2012 Adjunct Faculty Spring Learning Conference
Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:00am
Effectiveness Through Design, Dialogue, and Engagement
The 2012 Annual Spring Learning Conference event provides a day of learning, networking, and recognition for the adjunct faculty employees of the Maricopa Community Colleges. Learning Sessions offered at this year's event will offer instructors new strategies and methodologies to promote their teaching techniques and student learning and success. Come join your colleagues for a day of learning, sharing, and recognition.
Agenda for the Day
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8:00–8:30 am
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Registration & Continental Breakfast
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8:30–8:40 am Turquoise
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Welcome
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8:50–9:50 am
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LEARNING SESSIONS: GROUP ONE
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CM 448
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A to Z: Learning Web 2.0 Tools - Session One
Lesson Design Areas: Creating Community and Building Background
Learn how to use Web 2.0 Tools to create a safe learning environment, as well as how to build background knowledge to support your lesson concepts. Learn about Web 2.0 Tools and iPad apps that can be readily incorporated into any lesson regardless of delivery format. For example, Animoto is a quick and easy video creation tool, that students can use to creatively introduce themselves to their classmates. Prepare your lessons for the 21st century learner: engage and motivate them to learn!
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SC 209 (Peridot)
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Cultivating Courage for Teaching and Learning, Part I: An Experiential Workshop
How can learners and learning facilitators collaborate in creating open and trustworthy learning spaces? How can learners and learning facilitators come to experience their own learning processes without fear, while also honoring the learning processes and outcomes of others without rushing to judgement? What individual and group practices can foster increased engagement for learners and learning facilitators alike? Part I of Cultivating Courage for Teaching and Learning will be experiential, limited to 20 participants and will explore classroom practices shown to be favorable received by teachers and students alike.
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SL 107
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Low Hanging Fruit: Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Improve Developmental Education
This session will give adjunct-friendly UDL strategies that can be easily applied in the classroom to increase student success. UDL is an instructional design strategy that uses a multi-dimensional approach to promote equal opportunities to learn. This session is helpful for those who teach developmental education classes, as well as those who have some developmental students in their general education classes.
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SL 109
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Best Practices for Student Engagement
This session will provide opportunities for participation in interactive activities and provide new strategies for identifying and developing best practices for student engagement. Participants will use active learning structures to develop a plan for student engagement that can be applied immediately in their classroom. Information provided will be discipline-specific, as well as information that applies to every classroom. Presenters will share ideas and provide testimonials, inspired from their experience as Arizona Master Teacher Seminar alumni.
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CM 469
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The Truth About Teaching and Learning Online
Participants will actively engage in a dialogue about what it means to develop and teach online courses. Interactive discussion will include information about the amount of time and energy for course development and the five elements necessary that every course should include for student success.
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SL 111
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Of Course, Quality Matters!
In this session, attendees will be introduced to Quality Matters (QM), a research-based best practices certification for online and hybrid courses. An overview of the QM rubric will be given, as well as a tour of a QM approved course and information on how to get started with QM. As a Quality Matters subscriber, MCCCD already has almost 30 approved courses, maybe yours will be next! |
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9:50 – 10:00 am
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Break
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10:00 – 11:00 am
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LEARNING SESSIONS - GROUP TWO:
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Room: CM 448
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A to Z: Learning Web 2.0 Tools – Session Two
Lesson Design Areas: Applying Knowledge, Interacting with Content, and Reviewing and Assessing Knowledge
Instructors will demonstrate how to use Web2.0 Tools modeling how students apply lesson concepts, create a more interactive and collaborative environment, and efficiently review and assess learning. Learn about Web 2.0 Tools and iPad apps that can be readily incorporated into any lesson regardless of delivery format. For example, Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Learn how to effectively use these tools to design lessons for the 21st century classroom.
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SC 209 (Peridot)
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Cultivating Courage for Teaching and Learnin, Part II:
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(Note: Part II is NOT limited to 20 participants.)
This session will report on findings from the 2010-2011 Maricopa Institute for Learning fellowship project: Cultivating Courage for Teaching and Learning. Background will be provided regarding current research and strategies from nationally recognized institutions including the Center for Renewal and Wholeness in Higher Education (CRWHE) in Dallas, Texas; the Dallas Community Colleges; the League for Innovation in the Community College; the Fetzer Institute, Center for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, and the 30th Annual International Lilly Conference on College Teaching.
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Room: SC172 (Azurite)
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What You Really Want to Say to Your Students But, …
The session will be an interactive discussion around research-based constructive communication techniques to improve student success and maintain your sanity…especially at the end of the semester.
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Room: SL 110
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Best Teaching Practices for Higher Education from Mind, Brain and Education Science
This session will provide an introduction to the new academic discipline, Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Science, as it informs best teaching practices based on how the brain learns. Through interactive learning, participants be introduced to MBE Science, experience some of the new teaching practices, and take home resources for learning more information after the conference.
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Room: SL 116 |
Engage the 21st Century Learner with Active Learning and Web Tools
Explore innovative H.O.T. (H=Handy; O=Outstanding; T=Timesaving)Web 2.0 Tools integrated with empowering instructional strategies that spark active learning relevant to 21st Century skills such as: wikis, LiveBinder, Wordle, ePortfolios, and digitized interactive presentations. Learn how you and your students can use these applications to gather and organize resources; share and collaborate; and create portfolios and presentations. Participants will walk away with activities for use in the classroom.
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11:15am- 12:00pm
Turquoise Rm
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Discipline Dialogues – Tables identified by disciplines. Please sit at table designated for your discipline or the one most closely associated with your discipline.
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12:00 pm
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Lunch (Please wait until your table is called to enter the luncheon buffet line)
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12:30 pm
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Keynote Address: “Disruptive Innovation and Student Success”
Dr. Rufus Glasper, Chancellor, Maricopa Community Colleges
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1:15 pm
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Awards & Recognitions
Dr. Maria Harper-Marinick, Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, Maricopa Community Colleges Phil Jalowiec, Chandler-Gilbert Community College and
President, Adjunct Faculty Association
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2:00 pm
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Closing Remarks
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Location
Scottsdale Community College - Turquoise Rm (SC-164)
9000 East Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256
Scottsdale, AZ 85256United States
33° 30' 34.0344" N, 111° 52' 52.0212" W
See map: Google Maps
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)