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February 23, 2024

Cultivate, Construct, and Create

Caring Learning Spaces

Dr. Brittany Dillman, Dr. Makena Neal & Dr. Patti Stewart

https://bit.ly/CreateCaringLearning

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Who are we? The voices we bring

Brittany

Dillman

(she/her)

Makena

Neal

(she/they)

Patti

Stewart

(she/her)

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Community Hopes

This is a brave space
We are all co-learners & Social-justice work is a journey
Try on ideas
Practice self-focus
Acknowledge Intent vs Impact
Practice “both, and” thinking
Refrain from blaming and shaming self and others
Move up & Move back
Practice mindful listening
Practice confidentiality
Right to pass

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Goal

Let’s re-ignite our passion for students and teaching!

Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay

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Setting expectations

This session is not:

Going to tell you what to do
Going to tell you what not to do
A fix all the teaching challenges you experience

Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay

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Our

Plan

Welcome, introductions, & values

Cultivate a Caring Climate

Construct Captivating Curriculum

Create a DEI Statement for InstruCtion

15 min

30 min

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Introductions and Values

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Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We enact them—we are clear about what we believe and hold important, and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviors align with those beliefs.

-Dr. Brené Brown

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School of Social Work Values

The MSU School of Social Work is equipping the next generation of change makers. Our teaching, research, and outreach synergistically promote social justice, positive change, and solutions to the problems facing diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

Empower the underserved. Advocate for change.

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My Values

Examine all values
Identify your top 1 or 2 core values
Write 1 per sticky note
Put your sticky note on the SSW side
Note how your values connect to SSW’s

4 min

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Sharing Our Values

Large Group

Share name
Share pronouns
Share values

Walk + Read

Sticky notes out
Walk around
Read values

Small Groups

Share values
Share how they fit in to SSW

4 min

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Why values?

Align teaching practices with your values and SSW values

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Cultivate a Caring Classroom Climate

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@MAET

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intentionality

being deliberate at the start of a course to help highlight and emphasize the tone you’re building for the course can build community and increase engagement with material and you as instructor

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Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

-Dr. Parker Palmer

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Introducing yourself as the instructor: Who are you & what do you value?

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Who do you represent?

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What does your email signal to others?

Makena Neal, Ph.D. (Pronounce)

Assistant Director of Educator Development�she/they (more about rolling pronouns)

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Cultivate a Caring Classroom Climate

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Click for survey library

Tech / Accessibility Survey

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Marcella Addy, Dube, Mitchell & SoRelle (2021) What Inclusive Instructors Do. Stylus Publishing.

Does your syllabus demonstrate to students that everyone has a place in your field of study? … Pedagogically, we might find it challenging to create a sense of belonging in a course when some students cannot imagine themselves as part of the community of scholarship and practice. (p. 52)

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Learn Names

Correctly Pronounce Names

Ask for Preferred Names

Share Pronouns

Calling individuals by their names fosters deeper human connection and can contribute to leveling the power playing field.

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Explain to learners why- our rationale- for everything from reading lists and assignment designs, to course policies like deadlines and office hours

Pedagogical Transparency

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Don’t be afraid to cite your sources. We ask students to do this in their work, why shouldn’t we do it in ours as well?

-Dr. Valerie Hedges

Welcome to My Classroom (Oct. 2023)

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Listening

“Listening. It’s a simple, disarmingly effective pedagogical tool that signals respect, underscoring the value of student contributions and the importance of the classroom conversation you’re guiding. It’s also a skill to model — and a norm to set — as you build a community where all perspectives are welcome.”

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“Formative feedback provides information on our thinking or our performance, while giving us time to reflect and act on that feedback.”

MSU’s Center for Teaching & Learning Innovation

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Cultivating a Caring Classroom

Your turn.

What do you need to…reflect on? write? draw? talk about? ask? process?

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Construct Captivating Curriculum

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TPACK Framework

(Mishra & Koehler, 2006)

Technological Pedagogical

And

Content

Knowledge

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TPACK Framework

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Contextual Knowledge

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Contextual Knowledge

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Contextual Knowledge

What are my contexts?

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Contextual Knowledge

What are my contexts?

How many students?
What are their challenges?
What resources do you have?
What rules & standards do we need to comply with?

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Content Knowledge

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Content Knowledge

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Content Knowledge

What do students need to know?

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Content Knowledge

What do students need to know?

Subject area
Standards
Objectives
Background knowledge
Misconceptions

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Pedagogy Knowledge

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Pedagogy Knowledge

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Pedagogy Knowledge

How will students engage?

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Pedagogy Knowledge

How will students engage?

Activities
Things students do

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Sample Pedagogical Strategies

Demonstration
Direct-instruction
Tutorials
Lecture & note-taking
Didactic questioning
Explicit teaching
Modeling
Storytelling
Flipped mastery
Debate
Reader’s theatre

Visualizing
Jigsaw
Project-based learning
Diagramming
Centers
Inquiry
Think-pair-share
Workshop
Simulation
Role playing
Socratic questioning
Journaling

Gamification
Gallery walks
Essay/story writing
Drill & practice
Webquest
Concept mapping
Learning log
Independent reading
Graphic organizer
Lab experiments
Fish bowl
Kaleidoscope

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Technological Knowledge

Revised version of the TPACK image.

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Technological Knowledge

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Technological Knowledge

What is the best tool for learning?

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Technological Knowledge

What is the best tool for learning?

Digital
Web-based
Analog
Repurposed

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TPACK

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TPACK

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TPACK

The sweet spot!

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TPACK

The sweet spot!

The intersection of your

XK
CK
PK
TK

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A quickfire is a constrained learning activity. You will have at least 1 limited resource (e.g. time, materials, or information). You have to take risks. The goal is to push you to think differently and creatively, not perfectly.

-Master of Arts in Educational Technology Program

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TPACK Quickfire

You will receive 1 paper

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TPACK Quickfire

You will receive 1 paper

Content

Pedagogy

Technology

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TPACK Quickfire

Round 1

Make a group of 3

1 of each color (or 1 of each type)

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TPACK Quickfire

Content 1

Content 3

Pedagogy 1

Pedagogy 3

Technology 1

Technology 3

Content 2

Pedagogy 2

Technology 2

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TPACK Quickfire

Content 1

Content 3

Pedagogy 1

Pedagogy 3

Technology 1

Technology 3

Content 2

Pedagogy 2

Technology 2

Group 1

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TPACK Quickfire

Content 1

Content 3

Pedagogy 1

Pedagogy 3

Technology 1

Technology 3

Content 2

Pedagogy 2

Technology 2

Group 1

Group 2

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TPACK Quickfire

Content 1

Content 3

Pedagogy 1

Pedagogy 3

Technology 1

Technology 3

Content 2

Pedagogy 2

Technology 2

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

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TPACK Quickfire

Round 1

Make a group of 3

TPACK Quickfire

Content 1

Content 3

Pedagogy 1

Pedagogy 3

Technology 1

Content 2

Pedagogy 2

Technology 2

Technology 3

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

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TPACK Quickfire

Round 2

Make a new group of 3

1 of each color (or 1 of each type)

Create a lesson with your

content + pedagogy + technology

1

min

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TPACK Quickfire

Repeat!

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Construct Captivating Curriculum

Your turn.

What do you need to…reflect on? write? draw? talk about? ask? process?

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Create a DEI Statement for InstruCtion

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Impact of belonging

Linked to increased persistence, student satisfaction and well-being, success

How?

Positive interactions with diverse peers
Peer mentoring, staff care & support
Attention to campus climate

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Principles of Inclusive Pedagogy

A shift in focus from one that is concerned with only those individuals who have been identified as having ‘additional needs’, to learning for all—the idea of everybody (not most and some)

Rejection of deterministic beliefs about ability (and the associated idea that the presence of some will hold back the progress of others)

Ways of working that respect the dignity of learners as full members of the community of the classroom

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Inclusion Benefits Us All

Increased (academic) achievement
Higher self-esteem and greater confidence in creative problem-solving
Improved critical thinking and openness to intellectual challenges
Increased awareness of social problems, civic engagement, and empathy
Reduced prejudice across difference and increased meaningful relationships across difference
These effects are long-term and consistent across age groups

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“If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.”

“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”

-Dr. Parker Palmer

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Identity

Which identities show up:

most often in how you teach?

least often in how you teach?

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Teaching Philosophy Statement

Incorporating a DEI lens

Recommended length: max 2 pages
Incorporate and articulate your values, philosophy & inclusive teaching practice
Connect with a colleague or Patti (ps@msu.edu) for feedback

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Teaching Philosophy Statement

Resources for tips

Centre for Teaching and Learning (Western University, Canada)

Inside Higher Ed

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Teaching Philosophy Statement

Examples

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Connect with us!

Brittany Dillman

dillmanb@msu.edu

Makena Neal mneal@msu.edu

Patti Stewart

ps@msu.edu