30^th Showcase on Teaching and Learning Call for Proposals!

The FCTL is seeking proposals for morning Showcase sessions in the following two areas:

Faculty Expert Sessions—50-minute sessions that are intended to share active learning techniques or innovative ways of using technology. View the Faculty Expert Session Guidelines.

Faculty Scholar Sessions—75-minute sessions that are intended as an interactive workshop at Showcase along with opportunities to attend a future workshop or consult with a Faculty Scholar. View the Faculty Scholar Guidelines.

Proposals should be submitted by January 30. All proposals are to be submitted via email to fctl@missouristate.edu.

View General Guidelines for Submitting a Proposal or contact the FCTL at 836-3059 if you have questions.

Teaching Tips

Dates: Wednesdays, January 21–February 18
Time: 3:35–4:35 p.m.
Location: Meyer Library, 204

Teaching Tips will feature topics related to improving teaching in higher education. This small group will discuss the book “McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers.”

The group will meet for one hour on Wednesdays for five weeks.

Please register through My Learning Connection to receive a complimentary copy of the book.

The small group will be facilitated by award winning professor Dr. Jim Moyer, Religious Studies.

Monday Morning Mentor Series

What kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?

A new program begins Monday, January 26

We ask them in assignments. We ask them on exams. We ask them during class. Everyone does it. Not everyone does it well. At least not all the time. Changing how you use questions requires a few simple tweaks to your approach and not a major overhaul of your teaching methods. Dr. Maryellen Weimer is a seasoned instructor and the editor of The Teaching Professor newsletter and blog. She has studied the research and tested it with her own students to determine how to ask the kinds of questions that get students talking in ways that advance their learning.

For more information, email the FCTL or call 836-3059.

Spring 2015 Digital Professor Academy Orientation

Dates/Times: January 26 @ 2:00–3:00 p.m.; January 28 @ 8:30–9:30 a.m.; January 29 @ 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Location: Meyer Library, Room 204

The Digital Professor Academy (DPA) is a community of practice designed to support faculty who are developing and teaching face-to-face, online, or blended courses. The program is designed to assist faculty throughout the development process with the use of effective pedagogy and instructional design. The DPA also prepares faculty with best practice strategies for engaging, instructing, and communicating with students in the learning environment.

This orientation covers expectations for participants in DPA-001, Pedagogical Foundations, the first course in a two-part series. Moderated by the instructional designers in the FCTL, the focus of DPA-001 is to provide a collegial environment in which to equip faculty with the tools and processes for designing an excellent course.

Please register through My Learning Connection.