July 2019 Newsletter

Welcome to our July Adjunct Faculty Newsletter – we hope you are having a wonderful summer! For those of you teaching this summer, we hope your engagement with students has been positive and that the learning is active and fulfilling. For those of you already thinking about the fall, we hope you are taking the time to think about how you might put into practice ideas from your Active Learning and/or Diversity and Inclusion reflections from the Adjunct Faculty Academy. We are always available to help you think through your ideas to help them come to fruition in your on-ground or online class environment. The theme for this newsletter is resources and support – the Finch Center for Teaching and Learning continues to offer outstanding programming and to centralize resources to help you work effectively with your students!

 

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Teaching and Learning

The below introductions are provided by Duneesha De Alwis, Adjunct Instructor – Arts and Sciences, Center for Teaching and Learning Adjunct Advisory Council Member

Recap of Perspectives Week: Adjunct Workshop

By Kristen Wellinghoff, Adjunct Professor of Communications, CTL Adjunct Advisory Council member, 2017-2019

The Center for Teaching and Learning hosted an Adjunct Workshop as part of Perspectives Week on Thursday, May 16. Held at the end of the Spring Semester, Perspectives Week aims to provide opportunities for faculty to grow as educators and individuals, connect to colleagues, observe diverse teaching styles, and inspire new ideas in the classroom. Thirty-five adjuncts attended the Adjunct Faculty Workshop, which included dinner, resource tables, and workshop sessions.

Participants had the opportunity to explore resources for the Library, Learning Technology and Support, the Center for Teaching and Learning Adjunct Advisory Council, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Life Coaches/Early Alert. The workshop sessions included Diversity and Inclusion (presented by Tiffany Reed and Ashley Storman from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion), Student Engagement/Involvement (presented by Jesse Kavadlo and Laura Ross from the Center for Teaching and Learning), and open dialogue with Tammy Gocial, Associate Academic Vice President. If you are interested in learning more about these topics, please see the resources below:

Diversity and Inclusion
The Diversity and Inclusion session focused on a privilege walk, which is designed to allow participants an opportunity to understand the intricacies of privilege while exploring ways that we as individuals enjoy privilege based on our social membership groups. This activity is not about blame but more of an opportunity to explore power or privilege with the occasion to identify the obstacles and benefits experienced in one’s life.

Student Engagement/Involvement
In this session presented by the Center for Teaching and Learning, participants broke into three working groups and presented creative ideas on how these topics could be implemented into their individual courses.

How One Professor Made Her Assignments More Relevant
Three Strategies for Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences
What Will Students Remember From Your Class in 20 Years?

Make sure to mark your calendar for REAL WEEK: August 12-16! REAL Week is a weeklong internal, teaching and learning convention. Our Adjunct Faculty Workshop will be held on Thursday, August 15, and more information about scheduling coming soon. We hope to see you there!

From the Maryville University Library

The Maryville University Library staff can help full-time and adjunct faculty with course design and other professional needs by creating Research Guides on specified topics. Research Guides are Library-produced web collections that compile a variety of Library resources, such as articles, web pages, books, and videos, that are tailored to your needs. Research Guides can augment your other course materials and enhance student learning.

The University Library also creates these LibGuides for Maryville staff, student organizations, and the campus community at large. Click on the links below to take a look at three different Research Guides created for University faculty to provide diverse classroom resources and assist with course design.

Interested in Research Guides for your upcoming courses? Learn more about the University Library here: maryville.edu/library
You can also browse a list of completed lib-guides here:

• Complete List
• Backward Design
• Diverse Perspectives
• Adjunct Faculty Resources

If you have any questions, or are interested in having a Research Guide made for your class, please email reference@maryville.edu.

Fall 2019 Important Dates