Tuesday, Feb. 16

Aligning Lessons through Backwards Design

Marcia Luptak (Adult Education), Heather Martin (English as a Second Language), and Erin Vobornik (English as a Second Language)

When creating a lesson plan, having clear goals and purposeful activities can simplify both the teaching and the learning process. This workshop will focus on approaches to designing lessons to align content and activities with outcomes to ensure that the class has a clear end in mind. We’ll explore instructional design strategies to help streamline the planning process.

Effectively Serving Our Adult Learners: Voices from the Field

Jennifer McClure (Enrollment Services) and Dave Rudden (Institutional Effectiveness)

Come hear about the results of the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning: Adult Learner 360 surveys which asked students and staff to respond to questions about effectively serving adult students across the Ten Principles for Effectively Serving Adults. We will provide data on the Teaching Learning Process and Assessment of Learning Outcomes Principles and share progress on the other Principles as well. Teaching Learning Process: Faculty uses multiple methods of instruction, including experiential and problem based methods, for adult learners in order to connect curricular concepts to useful knowledge and skills. Assessment of Learning Outcomes: Defines and assesses the knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired by adult learners - both from the curriculum and from life and work experience - in order to assign credit and confer degrees with rigor.

Wednesday, Feb. 17

Cultural Humility in the Classroom

Liddy Hope (Human Services)

This session will examine the concept of Cultural Humility in the classroom. It will start with an overview of the concept and then move onto strategies for the classroom. This will be an interactive session allowing participants to engage with each other and work on "owning the I don't know.”

Beyond Screen Sharing: Learn OBS

Chris Cunningham (Math)

During the session, participants will download and install OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) and learn how to use it as their Zoom or Google Meet camera source. OBS allows you to integrate images, websites, programs, and your face onto your screen professionally so that students can then pin your video while you seamlessly switch between scenes depending on what needs to be displayed onscreen at the time. No previous experience with OBS required, but you will need the ability to install a program on your computer.

Deciphering Misinformation: Easy Fact-Checking Tools to Help Students

Beth Hultman (Library) and Maria Bagshaw (Library)

Students are faced with the increasingly difficult task of wading through online disinformation. Librarians Beth Hultman and Maria Bagshaw will present tips and tricks that fact-checkers use to efficiently assess whether or not to trust a source. Evaluation tools such as CRAAP (currency, relevancy, authority, accuracy, purpose) are typically given to students to help answer whether sources are credible. This has been the standard checklist that many librarians and English professors use. However, this tool does not work as well as we want it to, especially in an all online environment where websites can spin a narrative and come across as trusted sources even if they are not. It is becoming more difficult for students to ascertain whether online information is true or not. We will teach a set of simple fact-checking tools that will give students the confidence to know whether a source is trustworthy and whether they should use a source or find a better one. Participants will be able to access these tools through our library homepage.

Thursday, Feb. 18

Faculty Research Community Presentations

Jessica Carpenter, FRC Chair (Psychology)

Beverly Augustine (Business)

LaTasha DeHaan (History/Political Science)

Chasity Gunn (English)

Amanda Smothers (English)

Members of the Faculty Research Community will provide updates on their year-long projects. Topics include using an algorithm to teach writing, African American student experience at ECC, tracking strategies to improve grammar, and developmental writing online.

Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Recover Mental Energy and Self-Efficacy

Kristina Garcia (CABS) and Tyler Roeger (CETL)

Bandwidth Recovery involves “reclaiming cognitive resources lost to poverty, racism, and social marginalization.” This workshop will focus on methods of course design and teaching strategies intended to support students in focusing on course connections and finding self-efficacy. We will draw on ideas from inclusive design; such as Universal Design for Learning, Transparent Assignment design, and student self-reflection; to provide students with access points into course materials and methods.

Friday, Feb. 19

Assessing Global and Multicultural Literacy

SLAAC

Members of SLAAC will discuss the GML assessment project of Fall 2020. An instrument was designed in response to the racial injustice events of the previous summer to measure students' literacy on ECC's GML outcome, specifically the point "Describe interpret and analyze culture in self and others."

Conference Breakout Discussions & Reflection