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Dissertation Presentation: Teacher Efficacy And Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques, Dr. Roberta Callaway

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

Teachers who believe in their ability to create meaningful learning experiences exert a powerful influence over the achievement of the students they come in contact with. Educators are currently being confronted with increasing numbers of minority students in their classrooms; in order to engage these students, issues of diversity need to be a central part of instruction. Using Villegas and Lucas's (2002) six qualities that define a culturally responsive teacher and Ball's (2009) process for preparing teachers to be effective in cul-turally diverse classrooms. We'll examine theories and best practices, which can be used to create a safe classroom space …

The Embedded Librarian As Graduate Coach, Pamela Dennis

Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities

In a time when more classes are being offered online and in-person reference desk questions are dwindling, it is even more crucial that librarians to seek out students where they are. One way of doing that is by befriending teaching faculty in discipline areas. Whether at the freshman or doctoral level, literature indicates that students prefer one-on-one interaction with librarians. But librarians undersell themselves and find themselves in a world of anonymity. It’s hard to be valued when you are invisible. By collaborating with the faculty, the librarian has the opportunity of embedding in online classes, co-instructing, receiving invitations to …

Finding A Balance: Using Qualitative Data To Identify Student Learning Barriers And Alleviate Instructor Burnout In An Online Information Literacy Course, Natalie Bishop, Holly Mabry

Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities

For-credit information literacy instruction is starting to gain momentum is in academic libraries. In this session, presenters will provide an overview of their library’s for-credit online research skills course for non-traditional students. They will identify student learning barriers, describe qualitative measures used to improve the course over time, and discuss long-range tools and objectives.

Shooting Down The Gold Star: Using The Power Of Feedback And Assessment To Draw Students Through The Threshold, Natalie Bishop, Holly Mabry

Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities

The ACRL Framework presents librarians with the opportunity to develop a deeper, more effective learning environment that encourages students to go beyond simply achieving the gold star. Measuring students’ mastery of threshold concepts for information literacy instruction presents a challenge to our assessment and accreditation-driven culture. Learn how librarians can use targeted student learning outcomes to develop innovative assessment initiatives to overcome the “making the grade” mindset, which can be an obstacle for both one-shot and for-credit information literacy instruction.

In this workshop, presenters will provide a brief overview of their institution’s for-credit research skills course, identify some of the …

Information Creation As A Process: Putting Together The Pieces Through Disparate Resources, Pamela Dennis

Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities

With the advent of digitized sources, researchers have at their fingertips a fountain of information of all varieties. While some resources may be considered non-scholarly, they, in fact, are parts of the puzzle that must not be overlooked. Through threshold concepts, we can now teach researchers to find disparate resources that help complete that puzzle.

Transforming Instructional Design: Using Professional Learning Communities (Plcs) To Invoke Change And To Incorporate The Framework Into Instructional Practice, Natalie Bishop, Pamela Dennis

Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities

When challenged with migrating to LibGuides 2.0, we sought to implement an easily accessible tool that would be useful to our students. With the recent launching of Framework threshold concepts by ACRL, we saw the opportunity to combine LibGuides migration with Framework introduction to improve our existing instructional design practices. In order to attain buy-in by our library faculty, we chose to create a Professional Learning Community (PLC), allowing us to take agency for our own professional development/learning. PLCs function as a collaborative effort to improve student learning through action research and job-embedded learning (DuFour, et al., 2006). Recognizing that …

Recent Publications: An Annual Bibliography For The Journal Of The American Musical Instrument Society, Pamela Dennis

Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities

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Writing A Dissertation: Reporting Data For Research, Dr. Jim Palermo

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

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Artifact Presentation: Understanding The Professional Learning Plan, Kelly Campbell, Tina Whitten

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

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An Analysis Of The Welsh Inclusion Model Incorporating Gardner’S Multiple Intelligence Theory And The Effectiveness Of Inclusionary Teams On The Academic Growth Of Students With Disabilities, Dr. Stephen Pickard

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

A look at Welsh's Inclusion Model incorporating the utilization of student PODS (3 students whose learning modalities are opposite each other including kinesthetic, spatial, and linguistic) with an analysis of Team-Teaching Behaviors using the ITTAP (Inclusion Team Teaching Analysis Protocol) with a corresponding review of a Team-Teaching Improvement Plan.

Mr. Brown Can Moo(Ve)...Can You? (Make Our Organization Viable Electronically), Stephanie Mccabe

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

This session will provide participants with an understanding of the importance of curriculum leaders who are willing to innovate through technology for the future of their organ-zations. Using the work of Michael Fullan, Eric Schlesinger, and James Spillane, among others, we will inquire into the uses of social media (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), Web 2.0 apps (i.e. podcasts, VoiceThreads, Animoto, Padlet, Edmodo), as well as collaborative online tools (i.e. Google Drive, Dropbox, blogging platforms). We will explore how these tools not only help leaders disseminate important information for our particular communities, as well as stay up-to-date with research, but also …

Writing A Dissertation: Writing The Research Report, Dr. Sydney Brown

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

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Formatting By The Numbers, Teresa Lester

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

Learn how to apply formatting features needed for your dissertations. Topics covered will include the different types of page numbering, types of page breaks and when to use them, and how to create a hanging indent for references and bibliographies.

Leading Effective And Sustainable Implementation Of Video Use In Online Instruction, Natalie Bishop, Emily Robertson

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

Educators today are challenged with implementing multimedia instruction online, an environment that is inherently static. Incorporating videos into online learning elevates instructor presence within the course and engages students visually and aurally. To some instructors the use of videos as a remedy to static online learning is instinctive, yet others are arrested by the challenge presented by video creation. This session will guide teacher leaders in identifying supportive networks of influence and constructing a framework for implementing video instruction within their own communities of practice.

Plc Participation: Roadblocks, Speed Bumps, And Detours, Lindsay Lee, Audrey Moore, Angela Szakasits, Cynthia Wortham

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

Educators have a tendency to downplay their own awesomeness; this session will remind us of how great we are and what we can do to meet all of the Teacher Leader Model Standards. We are all leaders in some way by nature of what we do in our individual classrooms. In this session, participants will understand how they can become or already are teacher leaders in their schools and districts. Teachers may be organic leaders (the “doers”- the people everyone assumes will lead the committee because that’s just what you do). This session will introduce the idea of how to …

Herding Cats: Student Engagement And Classroom Management, Angela Hines

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

How many times have you wondered how to better organize your classroom to optimize management and lesson engagement? This presentation will leave you with ideas to help turn students' brains on to learning and increased engagement in the classroom while minimizing classroom management issues.

Good Leaders Need To Develop Good Followers, William Weller, Masonya Ruff

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

Much has been written about the competencies and characteristics of a leader. However, there is little on the topic of followers. Who are those that follow? Are there different types of followers? How does a good leader develop the skills and competencies of their followers to make the organization great? Rosenblatt has developed a matrix that shares the types of followers based on two continuum -- relationship initiative and the other performance initiative. Other authors have described key competencies of followers. John Maxwell in the 360 degree Leader shares a second premise -- you may lead from the middle. His …

Shout Our Story From The Roof, Faith Jackson

Center for Innovative Leadership Development Summer Seminar Presentations

My presentation would be one to increase awareness as well as increase their ability to make and promote their schools and districts. Once the question of why do this is addressed. Collaborative groups will be given the opportunity to see what they would do in particular situa-tions. Each participant will receive access to a "tool kit" that they can utilize to input their information and get their good news out to their stakeholders.