Plenary Session I
Presenter: Carol Hostetter, associate professor, Indiana University School of Social Work and recipient, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching at IUPUI
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Session Descriptions for 2010 Symposium
Assessing the Role of a Graduate Pedagogy Course in the Development of Future Teacher-scholars
Presenters: Valerie O’Loughlin, Medical Sciences, IU Bloomington
Katherine Kearns, Campus Instructional Consulting, IU Bloomington
Mark Braun, Medical Sciences, IU Bloomington
Evidence-based assessments of pedagogy courses can demonstrate graduate students perceptions of their progression as teacher-scholars. We present evidence from two iterations of a health sciences pedagogy course to demonstrate the course’s role on graduate teacher-scholar development. We focus on quantitative and qualitative assessment data from teaching statements and teaching portfolios, and participants will participate in a sample scoring exercise.
Course Design: Making the Implicit Explicit
Presenters: Jacqueline Singh, Center for Teaching and Learning
Crystal Garcia, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
What does your course look like ? Is what you do and why you do it explicit to students? This roundtable discusses course-based assessment coupled with “theory of change”. Participants will examine their syllabus to determine whether it explicitly connects course components with anticipated learning outcomes to reach intended longer-term outcomes.
An Integrative Longitudinal Case-Based Learning Model as a Curriculum Strategy to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Presenters: Peter Altenburger, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Valerie Strunk, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Amy Bayliss, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Terry Loghmani, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
This session will focus on successful, concrete strategies for infusing diversity in teaching. Strategies emphasize that diversity can be incorporated (a) even in contexts that do not ordinarily lend themselves to discussions about diversity issues; and (b) in ways that minimize the potential for backlash.
Using Thinking Starters, Discussion Circles, and Student Writing to Support College Student Learning
Presenters: Paula Magee, School of Education
Natalie Barman, School of Education
As a way to foster a student-driven curriculum, an increase in student efficacy for learning science and an increase in student science learning, three teaching interventions (increased student writing and student-driven activities) have been developed and used in a college level science course for education students.
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Adjusting Your Teaching Style to Optimize Interactions with Learners
Presenters: Paula Wales, School of Medicine
Mary Alice Bell, School of Medicine
Virginia Thurston, School of Medicine
James Brokaw, School of Medicine
This workshop is based on lessons learned from a faculty development program called FLEX Care®, used by the Indiana University School of Medicine to improve teacher-learner interactions. Applications outside of medicine will be discussed.
Helping Students Use Information Literacy Effectively
Presenters: Scott Weeden, School of Liberal Arts
Pat Wittberg, School of Liberal Arts
Pat Clark, Purdue School of Science
Polly Boruff-Jones, School of Library and Information Sciences
This discussion-based roundtable session focuses on the problem of how students search for and use information in their research writing. Results from a preliminary study will be shared and as well as ideas for addressing the problem.
Increasing Relevance of Evidence Based Practice in Graduate Professional Education: Academic-Healthcare
Presenters: Patricia Scott, IU Bloomington
Jacob Kean, IU Bloomington
Peter Altentenburger, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Students In health sciences have difficulty seeing the relevance of evidence based practice. A KTA Model paired clinicians and students to eliminate the perceived disconnect between the classroom and the clinic. Outcomes found positive benefits for both groups and improvement in the relevance of the learning experience.
Combining Team Simulation and Reflective Practice: Pedagogical Pastiche and Student Learning
Presenters: TeKatherine V. Wills, IUPU Columbus
Thomas Clerkin, IUPU Columbus
Alejandra Solis, IUPU Columbus
Download ResourcesSimulation games in business courses provide students with reliable business world experiences. We blended simulation games with English composition reflective writing; students recognize how team experiences affect an enterprise. Reflective writing, in part, led us to win four global BSG Best Strategy Invitationals. This session encourages attendees to customize reflective teaching tools for student success.
Engagement in Multicultural Teaching at IUPUI: Results of Faculty Survey
Presenters: Kathleen Grove, IUPUI Office for Women
Stephanie Boys, School of Social Work
This session shares findings from a study at IUPUI, that examined perceptions of 464 faculty members across disciplines about what barriers they faced in multicultural teaching. The study was designed to assess faculty conceptualizations of multicultural teaching, the degree to which they may be engaged in this practice, and what challenges they faced. This session will share the results reflecting which multicultural teaching methods are being used and discuss best practices for engaging in multicultural teaching.
Math-Linked Learning Communities for First Year Students
Presenters: Susan Meshulam, School of Science
Michele Hansen, University College
Download ResourcesThis presentation focuses on the comprehensive assessment methods employed to assess the effectiveness of a Learning Community course designed to improve the math performance levels of first-year students. Presenters will describe how the math learning community course curriculum was designed to assist with first-year students transitions to college.
Enhancing Learning in Small Group Settings
Presenters: Laura Romito, School of Dentistry
Download ResourceStudent small groups can be used as a means to engage learners in critical thinking and in depth analysis of problems or concepts. This session presents several methods to enhance the effectiveness of small group settings to facilitate learning including specific structured activities, effective feedback, and assessment techniques.
New Directions for Writing Across the Curriculum at IUPUI
Presenters: Melvin Wininger, School of Liberal Arts
Our discussion will focus on how writing is and can be used to enhance teaching and learning at IUPUI, within the framework of the PULs. The session will also ask participants to discuss the issues that matter to them and to offer ideas about going forward to adopt and adapt writing across the curriculum in their specific contexts.