Project: Pedagogy+

Winter Faculty Professional Development

The Vilas A. Prabhu Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) and Instructional & Technology Support (I&TS) invite all faculty (pre-tenure, tenure, and part-time/adjunct) to attend Pedagogy+ Workshop Winter 2024. Our focus this year is memory, technology, and teaching. Participants will be provided with a copy of Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology by Michelle D. Miller. 

Pedagogy+ Workshop Winter 2024 will be held, virtually, Thursday January 4th and Thursday January 11th , 2024.  

Pedagogy+ Winter 2024 will include two (2) half day workshops centered around 1) building pedagogical vocabulary, 2) showcasing existing practices, spaces, and discussions supporting faculty development, and 3) adapting pedagogical practices to meet student engagement needs. To accomplish this, Pedagogy+ Winter 2024 will include discussions, presentations, roundtables, and workshops, allowing for information and research sharing, peer and facilitator interactions, peer-peer mentoring, and work time.  

Pedagogy+ Winter 2024 is designed to help faculty remix syllabi for their Spring 2024 classes. Bring your teaching practices and bring your syllabi. These discussions and workshops will help you plan your Spring 2024 courses, plan your student-engaged teaching practices, and plan your formative assessments through workshops, discussions, peer interaction, and work time. 

Pedagogy+ facilitators will further support how we, as faculty, meaningfully connect through mediated modalities, deliver meaningful content, and assess student learning. 

Pedagogy+ Schedule

Thursday January 4th (virtual)

  • 9-10am Welcome and Book Discussion
    • Introduction, chapters 1, 2, and 3
  • 10-11am Remarks and Discussion 
  • 11-noon Tool Workshop

Thursday January 11th (virtual)

  • 9-10am Welcome and Book Discussion
    • Chapters 4, 5, and conclusion
  • 10-11am Peer Presentations
  • 11-noon Tool Workshop and Data Collection

Pedagogy+ Goals

  • Enhance faculty-participant ability to discuss pedagogical approaches to facilitating student learning, especially related to science of memory and attention strategies. 
  • Enhance faculty-participant ability to report about pedagogical approaches to support student learning, and faculty pedagogical growth.   
  • Apply or revise pedagogical approach to support student learning 
  • Identify the student impact of faculty professional development work at Millersville University. 

Faculty-participants will choose breakout rooms based on the Spring 2024 course they are transforming. Faculty are invited to access and use the notes most appropriate to their class or classes.  

Registration

Use this link to register.

As part of registration faculty will be asked: 

  1. Name
  2. Department 
  3. The Spring 2024 course(s) you would like to enhance with inclusive teaching practices 
  4. The modality of the Spring 2024 course you will be working on 

Deliverables:

After registration closes, faculty will be given the option to select the track they would like to participate in. 

Track #1: Faculty will receive a copy of the book, and are invited to attend any combination of sessions that suite their needs.

Track #2: Faculty will receive a copy of the book, attend 3-6 sessions, and submit an annotated syllabus or appropriate assignment sheet showing where memory or technology changes were implemented into their pedagogical approach and course design, submit reflection surveys at the mid-point and end of the semester. Track #2 will offer $200 in Professional Development Fall 2024.

Pedagogy+ Data

Pedagogy+ Winter 2023 included 2 book discussions, 2 presentations, and 2 workshop sessions with 27 faculty participants! Because the topic of Pedagogy+ changes from year-to-year, we are excited by the increased participation from new faculty, and enjoy continued work with prior attendees as they build courses that become major components of their re-appointment and scholarly work. 

Pedagogy+ Winter 2022 included 2 discussion and 3 workshop sessions with 12 faculty participants! The successful design from Winter 2021 informed Winter 2022 design, which included longer follow-up, and support for classroom assessment to support faculty needs. Based on participant surveys, 100% affirmed that participation in Pedagogy+ Winter 2022 was relevant to their teaching, 100% made positive changes to support student engagement and learning in their Spring 2023 courses, and 100% reported better understanding of assessing the effectiveness of their pedagogical changes to measure student learning. 

Pedagogy+ winter 2021 included 18 discussion and workshop sessions with 83 faculty participants! The successful design from Winter 2021 is informing Winter 2022 design, which will include longer follow-up, and support for classroom assessment to support faculty needs. 

Project Pedagogy+ Design Team

Winter 2024

Dr. A Nicole Pfannenstiel, CAE Coordinator, Associate Professor of English

Ms. Marie Firestone, Instructional Support Specialist, I&TS

Mr. Matt Fox, Instructional Designer, I&TS

 

Winter 2023

Dr. A Nicole Pfannenstiel, CAE Coordinator, Associate Professor of English

Ms. Marie Firestone, Instructional Support Specialist, I&TS

Mr. Matt Fox, Instructional Designer, I&TS

 

Winter 2022

Dr. A Nicole Pfannenstiel, CAE Coordinator, Associate Professor of English

Ms. Marie Firestone, Instructional Support Specialist, I&TS

Mr. Matt Fox, Instructional Designer, I&TS

 

 

Winter 2021

Dr. A Nicole Pfannenstiel, CAE Coordinator, Assistant Professor of English

Professor Michele Santamaria, Learning Design Librarian, Assistant Professor McNairy Library

Ms. Marie Firestone, Instructional Support Specialist, I&TS

Mr. Matt Fox, Instructional Designer, I&TS