Join CETLS and the BMCC Teaching Academy on November 10 and 17, 2017 at the 1st Annual BMCC Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Forum and Workshop. Our theme this year is Teaching as Research (TAR), a subset of SoTL that focuses primarily on one’s own classroom practices and improving one’s own students’ learning. The November 10 forum is an opportunity for BMCC faculty to showcase their existing SoTL work; the November 17 workshop is for faculty new to SoTL to learn about how to design their own SoTL project.
November 10 – SoTL Forum: Teaching as Research
A showcase of SoTL projects undertaken by BMCC faculty members, including faculty from the 2015 cohort of the BMCC Teaching Academy. Presenter materials are available below.
November 17 – Teaching as Research Workshop
A day-long, hands-on workshop on conducting classroom-based research, led by Kimberly Williams, an educational consultant and teaching support specialist at Cornell University.
Program for November 10 (Day 1)
10:00 Opening Session
Framing our Work: Scholarly Teaching, Teaching as Research, or the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?
Laura Baecher, School of Education, Hunter College
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent Sessions
| 11:00 – 11:25 | Addressing students’ misconceptions in the classroom
Maria Greene (Sciences) |
Online learners and library research
Kelly Secovnie (English) |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Traditional learning versus active learning: Evaluating two teaching styles in Introduction to Business courses
Orlando Justo (Business Management) |
Student learning outcomes for digital versus paper reading
Nancy Derbyshire (English) |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | Mindful group work: Contemplative and collaborative pedagogical strategies to improve classroom teaching and learning
Lesley Rennis (Health Education) |
Classroom applications of the translingual approach to writing instruction
Caroline Pari-Pfisterer (English) |
12:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Concurrent Sessions
| 1:30 – 1:55 | Academic mindset: Predictor of student success in marketing education?
Mahatapa Palit (Business Management) |
Vocabulary Theatre
Elizabeth Robb (Academic Literacy and Linguistics) |
| 2:00 – 2:25 | Addressing factors that influence students’ motivation and academic achievements in the online classroom
Henry Bulley (Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice) |
Literary database fluency: Searching for knowledge beyond Google
Gillian Bonanno (Speech, Communication, Theatre Arts) |
| 2:30 – 2:55 | Using “fishbowl” in Introduction to Philosophy
Cara O’Connor (Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice) |
ESL students’ use of an online bookmarking tool: A multiple case study
Deniz Gokcora, Tuvi Voorhees, and Oksana Vorobel (Academic Literacy & Linguistics) |
