CollegeNow Conference Day Breakout Session I 10:40 AM 11:55 AM Audience: ACAD meeting Workshop: Share What Works for You in ACAD100/150 and Learn What Others Do Facilitator: Rick Grossman, Professor of Reading and Faculty Liaison for ACAD Courses Looking for new activities, assignments, and additional resource materials? Let s share our best with each other! Please come ready to share activities, materials, and assignments that you have used successfully in the ACAD courses. There will also be time to ask questions, share concerns, and offer suggestions. Audience: ACCT meeting Workshop: Helping Students Succeed in Accounting Facilitator: Gary Ford, Associate Professor and Chair of Accounting, and Zenta Sabol, Instructor and Faculty Liaison for Accounting Roundtable discussion on how we can best help our students succeed. Instructors should come ready with some ideas, suggestions, and/or examples of materials they use in and out of the classroom so we can learn from each other what works. We will also learn about what s new in the 12 th edition textbook and benefits of using WileyPlus. Audience: ANTH meeting Workshop: Teaching Anthropology at the College Level Facilitator: Tina Stavenhagen Helgren, Professor and Faculty Liaison in Anthropology We will discuss the expectations for introductory level ANTH course and any challenges that come with teaching anthropology at the college level, especially helping students be successful with the expected level of reading, writing, and research. We will share our successes, ideas for lessons or projects, and assessments, as well as discuss needs for the future. Please bring samples from your classes that you are proud of, as well as items you may want feedback for improvement. Audience: BIOL meeting (also relevant to ENVS, METR, PHSC, ASTR) Workshop: Expected Behaviors in the College Science Classroom Facilitator: Dr. James Jacob, Professor and Faculty Liaison for Biological Sciences How are high school and college science class expectations different? What behaviors do we want to see in CollegeNow students? Jake, the Chair of the College s Biotechnology program, will facilitate a conversation with CollegeNow science instructors that is focused on delineating expected behaviors of a college student in and out of the classroom.
Audience: CHEM meeting Workshop: Experiencing the Nature of Science PART 1 of two part workshop (Chemistry instructors must register for both parts) Facilitator: Dr. Michele Whitecraft, Instructor and Faculty Liaison for Chemistry How do we teach the nature of science? More importantly, how do we get our students to experience the nature of science in a way that makes them science enthusiasts?! This workshop is designed to uncover the misconceptions about the nature of science and to show how the available evidence, along with human values, experiences and biases, influence observation and interpretation, even in science (ENSI, 1999). In Session I, participants will learn about the nature and process of doing science by exploring Tricky Tracks, The Checks Lab, as well as the The Black Box Experiment. Audience: CULI & HRMG meeting Workshop: Sharing Teaching Strategies in Culinary Arts Education Facilitator: Susan Stafford, Associate Professor, Program Chair, and Faculty Liaison in Hotel & Restaurant Management This meeting is for instructors in Culinary Arts and Hotel & Restaurant Management to discuss common concerns or needs, as well as share ideas and resources for teaching and aiding student success. Please consider sharing examples of projects and teaching strategies that you are proud of, but also consider bringing items that you d like feedback for improvement. Sue will share updates on the various culinaryrelated programs of the College and facilitate a conversation about how to support your programs and students (for example, through real or virtual field trips or open houses at Coltivare, our Farm, and local industry partners, a Blackboard site, etc.). Audience: ECHD meeting Workshop: Sharing Teaching Strategies in Early Childhood Facilitator: Carol Sammis, Professor, Program Chair, and Faculty Liaison in Early Childhood This is a time for instructors in Early Childhood to discuss common concerns or needs, as well as share ideas and materials for their early childhood courses. Please consider sharing examples of lessons, readings, assignments (with rubrics), or student work (projects, portfolio ) that you are proud of, but also consider bringing items that you d like feedback for improvement. Audience ENGL meeting Workshop: Sharing Ideas for English 101 and 102 Facilitator: TBD Chris Carey, the faculty liaison for English, is unable to attend the conference. In his absence, a faculty member of the College's English department will help facilitate this meeting. The topics for discussion will be posted here once finalized by Chris, after consulting with CollegeNow English instructors. Some possible topics include: grading expectations (as compared to high school), flexibility in writing assignments (such as types of expository modes selected), and texts for 101 and 102.
Audience: FREN, GERM & SPAN meeting Workshop: Expectations for Foreign Language Courses Facilitators: Nancy Crane and Linda Horan, Instructors and Faculty Liaisons in Foreign Language This is a meeting to provide updates on expectations for foreign language courses (which includes changes to master syllabi) and to discuss presentation methods, including incorporation of technology (Blackboard, Kahoot) in and out of the classroom. There will also be time to ask questions and share new ideas. Audience: HLTH & FITN meeting Workshop: Engaging Students in Health Courses Facilitator: Tammi Young, Instructor and Faculty Liaison in Health and Fitness This session is an opportunity for us to learn creative ways to motivate students taking our health courses. We will discuss and share information about our classes, including how we make them collegelevel. Please come ready to share activity and project ideas you use to engage students. As time allows, we will also discuss various ways instructors are grading students in their courses and whether they are working. Please bring your most recent course outlines for Tammi to collect, including any modifications you have made from what was originally approved, as well as a sample of a test, final, and graded student work (with name redacted). Audience: HLTH104 meeting Workshop: Expectations for Medical Terminology Facilitator: Kim Sharpe, Professor and Program Chair in Nursing and Faculty Liaison for HLTH104 This is a time for HLTH104 instructors to discuss their courses, share ideas, and provide feedback on any needs they have. Kim can share resources and talk about health careers. Audience: HSTY meeting (also relevant to POSC) Workshop: Woman Suffrage in New York State Facilitator: Dr. Karen Pastorello, Professor and Faculty Liaison for History In 2017, it will be 100 years since New York State signed woman's suffrage into law, three years before the U.S. passed the 19 th Amendment. Many activities are being planned around the state to mark this milestone making it a great time to consider about how you will address this important moment in American democracy within your courses. Karen will present on a book she is co authoring with Susan Goodier called The Very Greatest Victory: Recognizing Women s Right to Vote in New York State, 1846 1927. Karen also has information about available grants so that you can coordinate with your local history societies for any needed funding. Audience: MATH meeting Workshop: Teaching College Algebra through Calculus Facilitator: Danielle Bethoney, Associate Professor and Faculty Liaison in Mathematics Danielle will share information on the changes being made to the College s algebra and pre calculus curricula, to be effective Fall 2017. We will discuss how these changes may impact your instruction and
sequencing. As a result of these curricular changes, MATH132 and 135 instructors will need to submit revised course outlines for the 2017 18 school year. We will also share ideas for teaching and discuss common areas of concern within the algebra through calculus sequence; please come ready with any ideas or issues for discussion. Audience: MUSI meeting Workshop: Sharing Best Practices in Music Courses Facilitator: Dr. Tatiana Stremlin, Instructor and Faculty Liaison in Music We will discuss practices to actively engage students so that they achieve a deeper understanding and appreciation of music while still having fun. Tatiana will share ideas about pedagogy (demonstrating some instructional practices), pacing (slow down!), and various resources available for the music classroom (such as interactive online, video, and text materials). As time allows, we will also talk about assessments and grading. Please select a unit plan as an example to share. Audience: PSYC meeting Workshop: Teaching Introduction to Psychology Facilitator: Eric Sambolec, Professor and Faculty Liaison for Psychology We will discuss the expectations for PSYC103 and any challenges that come with teaching this collegelevel course. We will share our successes, ideas for lessons or projects, and assessments, as well as discuss needs for the future. Audience: SOCI meeting Workshop: College Course Expectations & Best Practices Shared in Sociology PART 1 of two part workshop (Sociology instructors should sign up for both parts) Facilitator: Jessica Ryan, Instructor and Faculty Liaison for Sociology This workshop will be devoted to collaborating and sharing our best teaching modalities, assignments, resources, assessments, forms of communication, and student work. A primary goal of the session is to develop a shared understanding of the written, oral, and communication skills that reflect social science reasoning with an emphasis on C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination. We will discuss how students may locate, evaluate, and effectively use social research to generate an annotated bibliography (a process that enables them to better understand the micro macro application and analysis of connecting one s self to larger social issues and world around us). We will also identify multiple aspects of invisible privilege regarding race, class, gender, ability, etc. and share strategies for teaching about issues of social and economic inequality that are historically constructed and perpetuated. Together will establish effective and consistent means for future communication, and we will agree about how high school curriculum will be analogous to TC3 s college level curriculum of expectations and requirements. To aid our discussion, please bring some of your class materials related to the topics above, such as lesson plans, projects (with rubrics), texts/readings, and student work, as well as your final exam (or final body of work) and texts.
General Interest Workshops Open to All Disciplines (three) Audience: Open to All (but most relevant to arts, media, and technology: ART, COMM, CIS/CSS, DRAF) Workshop: Teaching with Emerging Technologies in New Media Facilitators: Keith Millman, Professor and Chair in New Media; and Mark Grimm, Instructor in Art As new technologies continually and rapidly emerge, it becomes difficult to teach these in a traditional hierarchal classroom structure. Students may also come to the classroom with technological knowledge that surpasses the instructor s practical knowledge and abilities to effectively instruct. By creating an active learning environment, students can become technological researchers, exploring unknown territory with space for experimentation. Acquired knowledge is then shared for all, including the instructors, to learn from. By actively creating new knowledge, students learn to teach themselves new skills and problem solving strategies, building self esteem and peer recognition in the process. This presentation demonstrates some of the techniques and outcomes that New Media faculty have been practicing to address new and emerging technologies that are quickly entering our lives including: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, Computer Animation, Drone Photography, Interactive Audio/Video, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, etc. Keith and Mark demonstrate a Makey Makey (www.makeymakey.com) physical computing board, allowing you to discover and report back new and interesting things you ve learned through active engagement with the technology and collaborating with others. This session is helpful for people teaching creatively with technology and for anyone who wants to leverage the students' own passions and abilities to research, learn and share new technology and ideas with the whole class because teachers can no longer know everything! Audience: Open to All Workshop: Audio Podcasting Facilitator: Donald Perkins, Instructor in Radio Production Interested in using audio podcasting in your classes? Podcasts can be used to flip your classroom or as self study modules for students. Don will show you how to record and edit sounds using Audacity, a versatile, comprehensive, easy to use audio editor and recording software available for free download on any operating system. Audacity can be found at http://www.audacityteam.org/ Audience: Open to All Workshop: Project Based Learning with Technology Facilitator: Butch Westlake, Instructor and Faculty Liaison for Business Administration The participants will describe, illustrate, and construct a PBL (project based learning activity) that incorporates technology and cloud based activities (social media formats). An emphasis will be placed on cross disciplinary approaches and various forms of collaborations beyond their classrooms. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how to develop collaborative, project based approaches to teaching and engaging students in the 21 st century classroom.