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2009 OPID Spring Conference

"Pedagogies of Hope: Inspiring, Understanding, and Assessing Student Learning"
Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee
Friday April 17-Saturday April 18, 2009
Registration

Tentative Agenda (Program Abstracts)

dotFriday, April 17
 

8:30-12:00 

Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Meeting

9:30-11:30     

Conference Workshops: Learning Transformations through Digital Storytelling
 -- Cheryl Diermyer, Caton Roberts, and Margaret Nellis, UW-Madison
Meeting Your Pedagogical Needs Using Second Life
-- Tanya M. Joosten, UW- Milwaukee
Understanding White Privilege: The Elephant in the Room
-- Damian Evans and Roseann Mason, UW-Parkside
Student Evaluations of Instruction: Faculty, Student, and Research Perspectives
-- April Bleske-Rechek, Matt Evans and Abigail Stellmacher, UW-Eau Claire

12:00-1:30     

Lunch with Opening Plenary: Celebrating a Collaborative UW-System Effort in Creating Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind
with Nancy Chick, UW-Barron County; Angela Bauer-Dantoin, Regan Gurung, Aeron Haynie, Rebecca Meacham, UW-Green Bay; Joel Sipress and Eri Fujieda, UW-Superior

1:30-2:15        

Meet the Authors of Exploring Signature Pedagogies:  Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind and book signing.

2:30-3:30

7 Concurrent Breakout Sessions

  1. E-portfolios and Wiki Pedagogy
    -- Anne Gurnack, Joseph Bergeron, Stephanie  Gwyn, UW-Parkside, Arlene Haffa, Alan Haffa,  and AnnMarie Johnson , UW-Oshkosh
  2. What do our Student Learning Outcomes Mean?
    -- Susan Nuernberg, John Koker and Todd Kostman, UW-Oshkosh
  3. Personal Narratives and Inspiring Student Learning
    --     Janis Hanson, UW-La Cross; and Dean VonDras, UW-Green Bay
  4. Case Studies: Practice and Pedagogy
    -- Robert Gutsche, UW-Richland , Erick Hofacker and  Kathryn Ernie,
    UW-River Falls
  5. Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes
    -- Dan Riordan, UW-Stout; and George Smith, UW-Platteville
  6. Reason to Hope? Student's Attitudes about Race and Class
    --     Cyndi Kernahan and Sandy Ellis, UW-River Falls
  7. Expanding Curriculum to All Learners
    -- Jill Klefstad and Michael Lawler, UW-Stout, and Jeffery B. Henriques, UW-Madison

3:45-4:45       

7 Concurrent Breakout Sessions

  1. Using the Common Theme to Advance the Goals of Liberal Education
    --     Donna Ritch, Regan Gurung and Kim Nielsen, UW-Green Bay
  2. Student Voices
    -- Pao Lor, Nick Schwei, Rachel Rose Gerth, UW-Green Bay, and Anne Hoel with her student Jordan Chabalowski, UW-Stout 
  3. MENTOR:  A New System to Track Student Progress
    --     David Hastings, David DeLyser and Jeff Erickson UW-Stevens Point
  4. Cultural Competency
    -- Jolanda Sallmann UW-Green Bay; Sarah Morgan and Julie Kailin,
    UW-Milwaukee
  5. -Isms and Identity in the College Classroom
    --     Jordan Landry, UW Oshkosh
  6. Improving Student Writing and Argumentation from the Basics to the Major
    --     Karen Gibson, UW-Oshkosh, John Pruitt, UW-Rock County; and Mesut Akdere, UW-Milwaukee
  7. A Tale from Two Campuses: Learning Assessment Tests and the VSA-- Carleen Vande Zande, UW-Oshkosh; and Jane Henderson, UW-Stout; George Smith, UW-Platteville, convener

5:00-6:30       

2008-2009 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Poster Session:  Examples of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Projects

6:30-8:30   

Dinner and Keynote Speaker: Melissa Harris
-- Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University

dotSaturday, April 18
 

7:30-8:15       

Breakfast

8:30-9:30       

7 Concurrent Breakout Sessions 

  1. Melissa Harris-Lacewell Follow-up Conversation/Action Plan
    -- Facilitated by La Vonne Cornell-Swanson, Interim Director OPID, with materials and information provided by Professor Lacewell
  2. Integrating Information Literacy Enhancement and Disciplinary Learning: Two Projects
    -- Lisa Larson, Eri Fujieda and Kay Biga, UW-Superior
  3. Increasing Learning and Success for All Students: The U-Pace Mode
     -- Diane Reddy, Jesscia L. Barnack, Raymond Fleming, Rodney Swain, Laura Pedrick and Jessica Stein, UW-Milwaukee
  4. Pedagogy of Hope: Human Rights in the Classroom and Beyond
    -- Catherine M. Bryan, UW-Oshkosh
  5. Science Student's Perception of Scale
    -- Kristen Murphy, Peter Geissinger, and Karrie Anderson, UW-Milwaukee; and Mohamed Ayoub, UW-Washington County
  6. Understanding and Assessing Student Learning through Lesson Study
    -- Joy Becker, Matthew Horak, Helen Schroeder, and Bryan Beamer, UW-Stout
  7. Interdisciplinary Collaboration Using Lesson Plan Study
    -- Monica Roth Day, Shevaun Stocker, Jennifer Christensen, UW-Superior

9:45-11:00     

Plenary Session:  Exploring Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge in Teaching and Learning About Diversity
-- Renee Meyers, Rene Antrop-Gonzales, and Erin N Winkler, UW-Milwaukee

11:00-12:30   

Lunch and Closing Remarks: Tony Ciccone, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning