FTTC 2024: Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference

Join us to explore how the Think-Pair-Share approach might be adapted for graduate-level education, with insights from its application in biostatistics for nursing. We'll discuss potential benefits of collaborative learning strategies in enhancing understanding of complex concepts across various disciplines. Whether you're in STEM, healthcare, social sciences, or humanities, we invite you to share your experiences and ideas on active learning techniques in challenging courses.

This session collects a panel of faculty who are teaching in the HyFlex modality across disciplines and discusses strategies for making HyFlex teaching engaging, inclusive, dynamic, and effective. We'll talk frankly about the opportunities and challenges of this emerging format.

In this session you will be exposed to the perspectives of three generations of students and educators who have experience with compassionate practices in the classroom. Through interactive activities, discussions, and reflection you will identify compassionate practices to use in conjunction with your teaching style. This session is meant to be interactive. We want participants to walk away with an understanding of what compassionate teaching is, some tools to facilitate compassion, and a desire to enhance student experience in the classroom and learning process through compassion.

Objectives:

1. To promote an understanding of compassionate pedagogy across disciplines in the modern teaching environment, including the benefits and barriers for both student and instructor.
2. To support the analysis and evaluation of compassionate pedagogy in relation to participants’ current approaches.
3. To foster the application of compassionate pedagogy through the creation to personalized examples of practice.

What if there was a more efficient way to grade papers (no matter your assignment or course) and still provide students quality feedback? Join us to learn how this universal writing rubric can save you time and still leverage the feedback your students need to improve their skills. Discussion will also offer suggestions for streamlining your grading processes and improving writing using class time.

Interteaching is a teaching method based on behavior science that offers an alternative to traditional lecture by emphasizing self-directed learning and peer-based instruction. This presentation will review Interteaching as a viable strategy for higher education instruction and discuss its broad application possibilities.

This session will introduce new process-oriented tools to cultivate academic integrity and higher-order thinking skills in students. It will also discuss how students can be allowed to use AI in a safeguarded manner. Participants can expect to learn from the co-presenter's experiences and depart with numerous new ideas to implement in their classes.

This faculty panel session features award-winning faculty from FTTC sponsoring institutions who offer insights and practical examples to illustrate low-tech and high-tech ways to hold students' attention and focus on learning.

Sessions Moderators: Kella Thornton and Lindsay Meador, Washington University in St. Louis

Panelists include award-winning faculty from the following institutions:

University of Missouri--St. Louis: Zac Cairns, Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts & Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis: Katie Brown, Director, English Language Programs
McKendree University: Brian Frederking, Professor of Political Science
St Charles Community College: Amanda Turner, Assistant Professor of Nursing
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Adriana "Didi" Martinez, Professor of Geography