Office of Teaching & Learning
Faculty/Librarian Development:

Past Events

For a listing that includes faculty/librarian development events hosted by offices other than OTL, visit the faculty development calendar (updated weekly).

Fall 2012

Spring 2012

Fall 2011

Spring 2011

Fall 2010

AY 2009/2010

AY 2008/2009

Fifth Annual Professional Development Day

Fourth Annual Professional Development Day

Third Annual Professional Development Day

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Workshops

Faculty Development Day: Student Success: Building on Strengths

Thu. Dec. 13, 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM in RCC Small Ballroom & Library 2nd floor Classrooms

This full day of practical sessions, facilitated by faculty from across our colleges will include a breakfast & plenary presentation, concurrent sessions, lunch, and more concurrent sessions in the afternoon. Please see this link to agenda and a postcard invitation. We have secured a campus guest speaker from UNC Chapel Hill (a nationally recognized facilitator focused on helping students practice meta-cognitive awareness of their own thinking patterns), a plenary presentation including 5 posters of fantastic data with an overview by Tom Kling (Physics, and OTL Faculty Fellow), and concurrent workshop sessions facilitated by faculty / librarian specialists drawn from Bridgewater's knowledge base of campus talent. 

Asking Good Questions About Our Teaching: Using the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning - facilitated by Karen Richardson (OTL Fellow)

Tue. Oct. 9, 1-2p in RCC 212 (Hanover Duxbury Rm.) - refreshments provided

Wed. Oct. 10, 3:30-4:30p (repeat) in RCC 106 (Plymouth Rm.) - refreshments provided

How can I help students understand what good analysis looks like? What do my students learn that I am not finding out? What will motivate my students better? Let's explore the questions you have about your teaching and brainstorm ways to use the scholarship of teaching and learning to address them. Come away with plans and a possible teaching circle to support continuing your work. Registration preferred but not required; simply reply to OTL.

 

Quantity Across the Curriculum workshops - facilitated by Matt Salomone (Director, Math Services)

Face the Facts: The Politics of Statistics
Thursday, October 11 — 2:00-3:15 (location TBD) - refreshments provided
Friday, October 12 — 1:00-2:15 (location TBD) - refreshments provided

Beyond the Formula
Friday, November 9, 2012 — 12:15-2:00 (location TBD) - lunch provided

 

Learning from Our Teaching Failures - facilitated by John Kucich (OTL Fellow) & Roben Torosyan (OTL Director)

Tue. Oct. 16, 11a-12p in ECC 109 (West Dining Rm.)  - refreshments provided

Wed. Oct. 17, 12:30 - 1:30p (repeat) in RCC 212 (Hanover Duxbury Rm.)  - refreshments provided

Reflecting on our teaching, we often feel, “Maybe I’ll get it right next time.” While it's valuable to share what works, it’s equally important to talk about – and learn from – what didn’t. Join us as we discuss those moments in our teaching that didn’t at all go as we hoped they would. Together, we’ll explore some strategies for moving beyond them, including using feedback as we go, finding teaching resources, rebuilding a classroom dynamic and redesigning curriculum. Registration preferred but not required; simply reply to OTL.

  

Speaking as Learning - facilitated by Maria Hegbloom & Melanie McNaughton (Communication Studies)

Tue. Oct. 30, 12:45-1:45p in RCC 212 (Hanover Duxbury Rm.)  - refreshments provided

Wed Oct. 31, 2-3p (repeat) in ECC 109 (West Dining Rm.) - refreshments provided; Halloween attire optional  

In classes that are not speaking-intensive, what exercises can help meet learning goals? How do speaking activities - creative and/or formal - help one make meaning of course content differently? Given that 38% of first-year BSU students reported that they made frequent presentations in class (NSSE 2011), how can we help students use speaking to master content while they build the skills and confidence to share what they know?  Take away methods others found valuable, or contribute your own. Registration preferred but not required; simply reply to OTL.

  

Campus Conversations

National Day on Writing: Express a Success

Fri. Oct. 19, 2012

2-3pm (Heritage Room, Maxwell Library)

Now a national event, the national day on writing celebrates writing in all forms -- from texts and shopping lists to blogs to poems and everything in between. BSU will join institutions across the country by hosting a full day of readings. Come hear brief readings from 2012 Teacher-Scholar Summer Institute faculty (see the recent story & video testimonials), from 2-3pm. Or come for other readings from 9a - 5p throughout the day. Many colleagues involve their students. Thank you to the following faculty who participated in this year's NDoW as readers and/or facilitators:

John Sexton, English
Kevin Kennedy, English
Ahmed M. Adbelah, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Anne Doyle, English
Jody Weber, Theater and Dance
Kelley Donalds, Management

 

Student Success at BSU: Starting the Conversation -- facilitated by Tom Kling (OTL Fellow)

Wed. Nov. 7, 2:30-4p in Moakley 221 - refreshments provided

Thurs. Nov. 8, 1:30-3p in Science 473 - refreshments provided

Nationally, "student success" has gained traction as a movement and focus.  Building on previous studies at BSU (such as Project Compass), we will decide as a community how we define student success, and how we'd know we're achieving it here, in the future. 

 

One-on-One

Midcourse Focus Groups: Confidential Student Feedback

Give us 20 minutes, we'll give you what your students say is helping them learn, what would help even better, and what *they* can do to improve learning in the course. Let me or an OTL Fellow survey students and get them to rank top points. Then meet. Learn more or enroll. (Limit 1 course section per faculty member per semester). 

Classroom Observation

This involves a pre-observation conversation with me or an  OTL Fellow (ideally addressing learning goals, teaching materials, etc. - this can be a short phone call or brief meetup), a class visit (for either part or all of a specific session), and a post-observation debrief (ideally within a week of the observation). Learn more or enroll. (Limit 1 course section per faculty member per semester).

 

 

I hope you'll share my excitement at what we have to offer this fall. Choose from one-on-one support, small group workshops, or campus-wide faculty development conversations. Everything offered above aims to nourish the year's faculty development theme of "promoting student success" (although that's not to undervalue Samuel Beckett advice to, "Fail again. Fail better"). Many also feature refreshments or meals to nourish your mind/body/soul. If we've yet to meet, I can't wait to hear about your needs, and your wish lists. 

Roben Torosyan
Director, Office of Teaching and Learning

 

P.S. An aside relevant to understanding our students: 

If you love great film, I highly recommend The Perks of Being a Wallflower, with Emma Watson. It's about both the pain and power of youth (whether mixtapes were a part of yours or not). It's also about feeling really different. Here's an A- review from the folks who rave "hugely entertaining" when they give only a B+.

 

Spring 2012 Faculty/Librarian Development Events  For Part-Time Faculty Only!

VL Development Program

January 4 (8:30 - 4:30) and 5 (8:30 - 12:00)
BSU Campus
Program

This event is exclusively for BSU’s part-time faculty.  It takes place over a day and a half on January 4 and 5, with a follow-up morning conference and luncheon in May; additional, related VL development events will be scheduled throughout the spring semester.  This event (see program) focuses on engaged and culturally inclusive teaching and student learning practices. 

Participants in the full day-and-a-half January program will receive a $150 stipend.  Funding for is provided by the Nellie Mae Foundation’s Project Compass grant.

Please RSVP to Mrs. Lori Benson (lbenson@bridgew.edu; x2694).

 

The BSU Visiting Lecturers’ Spring 2012 Faculty Development Celebration

Join your colleagues in a celebration of BSU’s part-time faculty!

Tuesday, May 15 9AM – 1:30 PM, Rondileau Campus Center

You are invited to a morning of discussion about teaching, "Stories of Change: Teaching in Process," and poster presentations highlighting teaching innovation and growth from BSU’s Visiting Lecturer Faculty (9 – 12) followed by a celebratory luncheon (12 – 1:30).

All BSU part-time faculty are warmly invited.

Interested in sharing your stories of teaching change and growth at this event? Contact Ann Brunjes (abrunjes@bridgew.edu, x2435) for more information and attend one of these preparation sessions:

Wednesday April 18 12:30 – 1:30, RCC212 (with Dr. John Kucich)

Thursday April 19 11 – 12:15, Maxwell Library MDR (with Dr. Ann Brunjes)

If you can’t make these times, contact Ann Brunjes (abrunjes@bridgew.edu, x2435) to set up an alternative meeting.

RSVP for the preparatory sessions and the May 15 Luncheon to Lori Benson (lbenson@bridgew.edu, x 2694)

Funding for these events is provided by the Office of Teaching and Learning, Project Compass,

and the Office of Academic Affairs

 

Fall 2011 Faculty/Librarian Development Events

For a full listing of faculty/librarian development events at BSU, visit the faculty development calendar, which is updated weekly.

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Multidisciplinary Engagement at BSU

November 1 (Tuesday) 2:00 - 3:15 PM
Location TBA

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November 2 (Wednesday) 12:20 - 1:20 PM
Location TBA

OTL Faculty Fellow John Kucich hosts a discussion among BSU faculty who have engaged in team teaching, linked courses and learning communities.  Faculty will describe their experiences in these courses and share resources and information about how this work is supported at BSU.

This session is facilitated by Dr. John Kucich, Office of Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of English.  Contact John with questions:  jkucich@bridgew.edu, or x 2722.

Fifth Annual Professional Development Day:

Teaching Essentials for the 21^st Century:  New ideas and fresh approaches to enduring practices in the higher education classroom.

December 15 (Reading Day)
8:30 – 4PM
Rondileau Campus Center (RCC) Large Ballroom and Maxwell Library

Program

As we prepare ourselves for the regular end-of-semester crush, I encourage you to set aside all or part of reading day to focus on your own professional growth and development.  Join us on December 15 (Reading Day), from 8:30 – 4PM to think about and explore new strategies to improve your teaching practice. 

This is an entirely BSU faculty-facilitated event.  Spend the whole day – we’re offering six concurrent sessions – or stop in for a few workshops.   

 

Spring 2011 Faculty/Librarian Development Events 

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January 28, 2011 (12 - 5:00) Strength in Numbers: Quantitative Reasoning at BSU, Facilitated by Dr. Corrine Taylor and BSU Faculty

LOCATION:  DUNN B

RSVP for both events to Ms. Lori Benson, x2694 or lbenson@bridgew.edu

Strength in Numbers: Quantitative Reasoning Across the Curriculum

Despite the fact that our world is "awash in numbers," too many of our students and "many educated adults remain functionally innumerate" (Burrill et al 2001), unable as a result to succeed in school, compete in the global job market or make informed decisions on issues ranging from mortgage rates to car loans. We are, as an institution and a society, in desperate need of better Quantitative Reasoning skills. This two-day event (lunch provided both afternoons) is the beginning of an ongoing exploration of what we mean when we talk about Quantitative Reasoning, and what we expect of ourselves and our students in teaching and learning Quantitative Reasoning. These sessions will demystify Quantitative Reasoning and provide faculty in all disciplines with ideas, strategies and assignments for more effective teaching and learning of Quantitative Reasoning.

RSVP for both events to Ms. Lori Benson, x2694 or lbenson@bridgew.edu

January 28 Workshop Information:

January 28 Schedule:

12:00, Lunch and Introductions

12:15 - 1:00, Lunch Presentation, Dr. Matt Salomone (Mathematics and Computer Science Dept.) 

1:10 - 2:00, Workshop and Presentation, Dr. Corrine Taylor (Wellesley College Quantitative Reasoning Program)

2:00 - 2:45, Panel Presentations: Showcase of Quantitative Reasoning Assignments from Across the Curriculum, with panelists Dr. Sandra Neargarder (Psychology), Dr. Andrew Holman (History), and Dr. Peter Saccocia (Earth Science)

3:00 - 4:00, Breakout Sessions. Topics:

• Integrating quantitative reasoning in non-math/science courses Facilitated by Catherine Womack
• Mathematical thinking as a diversity issue Facilitated by Ward Heilman and David O'Malley
• Evidence for argument: Quantitative reasoning in oral and written argument Facilitated by Anne Doyle, Susan Miskelly and Maria Hegbloom

4:15 - 5:00 Wine and Cheese Reception and Concluding Discussion

 

Using Assessment to Enhance Student Engagement

March 31 (Thursday) 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Moakley 300

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April 6 (Wednesday) 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Moakley 300

This interactive workshop will allow participants to explore easy to use instructional and assessment strategies designed to enhance student involvement in class.  In addition, participants will be encouraged to discuss implementation issues that may be unique to their disciplines.  Participants will have a chance to learn a range of formal and informal assessment strategies including portfolio assessment, The Gallery Walk, The Extra Inning, 3-2-1, Sum It Up, and much more.

This session is facilitated by Dr. Karen Richardson, the Office of Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in MAHPLS.  Contact Karen with questions:  karen.richardson@bridgew.edu, or x 2067.

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Office of Teaching & Learning
Fall 2010 Faculty/Librarian Development Events

"Who Are BSU Students? Data from the BSU Factbook"

November 3, Wednesday 1:50 - 2:50 Campus Center 212 (Hanover-Duxbury)

OR

November 4, Thursday 12:30 - 1:30 Campus Center 209 (Crimson & White)

 

This interactive session examines profiles of entering BSU students, including their educational backgrounds, expectations, goals and values. We’ll also discuss our knowledge of BSU students that can’t be learned through demographic data, and explore practical strategies for effective teaching.  Facilitated by Ann Brunjes

 

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"Your Research/My Research:  Integrating Faculty/Student Research Agendas" 
Thursday October 14 12:30 - 1:30 PM Campus Center 106 (Plymouth County Room)

In a world where faculty value both their research programs and teaching missions, how can we do both in a way that is satisfying and productive?  We will meet to share ideas about harnessing the energy, creativity and inspiration of the engaged classroom to produce research, creative works, and scholarship of teaching and learning.  This is possible even in Core and introductory courses.  Some faculty will share lived examples of student-faculty collaborations, student project-inspired faculty research, course content-related projects, etc.; others can explore new ideas and strategies that have or have not worked.  Participants will leave with both new ideas for teaching and research and information on relevant campus resources. Facilitated by Catherine Womack (SYS Coordinator), Maura Rosenthal (FYS Coordinator), Steve Haefner (ATP Coordinator)

AY 2009/2010 Faculty/Librarian Development Events

Understanding Learning Disorders

Presenters:  David Almeida and Pam Spillane

Wednesday October 14, 12:20 – 1:20

Tuesday, October 20, 12:30 – 1:30

Mentoring Graduate Research

Presenters:  Emily Douglas and Phyllis Gimbel

Monday, October 5, 1:50 – 2:50

Tuesday, October 27, 2 -3 PM

Meaningful Assessment

Presenter:  Karen Richardson

Monday November 9, 3:20 - 4:20

Thursday November 12, 11:00 – 12:00

 

Fourth Annual Professional Development Day

11 December 2009 (Reading Day) 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM,  Burnell Cafeteria

Hearing Every Voice

Our theme and title for the day gives us the opportunity to reflect holistically on the classroom practices that invite all of our students, with all of their strengths, gifts, and vulnerabilities to speak up and be heard by their classmates, by us, and by the world beyond campus.  We will look concretely at interactive pedagogies that support teaching the skills of speaking—including designing and evaluating the speaking-centered assignment and supporting students as they work on it. We will also explore interactive pedagogies that capitalize on diversity in our classes.  

Workshop Leaders:

Dr. Patricia R. Palmerton comes from the Department of Theatre Arts and Communication Studies at Hamline University. She will be running a morning workshop on speaking intensive activities and assignments, from design to implementation to assessment.  Attached is an article of Dr. Palmerton’s pertinent to her presentation.

Dr. Mathew L. Ouellett,* Director of the Center for Teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will be leading the afternoon workshop on effective teaching in a diverse classroom.  This is an interactive, hands-on workshop, so bring one of your syllabi.

Additionally, faculty will have the opportunity to work with representatives of other faculty development  initiatives during lunch roundtables.  Topics for these tables are:

Promoting Speaking in the First Year Seminar

Promoting Speaking in the Second Year Seminar

Women's and Gender Studies

Undergraduate Research

Teaching, Learning and Research for Sustainability

Discipline-Specific Writing Intensive Courses

Reading and Writing in First-Year Writing Classes

Teaching Second Language Students Effectively

Teaching Strategies for the Graduate Classroom

Teaching with Inclusive Excellence

 

And at the end of the day, please join the facilitators and your colleagues for wine, cheese and other refreshments.   Browse books from the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

 

RSVP to Ms. Donna Wood, Office of Institutional Diversity: donna.wood@bridgew.edu, or x1429

 

*Dr. Ouellett’s participation is generously funded through the Nellie Mae Foundation’s Project Compass Grant. 

 

AY 2008/2009 Faculty/Librarian Development Events

 

Third Annual Professional Development Day: Conversations about Teaching:
Diverse Students. Diverse Methods. One Mission.

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Keynote Speaker:

Professor in the Program in Adult Education and the Institute for Women's Studies at The University of Georgia, Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey researches culturally inclusive pedagogies and offers professional development in related areas of teaching and research.

BSU has become an institution energized and remade by a wide variety of teaching/learning and research initiatives that have flourished in the fertile ground of our campus community. We invite you to a day of discussion and practice devoted to deepening our collective understanding of these initiatives and what they mean day-to-day in our classrooms; to the students that populate them; the campus, with its mission and history; and the communities beyond Bridgewater that are home to instructors, students, and initiatives alike.

Faculty will have the opportunity to attend workshops and focus tables on a variety of topics including evaluating speaking, culturally inclusive pedagogies, preparing students for reading difficult texts, and working with second language students.

Please join us at our third annual faculty professional development day on Tuesday, 5 May 2009 (reading day), in the Moakley Center. We promise useful information and lively discussion with thoughtful colleagues.

The May 5 schedule overview is available here (PDF); click here (PDF) for the full schedule. The overview will provide you with enough information to get you where you want to go; please print the full schedule only as needed. Limited copies of the full schedule will be available on May 5.

Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey, the keynote speaker of the day, will be co-presenting a workshop entitled "Culturally Inclusive Research = Comprehensive, Accurate, & Holistic Inquiry" with Dr. Donna Drake-Clark and Dr. Mitsunori Misawa, all from University of Athens, Georgia. In an effort to offer you a glimpse of Dr. Johnson-Bailey's work, and why the conference organizers are so excited to be hosting her, we have provided links to appropriate samples of her recent work:

• "Race Matters," published in New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education: http://search.ebscohost.com.libserv-prd.bridgew.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9179026&site=ehost-live

• "Power and positionality: negotiating insider/outsider status within and across cultures" published in The International Journal of Lifelong Education: http://search.ebscohost.com.libserv-prd.bridgew.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=5140054&site=ehost-live

Conversations about Teaching is hosted by:

· The Office of Teaching and Learning

· The Coordinators for First & Second Year Seminar

· The Coordinator for Service Learning                                           

· The Coordinator for Communication Studies 130

· The Writing Program Administrator for First Year Writing

· The Office of Institutional Diversity & the Faculty Associate in the OID

· Writing Across the Curriculum

· Global Studies

· Second Language Services

· The Bridgewater State College Center for Sustainability

· The Office of Undergraduate Research & the Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research

*Dr. Johnson-Bailey's participation is generously funded through the Office of Institutional Diversity and the Nellie Mae Foundation through a Project Compass grant.

 

Last Modified: April 24, 2013