The Center for Effective Teaching has a pair of workshops this week that focus on academic advising and using technology in the classroom to engage students. To register for these workshops, please visit the CET registration page at http://www.hvcc.edu/cet/workshops/register.html.
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You Are Not So Smart: Academic Advising Edition (NEW)
At the 2017 NACADA Annual Conference, “Best of Region 10” presenters Gina Beyer and Amanda Voight (Arizona State University) drew over 200 enthusiastic attendees to their presentation entitled, You Are Not So Smart: Advising Edition. Participants described it as energetic, funny, and engaging, as well as informative, and encouraged that it be taken to a wider audience.
In this webinar, drawing from concepts introduced in David McRaney’s 2012 bestselling book, “You Are Not So Smart,” Gina and Amanda will discuss these concepts’ relevance to the work academic advisors do with students. They will take participants on an adventure through their brains, demonstrating how easy it is for us to fall prey to ways our minds work, including biases and logical fallacies in the context of education. They will show how these natural workings of our brains can affect our daily lives and create social and psychological challenges, and they will share tips and tricks on how to work through the challenges of the human mind to improve student learning.
Imagine an emotionally charged, highly resistant third-year student who was doing okay, but is now failing most of her courses and has to come to your office to register for classes. The student doesn’t appear to like you or the university. What might be going on in the student’s brain? In yours? How will you help her? Gina and Amanda will use interactive case studies so participants can apply their new insights to create solutions for some of their most challenging student interactions.
Academic Advising Core Competencies that will be addressed in this presentation include:
- Ability to create rapport and build academic advising relationships
- Ability to communicate in an inclusive and respectful manner
- Ability to plan and conduct successful advising interactions
- Ability to promote student understanding of the logic and purpose of the curriculum
- Ability to facilitate problem solving, decision-making, meaning-making, planning, and goal-setting.
When: Wednesday, March 6, 2-3:30 p.m.
Where: Marvin Library Multipurpose Room
Facilitator: Karen Ferrer-Muniz
Certificate Credit: Academic Advising
Category: Foundations of Advising or Advising Tools/Resources
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Using Technology to Increase Student Engagement (NEW):
The influence of technology on higher education is increasing at dramatic rates. Faculty are faced with choices about integrating technology into their teaching on a daily basis. This is often times overwhelming and frustrating as new tools are constantly being introduced, changed, or updated. It’s essential to evaluate the validity of each technology tool we choose for teaching, and consistently help our students to become more active as digital citizens.
The goal of this webinar is to provide participants with new ideas, evaluation techniques, and practical strategies for engaging their students through the use of technology. We will provide participants with technology tools that focus on classroom presentation techniques, maximizing LMS tools, movie-making resources, assessment techniques, web-based tools, and open educational resources. Each of these resources contain tools that can be used inside and outside the classroom. We will discuss how faculty can utilize these tools to create experiences and assessment strategies that engage students. Additionally, we will provide participants with a detailed document (emailed after the webinar) that includes step-by-step directions for all of the tools shared along with links to an additional collection of instructional videos in order to implement what they have learned.
The following are objectives to this webinar:
- Understand the context of effective, research-based course-design principles.
- Examine the potentially powerful role of technology in student learning and success.
- Evaluate the relative value of varied digital learning options.
- Create digital learning experiences for their students using a variety of digital tools and venues.
When: Thursday, March 7, 3-4:30 p.m.
Where: Marvin Library Multipurpose Room
Facilitator: Tony Podlaski
Certificate Credit: Teaching & Learning
Category: Pedagogy, Classroom Management, or Integrating Instructional Technology
Published: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:06:12 +0000 by a.podlaski