Date: March 1, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar
RBTS seeks to support the work of faculty from all disciplines, colleges, and campuses by offering faculty presentations and workshops on best practices in teaching and learning. These workshops not only provide information and resources for faculty seeking to enhance their own pedagogical practices, but also give faculty an opportunity to present their work to peers. All sessions will be live on Zoom and video-recorded for archival purposes.
Topic: Blended (Hybrid) Course Learning and Teaching in Action
Led by: Lisa Diehl
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Date: February 1, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar
RBTS seeks to support the work of faculty from all disciplines, colleges, and campuses by offering faculty presentations and workshops on best practices in teaching and learning. These workshops not only provide information and resources for faculty seeking to enhance their own pedagogical practices, but also give faculty an opportunity to present their work to peers. All sessions will be live on Zoom and video-recorded for archival purposes.
Topic: Re-imagining Asynchronous Discussions: Thinking
Outside the PPR (Prompt, Post, Reply) Box
Led by: Miriam Moore
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Date: November 2, 2020
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar
RBTS seeks to support the work of faculty from all disciplines, colleges, and campuses by offering faculty presentations and workshops on best practices in teaching and learning. These workshops not only provide information and resources for faculty seeking to enhance their own pedagogical practices, but also give faculty an opportunity to present their work to peers. All sessions will be live on Zoom and video-recorded for archival purposes.
Topic: Collaborative Student Projects Across Classrooms and Disciplines:
How to Foster Academic Skills Through Shared Experience
Led by: Ralph Hale and Valerie Surrett
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Led by: Sheila Schulte
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Locations:
Cumming Campus | 246
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Dunlap-Mathis 137
Oconee Campus | SRC 581
How do we can we best assist non-native speakers of English in the classroom setting? This session is devoted to sharing model practices to ensure a positive learning environment for a diverse student body. After a basic review of intercultural communication theory, there will be a panel discussion with UNG international students, followed by an open discussion.
To register for workshops, please fill out our Workshop Registration form or email rsvp.ctll@ung.edu.
Led by: William Black
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Locations:
Cumming Campus | 246
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Dunlap-Mathis 137
Oconee Campus | SRC 581
Many of us believe teaching ethics is important, but how do we know if we are making progress? The ARBC instrument (Action Research into Business Conduct) provides a measuring tool that can be used to diagnose current levels of perceptions about ethics, or used as a pretest / posttest evaluation of whether ethics instruction is effective. ARBC is a free online tool, created at the University of North Georgia that can support action research efforts to improve ethics instruction. The scenarios it asks participants to evaluate are drawn from common everyday situations that may have ethical implications. ARBC can be useful in contexts beyond business courses, for example in confirming assurance of learning measurements of progress towards ethics awareness goals.
This session will illustrate how to use ARBC in ethics assessment, and provide examples of ongoing research that is being conducted using ARBC.
To register for workshops, please fill out our Workshop Registration form or email rsvp.ctll@ung.edu.
Led by: Carl Ohrenburg
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Locations:
Cumming Campus | 246
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Dunlap-Mathis 137
Oconee Campus | SRC 581 Because of a scheduling conflict, Oconee participants will attend in Administration 108.
Critical Reading is an essential skill for our students, yet we often spend little time on helping them develop it. The way one reads a particular text varies widely depending on content and audience and students often lack the skill set to read certain types of writing. To address this, lecture outlines have been developed for use with teaching General Chemistry courses to college freshmen. These outlines represent a first step in developing critical reading skills in the sciences and provide a template for students to incorporate textbook reading with in class material. They are designed to help the students organize the content, as well as, engage the textbook on their own. This presentation will introduce the concept of the lecture outlines and explore their effectiveness in teaching General Chemistry.
To register for workshops, please fill out our Workshop Registration form or email rsvp.ctll@ung.edu.
Led by: Tam Spike, Renee Bricker, and Victoria Hightower
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Locations:
Cumming Campus | 246
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Dunlap-Mathis 137
Oconee Campus | SRC 581
“Serious gaming” in the classroom is growing in popularity. Serious games can take many forms: computer games, board games, puzzles, etc. This presentation will focus on role-playing games and simulations. Within these games, students take on roles informed by historical sources and/or current events. There is no fixed script, no predetermined outcome. Students are guided by the philosophical and intellectual beliefs of the people they have been assigned to play, and seek to achieve their goals in papers, speeches, other kinds of public presentations, or subrosa alliances and other machinations. Gamification of difficult, complex, real-world situations reinforces concepts, creates greater engagement, and provides multiple means of approaching course material as well as develops skills in speaking, writing, critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, and teamwork.
To register for workshops, please fill out our Workshop Registration form or email rsvp.ctll@ung.edu.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Best Practices for Significant Learning in the Flipped Classroom
Led by Sarah Formica, Associate Professor of Physics
There’s more to a flipped classroom than reading assignments and pre-lecture videos. Students need to engage with the material, each other, and their instructor to have significant learning experiences. This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to experience a flipped classroom, as well as tools and strategies you can use to flip your own. There will be a pre-workshop assignment and group activities during the workshop, so come prepared and ready to engage.
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Cumming Campus | Room 246
Dahlonega Campus | Dunlap Hall 211B
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 3211
Oconee Campus | 318
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Cooperative Discussions for Critical Thinking
Led by Danielle Hartsfield, Assistant Professor of Literacy and Elementary Education
Sometimes students in small group discussions don’t generate the kind of deep, critical thinking that instructors desire. This workshop will teach participants how to scaffold text-based small group discussions to promote critical thinking and student engagement with texts in face-to-face and online settings (including D2L).
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Cumming Campus | Room 262
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 5105
Oconee Campus | SRC 564
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Digital Natives Lost in the Forest of Google
Led by Austina Jordan, Associate Professor of Library Science/Collection Management Librarian
There is no shortage of information in the world. Fake news abounds or so we are told. If you google “Fake News” you get 164,000,000 hits. If you search that same term in Galileo you get 465,331 results. What’s the difference? Why does it matter? Research is an integral part of the academic journey. Teachers design research based assignments with numerous objectives in mind. This session will help professors understand how students actually research, how they understand research assignments and what they do for help in the process.
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Cumming Campus | Room 262
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 5105
Oconee Campus | SRC 564
Led by Steve Pearson, Assistant Professor of English
Monday, September 11, 2017
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
This workshop will present retention issues that can be addressed early in students’ coursework and will ask faculty to brainstorm solutions. Obstacles with research, not understanding expectations, retention problems, and students’ backgrounds are all difficulties that students face. Because of all of these issues can be addressed, and hopefully prevented, by faculty, this presentation will ask faculty to consider ways that we can address them in first-year courses.
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Cumming Campus | Room 262
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 5105
Oconee Campus | SRC 564
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Blue Ridge Campus | 107
Cumming Campus | 262
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 5105
Oconee Campus | 564
Facilitator, Diana Edelman
Presenter, Jennifer Schneider
Part of the Research-Based Teaching Series
Research has shown that human interaction is linked to positive student experiences. However, human interaction is not confined to the classroom. Motivating students to engage in the course material earlier in the education process could lead to richer learning experiences. This workshop will discuss whether blended learning is a viable option in modern classrooms.
This workshop is presented on all campuses via video teleconference.
Blue Ridge Campus | 107
Cumming Campus | 246
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 5105
Oconee Campus | 564
Facilitator, Diana Edelman
Presenters, Molly Daniel, Matthew Boedy, and Jim Shimkus
Part of the Research-Based Teaching Series
Molly Daniel, Matthew Boedy, and Jim Shimkus will show examples from their own student feedback, as examples of effective and ineffective marks. This workshop will also address how to use effective feedback to counter the long slog of composition courses. In short, having more effect with less comments. We will discuss how writing center tutoring aids in your view of feedback and offer a handout that can you refer to for better feedback.
This workshop is presented on all campuses via video teleconference.
Blue Ridge Campus | 107
Cumming Campus | 262
Dahlonega Campus | Hansford 312
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 5105
Oconee Campus | 581
Facilitator, Diana Edelman
Presenters, Jim Shimkus and Anita Turlington
Part of the Research-Based Teaching Series
Jim Shimkus and Anita Turlington will explain the relevance of the three constructs (and associated practices/activities) as high-impact teaching practices that help to enhance student learning and development. These practices are helpful not only for those college teachers who are focused on teaching writing, but teachers in any discipline who are interested in strategies to enhance student learning.
This workshop is presented on all campuses via video teleconference.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Presented by Gina Reed, Professor of Mathematics
Co-sponsored by the Research-Based Teaching Series (RBTS) and CTLL
Statistics: It’s Not Just for STEM Anymore! Conduct Research in ANY Discipline Using Statistical Analysis
Gainesville Campus | Watkins Building 182
The scholarship of teaching and learning provides important data for effective classroom instruction methods at the university level; these data are supported by statistical research not only in STEM fields, but also in the humanities. This one-hour statistics workshop is designed to support the research of all faculty and will provide important methods and tools for conducting quantitative research in the classroom. This research can, potentially, develop into publishable scholarship in the areas of teaching and learning.
The workshop and companion workbook will explain and guide the participants through several statistical methods useful to research with instruction on how to perform the data analysis using the statistical software package, Minitab. No statistical background is required. Included topics are:
- Graphing distributions
- Shapes of distributions
- Measures of central tendency
- Measures of variation
- Best choice for central tendency and variation
- Bivariate data regression analysis
- Hypothesis Testing
RSVPs are required as class size is limited to 14. Please do not use the registration link! Instead RSVP to rsvp.ctll@ung.edu with the following subject line: “Statistics Workshop 10/5.” Questions about content can be directed to Gina Reed @ Gina.Reed@ung.edu.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Cumming Campus | Room 262
Dahlonega Campus | |Hansford Hall 312
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 5105
Oconee Campus | SRC 564
Kristin Kelly, Associate Professor of English, will discuss her work with “Talking Service,” a national reading and discussion program for servicemen and servicewomen coming back to civilian life from the war zone. As faculty at a premier military college, all of us have veterans in our classrooms. Kelly’s talk will help us serve these students better through understanding what they experience as well as what resources can help them, including “Talking Service.”
The program is based on the text Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian edited by Don Whitfield of the Great Books Foundation and includes essays, short stories, and poems spanning more than 2,500 years. Participants read and discuss selections on themes such as Caregiving, Civilians and War, Combat, Confronting the Enemy, and Family Relationships.
Sometimes the soldiers relate the evening’s reading to their own military experiences. Sometimes it’s all about the text. The Georgia Humanities Council sponsors Kelly’s program in Buford, GA, with textbook support also provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Please join us to learn how to better serve our student veterans.
This event will be video teleconferenced to all campuses.
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Monday, March 7, 2016
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Cumming Campus | Room 246
Dahlonega Campus | Barnes 315
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 2214
Oconee Campus | SRC 530
Michael Rifenburg and Jim Shimkus will present their research on rubrics. Starting with a historical foundation, we will chart how rubrics fell out of favor in common student writing assessment practices.
This session will be streamed from the Gainesville Campus.
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Cumming Campus | Room 246
Dahlonega Campus| Barnes 315
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 2214
Oconee Campus | Classroom 304
Anastasia Lin and Sheri Hardee present their research and practice on cross-disciplinary techniques in the classroom. They will discuss the value of team-teaching. In addition, they will offer their insights on implementing service-learning in this learning community.
Anastasia Lin is the Assistant Dean of Student Research and Scholarship and Associate Professor of English. Sheri Hardee is the Associate Dean of the College of Education and Associate Professor of Education.
This event is part of the Research-Based Teaching Series, facilitated by Diana Edelman-Young, CTLL Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of English.
All faculty & teaching staff across disciplines are invited to this session.
