2022 CTL Symposium

2022 CTL Symposium

Session Recordings and Resources

CTL Symposium Kick-Off!

Join us to officially begin the 2022 CTL Symposium!  Learn about this year's symposium and participate in a discussion on what a culture of teaching and learning looks like at LCC.  We are excited for the diverse sessions that will take place over the next two weeks and the conversations that will occur for years to come! 
Presenter(s): CTL Co-Coordinators Aryn Bartley, Rachel Knighten,  and Kevin Steeves

Keynote Address: "An Introduction to Reflection, Planning, Managing, and Facilitating for Difficult Dialogues," Dr. Fredi Avalos

In this 60 minute presentation, Dr. Fredi Avalos will introduce the concept and necessity of having “difficult dialogues” in higher education. By transforming controversy into teachable moments, faculty have a unique opportunity to engage students in productive communication aimed at deep learning that can affirm identities while pushing the boundaries of our classrooms. Moving beyond Western notions of democracy and embracing a holistic framework for conflict and dialogue, Dr. Avalos offers a four-step process of reflection, planning, learning, and facilitating. See FPD's Inclusive Teaching page for more information about the session or Dr. Avalos.

Session resources: please enroll in the FPD Moodle shell to access the recording and resources from the session.

An Indigenous Language at LCC: Chinuk Wawa

Did you know that LCC collaborates with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde to teach Chinuk Wawa? Revitalized as the community language of Grand Ronde, Chinuk Wawa is also a universal intertribal language of the Pacific Northwest, a creole based on Chinookan and including vocabulary from Nuu-Chah-Nulth and other Indigenous languages, as well as French and English. For the past two years, Zoom instruction has enabled us to teach diverse cohorts of students all over the northwest and beyond. Come hear from a panel of instructors, students, and other stakeholders, and ask us your questions. We want you to know about our program!
Presenter(s): Beth Sheppard
Topic(s): Inclusive teaching, cultural competency, anti-racist teaching, Online teaching,  Curriculum  development
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An Inside Look at Teaching Squares

Are you interested in learning more about FPD’s Teaching Squares peer observation program? In this panel, faculty members from the English as a Second Language department will describe their experiences going through the Teaching Squares process of mutual observation and reflection. This group focused their attention on engaging students in the online/Zoom environment. Panelists will share their thoughts on the benefits and challenges of the process, taking a look at how the experience impacted their teaching practices, understanding of student learning, and sense of belonging in a community of teachers.
Presenter(s): Tracy Henninger, Amy Griffin, Jacqui Whisler
Topic(s): General  Pedagogy, Online Teaching
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Let's Talk Grading!: Thoughts on Grading and Ungrading at LCC

In the Fall and Winter term, we met in a FIG to discuss the book Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do Instead). We will share the most provocative and interesting ideas we gleaned from our reading and discussions and invite you to join us in a conversation on grading to explore questions such as: What do grades mean? How did we learn to grade? What do we grade? How do we grade? How do our grades communicate our values? What is working and what isn't working about our current grading practices? What would change look like?
Presenter(s): Karin Almquist, Rachel Knighten, Ingrid Nordstrom, Michael Woods
Topic(s): General  Pedagogy, Inclusive Teaching, Assessment
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Interactive Jamboard Activities

Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard in Google Suite. In this session, we share a variety of interactive activities that you can implement in your Zoom or asynchronous online classes. Come to this session to participate in activities from arithmetic, algebra, construction, chemistry, geometry, geology, language learning, literature, and media literacy!
Presenter(s): David Van Slyke, Tracy Henninger, Claudia Owen, Jen Sacklin
Topic(s): Active learning, Online teaching, Technology in the classroom
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Change is in the Air - Moodle 4.0 is coming!

It’s been 7 years since the last major Moodle update and change is in the air — arriving as early as December 2022! Navigation and menu elements have been relocated or redesigned to make it easier to create/manage courses and easier for students to know what they need to do to complete a course. We're making preparations and learning everything we can about the changes. Users will be relieved that most core activities will function the same even if the user interface (the way things look and how you navigate) appears slightly different. Join us for a pre-release sneak peek and help us figure out how we can best support you and your students during the transition.
Presenter(s):  Kevin Steeves, Meredith Keene, Mel Stark, Jill Gillett, Skye Nguyen, Rory Beck, Josh Manders, Ian Coronado
Topic(s):  Technology in the classroom, Online Teaching
Session Recording & Slides 

Crowdsourcing Gratitude: A Deck of Thanks

What to do when your gratitude meter, especially around work, is running low? Connect with others, engage your senses, and shift your perspective by participating in a collective art making experience. In this session participants will learn about the health benefits of gratitude, and create a small visual image (the size of a trading card) using collage materials and letter stamps. Participants will have the opportunity to speak to their creations, thereby inspiring the rest of us to expand our gratitude lens. Before we part, a photo will be taken of each card created and these images will be reproduced. Each participant will leave with their original image and also receive a “deck of cards” made by the group. We can refer to these images when our gratitude meters needs boosting. No art experience needed, all materials provided, space limited to 15.
Presenter(s): Christina Salter
Topic(s): Creative work, Wellness, self-care, work-life balance, stress management.
This was a live session with no recording.

Cold, Dark & Happy: How and Why It’s Important to Get a Good Night’s Sleep

Sleep is important for learning, memory, creativity, physical health, resiliency, improving your ability to cope with stress, and more. After sleeping for many years and reading the research, I believe your sleep is as individual as choosing foods that you enjoy and that agree with you. Come learn about the benefits of sleep and about different ways to get a good night’s sleep, whether you need help getting to sleep or falling back to sleep after a middle of the night wake up.
Presenter(s):  Wendy Simmons
Topic(s): Creative work, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, stress management
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Avoid the Scroll of Death!  Declutter your Moodle Course

The "Scroll of Death" is a phrase used to describe the seemingly endless scrolling your course requires to get to any given week. More specifically your course design probably has too much clutter, white space, and unneeded links. This is important because poor course design leads to decreased student success and retention. This session will walk participants through a few examples of how to clean up your Moodle course and be ready for future Moodle updates! Together we will slay the “Scroll of Death”!
Presenter(s): Kevin Steeves & Mel Stark (Instructional Design)
Topic(s): Online teaching, Technology in the classroom
Registration: https://lanecc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdOuprjsuGtLR-Mc20PAlqVulhs1sutGi 
Location: CTL Center 303 & Zoom (HyFlex)
Session Recording - you may also self-enroll yourself as a student in the Design and Layout Demo Moodle course from Instructional Design.

Here and There: Lessons from a Hyflex Writing Class

This session aims to provide space for a facilitated discussion about teaching a dynamic, workshop and discussion-based course like writing in the hyflex modality. After a brief introduction, panelists will share their experiences developing, delivering, supporting, and participating in hyflex classes. The bulk of the session will be devoted to talking with attendees about the affordances and limitations of the hyflex modality and answering their questions.
Presenter(s):  Gina Szabady, Kevin Steeves, former Hyflex students
Topic(s):  Active learning, online teaching, technology in the classroom
No recording per discussion based session.  If you would like to talk with Gina or Kevin please email us.

Workshop: Engaging in Difficult Dialogues: How to Reflect, Plan, Learn, and Facilitate Classroom Conversations that Matter, Dr. Fredi Avalos

In this 90-minute workshop, participants will join Dr. Fredi Avalos and Dr. Kendra Rivera (LCC Faculty, Communication Studies Department) in the process of reflection, planning, learning, and facilitating difficult dialogues in the classroom. Participants should come prepared to discuss a specific “difficult” topic and/or class in which they would like to engage in difficult dialogues, and we will also explore how to plan for and engage in difficult dialogues as they may emerge in your classes. A focus will be placed on decolonizing, anti-racist, and equity-minded approaches that inform inclusive dialogues. Through reflection, sharing, role-playing, and planning, participants will leave the workshop with concrete tools with which to engage in a variety of difficult dialogues while teaching.

This workshop is sponsored by Faculty Professional Development's Inclusive Teaching Series and the Office of Equity and Inclusion, with support from LCCEA. Both events meet expectations for professional development in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Presenter(s):  Dr. Fredi Avalos and Dr. Kendra Rivera
Workshop recording and resources can be found in the FPD Moodle site.

Reading and Writing Poetry about Teaching

In this session, we will use poetry as a springboard for reflecting about teaching. First, we will read and discuss a poem about teaching, and then you will be invited to write your own poetry. Our focus in the session will be on self-expression and personal reflection, not on producing an amazing piece of literature. You will be encouraged but not required to share your writing with the group, and do not have to have preexisting knowledge of poetry to attend. All are welcome!
Presenter(s): Aryn Bartley
Topic(s): Creative work, wellness

Tackling Math Anxiety to Boost Self-efficacy: Stories from Math and Science

None of us are strangers to the idea that some students don't see themselves as "math people" or "science people." This low student confidence can be a barrier to student achievement and lead to equity gaps in math and science. Math and science faculty will share their stories about how math anxiety impacts teaching and learning, and the strategies we use to build student self-efficacy about math and engage students with various levels of math confidence. We invite the community to share your stories and strategies as well!
Presenter(s): Andrea Goering, David Van Slyke, Paula Thonney, Stacey Kiser
Topic(s): General Pedagogy, Inclusive teaching, cultural competency, anti-racist teaching
Session Recording
Session Slides
Jamboard activity

"Oops! That Didn't Work" - My Journey Adapting In-person Class Activities to Live Zoom Sessions

This presentation/workshop is in two parts. Over the last two years I have experimented with adapting in-class activities to an online or virtual Zoom classroom. I will present a few adapted activities that have been successful in the virtual Zoom classroom and a few that have not. I will demonstrate how I have used Google Jam board, Kahoot! and other Zoom features to assist with these adaptations. The second part of this session will be an interactive workshop where faculty bring their in-class activities and we work as a group to making them Zoom friendly.
Presenter(s): Melissa Artstein-McNassar
Topic(s): General Pedagogy, Active Learning, Online Teaching, Technology in the Classroom
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Small Teaching Online–and Off–One Year Later

Panel members Rachel Knighten, Aryn Bartley, Amy Beasley, Rachel Knighten, Ingrid Nordstrom, and Anne McGrail will engage in an interactive discussion on how they have continued to make “small teaching” improvements in their courses as a way to keep courses engaging and fresh during the pandemic. This discussion follows up on last year’s CTL Symposium session that centered on our group’s work in a Faculty Interest Group with Flower Darby’s Small Teaching Online as the core text of our explorations. For this year’s interactive follow-up session, we’ll discuss how this FIG (and this book) influenced our pedagogy, and share some of the longer-term changes we’ve made to our courses or newer changes we’ve adapted for our courses in the evolving context of the pandemic.
Presenter(s): Aryn Bartley, Rachel Knighten, Anne McGrail, Ingrid Nordstrom
Topic(s): General Pedagogy, Active Learning, Online Teaching
Session Recording

The Anatomy of Disciplinary Discernment (ADD) 

Educational researchers during the last decade developed a far-reaching framework with exceptional potential (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1107648.pdf).  This presentation/ discussion is inspired by the above foundational attention to the educational development of students in terms of their “disciplinary discernment”.  In this context, disciplinary discernment refers to ways of noticing, reflecting, and constructing meaning from a disciplinary perspective.  The source of this discernment is taken to be the inherent potential of representations to provide access to disciplinary knowledge. The educational research, cited above in astronomy education, led to the formulation of a general sequence of qualitative levels of discernment corresponding to increased levels of education. Such a structure (“anatomy”) of discernment holds the promise of general foundational guidance in exploring and innovating pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment of learning.

The purpose of this presentation is to (1) unpack the cited work through accessible concrete examples in introductory physics education, (2) suggest ways of further elaboration of the structural formulation, and (3) encourage cross-disciplinary exploration and application of these foundational ideas. Colleagues are invited to view the asynchronous presentation and to join the discussion later.
Presenter(s): Dennis Gilbert
Topic(s): General Pedagogy, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Classroom Research, Curriculum Development

Pre-session video:  Introductory to ADD, Dennis Gilbert

Publishing Our SOTL Work

Publishing can be a rewarding outcome of our scholarship activities. The three co-presenters are co-authors on several publications in the journal New Directions for Community Colleges (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15360733). We will share our experiences with the writing and publishing process, coauthoring with people from across the nation. Bring your experiences and questions so we can support more community college authors. We are really interested in welcoming anyone across campus who is doing education research. The sciences have been slowly increasing researchers cross-trained in a science discipline (e.g. biology) and education research. We are curious to see if that has spread to other areas as well.
Presenter(s): Andrea Goering, Edgar Rosas Alquicira, Stacey Kiser
Topic(s): Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Classroom Research
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Session recording

Doing Discipline-based Education Research at Community Colleges

Biology education research is mostly conducted at large universities, despite at least 40% of undergraduates attending community colleges. Through the national grant-funded CC Bio INSITES project, we were able to examine the effects of implementing a math prerequisite on the student success and demographics of Introductory Biology across 11 years. We will talk about the process, from asking the question, getting trained in human subjects data handling, exploring the data, and publication in a biology education journal.
Presenter(s):  Christine Andrews & Stacey Kiser
Topic(s): Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Classroom Research
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Session Recording

Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Institute for Sustainable Practices at Lane has identified integrating sustainability into curriculum as a key focus of efforts on campus. Through this we are looking to help highlight and document sustainability examples in classes as well as to help develop new lessons that relate to subject specific content. In this workshop we will outline the steps we want to take and how you can get recognition for concepts taught in your class. Additionally we will help identify areas for improvement in classes and look at how you can be supported in developing these lessons in your classes through the CTL.
Presenter(s):  Rick Glover & Luis Maggiori
Topic(s): Inclusive teaching, cultural competency, anti-racist teaching, curriculum development
Session Recording

Flipped Out!  Using FlipGrid for Student Discussion Online

Do you miss seeing and hearing your online students? Join online instructors LuAnne Johnson and Jill Gillett for a 30 minute session on creating community and building student engagement using the online video discussion board app “FlipGrid.” The session will include a discussion about how to use FlipGrid in online classes to increase online student engagement, a brief demonstration, and an opportunity for a question and answer session afterward.
Presenter(s):  Jill Gillett & LuAnne Johnson
Topic(s): Active learning, online teaching, technology in the classroom
Session Recording
Please participate in this opportunity to experience Flipgrid firsthand.

What We Know So Far: Feedback for Revising Classroom Standards

This will be a presentation of feedback received and how it has been aggregated into themes.
Presenter(s): Ian Coronado, Thomas Goodhew, Audrey Mills
Topic(s): Technology in the Classroom
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CTL 2022 Symposium Toast!

Join us [AGAIN NEXT YEAR] at McShanes (near main campus) to celebrate another amazing Symposium and enjoy camaraderie with your colleagues!  All drinks and food are on your own - but the company shall be shared and enjoyed by all!