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The Benefits Of Involving Multiple Stakeholders As Equal Partners In The Teacher Education Program Development Process, Ellen Schiller, Jacque Melin
The Benefits Of Involving Multiple Stakeholders As Equal Partners In The Teacher Education Program Development Process, Ellen Schiller, Jacque Melin
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This workshop examines and shares how involving teachers, public school administrators, university deans, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty and administrators, and faculty and administrators from the College of Education as equal partners in developing a teacher preparation program can simultaneously foster professional learning and leadership. Presenters will engage the audience in a process we used to design a new teacher preparation program for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates who are committed to becoming secondary mathematics and science teachers in high need schools.
Design And Computational Analysis Of Diaphragm Based Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors For Integration Into Undergraduate Curriculum, Nael Barakat, Alexander Plotkowski, Heidi Jiao
Design And Computational Analysis Of Diaphragm Based Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors For Integration Into Undergraduate Curriculum, Nael Barakat, Alexander Plotkowski, Heidi Jiao
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In order to expand undergraduate education in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and nanotechnology, a series of sensors were designed with the intent of integrating the design process into the project portion of a micro/nano systems course. The majority of the design work was focused around piezoresistive, diaphragm-based pressure sensors, utilizing multiple diaphragm sizes and geometries. These sensors were chosen for their geometrical simplicity and their ability to be manufactured using available photolithographic techniques. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the stress distribution in these sensors, leading to better design decisions, the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) technique was used. Results …
Unraveling Students’ Spiritual Identities Using A Photovoice Method: Implications For Msw Programs, Cray Mulder
Unraveling Students’ Spiritual Identities Using A Photovoice Method: Implications For Msw Programs, Cray Mulder
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Graduate students in our MSW program have been actively lobbying for more in-depth coverage of spirituality and religion within our curriculum over the past several years. This study employed a photovoice method to explore 14 social work students' experiences with spirituality/religion in their personal and professional lives, and also suggestions and assessments for the social work curriculum. Photovoice, developed in the 1990's by Wang and Burris, in which researchers provide questions or topic areas to participants and ask them to use a camera to capture a photographic response to the topic/ question. Participants, who generally self-identified as more spiritual than …
Making The Team: Conducting Hierarchical Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning Research, Christine Yalda, Carly Hilinski
Making The Team: Conducting Hierarchical Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning Research, Christine Yalda, Carly Hilinski
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Service learning programs seek to engage students in projects that will benefit service recipients as well as maximize student learning through activities that inform future professional behaviors and responsibilities. This presentation offers a model for conducting responsible interdisciplinary service learning research that engages and integrates faculty and students across disciplines from initial conceptualization through completion of the study. The model derives in part from a community-based research project that involved over 70 social work and criminal justice faculty and students in studying the lives and needs of poor and homeless clients receiving services from an urban faith-based work program. This …
An Interactive Model For Ipe With Health Professions Students, Cynthia Grapczynski, Andrew Booth, Cynthia Beel-Bates, Shelley Schuurman, Deborah Bambini
An Interactive Model For Ipe With Health Professions Students, Cynthia Grapczynski, Andrew Booth, Cynthia Beel-Bates, Shelley Schuurman, Deborah Bambini
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This workshop describes the efforts of one interprofessional team to develop and test a model for interprofessional education (IPE). A group of inter-professional faculty created the Interprofessional Model for Teaching Responsible Client-Centered Practice (IMTRCP) to guide IPE efforts. In July 2010 a pilot workshop, based on this model, involved 4 students each from the professions of nursing, occupational therapy, physician assistant, and social work. Using the IMTRCP model, a variety of learning activities were created including Caf Conversations, role exploration stations, case studies, and debriefing exercises. Four inter-professional student teams, rotated through the four stations and discussed questions about professional …
Implementing A Disapproval Plan: A Case Study Of Rules-Based Weeding, Doug Way, Julie Garrison, Rick Lugg
Implementing A Disapproval Plan: A Case Study Of Rules-Based Weeding, Doug Way, Julie Garrison, Rick Lugg
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In 2013, Grand Valley State University will open a new library building. At that time materials in the library's existing off-site storage facility will be moved into the new library's automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), reintegrating them with the main collection. These materials had originally been moved into storage in 2003 because of their low use and since that time, only about 1% of the collection has circulated. Knowing how difficult it would be to review the collection once it is an ASRS and wanting to maintain the integrity of the current collection, GVSU decided to undertake a major …
Hospitality And Tourism Students Use Of Technology, Cary Countryman, Michael Sciarini, Matthew Roberts
Hospitality And Tourism Students Use Of Technology, Cary Countryman, Michael Sciarini, Matthew Roberts
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As technology continues to become a significant part of our lives, its impact is felt in all aspects of life including education. The difficulty is trying to figure out what forms of technology are the most valuable and beneficial or in other words, which forms of technology are being adopted by students to help them be successful in their educational pursuits. This is of particular interests to university faculty as they decide which forms of technology to use from an educational perspective. In fact, it can be something as simple as deciding how best to communicate to the students through …
The Spirituality Of St. Ignatius Of Loyola, Dorothea Epple
The Spirituality Of St. Ignatius Of Loyola, Dorothea Epple
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St. Ignatius of Loyola is best known for his "Spiritual Exercises" and the founding of the Society of Jesus in 15 40, better known today as the Jesuit order. This practical workshop will present an overview of the 'exercises' and the key elements of Ignatian Spirituality to deepen our spiritual lives by finding God in all things. The "Spiritual Exercises", written by St. Ignatius, are a four week retreat; meditating on the life of Jesus. St. Ignatius exercises pay special attention to God's work in our lives, our experiences, our imagination and our feelings leading to contemplative prayer, discernment, disciplined …
Using Research To Investigate And Enhance Student Understanding Of Light As An Electromagnetic Wave, Bradley Ambrose
Using Research To Investigate And Enhance Student Understanding Of Light As An Electromagnetic Wave, Bradley Ambrose
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In astronomy it is crucial to understand that light is an electromagnetic wave that can exhibit interference and polarization phenomena. For many years, however, research in physics education has shown that physics students, both mainstream introductory students and physics majors, encounter serious difficulties when they endeavor to develop and apply a wave model to the behavior of light. This presentation will focus on well-identified difficulties some of them deeply-seated alternate conception suggested by the analysis of student responses to various research tasks (ungraded quizzes, written exams, individual student interviews). Also to be discussed are examples of teaching-by-questioning strategies that seem …
Assessing Student Learning And Teaching Effectiveness In Intermediate Mechanics, Bradley Ambrose
Assessing Student Learning And Teaching Effectiveness In Intermediate Mechanics, Bradley Ambrose
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This poster will present several examples of PER-tested assessment techniques incorporated into Intermediate Mechanics Tutorials (IMT), a suite of instructional materials that itself has been modeled after published materials such as Tutorials in Introductory Physics by McDermott, Shaffer, et al., (Prentice-Hall, 2002) and Activity-Based Tutorials by Wittmann, Steinberg, and Redish (Wiley, 2004). Much like their introductory-level counterparts, the IMT pre- and post-tutorial assessments consist of written explain your reasoning tasks designed to probe for persistent conceptual and reasoning difficulties. In addition, the in-class IMT worksheets include instructor checkpoints for formative student feedback. This poster will provide evidence supporting the appropriateness …