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The Benefits Of Acue Training: Effective Teaching Practices, Jessica Vierra

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

The following paper is an outline and reflection of lessons I learned throughout my time on canvas; ACUE training. Thanks to CSUSB’s TRC program they offer effective trainings to create a positive learning environment. I also include different challenges I experienced while implementing these lessons.

Reflection On Effective Teaching Practice, Cohort B Fall 2019-Spring 2020, Q2s, Trc, Acue Training, Jacqueline Romano

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

The contexts of the first reflections focus on what I did in preparation for “the first day of class”, “planning for effective lessons”, “delivering an effective lecture, and the last reflection focuses on the implementation of virtual class due to COVID-19 transition “setting learning objectives”. For the most part, the implementation of techniques was geared for a face-to-face classroom setting. However, the transition from F2F format to online in such a short amount of time was challenging as more time for preparation was what I needed. However, this interruption to my F2F classes was an opportunity to test my skills …

Brandon Johns, Spring/2019, Brandon Johns

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Improving instructor relatability

Eun-Ok Baek Teaching Skills Study Award Report Spring 2019, Erun-Ok Baek

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

The primary goals of participating in this conference were to enhance my teaching skills by:

1) exploring emerging tools and instructional strategies to develop adaptive learning; and

2) more specifically, investigating ways to develop personalized learning, micro-learning, and gamification using various adaptive technology tools and learning analytics.

This provided an opportunity for me to improve my understanding of theoretical models and practical guidelines for the developing adaptive online learning course activities that facilitate increase students’ engagement and motivation.

Smart Sparrow, Knewton, DreamBox, and ScootPad were studied at the AERA conference. Smart Sparrow is the tool that is flexible and can …

Lasisi Ajayi Tssa 2018-19 Last Call, Lasisi Ajayi

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

The purpose of the TRC Teaching Study Skills Award is to enhance faculty teaching by supporting them to attend a conference devoted to university teaching or to a high-impact, evidence or a newly developing teaching practice.

Sample Activities Of Certification Course, Effective Teaching Practices: Cohort C, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020, Carmen Beck

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

This publication provides a summary of the experience and application of the Certification Course, Effective Teaching Practices: Cohort C, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020, offered by California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB). The course, developed by the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) was offered by the Teaching Resource Center (TRC) at CSUSB. It consisted of 25 modules and it was mostly delivered in an online setting. The purpose of the course was to enhance teaching practices and to prepare for the conversion from the Quarter System into the Semester System at CSUSB for the 20-21 academic year. Also, …

Draft: First-Year Composition Eportfolio Project As High Impact Practice, Jenni Keys

Workshops & Institutes

Abstract: The ePortfolio project will be the culminating formal writing assignment in a two-term course that completes students' first-year composition university requirement. This project fulfills three areas of ePortfolios as a high impact practice:

• Inquiry: Students seek and perceive connections between the course learning outcomes and the experiences in their first-year composition course in relation to their development as writers
• Reflection: Students identify and repeatedly reflect on their personal journeys as writers, answering the questions “what have I learned?” and “how have I grown?”; students consider those answers within the context of their continued experiences as university and life-long learners. …

Reflections From Acue Online Course In Effective Teaching Practices (Cohorts A, B, & C), Diana Alexander

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

Title: ACUE Online Course in Effective Teaching Practices

Description: The Association of College and University Educators’ (ACUE’s) online course in Effective Teaching Practices ensures that faculty learn about—and implement—the approaches that improve engagement and persistence and promote deeper learning. This 25-module course concentrates on teaching practices effective in face-to-face instruction. Comprehensive in scope and organized around five units of study, faculty members learn together in cohorts and implement approaches to (1) design an effective course and class, (2) establish a productive learning environment, (3) use active learning techniques, (4) promote higher order thinking, and (5) assess in ways that inform …

Curated Acue Reflections, Michelle Lorimer

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

This curated set of ACUE reflections provides insight into the pedagogical skills learned through the ACUE program offered through the TRC at CSUSB. This set of reflections highlights the teaching techniques and skills implemented during the fall 2019 and winter 2020 terms. The techniques include “Implement practices that support student success: Focus on learning,” “Send motivational messages,” “Connect learning to career and other long term goals,” and “Implement classroom or online assessment techniques to obtain responses from your entire class: Analyze student responses for patterns to inform your teaching.” Overall, the ACUE techniques worked to improve the level of instruction …

Acue - Effective Teaching Practices: Module(S) Reflections, Stephen Abbott

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

This is a collection of ACUE (Association of Colleges and University Educators) reflection assignments on implementing concepts from the program. The Teaching Resource Center partnered with ACUE and the corresponding modules were offered to a set of accepted instructors at CSUSB. These assignments focused on teaching practices designed to enhance the learning experience for both on-ground and online instruction.

CSUSB - JHBC Full-time Lecturer, Stephen Abbott, completed the ACUE Effective College Instruction certification program from January 2019 thru June 2019. The attached assignments include reflections from a selection of completed modules.

Acue Certificate In Effective College Instruction Curated Reflections, Fadi Muheidat

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

The ACUE course is full of useful, best practice, experts’ opinions, and elaborated research on effective teaching. I feel I need another round of reading and watching the videos and classroom scenarios and go through the state-of-the-art techniques and work samples. My peers who participated in this course enriched the discussion and their own experiences best practices. Samples of reflections and implementation strategies listed below.

Acue Course Has Applications Beyond The Classroom, Jo Anna Grant

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching Practices takes faculty beyond learning proven practices to impact student learning to implementing them and reflecting on the experience. For faculty taking the course, but not teaching at the time, many of the practices can be implemented in setting besides the classroom such as in department meetings or in staff development trainings.

When I took ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching Practices, I was directing our campus center for teaching and learning and providing professional development for faculty, but not teaching students. Since the Course requires learning about and implementing new practices, I had to get …

A Reflection: Acue Made Teaching Effective And Enjoyable, Sailesh Maharjan

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

After attending the Effective Teaching Practices course through the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), teaching a class, large or small, has become more satisfying and enjoyable. Due to my ACUE experience, my teaching style continues to evolve. I’ve become more attuned to student dynamics. As instructors, we have the power to facilitate our classes in many effective ways, and ACUE offers teaching strategies that are based on research. I proactively have been implementing many of the techniques I have learned in ACUE, and I have noticed a significant increase in my students’ engagement in class discussions and activities. …

Eportfolio As A High Impact Practice: Kine 254 Eportfolio Introduction Assignment, Christopher Gentry

Workshops & Institutes

This assignment will introduce Kinesiology students that are just entering the Physical Education/Adapted Physical Education (PEAPE) concentration, currently Pedagogy, to ePortfolios. KINE 254: Field Study should be one of the first courses that students take when entering the program. The idea is that students will begin to work on their portfolio in KINE 254 and continue to expand on it throughout the program. Students in our exit course KINE 490: Senior Seminar should have a robust ePortfolio that they can take with them in to the credential program and beyond. It is our goal that this ePortfolio will assist them …

Use Of Eportfolios As A High-Impact Learning Practice For The B.A. In Arabic Program At Csusb, Oraib Mango

Workshops & Institutes

This paper offers a description of how ePortfolios can be used in world language learning programs--specifically Arabic-- not only to assess the success of the program but also to provide students with a platform for reflection, self regulation and self assessment. ePortfolios allow students to set and review their goals, engage with and reflect upon their learning as they document and track the progress of their language proficiency and intercultural competence starting from first year courses and ending with a capstone Signature Work project.

Draft: Purposeful, Intentional, And Integrative Organization For Liberal Studies And Liberal Arts Eportfolios So As To Maintain High Impact Practice Effectiveness, Kelly L. Straight

Workshops & Institutes

Draft for the purposeful, intentional, and integrative organization and use of ePortfolios within Liberal Studies and Liberal Arts so as to serve as an interdisciplinary space for Lifelong Learning and Reflection whereby a student engages in common intellectual experiences (HIP) within a learning community (HIP) across the curriculum so as to identify and position the self as a scholar, advocate, and (where appropriate) as an educator (i.e. Liberal Studies/Arts as an Intellectual Identity: what is means and why it matters).

Janine Kremling Tssa Fall 2018, Janine Kremling

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Donna Gotch Tssa Fall 2018, Donna Gotch

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Amy Leh Tssa Fall 2018, Amy Leh

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Miranda Mcintyre Tssa Winter 2019, Miranda Mcintyre

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Monideepa Becerra Tssa Fall 2018, Monideepa B. Becerra Drph, Mph

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Roberts: Acue Online Course In Effective Teaching Practices-Cohort A, Sabrina Roberts

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

This is a sample of ACUE (Association of Colleges and University Educators) implantation and reflection assignments. The Teaching Resource Center partnered with ACUE; then, 30 CSUSB faculty completed 25 instructional modules. These assignments focused on teaching practices and face-to-face instruction.

CSUSB Communication Studies instructor, Sabrina Roberts, participated in the ACUE Effective College Instruction certification program from January 2019 to June 2019 in cohort A. The sample assignments include reflections from the following modules: Motivating Students, Delivering an Effective Lecture, Planning Effective Class Discussions, Facilitating Engaging Class Discussions and Using Advanced Questioning Techniques.

Enhancing Pedagogy Through Acue Certification, Janelle Espling

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

As instructors, there is an incredible responsibility to deliver content that is true to the standards of which the institution requires. But not only is it necessary to deliver content, it is necessary to deliver content in a way that promotes student learning, promotes student success, and an engages higher levels of thinking. The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Course in Effective teaching practices provides instructors evidence based strategies that do just that. As the reflections display, applying these strategies achieves the University goal to support students towards learning, success, and higher levels of thinking.

Jing Zhang Tssa Fall 2018, Jing Zhang

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

I learned more about team-based learning (e.g., using IF AT cards to encourage participation).

Elizabeth Martin Tssa Spring 2019 Tssa, Elizabeth Martin

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Masako Nunn Tssa Grant Fall 2018, Masako Nunn

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Lynne Diaz-Rico Tssa Spring 2019, Lynne Diaz-Rico

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Cory Johnson Tssa Spring 2018, Cory Johnson

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Kurt Kowalski Tssa Spring 2018, Kurt Kowalski

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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Jessica Nerren Tssa Fall 2018, Jessica Nerren

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

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