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Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Volunteer to Serve as a Commencement Host or Candidate Assistant
• Cybersecurity Training Must be Completed by the End of April
• Volunteers Needed for Operation Move-In
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters Remain Available on Campus
• COVID-19 Testing also Still Available on Campus

Fostering And Maintaining Relationships: Teacher Education During Covid-19, Jessica Vanvalkenburgh, Aaron R. Gierhart

Current Issues in Middle Level Education

This article expounds how our pedagogical practices have changed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these effects others have contended with in the education community. The authors share pedagogical strategies they have found to be effective in terms of building and supporting relationships with teacher candidates. They suggest using digitally-mediated teaching and learning strategies, staying connected with students, and badge-based assessment and feedback approaches to build and support relationships with students; examples of the instructional design and implementation strategies are described. The authors propose that when looking forward, teachers at any level may benefit from providing students …

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Employee Engagement Survey Results to be Unveiled on Thursday
• An Update on Additional Pay Coming for Eligible Full Time, Benefited State Employees
• SGA Elections are This Week
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters Remain Available on Campus
• COVID-19 Testing Also Still Available on Campus

Critical Thinking In The Age Of Misinformation: Information Literacy For Citizenship, Tamra Ortgies-Young, Jennfer Lobo Meeks, Barbara Robertson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

As recent political events across the globe have shed a light on the fragility of democratic values, the role of the University in creating a framework for civic education becomes more urgent. Informed, caring and engaged citizenry must be a goal of higher education. Students currently face the emergence of faulty types of information - such as misinformation and disinformation, which undermines the notion of collective or public inquiry, not only within universities, but also within society as a whole. This challenge must be acknowledged and addressed by academic institutions.

Session presenters will provide an overview of their work, “Critical …

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• An Update on Additional Pay Coming for Eligible Full Time, Benefited State Employees
• Deadline is This Week to Nominate Alumni for 40 Under 40 Honor
• Volunteers Needed for Spring 2022 Commencement Ceremonies
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters are Available on Campus
• COVID-19 Testing Also Still Available on Campus

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Additional Pay Coming for Eligible Full Time, Benefited State Employees
• Updated USG COVID-19 Guidance
• $1,000 Scholarships Coming for GS Students to Study in Ireland
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters are Available on Campus
• COVID-19 Testing Also Still Available on Campus

Staff Council Minutes, Georgia Southern University

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

Points Of Pride, Georgia Southern University

Points of Pride (2013-2023)

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• Academics
• Facilities
• Outreach
• Research

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• OneUSG Connect will be Unavailable This Weekend
• This is the Last Week to Get Your Booster Shot Before the Break and Get $25!
• Student Government Association Elections are Upcoming
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters are Available on Campus
• COVID-19 Testing Available on Campus

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

Southern Educator

College of Education faculty travel to Georgia Southern University's Ireland campus for exchange of ideas in advance of summer study abroad program

Graduate students to host first-ever Georgia Southern Technology in Education Conference

College's ISRC welcomes new coordinator

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

College of Education faculty travel to Georgia Southern University's Ireland campus for exchange of ideas in advance of summer study abroad program

Graduate students to host first-ever Georgia Southern Technology in Education Conference

College's ISRC welcomes new coordinator

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Get Your Booster Shot Before the Break and Get $25!
• 2022 Employee Engagement Survey Launches TODAY
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters are Available on Campus
• COVID-19 Testing Available on Campus
• Eagle Excellence Awards Nominations Deadline is Friday, March 4

Increasing Student Use Of Chemical Instrumentation In Undergraduate Research, Timothy D. Champion, Myron Todd Coolbaugh, Brian J. Hunt, Tracy Brown-Fox

SoTL Commons Conference

Recognizing the importance of student experience and familiarity with modern analytical instruments, the JCSU Chemistry faculty have developed a Shared Instrumentation Resource Laboratory (SIRL) for students and faculty from multiple STEM departments. These instruments were obtained through a series of grants from several sources. Use of the instruments in courses were also implemented. An analysis of Senior Investigative Papers (SIPs) by Biology and Chemistry majors from before and after the implementation of the SIRL show significant (p=0.0014) gains in SIPs based on data collected from JCSU instruments, showing the increased capability for on-campus undergraduate research using instrumentation was utilized.

Promoted Online Tutorial Use In General Chemistry: Effects On Student Performance, Timothy D. Champion, John Bannister

SoTL Commons Conference

Promoting student success in entry-level STEM courses is a continuing area of interest. While JCSU has made great strides in this area, in 2016, data began to show an increase in the DFW rates for key courses. The urban small university where these studies were conducted provides students with an online tutorial service. While the success of tutoring is well-documented, it is our perception that students do not utilize this resource as often or as effectively as they might. This project increased student utilization of online tutoring and improved participating students’ test and quiz grades.

Escaping Using Clinical Judgment, Kelley Noll, Claire Thompson

SoTL Commons Conference

An escape room experience was developed as an active experience to enhance critical thinking and clinical judgment in baccalaureate nursing students. This innovative teaching strategy was incorporated into a Childbearing Family and Reproductive Health clinical course. The escape room consisted of four scenarios focused on care of the mother with Type II Diabetes Mellitus during pregnancy, delivery of a macrosomic newborn, hypoglycemia in the newborn, and discharge education from the postpartum unit. Student evaluation of the experience revealed meaningful application of knowledge and a new way to engage students.

Disrupted Learning During Covid-19: A Survey Of Student Experience, Celia Szelwach, John Cordes, Alia Sheety, Vinayak Mathur, Maia Magrakvelidze, John Doyle, Gifty Key, Joseph Cimakasky

SoTL Commons Conference

Navigating unexpected disruption caused by COVID-19 in Higher Education required immediate and flexible response by faculty and students as they pivoted to other learning modalities. In Spring Semester 2021, we administered a 40-question survey including several open-ended questions to 795 undergraduate and graduate students (master and doctoral level) in multiple disciplines across four Schools at a private university in Pennsylvania to capture student perceptions of learning experience in face-to-face, hybrid, and fully online environments. Ninety-nine students completed the survey. Lessons learned for teaching and learning include sensitivity to students’ stress and understanding learning environment design preferences and effectiveness.

Incorporating Reflection Activities In Simulation To Prepare Nursing Students For Clinical Practice, Amy Curtis, Sarah Watts, Katilya Ware, Tiffani Chidume, Meghan Jones

SoTL Commons Conference

Research indicates simulation is an effective approach to prepare nursing students for clinical practice. However, little is known about the impact of prebriefing on students’ experiences in simulation. This mixed methods study evaluated the impact of incorporating reflection activities during the prebriefing element of simulation on nursing students’ satisfaction in learning, confidence, and performance during the simulation. Findings noted that incorporating reflection during prebriefing improved students’ satisfaction in learning, confidence, and performance. This is significant to the profession, as it supports the incorporation of reflective activities during prebriefing in simulation to enhance student learning experiences.

Emphasizing Multilingualism In Teacher Education Courses: Teacher Candidates’ Responses To Translanguaging Pedagogy, Tuba Angay-Crowder, Jayoung Choi, Ji Hye Shin, Nihal Khote

SoTL Commons Conference

One of the presenters has embedded translanguaging pedagogy in her Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) courses for several semesters to increase teacher candidates’ pluralistic stance when working with multilingual students from immigrant backgrounds. Translanguaging honors all linguistic repertoires that multilingual learners bring to meaning construction. As TESOL course work often centers on students’ advancement of English skills without necessarily emphasizing multilingual development, she intentionally included activities and assignments related to translanguaging. In this presentation, we discuss how her teacher candidates responded to this pedagogy. The shared findings have implications for teaching and learning in teacher education courses.

Developing An Innovative Concept-Based Approach To Teaching And Learning In Family Nursing, Melody Blanco, Roqaia Dorri, Elham Al-Omari

SoTL Commons Conference

Concept-based teaching is an innovative pedagogy that allows for meaningful building and transfer of knowledge, especially in nursing education (Morse & Jutras, 2008). The University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ) has recently adopted in the concept-based approach in curriculum design with an aim to produce the next generation of nurses who can seamlessly transfer knowledge learned from their didactic experience to the bedside. In our poster board presentation, we will highlight the effectiveness of the innovative, concept-based teaching practices employed in Family in Nursing in an online setting. Our group utilized different techniques and modalities such as exemplars and gamification …

Public Health Sotl: From Anecdote To Data, Katie M. Mercer, Kelly Sullivan

SoTL Commons Conference

Challenges related to teaching and learning are often discussed among faculty. Student input is often sparse and subject to volunteer bias, resulting in feedback that is likely not representative. Furthermore, there is also anecdotal evidence that public health faculty have strong views regarding teaching and learning topics, particularly when it comes to online instruction for courses with rigorous methodologic or analytic content, and there are concerns student performance may differ based on course modality. In an effort to draw evidence-based conclusions based on non-anecdotal data, a public health student and faculty dataset creation and analysis model is explored.

Infusing Covid-19 Into An Undergraduate Parasitology Research Course, Alexa Von Dohlen

SoTL Commons Conference

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event that has impacted both how and what educators teach. An unexpected outcome of the pandemic was the ability to enhance student understanding of public health through discussion of the novel coronavirus. Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) provide students with authentic research experiences in the framework of an undergraduate course. Here the reconfiguration of the Parasitology Research course as an online CURE is discussed. This course included curriculum focused not only on parasite diagnostics, but also how it relates to diagnosing COVID-19 with the aim of helping students become scientifically prepared citizens.

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Get Your Booster Shot Before the Break and Get $25
• 2022 Employee Engagement Survey Launches Next Week
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters are Available on Campus
• Sexual Assault Awareness Week is Feb. 21-25
• COVID-19 Testing Available on Campus

Staff Council Minutes, Georgia Southern University

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

College Of Graduate Studies News, Georgia Southern University

College of Graduate Studies: News & Publications (2016-2023)

• Virtual Service
• Serve912 Weekly Trips
• On-Campus Service
• Off-Campus Service

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Georgia Southern Officially Opens Tribute to Armstrong Athletics Friday
• Junior Achievement Discovery Center Grand Opening Also Set For Friday on Armstrong Campus
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters Are Available on Campus
• Spring 2022 Commencement Dates Finalized
• COVID-19 Testing Available on Campus

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

Southern Educator

Georgia Southern COE awarded more than $500k to train literacy tutors for Chatham and Bulloch Counties

Georgia Southern education seniors complete a full year of teaching by graduation

EAGLE Academy welcomes new director of programming

The Hr Connection, Georgia Southern University

Human Resources Newsletter

• Employee Engagement Survey
• Helpful Hints
• COVID-19 Online and Over-the-Counter tests Options
• Upcoming Virtual Wellness Events
• Happy American Heart Month

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

Georgia Southern COE awarded more than $500k to train literacy tutors for Chatham and Bulloch Counties

Georgia Southern education seniors complete a full year of teaching by graduation

EAGLE Academy welcomes new director of programming

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Make a Lasting Impact on Our Students and Our Future
• Vaccine Shots and Boosters Are Available on Campus
• 2022 Employee Engagement Survey Info Sessions Are This Week
• Ethics Training Required For All Employees
• COVID-19 testing Available on Campus