Teaching and Learning Day
January 12, 2023
During our one-day virtual event on Thursday, January 12, 2023, Merrimack faculty and staff presented best practices, strategies, reflections, tools and more to promote engagement and student-centered teaching and learning.
Schedule of Events
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. : Pedagogical Tools in Canvas to Streamline your TeachingPresenter: Janet Syed, M.Ed. This session looks at the advantages of using Analytics in Canvas. Analytics presents logged activity by users in various components of a Canvas course. Learn how you can see at-a-glance how your students are performing. This session will also look at two features you might not know about: prerequisites and requirements. |
10:00 – 10:45: Get Ready to Engage All Students this Semester, Undergraduate and GraduateFaculty Facilitators: Drs. Jaleh Dashti-Gibson, Jane Parent, Lisa Perks, Chris Stuetzle, Additional TBD With an increasing number of students with various learning profiles, abilities, and diagnosed disabilities in our classes, whether on ground, hybrid or online, we as faculty need to think about strategies to teach all our students. This faculty panel will discuss important differences in course style, course structure, class policies, and community building to engage this diverse student population. |
10:45 – 11:30: Meeting Students Where They ArePresenter: Dr. Kenneth Rhee, Dean Girard School of Business We always talk about elevating our lofty academic standards and communicating our expectations to our students so that they can meet our lofty standards. However, is this the only way to elevate our students’ performance and advance our academic standards? We also interpret “meeting the students where they are” to mean lowering our academic standards so that they can perform at a certain level. In this session, we will discuss what it means when we say meeting the students where they are and also explore alternative ways for us to help students raise their academic performance and our standards by meeting them where they are. |
11:45 – 12:15: Engage Students by Creating Interactive Videos With PanoptoPresenter: Sean Wright, M.Ed., M.Sc. Join us for a session that will engage students and help to make your videos pop! We will share pre-production, production, and post-production techniques as well as ways to incorporate quizzes, smart chapters, and notes using Panopto. |
1:00 – 1:45: Antiracist Community Engagement Principles, Pedagogy and PracticesPresenter: Dr. Elaine Ward, Associate Professor, Chair, Higher Education Department , Special Assistant to the President for Civic and Community Engagement How can your community-engaged teaching, research and/or practice embody the antiracist values and aspirations we must achieve if we are to fully realize our institutional equity and inclusion goals? |
2:00 – 2:45: Ignite Students Passion with Immersive and Authentic ExperiencesPresenter: Dr. Deborah Margolis, Interim Dean, Winston School of Education and Social Policy |
2:45 – 3:15: Gradebook Transparency Boosts Student EngagementPresenter: Christine Sacco, M.Ed. Learn how to navigate within the gradebook, set weighted grades, add extra credit, drop the lowest quiz and more. Increase efficiency to retrieve, grade, and provide feedback using Speedgrader. |