INFD Resources
Welcome to the 2019 INFD Resources page! The resources are divided into the main session tracks of the INFD program. Click on the session name with the presenter(s), date, and time to open the drop-down menu in order to see all of the resources for that session.
Getting Started
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A Panel Discussion on New Faculty Orientation, Tuesday @ 10:45 am
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Life in Educational Development: Meaningful, purpose-driven, & future-oriented , Angela Linse – Wednesday @ 10:45 am
Strategic planning is nearly ubiquitous in high education, but few educational developers receive training in how to develop or use strategic plans for their intended purposes. Done well, a strategic plan includes clear mission and vision statements that identify the purpose and aims of the CTL. Strategic goals reflect institutional priorities, center context, and constituent values. Explicit and future-facing goals can help guide center staff/faculty decision-making and use of human and fiscal resources, as well as provide a standard of comparison to determine whether the CTL is achieving its mission. Participants will examine their own center’s vision, mission, and goals.
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The Magic and the Mundane of Starting a Center, Diane Boyd and Carl S. Moore – Tuesday @ 2 pm
In this session we will leverage learning design frameworks and research (e.g. Fink, ACE Faculty Development Center Matrix) to guide participants to build their “starting a center taxonomy”. Faculty will be given time to create an action plan for building a center and identify their strengths and growth opportunities.
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From Needs Assessment to Action Plan, Cassandra Volpe Horii – Thursday @ 10:45 am
It’s Day 3 of INFD and you may be wondering, ‘How am I going to put what I’ve learned here into action when I return?’ This workshop provides a structured framework for you to apply evidence-based needs assessment approaches to your unique context, and set yourself up to move from insights to action plans with expedience and ease.
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Playing well with Others: Credibility, Collaboration, & Social Capital, Angela Linse – Tuesday @ 4 pm
In this session, we will tackle some of the issues that all new (and experienced) faculty/educational developers need to be prepared to address. We will start by exploring common myths about educational development and how CTLs operate. Next we will consider how to establish personal credibility with different constituencies. Finally, we will examine strategies for discovering, understanding, and navigating institutional cultures, including those of units with overlapping responsibilities. The session will include time for participants to raise additional issues or concerns.
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Optimizing Your New Role, Dorothe Bach and Diane Boyd – Wednesday @ 4 pm
How can you make your faculty development position your own—and keep a sense of agency as you move into higher positions in the future? This session will foster reflection on the specifics of our positions and which parts of our jobs energize us and which parts drain our energy, then consider ways to take an active role in managing the tension between the two.
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Lunch and Brown-ie Bites: Summaries of Plenary Sessions
Deandra Little Tuesday Morning Plenary Slides
Rhonda Fitzgerald Lunch Keynote Slides
Handout: Multicultural Organizational Development
Handout: Okun’s Antidotes from “White Supremacy Culture”
Brown-ie Bites: Tuesday Plenary Summaries from Amy Brown
Brown-ie Bites: Wednesday Plenary Summary, Todd Zakrajsek
Brown-ie Bites: Wednesday Plenary Summary, Jane Fernandes
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Key Programs
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Helping Faculty Do Learning Assessments, Martha Diede – Tuesday @ 2 pm
Best practice is to give students authentic ways to demonstrate what they’ve learned, but often faculty find that they are tied to midterms and exams. In this interactive session, we will work on questions and ideas that can inspire faculty to think outside of the midterm/final/paper box. We will also consider ways for faculty to see for themselves that the changes they make are working.
Handout: Grading Methods for Group Work
Handout: Beyond Homework and Exams
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Mapping to Build Culturally Competent Educational Development, Riley Caldwell-O’Keefe, Carla Fullwood, and Min-Ken Liao – Tuesday @ 4 pm
Have you thought about how your own identity and the identity of those you work with impacts your role as an educational developer? This session will provide you an opportunity to examine yourself and your institutional community in order to map how you might approach challenges and take advantage of strengths uncovered by growing your intercultural competence.
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Active Learning, Eli Collins-Brown and Carla Fullwood – Wednesday @ 2 pm
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Teaching So That ALL Students Can Learn: UDL, Jane Harris and Deandra Little – Wednesday @ 4 pm
In this interactive session, we will introduce and discuss the rationale and principles for Universal Design for Learning (UDL), an approach to designing learning environments to make them accessible to a diverse set of learners (and teachers). Take-aways include principles, practical strategies and resources to help faculty integrate UDL into teaching practices and materials.
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Going Public: Scaling and Scaffolding SoTL, Deandra Little – Friday @ 9 am
Faculty routinely collect evidence of student learning and teaching effectiveness, but less routinely turn that evidence into scholarship on teaching and learning (SoTL). In this interactive session, we’ll explore ways to support faculty in developing, scaling up, and scaffolding SoTL projects, from framing an authentic question to “going public” with the results. We’ll also discuss possible barriers, incentives and other contextual factors to consider as you develop SoTL programming.
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Neuroscience of Learning, Todd Zakrajsek – Tuesday @ 4 pm
The field of brain-based learning, and neuroscience in general, continues to captivate the attention of higher education. In this session, we will look at myths and evidence related to all learning (from a cognitive neuroscience perspective). As a result of this session you will avoid mistakenly teaching faculty members something that turns out to be a myth. We will also discuss WHY these myths persist and HOW learning really works in such situations.
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Helping Faculty Across Learning Environments, Eli Collins-Brown – Thursday @ 10:45 am
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Technology as Pedagogy, Amy Brown, Mika Davis, and Jane Harris – Tuesday @ 10:45 am
This workshop introduces a variety of approaches to guiding faculty members in their use of new technology in their teaching from consultation to implementation. While using some new technologies, we will explore engaging ways to teach faculty members about technology and promote their success.
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Fundamentals
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A Panel Discussion on Consultation Styles, Thursday @ 10:45 am
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Strengths-Based Educational Development, Carl S. Moore and Laura Pipe – Tuesday @ 4 pm
This session will leverage Gallup’s StrengthsFinder model as a means of communicating the role innate talents of EDs play in their own individual, team, and organizational outcomes. Participants will be invited to exercise introspection and team building to discover how to overcome barriers and create opportunities for high performance.
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Faculty Development at Community Colleges, Amy Brown and Audrey Bryk-Lee – Wednesday @ 2 pm
This session will help you learn to meet the unique needs of community college faculty. We will explore ways to overcome challenges, foster a culture of inquiry and reflective practice, and develop learning communities. You will leave this session armed with strategies to engage community college faculty and support them in their important work.
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Event Planning and Assessment, Eli Collins-Brown – Friday @ 9 am
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Faculty to Developer: Navigating Professional Thresholds, Diane Boyd – Wednesday @ 4 pm
It takes courage, hope, and mettle to consider an academic career shift because such a shift can sometimes require challenging reflection on your current professional identity. In this session, participants will co-create a safe, brave space to consider how the roles of faculty and developer overlap and diverge, both generically and personally, using the theoretical frame of threshold concepts and structured storytelling.
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Meeting with the Editor, College Teaching, Scott Simkins – Thursday @ 2 pm
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Administrative Leadership in a TLC: Navigating the University Landscape, David Teachout – Thursday @ 2 pm
The Administrative Leader of a Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) must successfully traverse a wide variety of academic cultures existing across the university landscape (from individual departments, to schools and colleges, to university-wide units, to upper administration), while simultaneously cultivating the unique creative environment that must within the TLC for it to thrive. In this session, participants will identify characteristics of various cultures external to the TLC, explore ways to cultivate an open creative environment within the TLC, and discuss how to structure an effective ecosystem benefiting both worlds.
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A Curricular Approach to Faculty Development, Diana Ashe and Dorothe Bach – Friday @ 9 am
Moving from one-time workshops to faculty development as curriculum means planning more longitudinal programming that follows the faculty lifespan, institutional priorities or the needs of specific populations of faculty. This session offers examples of faculty development as curriculum in practice and takes participants through the planning process for longer-term programming.
Handout: Integration Worksheet
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Think Meta! Program Development for Educational Developers, Martha Diede and Theresa Ronquillo – Wednesday @ 10:45 am
Whether you work in a teaching and learning “shop” of 1-2 people or a well-oiled, well-staffed center (or somewhere in between), strategic approaches to program development are crucial for faculty, student, and center success. In this hands-on session, participants will identify and discuss the bigger picture questions about program development and map out program development pathways relevant to their context and available resources.
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Inclusion and Beyond
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Just Classroom: Promoting Equity in Teaching, Laura Pipe and Jennifer Stephens – Tuesday @ 10:45 am
In this session, attendees will explore and define equity, diversity, and inclusion within a scholarly context for their campuses. Through transferable activities and guided reflection, participants will consider how to provide support for inclusive teaching to their faculty. This includes assisting faculty in navigating the teaching of challenging content related to inequity within the faculty member’s respective discipline, as well as addressing broader diversity and inequity in today’s learning environments. Attendees will consider the potential of teaching choices to marginalize or invite students to engage in the learning process. Additionally, the importance of strengths-based cultural approaches will be discussed.
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Transforming Hot Moments into Learning Opportunities, Riley Caldwell-O’Keefe and Carl S. Moore – Thursday @ 10:45 am
Do you effectively respond to situations that challenge building or sustaining an equitable and inclusive learning environment? Do you want an opportunity to increase your capacity to negotiate these situations? This session will provide frameworks for EDs to productively engage “hot moments” and leverage the experience of participants to unpack ways to transform hot moments into learning opportunities. If you are interested in this conversation, please join us!
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#RepresentationMatters, Carla Fullwood and Marisa Gonzalez – Friday @ 9 am
Chances are your new career will consist of you talking about students from traditionally marginalized identities and not actually getting your faculty member to hear first hand the students’ expereince in order to reflect on their teaching and inclusivity in the classroom. This interaction session will explore best approaches to support students from diverse racial and ethnic cultural backgrounds, & strategies to intentionally incorporate student voices and experience in faculty development.
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The Best Revenge is Your Paper: A Black Feminist Approach to Addressing Imposter Syndrome in the Academy, Carla Fullwood – Thursday @ 2 pm
Research shows Impostor Syndrome is a phenomenon impacting self-perception and lived experiences of high achieving women, especially in the academy. Many women of color experience Impostor Syndrome at various levels of their academic and professional careers in higher education. The purpose of this workshop is to understand Impostor Syndrome and recognize its signs and consequences. This interactive session will use dialogic pedagogy, Black Feminist Theory and and pop culture references (i.e. music, TV, film and social media, etc) to examine effective leadership qualities to address this phenomenon and receive additional resources to add to their toolbox.
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Community Building
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A Panel Discussion on Creating Networks Across Campus
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Selling It: Developing a Marketing Plan That Gets Faculty Excited, Marisa Gonzalez and Laura Pipe – Wednesday @ 4 pm
You have put together the best program – exciting, innovative, thrilling – but getting faculty at the event is another story. Join us for a quick introduction to developing a comprehensive marketing strategy for your programs. We will cover the process of identifying communication channels, the basics of design, developing allies, and creation of a consistent brand.
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Faculty Learning Communities, Amy Brown and Marisa Gonzalez – Thursday @ 2 pm
Colleges and universities have been using faculty learning communities or communities of practice on their campuses to serve in a variety of function including peer feedback, research, literary circles and supporting various cohorts like adjunct faculty. During this session, we examine how schools are using learning communities to enrich the faculty experience.
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On-Demand Resources and Reaching Faculty at a Distance, Ben Peterson – Tuesday @ 2 pm
Not all educational development efforts can – nor should they! – be delivered face-to-face. Whether you need to reach a wide array of faculty at a distance or want to make sure certain resources are available right when your audience needs them, this session will help you think through strategies for developing and distributing digital, on-demand resources. We will cover some basics, like newsletters and websites, and brainstorm how you can expand your reach in your contexts.
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Using Humor to Engage Faculty, Todd Zakrajsek – Wednesday @ 2 pm
There is a plethora of research that links humor to learning and motivation. In this session we will look at ways you can safely include humor as a way to connect interpersonally with faculty members, reduce tension when faculty members are learning new information, and as a method to illustrate important concepts to ease learning difficult concepts. We will also spend a bit of time looking at the danger of using humor in any setting.
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One Size Does Not Fit All: The Art of Collaborating with Arts Faculty, Theresa Ronquillo – Tuesday @ 4 pm
Who are the arts faculty and students at your institution? What do their classrooms and instruction look like? What questions do you think arts faculty have about teaching and learning? In this session, we will engage these and other questions about educational development with arts faculty, and practice an arts-based feedback process that faculty from the arts (and other disciplines) may find useful.
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Working with Humanities Faculty, Martha Diede – Wednesday @ 2 pm
The descriptor “Humanities faculty” covers a wide swath of disciplines, from literature and languages to Writing and Rhetoric to African-American studies. When those faculty request workshops or come for consultations, what do you think about? What questions do you ask? What do you anticipate in your sessions? Using case studies drawn from real encounters, we’ll build some resources for engaging Humanities faculty in levelling up their teaching.
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Working with STEM Faculty, Cassandra Volpe Horii – Tuesday @ 2 pm
Working with faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields comes with some unique challenges. In this session, we’ll identify participants’ prior conceptions about STEM fields and explore emerging findings on discipline-based educational research (DBER), departmental cultures, equity and inclusion, and organizational change. Participants will leave with strategies that educational developers of ALL backgrounds can use to work effectively with STEM colleagues.
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Technology
Tech Tidbits
Click the links below to view useful videos on Youtube
Digital Breakouts with BreakoutEDU
App-based Scavenger Hunts with Goosechase
Immersive Experiences with Google Tour Creator
Assessment with Google Course Kit
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