The 2011 Fall Teaching Conference
with keynote speaker, Doug Robertson
Personal transformation is the theme of CELT's 2011 Fall Teaching Conference, which is designed to help you get control over your time while freeing yourself to become a more effective teacher and researcher. Keynote speaker Doug Robertson, author of the acclaimed Making Time, Making Change, and confessed "perfectionist in recovery", will lead you through concrete steps you can take to effectively manage the boundaries of student-teacher relationships while improving student learning. Our concurrent sessions will address important aspects of faculty work encountered by pre-tenure, tenured, part-time, and future faculty alike, including creating and using scholarship, work-life balance, career planning, preparing for promotion and more.
Staff and graduate students are welcome to attend.
Continental breakfast and lunch are included with registration.
Advance registration is required. Deadline to register is 5:00 p.m. Monday, August 15.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) and the Office of Academic Affairs
***Register by August 2nd to receive a free T-shirt!***
Schedule of Events
8:30-8:45 Registration and Breakfast
8:45-9:50 Introductions & Keynote "Making Time, Making Change"
10-10:50 Concurrent Sessions 1
RE: Visioning Change: No More "Yeah Buts"
Presented by Doug Robertson, Keynote speaker
Learn to break down resistance to change by finding and testing assumptions. Then, step by step, shape your social environment to support, not defeat, the changes you know that you must make in order to fashion a more productive, and satisfying, teaching life.
RE: Visioning Your Teaching: How research on teaching can feed innovation
Ludy Goodson, CELT; Martha Coussement, Consumer and Family Sciences; Jeong-Il Cho and Jane Leatherman, Education
In this session you will learn how to find and use research on teaching, cognition, and neuroscience to make innovative changes that will produce the student learning outcomes you desire.
11-11:50 Concurrent Sessions 2
RE: Visioning Change: No More "Yeah Buts"
Presented by Doug Robertson, Keynote speaker
Learn to break down resistance to change by finding and testing assumptions. Then, step by step, shape your social environment to support, not defeat, the changes you know that you must make in order to fashion a more productive, and satisfying, teaching life.
RE: Visioning a Healthier U
Judy Tillapaugh and Jennifer Roherty, Wellness and Fitness
Make this your healthiest year yet. Learn to "take care of you" by eating better, "sneaking" exercise and relaxation into your daily routine, coping positively with unavoidable changes in your physical and mental abilities, and by taking this opportunity to ask questions about maintaining your well-being.
12-12:50 Lunch
1-1:50 Concurrent Sessions 3
RE: Visioning Your Brilliant Career: Make Each Phase the Best One Yet Faculty Panel
Moderated by Ron Friedman, Chemistry. Includes panelists Mary Cooper, Dental Education; Robert Sedlmeyer, Computer Science; Michelle Drouin, Psychology and Art Friedel, Chemistry
Panel members are at different points in their academic careers. What are their expectations as they set out on the next and future stages? What strategies have they and will they adopt to reach their goals? What changes have they made in the face of challenges and opportunities to stay on track? What are their "secrets of success"?
RE: Visioning Stress: Making Work Stress Work for You
Peggy Jones, Wellness and Fitness
Your job is an important part of your life - but it's not your entire life. Learn ways to reduce stress and increase productivity. Get ideas for balancing work and play. And if you're still having trouble, find out how to get additional help.
RE: Visioning Your Sabbatical: Reaping rewards in all its stages
Faculty panel moderated by Gary Steffen, Computer and Electrical Engineering Technology and Information Systems. Includes panelists Yvonne Zubovic, Mathematical Sciences; Linda Lolkus, Consumer and Family Sciences and Steve Carr, Communication
The sabbatical is the time-honored way for academics to transform, re-charge, and re-vision. Today's sabbatical, though, explicit goal-setting and skillful improvising when things don't go exactly as planned. And what about the families and friends who may only understand that you are on vacation? Panelists will discuss their experiences and strategies for attaining their sabbatical goals.
2-2:50 Concurrent Sessions 4
RE: Visioning Your Work-Life Priorities Faculty Panel
Moderated by Rachel Hile, English and Linguistics. Includes panelists Suin Roberts and Lee Roberts, International Language and Culture Studies; Cynthia Ellis, Mathematical Sciences and Joseph Khamalah, Management and Marketing.
Your life is a work-in-progress. This panel, moderated by editor of the book Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career, will examine the variety of ways that they successfully manage balancing family, fun, and faculty work.
RE: Visioning Your Scholarship: Going Digital
Facilitated by Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, English and Linguistics; with Catherine Braun, Ohio State Marion; Hardin Aasand and Troy Bassett, English and Linguistics.
Interested in the exciting possibilities offered by digital scholarship but not sure whether your department or field would take it seriously? In this session you will learn about multiple forms of digital scholarship and examine the issues involved in creating new procedures for evaluating it.
RE: Visioning Scholarship through the Lens of Service
Presented by Talia Bugel, International Language and Culture Studies and Jospeter Mbuba, School of Public Policy.
Every year Indiana Campus Compact selects eight faculty from the around the state to work together as to produce a creative project or scholarly white paper on service-engagement for national publication toward promotion and tenure. The presenters will share their plans for the upcoming year and how their involvement in service learning has changed their perspectives on teaching and scholarship.
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