The IDI Past Highlights
UW-Green Bay's Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL), along with the Instructional Development Council and with the support of the Provost Office, has hosted a January faculty development conference for over a decade. This page includes resources from the past five years, allowing you to explore themes, keynotes and session information from previous IDIs.
2024: Thriving in Higher Education
Thriving in higher education requires a collective shift from a mindset of mere survival to one of shared purpose, resilience, and growth. While there are no simple solutions, educators can work together to set meaningful goals, support one another, and create environments where both instructors and students are empowered to succeed.
Keynote
Dr. Kevin Gannon, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. His recent work focuses on reimagining introductory and survey courses in higher education; he is the author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto and has been published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vox, CNN, and The Washington Post.
Session Information
This year's IDI conference hosted many faculty and staff sharing about challenges and strategies related to thriving in higher, both for themselves and the students we support.
2023: Cultivating Student Success
Cultivating student success in higher education requires the interconnected efforts of an entire university working toward shared goals. Although there is no single answer as to how universities can ensure students are successful, there are a variety of consistent, small and transformative practices institutions of higher learning can employ to support students across their campuses.
Keynote
Dr. Stephen L. Chew and Dr. William Cerbin. Both Stephen and William are the authors of “The cognitive challenges of effective teaching”, published in The Journal of Economic Education, which explores a research-based framework of nine interacting cognitive challenges that teachers need to address to enhance student learning.
Session Information
This year's IDI conference hosted many higher education faculty and staff sharing about cognitive challenges in the classroom. Many sessions also focused on the challenges in education post COVID-19.
2022: Opening Up Higher Education
Much of the rhetoric around higher education during COVID has been around closing down activities and opportunities, yet, for many instructors, the experience has been one of opening up their classes to new ways of teaching, new populations of students and new expectations from administration. This year the IDI seeks to highlight the ways instructors have opened up their classes – and higher education by extension – in new ways. Open also relates to the use of Open Education Resources (OER), more open or inclusive classroom environments, streaming classes across locations, and our new identity as an open or “access” institution.
Keynote
Dr. Addy, Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lafayette College. Her recent publications on the scholarship of teaching and learning have been around learner-centered practices and inclusive pedagogies; she recently co-authored a book, What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching
Session Information
This year's IDI conference hosted many higher education faculty and staff sharing openness and inclusivity both in the classroom and the university.
2021: Making Meaningful Connections
This year the IDI keynote explored fives lenses for understanding and making meaningful connections in higher education with an emphasis on how we might re-imagine and democratize education to work toward equity and justice. These five lenses are: 1) naming the moment, 2) curriculum as intervention, 3) contradictions of teaching, 4) learning through crisis and 5) movement building as a frame.
Keynote
Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, former Dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. He is an award-winning author or editor of ten books, including Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning toward Social Justice, and Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture.
Session Information
This year's IDI conference hosted many higher education faculty and staff sharing on the impact of COVID-19 and strategies for developing education and connection amidst the pandemic.
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