First Annual MCC Conference on Teaching and Learning

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9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Navajo Room, Kirk Student Center

Mesa Community College

For more information, contact Brad Kincaid

Contents 1 Conference Goals 2 Register for the Conference 3 Conference Schedule 4 Conference Logistics 4.1 Navajo Room Arrangement 4.2 Presentation Formats 4.3 Submit a Presentation for the Conference

Conference Goals

The goals of the First Annual MCC Teaching and Learning Conference are:

• Recognize the significant contributions to improving teaching and learning by so many of our faculty and staff.
• Promote scholarly teaching for all faculty to improve our effectiveness and to serve the spirit of our FEP requirement.
• Publicly communicate the scholarly teaching and scholarship of teaching and learning by faculty and staff at MCC.
• Promote institutional learning and transformation by developing an academic community focused on enhancing teaching and learning.

The philosophy of this conference is that we must make our efforts to improve teaching and learning public to all our colleagues as well as to our community. Public communication serves many functions including building college-wide community, allowing others to learn from our efforts, recognizing all your work to improve teaching and learning, and justifying the investment of the college in our efforts. Therefore, it is really important that you plan to participate. Please plan to attend either as a presenter if you have a teaching and learning project that you would like to share (please see the link to the presentation proposal form at the bottom of the page) or as an observer if you wish to learn from the work of your colleagues.

The conference will showcase local teaching and learning projects, but we are also fortunate that we will have VCAA Maria Harper-Marinick discussing efforts to transform Maricopa through reflective scholarship. In addition, Laurie Richlin will be helping us understand scholarly teaching and how to design teaching projects into our courses to achieve our goals. Dr. Richlin has written extensively on scholarly teaching and recently published the book Blueprint for Learning: Constructing Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning. She comes to us from Claremont Graduate University where she is Director of the Preparing Future Faculty Program, the Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, and a national leader in the faculty learning communities movement.

We are making it possible for many to present at by scheduling 4 types of presentations ranging from short talks and posters to roundtable discussions (see below). All presentations should relate the project to the relevant literature and include some evidence of direct or indirect impact on learning. Presentations are expected to address topics such as reports of classroom research, theoretical frameworks for curriculum development and assessment, or progress in faculty/staff development.

This conference is organized and sponsored by the Faculty and Professional Learning Community (FPLC) Program. FPLC members will also be sharing their work at this conference, so there will be a wide variety of interesting and informative presentations.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Vice Chancellor Maria Harper-Marinick and the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction.

Register for the Conference

Register using Workshop Registration link on the MCC CTL Website

1. Click the Workshop Registration link.
2. Login with your MCC Username and password (or use the guest link).
3. Find the MCC Teaching and Learning Conference in the Calendar or in the Catalog.
4. Select the register link.

Conference Schedule

Time	Activity	Presenter(s)
9:00 a.m.	Welcome	Brad Kincaid, VPAA Jim Mancuso
9:15 a.m.	Transforming Practice Through Reflective Scholarship at Maricopa	VCAA Maria Harper-Marinick
9:30 a.m.	Scholarly Teaching and The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.	Laurie Richlin, Director, Preparing Future Faculty & Learning Communities Program, Claremont Graduate University.
10:00 a.m.	How can students take control of their own learning?	Mangala Joshua, Physics Faculty
10:20 a.m.	From FPLC to Learning Impact	Richard Effland, Anthropology Faculty
10:40 a.m.	A Contrastive Rhetorical Study of Chinese and Mexican Perceptions of their Native Writing Instruction and its Implications for ESL Teaching and Learning	Ban Phung, English Faculty
11:00 a.m.	Poster Session	All
12:00 p.m.	Lunch & Roundtable Discussion Sessions	All
12:45 p.m.	Connecting and Engaging Faculty and Staff with FPLCs	Brad Kincaid, Director FPLC Program
1:30 p.m.	Getting Credit for What You Do: Designing a Scholarly Teaching Project	Laurie Richlin, Director, Preparing Future Faculty & Learning Communities Program, Claremont Graduate University
3:30 p.m.	Adjourn

Conference Logistics

The Navajo Room will be available for Poster/Laptop Session setup from 8:00-9:00 a.m. before the opening session.

Navajo Room Arrangement

The Navajo Room will be set up with 3 different areas accommodating the different presentation formats.

• The central area of the Navajo Room will be set up with round tables for 150-200 people in front of a stage with podium and screen.
• The open wall space around the room will be set up for poster/laptop presentations with small tables (~40) for the poster and laptops. Half of these tables will have power.
• Some of the round tables in the central area (10) will be designated for the roundtable discussion sessions.

Presentation Formats

Besides the invited speakers, there will be four presentation formats used in the conference.

1. Poster presentations mounted on a folding or rigid poster board. Each poster will be on a 5 foot table that will likely be against a wall.
2. Laptop presentations are similar to the poster presentations except that a laptop can be used to deliver the content with only titles, headings, and names on the poster board. These presentations should be designed for relatively quick rotations.
3. Roundtable discussions on teaching and learning. Discussions should be designed in 15-20 minute segments, so that participants can rotate to other presentations. Discussions led by Discussion facilitators might focus on the question: "How will our SOTL/FPLC experience impact impact teaching and learning?" Other discussion topics are also be welcome.
4. Short talks from the conference podium (with or without powerpoint) strictly limited to 15 minutes including time for questions. Because of the relatively limited number of short talks scheduled, presentations will be selected to model SOTL principles.

Submit a Presentation for the Conference

Submit a presentation using the form on this MCC CTL Webpage. You must enter a title, abstract, preferred presentation format (from above) and other requested information.