Presentations and Faculty Workshops
Enhancing Your Teaching with AI: Tools and Strategies for Educators
Empower your teaching with AI! Learn to harness artificial intelligence as your educational sidekick. Master effective prompting, AI-driven lesson planning, and strategies for equitable teaching. Discover AI tools for enhanced communication and guide students in responsible AI use.
The Flipped + Model - A New Approach to the Flipped Classroom
The flipped classroom has been around for years. Update the concept with ideas for guided video notes with question sets for outside of class and in class activities such as station mazes, games, Desmos Activity Builder, and Kahoot. Be engaged yourself and then engage your students for higher success rates. This talk can be geared towards all subject matters or specific to math depending on the audience.
Study Skills - Essential for Student Success
Many students are unaware of the expectations and workload required to succeed in a math class. Bringing in math specific study skills can help substantially increase success and retention. Examples of short, engaging animated videos that teach math specific study skills will be shared as well as reflective student prompts. This talk can also be tweaked so it works for all subject matter courses.
Equitable Grading in STEM
Grading equity - we've heard about it theoretically, but how can we bring in equitable grading specifically in STEM classrooms? This presentation will talk about tangible ways to implement equitable grading into your course right away, no matter the modality. Participants will leave with classroom-tested ideas and strategies based on current theory with the knowledge of how to easily and effectively implement them.
Growth Mindset - The Foundation to Success
Growth mindset has become a familiar buzz word over the last few years, but how does it relate specifically to math? The presentation will discuss what growth mindset looks like, the importance of it, and how you can foster this trait in your students with inclusion and equity in mind. Participants will leave with concrete strategies they can start using in their classroom immediately. This talk can be geared towards all subject matter areas or it can be focused specifically for math instructors.
Math in an Instant Feedback World
Fitbit, Apple Watch, and MyFitnessPal - what do these popular fitness platforms have in common? They provide instant feedback, are simple to use, and contain a gamification component. This presentation covers how to successfully motivate and engage students in your course through active learning using these features that have turned the fitness device industry into a booming market. Participants will walk away with effective strategies and activities for immediate implementation into the math classroom both in-person and remotely. This includes best practices for Jamboard, Desmos Activity Builder, Kahoot!, Station Mazes and so much more.
Inclusive Teaching Strategies
This presentation covers tangible ways to increase inclusivity into your classroom, no matter the modality (online, hybrid, remote, in-person). Participants will learn how to easily and efficiently apply classroom-tested strategies for creating inclusivity, community, and a sense of belonging for students. This presentation also covers a brief overview of the Universal Design for Learning Framework. Participants will get tips and strategies for how to create or tweak already created assignments, assessments, course setups, etc. to be more inclusive for all students.
Active Inclusivity: Solutions to prevent students from feeling isolated in your online or remote class
In a math class feeling lonely or that "I am the only one who doesn't get this" is a common concern among students. This session will show how instructors can actively reach out to those students in order to build relationships and create inclusivity within their online and remote classes. This presentation can also be tailored to work for all subject area instructors.
Help Students Effectively Learn From Videos
Watching videos for learning isn't as simple as watching a video for leisure. This presentation will go over tips and strategies that you can use to help your students learn how to effectively watch a video for learning. Tips include, video guided notes, headphones, brain breaks, avoiding tech distractions such as phone notifications, social media, etc. This talk can be geared to instructors of all content areas or can be focused specifically on math educators depending on the audience.