TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 

Feedback Matters: Integrating Impactful Feedback into your Teaching Practices

1:00pm- 2:00pm

Location: Join Zoom

Presenters: Marcia Luptak (Adult Basic Education Center) and Sarah Burkhart (English as a Second Language)

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In this session, research-based best practices in providing feedback to learners will be presented, including topics such as timeliness, quality, amount, and focus. Attendees will then be given scenarios and asked to develop ideas about how they could integrate these best practices. The objective will be for participants to improve the quality and impact of the feedback they give to learners.

Making Thinking Tactile

3:30- 4:30pm

Location: E100.01 or Join Zoom

Presenter: Chasity Gunn (English)

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No matter what discipline you teach, you want to foster critical thinking in all of your students. This can be a challenging feat. In this workshop, learn how hexagonal thinking can help you make thinking tactile and engage students at all levels. Hexagonal thinking is a simple, interactive teaching strategy that allows your students to work in groups and share their ideas about whatever topic you are teaching. Participants will learn various ways to implement this teaching strategy in their classrooms and assess whether students are thinking and learning. 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 

The Power of Connecting: Utilizing Relationships to Create a Strong Program

9:30am- 10:30am

Location: E100.01 or Join Zoom

Presenters: Liddy Hope (Human Services), Tiffany Jensen (Student), and Ryan Marzano (Human Services)

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This session will focus on the role of relationship in recruiting and retaining student into a program.  The Recovery Support Specialist (RSS) Program started at ECC in Fall of 2022. This is a new program both to the college and in the field. One of the criteria for admission in the program is that students must have personal, lived history with mental health or substance use recovery. This creates a unique set of strengths, barriers and pragmatic issues.  Through the development and introduction of the program, and intentional relational and people-first approach was utilized. The program is proving to be successful by several metrics, including retention and admission - the program was full within the first month of registration being open. 

Meaningful Gamification Assessment to Motivate Students

*Session Postponed* CETAL Will follow up with additional information. 

Presenter: Amanda Smothers (English)

Student motivation, particularly in completing homework and reading assignments, can be difficult for faculty to engender. In this session, I will discuss some of the research around meaningful gamification's effect on student motivation and performance, and I will discuss my own experience gamifying composition classes. 

Roundtable:  Determination and Implementation of Reasonable Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

3:30- 4:30pm 

Location: Join Zoom

Presenters: Chiquita Hallom (Student Access & Disability Services), Pietrina Probst (Student Access & Disability Services), Liddy Hope (Human Services), Roxana Idu (Economics), and Coresair Mack (Wellness Services) 

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Reasonable accommodations can serve an important role in providing access to students with disabilities in higher education. In this panel session, you will learn about the process that students follow to apply for accommodation services, the disability documentation that is reviewed, the interactive process to determine accommodations, and the rationale for these accommodations. Furthermore, you will learn about ways to implement accommodations in your courses. 

Students with disabilities will be represented on the panel as they describe their experiences of requesting and utilizing accommodations in the college setting. Faculty will share their experiences of accommodating students. Wellness Professionals will provide testimony to the benefits of accommodations for students with disabilities. 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Database Sideshow: Free Entertainment and Walk Away with Helpful Resources to Integrate in Your Teaching

11:00am- 12:00pm

Location: Join Zoom

Presenters: Stacey Shah (Library), Beth Hultman (Library), and Victoria Turner (Library)

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Come one, come all! You know of ECC Library databases as great resources for faculty and student research, but did you know they also contain interesting and unusual content that can bring life to your learning activities and help you save time in planning instruction? We’ll reveal some of the hidden database educator content that is available in most subject areas with special emphasis on the sciences/health sciences. Walk away inspired!

Putting the Community in Community College

3:30- 4:30pm

Location: E100.01 or Join Zoom

Presenter: Kathleen DeMars (Adult Basic Education)

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A shining asset of any community college is the commonality that faculty, staff, and students share a general geographic location. This may give the assumption that the people who make up a community college’s ecosystem are homogenous. A stroll through Jobe Lounge on any Tuesday during lunch would dispel that myth as false within minutes. While the people who make up the community college environment may appear to have great similarities if we look at their census data, each school truly is a diverse and nuanced community. That diversity brings tremendous opportunity for growth and learning within the classroom. It provides an opportunity to build trust, broaden our perspectives, and deepen our connection to both content and our community as a school and at large. 

This session explores practical ways to further nurture the communities we build in our classrooms and across our campus. As faculty, you’ll engage with members of other departments, disciplines, and interests. You’ll leave feeling a greater sense of belonging that you can translate into your learning environment – or any environment, really. We look forward to meeting you! 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Making Accessible and Engaging Presentations

10:00- 11:00am

Location: E100.01 or Join Zoom

Presenters: Megan DiCianni (Instructional Improvement & Distance Learning) and Brian Bohr (Communication Studies)

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Many of us use presentations in our classrooms every day. Some of us also require our students to create presentations. This session will consist of two parts. The first part will show participants how to ensure presentations are accessible for students with varied learning needs and preferences. The second part of the session will provide tips and tricks for engaging your audience and delivering a dynamic presentation. By the end of the session, you will feel confident discussing presentation skills with your students and leading by example!

Closing Event

1:00- 3:00pm