Spring 2016 Development Day Breakout Sessions - Grouped by Session
Session 1 - 9:45am-10:45am / Session 2 - 11:00am-12:00pm
Registration is open to all
These sessions are offered twice (9:45am and 11am).
Participants may attend either session as content is repeated.
Presenter
Title
Description for Registration Utility
Room
Massage Therapy Program
Chair Massage
A 10-minute clothed massage performed in a specially designed massage
chair with specific attention paid to muscles of the head, neck, and
shoulders, upper and lower back, arms, hands and wrists.
NS 138
Professor Timi Storms
From Head to Toe: An
Experience in Self
Massage
Everyone deals with aches and pains, job stress and life's demands. Learn
self-massage techniques for reducing pain and increasing vitality! This
experiential workshop will require you to play and remove your shoes!
WARNING: This experiential workshop may result in states of complete
bliss.
NS 137
Lindsey Reynolds, Tim Ries,
Shani Robinson, Candice
Mellon of Cengage
Publishing
Designing Math and
Statistics
Explore MindTap®, a new technology that engages students by focusing
their time on task. Work together to design a better learning experience
for students in developmental math, precalculus, calculus, and statistics
courses.
CBP 201
Session One: 9:45am-10:45am
Presenter
Title
Description for Registration Utility
Room
CBP 301
Room
Change to
CBP303
Dave Wells, QEP Manager
Dr. Holly Larson
Customized Critical
Thinking for Student
Learning with the QEP
Quick Guide
Are you intrigued by the Critical Thinking Quick Guide but wish it was
designed to meet the particular needs of your subject area? Hear from a
faculty member who has successfully adapted the guide for maximum
student engagement and create your own Quick Guide to meet your
particular teaching needs.
Dr. Karen Pain, Assessment
Director
Cluster Chair Meeting
Cluster Chairs meet with IRE staff and general education assessment
faculty liaisons.
CBP 203
Dr. Kristy Taylor
Professor Kanathy Haney
Professor Eliana Mukherjee
Strategies for
Implementing Service
Learning into the
Classroom
This session will provide faculty members with strategies for
implementing experiential, community-based service learning into the
classroom. Presenters will share a newly created community-based
learning (CBL) course template, which is available for all interested
instructors, and discussion will include relevant data that demonstrates
the value of a CBL program.
CBP 204
Adjunct Professor Vassilia
Binensztok
Worst Case Scenario:
Understanding Anxiety
and Its Effect on
Students
Anxiety is one of the most commonly reported student complaints at
college counseling centers. Anxiety symptoms can be pervasive and
affect all aspects of student life. As educators, it is important that we
understand anxiety and its effects so we can approach students with
confidence and compassion.
CBP 207
Professor Tracy Ciucci
TRACYTalks
(TEDTalks) Project
Available College-wide!
EASY TO USE WITH ANY
COURSE!
Join Tracy for an exciting introduction to her TRACYTalks project, which is
now available for college-wide use in any discipline!!! Focuses on
problem solving, critical thinking, writing and speaking across the
curriculum with a pre-built libguide and rubrics for you to use! Take this
easy to implement assignment and make it yours!
CBP 320
Spring 2016 Development Day
Breakout Sessions
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Session One: 9:45am-10:45am
Presenter
Dr. Sankaranarayana
Chandramohan
Title
Description for Registration Utility
The Joy of Teaching
Joy has several meanings, but to me it is the bliss that comes with
teaching, a noble profession where we may change students' lives
forever. The “Carrot and Stick” approach that I use in my teaching at
Palm Beach State will be discussed.
Room
CBP 202
Session Two: 11:00am-12:00pm
Presenter
Title
Description for Registration Utility
Room
Professor George Stoupas
Working with Students
in Recovery from
Addiction: What to
Know and How to Help"
You may not know it, but you have students who struggle with drug and
alcohol abuse in your classes. Some are in recovery, while others are
actively using substances. Come learn about this unique population in our
area and what you, as an instructor, can do to help them succeed.
CBP 302
Professor Megan TomeiJameson
Dr. Debra Trigoboff
If you can’t beat em,
join em. Take your
cellphones out – now.
Students are already glued to their cellphones, so why not use apps to
keep them engaged and focused? This presentation will focus on two
apps: Socrative and Remind. The first app can be used to quiz students,
create competitive activities and discussions. The second app allows you
to text your class and individual students.
CBP 101
Professor Tracy Ciucci
Jeannine Burgess,
Instructional Technology
Coordinator
Dr. Gary Brown, Instructional
Technology Faculty Trainer
Online Faculty Peer
Mentorship
Course Award
Program!!!
Come learn about Tracy's new Online Faculty Peer Mentorship Award
Program with enrollment NOW OPEN for mentors and mentees
for Fall! This can help YOU have the amazing online course you always
dreamed you'd have! (Goes beyond last years DD session and rolls out
the program).
CBP 320
Dave Wells, QEP Manager
PLG Facilitators
PLG facilitators meet with QEP manager
CBP 301
Dr. Ted Cascio
Ten-Hut!: Utilizing
Critical Thinking Drills to
Practice and Assess
Critical Thinking Skills
In this session you will learn how to use Critical Thinking Drills to practice
and assess critical thinking learning outcomes. The presentation will
focus on how to create, administer, and grade the assignment. Strengths,
limitations and interdisciplinary applicability of the assignment will also
be discussed.
CBP 308
Dr. Karen Pain, Assessment
Director
Outcomes Assessment Join this session to self-assess your teaching practice with curriculum
101: What's in it for me? mapping and learn how doing so can benefit both you and your students.
Bring at least one course syllabus to maximize your results!
CBP 203
Lyam Christopher, Learning
Specialist
The Wow Factor:
Awakening the Thinker
in the Writer
CBP 307
Spring 2016 Development Day
Breakout Sessions
Are students presenting brilliant ideas, or are they just meeting your
requirements? When students read critically before sitting down to
write, their improvements can be breathtaking. Come see how reading
tutors are helping writing students get to the “Wow!”
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