Participants will understand high-impact career practices that lead to growing equitable career success among students, gain career-related ideas for assignments/strategies that can be implemented into courses, and take away a virtual whiteboard with idea...
In this session, you will learn how the classroom is a place to support student wellness and at least one strategy they could employ to support student wellness in their classroom.
The goal of this session is to show that "ungrading" strategies in STEM courses are not only possible, but may actually be preferable for promoting student success. The session will hopefully spark some ideas about how to go about implementing this in cla...
In this session, you will learn how an upper-level ANTH/BIOL cross-listed course implemented the practice of ungrading and student-guided learning objectives within the museum studies field to facilitate positive peer engagement and co-learning.
In this session, you will learn about various approaches to accommodations for late assignment submissions and things to consider when choosing a no-questions-asked policy for your class. You may find a new approach that fits your course and helps student...
During this session, participants will learn that Creating an OER is doable, how to make customizable content to meet student needs, and how to incorporate interactive activities within the text.
Participants will better understand the importance of incorporating career development into the classroom and reflect on opportunities and potential challenges that can come up while incorporating career development into the classroom.
In this session, you will learn what a studio course can look like in a university setting, the challenges and best practices in teaching a studio course, and how to balance in-person and online learning activities.
In this session, participants will learn about the new teaching publication and resource, Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success. Participants will gain a deeper understanding and examples of habits of mind teaching to incorporate into the...
Participants will explore ways to modify learning environments in a way that helps students respond to intrinsic motivation, build self-efficacy, and focus on mastery-level learning. We will introduce various ideas and teaching practices associated with a...
In this session, you will build an understanding and recognition of trauma-reactive behavior in students and the impact of trauma on student success in academics, activities, and relationships. You will also learn strategies to self-assess, plan for, and ...
In this session, you will learn 1) What new events ETE will be offering, 2) Changes to the ETE10 program, and 3) Individual professional development opportunities provided to USU instructors.
During this session, participants will learn to provide and accept feedback, gain insight into how others interpret feedback, and have conversations that are more effective.
In this session, you will engage in social emotional learning and wellness practices to use in you classrooms, consider ways to enhance the individual and collective well-being students, and explore social emotional learning practices that build community...
In this session you will learn about the pedagogical benefits to using video discussions, see feedback from students who have used video discussions and learn how to implement video discussions into your own courses.
In this session, you will learn: * Disciplinary approaches for utilizing generative AI responsibly to promote student learning. * How to communicate the potential ethical considerations of AI with students. * Discipline-specific strategies for navig
This presentation will demonstrate how faculty can use Virtual Reality in the classroom to enhance student learning and success. The nursing department faculty worked with Teaching and Learning Technologies to help students utilize and practice hands-on s...
In this session, you will learn new language and discussion tools to help your students more skillfully engage in activities, develop relationships and take on roles in the community that challenge social injustice and create meaningful change.
The purpose of the panel is to provide the audience a perspective of our Division I student-athletes in Logan, UT. Discussion will navigate in the following areas: Compare and contrast from high school athletics to Division I athletics Academic colleg
In this session, you will learn what a studio course can look like in a university setting, some of the challenges and best practices in teaching a studio course, and how to choose an appropriate balance of in-person and online learning activities.
In this session you will learn about helping students make international connections. You will learn five ways to help students pursue study abroad and internationalize your curriculum at USU. These approaches help students develop new activities, roles, ...
In this session, you will learn about USU's Writing Fellows Program, a resource available to faculty who assign writing in their courses. After leaving the session, you will understand how the program works and how to request Writing Fellows as embedded p...
In this presentation, you will learn five teaching strategies that can be easily implemented in an undergraduate classroom. You can then develop a lesson introduction that uses one of the teaching strategies and identify one project in your course content...
In this session, you will learn about the pedagogical concepts of desirable difficulty and productive struggle to help students become more well-positioned for success, especially in upper-level courses with a high degree of difficulty.
Our objective is to help the audience comprehend the science behind lecture pauses. Attendees will witness how these pauses improve student engagement and learning outcomes and gain practical tools and insights to enhance their teaching and improve studen...
In this session, you will learn about the mentor-reviewed model used by Curiosity journal, and how you can support your undergraduate students during their first academic publishing experience.
This session will teach you how Open Educational Resources can benefit students. You will explore how OER can support your teaching objectives and learn how to access USU support in exploring OER.
Our aim is to provide concrete methods for relationship building in Connect & online courses with example lesson plans and Pear Deck Slides, assignments including lateral transfer maps, and rubrics for student reflections.
In this session, you will learn how to use journal writing as a retention strategy, tool to practice critical thinking, and a space to inspire student confidence in a variety of disciplines. Additionally, you will learn how to implement and assess Learnin...
During this workshop, attendees will learn how to apply four power tools that are research-based and classroom-proven: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition.
In this session, you will learn what a story-based course is and how to leverage the stunning power of story in your classroom. Engage your students in new ways by designing your classes as adventures!
Participants will be able to better identify research-supported benefits of active learning environments, common concerns and misconceptions of students regarding active learning, and common beliefs and obstacles that instructors report.
In this session, you will learn how to make your syllabus more welcoming and how to access the SEP's First-Day Toolkit for other syllabi ideas. You will leave with specific changes you can make to your syllabi to better create a sense of belonging for you...
In this session, you will learn approaches for integrating research methods into a case-based, team project, how teachers and librarians can collaborate to improve student experiences, and how to iterate team projects to be more engaging and relevant to p...
Participants will learn about certain design elements and specific tools in Canvas that are correlated with improved student engagement and performance.
In this session you will learn about mentoring student clubs, creating networking opportunities for students, why networking matters, what digital native students need in mentoring, and where you can document teaching outside the classroom.
Participants will learn more about the benefits and challenges of an ungraded, project-based approach, especially in courses that are large-enrollment, science-based, and/or freshmen-level.
You will learn about writing tasks that promote student reflection on the course material and their own performance: writing reflective journals, reflections on writing assignments, reflections on teacher and peer feedback, writing-to-learn activities, an...
In this session, you will learn about USU's first-generation students, including their demographics; retention data as it applies to USU's first-generation students; and specific actions that help first-generation students achieve their goals of completin...
In this session, you will articulate the student’s role of becoming a learner; identify ways faculty can create environments that facilitate relationship building; and select activities to implement into your courses that support students becoming learner...
In this session, you will learn what resources are available (at USU, in Utah, and nationally) to support undergraduate research; ways to incorporate undergraduate research mentoring; and strategies for mentoring undergraduates outside the classroom.
In this session, you will learn 3 short-term, 3 medium-term, and 3 long-term strategies to make your class more inclusive and accessible.
In this session, you will learn about the role of administration in student success, and how administrators from varying departments can work together to better support student populations in their college journeys.
As a land-grant institution, part of our mission as a university is to provide access to learning for all. This means that many of our freshmen come to campus not adequately prepared with the study skills they need to succeed in college. As faculty, we of...
Over the past year, the Career Design Center, formerly Career Services, has been very busy reimagining and redesigning career education at Utah State University. Based on national trends, research, data, feedback from the Utah State University (USU) commu...
Most articles in academic journals go through a process of scholarly review, where peers in the field give feedback on the article and recommend it to be accepted, revised, or rejected by the publisher. While this review process is considered a pillar of ...
One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been more students accessing content remotely, without access to the technology and other resources available on campus. Students from underrepresented groups have been disproportionately affected, something th...
Please join us for a jam-packed session on Community-Engaged Teaching and Research. Get the nuts and bolts of Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) course development, learn about AggiePulse, the new Community Engagement platform, and have your questions answ...
Students are frequently asked to achieve, on their first attempts, stellar results on high-stakes, high-pressure assessments. New research on the science of learning is beginning to show us that this strategy does not work well, though, because it is not ...
