Center for Teaching Excellence
The CCRI Student and Classroom Management Issues
Friday, March 28
10:00 – 11:30
KN President's Conference Room
Today's college students face myriad issues inside and outside the classroom, which impacts their expectations for college and their behavior with you. Join Tracy Karasinski, Dean of Community Standards, and Rachel Rogers for a session that will give you a foundational understanding of today's CCRI students, implications for their classroom behavior, and tips for how you can set expectations from day 1, respond to unexpected behavior, and when to reach out to the Dean of Students for help.
This event is worth 4 CTE Knights Points.
Caring Campus is Back!
CCRI is a caring campus with commitments from faculty to students. Those commitments are welcoming students, learning students' names, utilizing an inclusive and transparent syllabus, and providing early and frequent assessments to ensure student success and retention. Last academic year, the Faculty Senate approved for a resolution adopting these Commitments for all faculty.
This online workshop will teach you more about these commitments and how they impact students. You will also work with a group of your peers to get ideas and feedback on how to incorporate them into your courses.
When: 3/17 - 4/13
Where: Online
Knight points: 10 pts
Partnership with DAS and The Autism Project
Do you want to learn more about working with Neurodivergent Students? Join CTE, DAS, and The Autism Project for four hours of training and workshop led by Ariana DeAngelis from The Autism Project.
This hybrid group will meet on the first Friday of March (3/7) and April (4/4) from 12:30 – 2:30 each day. The in-person meeting space will be on the Knight campus in Warwick, with online attendees hosted over WebEx. Faculty will earn 8 CTE Knights points for full participation.
Space is limited to 30 people, so please register now!
CCRI’s OER Team
Friday, February 28
10:00 – 11:30
KN 5579 (Library conference room)
CCRI is one of only 19 institutions that were selected by the American Association of Colleges and Universities to participate in 2024-25 Institute for Open Education Resources (OER).
Join us on Friday, February 28 from 10:00-11:30 to meet the CCRI OER team and learn more about OER and how it can impact your students; their retention, grades and graduation rates. Come and hear from fellow faculty who have adopted OER and learn about their experiences.The CCRI OER Team, Roger Hart (Physics), Jane Reggio (Workforce), Rachel Blair Vogt (Library/Newport) and Jim Salisbury (Library/Warwick) look forward to meeting with you and discussing how OER can make CCRI even more affordable for our students.
This event is worth 4 CTE Knights points.
Resources
Check out all the new books that CTE has added to the library collection in the past two years.
Rachel's Recommended Reading
"Geeky Pedagogy: a guide for intellectuals, introverts, and nerds who want to be effective teachers" by Jessamyn Neuhaus
From the publisher: "Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to
the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher."
From Rachel: This accessable and engaging read won me over almost immediately by acknowledging that what works in one teaching context will not work in every teaching context. Neuhaus offers a great mix of idealism and excitement about teaching with a healthy dose of the realities of complex lives and the differing effects of faculty characteristics on how classes work.
Available as an ebook from the CCRI Library here.
Activate your CCRI ID as a Library Card here.
Knights Points
Don't forget, you can fill out an Implementation Plan if you want to use anything you learn from any professional development in your classes for 4 CTE Knights points. Close the gap to a CTE Knights Certificate before Spring Symposium!
Disaggregated Data Requests
In February 2022, I (Rachel) was able to see my course data for General Psychology (a course I have taught many times here at CCRI) disaggregated by race and ethnicity. The results were surprising and difficult for me to face. Despite that, I’m very glad that I did it, and I’m looking forward to trying some new strategies in my courses to try to close the equity gaps I found.
If you’d like to check out your own course data, request a meeting here to get started.
This is a confidential process and is for your professional development only. Results are not shared with chairs, deans, or the VPAA.
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