming. Although the exact content of the session is impossible to predict (because it depends on the participants), past early-career discussions of this sort have focused on synchronous and asynchronous engagement, managing student emails, strategies for efficient grading, specific teaching technologies, and more.
Career Support & Advancement: Early Career Programs, Workshops
Mar 18

Digital Literacy Learning Community Lunch and Learn: Selected Topics

Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 12:00pm to 12:50pm
Online

Join members of AppState's Digital Literacy Learning Community for conversations about the role of digital literacy in your classrooms and your lives. Topics TBD by participant interest. Register"
Learning Technologies, Workshops
Mar 11

Book Club: The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion

Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Online in Zoom

This spring book club will focus on discussing the application of evidence-based practices related to the role of emotion in learning to engagement, motivation, and retention. Book club members will be given a copy of the book. This workshop will also occur from 2:00-3:00 on the following days: Thursday, January 28th, Thursday, February 18th & Thursday, March 11th. Registration Link
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: Technology Enhanced Learning, Book Clubs, Workshops
Mar 10

Small Teaching Book Club

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Online in Zoom

Are you interested in invigorating your teaching but don't have much time? Would you like to discuss some innovative ideas with your colleagues across campus? James Lang has plucked a multitude of options built on the science of learning to help anybody tune up their class, or the whole course, with a small, easy to use intervention. It could be a simple 5-minute in-class or online exercise, or a tweek in the course design, or a better way to communicate with students, but everyone is bound to find something that will improve their course for themselves and their students?
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, Learning Technologies, Book Clubs, Workshops
Mar 10

Writing Faculty Workshop: "Bravely Challenging Our White Language Supremacy in Our Assessments of Student Writing"

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm

This workshop will challenge participants to bravely investigate their own classroom assessment practices, particularly their orientations toward student writing as embodied in their feedback to that writing. The workshop will consider habits of White language that inform assessment practices in our own classrooms as well as several “fast thinking" mind heuristics. We'll pause to reflect upon sample feedback on a student paper that participants bring from a past course of theirs.
Special Events, Workshops
Mar 10

Dr. Asao Inoue: "What Does It Mean to Do Antiracist Writing Assessment?"

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

This talk engages with the question of what it means to assess and grade college student writing for a more antiracist classroom. It focuses not on people behaving badly or racist, but rather on the historical and structural ways that most academics judge and read language; teachers' ways of assessing language; disciplines' logics and ways with words; and most professions' expectations of language use. It pays particular attention to the historical practice of grading in universities.
Special Events, Workshops
Mar 8

Balancing Supporting Students & Maintaining Rigor

Monday, March 8, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Online in Zoom

With the Pandemic, even faculty who have taught for years can feel uncertain about how to balance supporting students while maintaining academic rigor fairly for everyone in the class. Students and faculty are both feeling some exhaustion, but what does it mean to be supportive of students now? Should all assignment deadlines be flexible? Please register for this one-hour Zoom webinar to hear from a panel of department chairs discuss how to address these types of challenges that have increased in recent months.
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, Workshops
Mar 5

A Path to Promotion and Tenure

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Online

This workshop will provide background information on policy, procedure, and expectations as you move towards promotion and tenure. This workshop will allow plenty of time for questions, and will hopefully, unravel the mystery of promotion and tenure. Note: To aid in your better understanding of the promotion and tenure process, participants are asked to bring their departmental Promotion and Tenure Documents. Register
Career Support & Advancement: Promotion & Tenure, Retirement, Workshops