2015-2017 Gateways-ND Cohort
The 2015-2017 Gateways-ND Cohort members have completed their two-year program. Members of the 2015-2017 Gateways-ND Cohort and the NDSU campus community will find information here about the 2015-2017 Gateways-ND Cohort. If you have any questions about the Gateways-ND program, please contact the Office of Teaching and Learning at 701-231-7015.
Schedule
A schedule of cohort related activities is being created. Important dates and deadlines will be added as they are scheduled. Please scroll to the bottom of the schedule for current and upcoming events as the schedule is listed in order by date of activity.
November 20, 2015 - Meet and Greet
November 23, 2015 - Meet and Greet (For cohort members whose schedules conflicted with the first Meet and Greet.)
4 p.m. Group Decision Center, FLC 320
January 6 - 8, 2016 - Gateways-ND First Workshop Series // A. Glenn Hill Center // Room 330 // View PDF of Workshop Schedule
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2016
8 a.m. - WELCOME + COFFEE
8:15 a.m. - LEARNING ABOUT YOU // Gateways-ND team
Who are we - each of us, why are we here, where are we going, how do we get there? Understand your teaching background and the things you would like to take away from our time together.
9 a.m. - BACKWARD DESIGN (PART I) // Lisa Montplaisir + Larry Napoleon + Becky Reichenbach
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - BACKWARD DESIGN (PART II) // Lisa Montplaisir + Larry Napoleon + Becky Reichenbach
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. - LUNCH // MU Rose Room
1:15 - 3:15 p.m. - FORMATIVE (DIAGNOSTIC) AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT // Paul Kelter
What is it? Stakeholders? Assessment vs.evaluation, cognitive levels and expectations, Blooming your exams.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016
8 - 10 a.m. - DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDING QUESTIONS // Mila Kryjevskaia + Amy Rupiper Taggart
Learning questioning skills, especially using scaffolding to teach high-level ideas.
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - WORKTIME AND COHORT MEMBER PRESENTATIONS
Apply what participants have learned to the design and presentation of mini-lesson plans.
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. - LUNCH // MU Rose Room
1:15 - 3:15 p.m. - ANALYTICS // Mark Hanson
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2016
8 - 10 a.m. - LEARNING ASSISTANTS // Jeff Boyer
Show how learning assistants can help in your instruction.
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 a.m. - SCALE-UP // Jenny Momsen
Taking it to the next step via SCALE-UP.
12:15 a.m. - END OF FIRST WORKSHOP SERIES
January 25, 2016 - Faculty Learning Community meeting
2 p.m., Group Decision Center, FLC 320
Led by Paul Kelter and Mark Hanson
January 28, 2016 - Faculty Learning Community meeting
10-11 a.m., Memorial Union - Room of Nations
Led by James Nyachwaya and Jared Ladbury
January 29, 2016 - Faculty Learning Community meeting
9 - 10 a.m., Memorial Union - Meadow room
Led by Lisa Montplaisir (and possible partner TBA)
May 18 - 20, 2016 - Gateways-ND Second Workshop: Expanding Knowledge, Refining Practice // A. Glenn Hill Center // Room 330 // View PDF of Workshop Schedule
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016
8:30 - 9 a.m. - WELCOME + COFFEE
• Build community around light breakfast
9 - 10 a.m. - INTRO - WHERE ARE YOU NOW? // Paul Kelter + Becky Reichenbach (COPUS)
• Review project long-term deliverables and expectations
• Review the workshop schedule
• Establish the goals of the workshop
• Reflect on COPUS snapshots
• Through small group discussion, report out what you’ve worked on this spring
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - KEYNOTE // Your Classroom Niche... Surviving or Thriving? // Bill McLauglin
• Building the one key link underlying all classroom management
• Developing steps for effective classroom discussions
• Designing meta-problems in active learning
12:15 - 1 p.m. - LUNCH
1:15 - 2:15 p.m. - SYLLABUS BEST PRACTICES, SYLLABUS PEER REVIEW // Lisa Montplaisir
• Identify core syllabus requirements per NDSU expectations
• Review your own and peer syllabi for those expectations
• Review course objectives to improve measurability
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. - FROM DATA TO ACTION: PLANNING SUPPORT AND FOSTERING BELONGING // Mark Hanson + James Nyachwaya
• Become familiar with campus and course-based academic supports and their uses
• Develop a conceptual framework for student belonging and mattering as they relate to positive academic outcomes
• Create a course-specific student support plan
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. - MASTER CLASS // Bill McLaughlin
• Why we do what we do + Q&A
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016
8:30 - 9 a.m. - WELCOME + COFFEE
• Build community around light breakfast
9 - 11:15 a.m. - SCAFFOLDING INSTRUCTION // Amy Rupiper Taggart + Mila Kryjevskaia
• To understand scaffolding strategies well enough to locate them in a sample lesson.
• To apply scaffolding strategies to improving a lesson
11:30 - 12:30 p.m. - LUNCH
12:45 - 2:45 p.m. - ASSESSMENT // Lisa Montplaisir
• Review formative and summative assessment definitions
• Develop one in-class formative assessment
• Develop a portion of a summative assessment to follow-up on a formative assessment
2:45 - 3:15 p.m. - CLOSING Q & A // Paul Kelter
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016
8:30 - 9 a.m. - WELCOME + COFFEE
• Build community around light breakfast
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - KEYNOTE WORKSHOP // Transforming How We Teach is Good, But Transforming What We Expect Students To Learn Is Better // Diane Ebert May
• Practice how to actively engage students in cooperative work and inquiry-based activities.
• Develop course objectives, assessments and instruction for one class meeting that enables students to demonstrate understanding of concepts by using science practices (e.g., modeling, arguments).
• Characterize your current assessments (i.e., test items) based on core ideas and science practices to improve instruction.
12 - 12:30 p.m. - CLOSING SESSION // Paul Kelter
• Complete the workshop surveys
• Complete the post-training planning
• Reminders
• Sign up for FLCs
August 17-19, 2016 - Gateways-ND Third Workshop: Sharing the Wealth // A. Glenn Hill Center // Room
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2016
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2016
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2016
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
January 4-6, 2017 - Gateways-ND Fourth Workshop: Looking Back, Planning Forward // A. Glenn Hill Center // Room 126
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2017
8 - 8:30 a.m. - BREAKFAST (Outside A. Glenn Hill Room 126)
8:30 - 9 a.m. - READING ACROSS YOUR COPUS AND GOAL SETTING // Becky Reichenbach + Lisa Montplaisir.
• What can be learned from 2 years of COPUS?
• How to compare the charts?
9 - 10:30 a.m. - FOLLOW UP ON YOUR GOALS WRITING BOOTCAMP // Amy Rupiper Taggart
• Return to a teaching goal.
• Think of one document you could create or refine to get at that goal.
• Work on the document for 1 hour.
• Report in a small group on your progress and get feedback.
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - SESSION TBA
• Learn from multiple in-cohort experts about:
• Case study exams,
• Teaching with visuals,
• Group work,
• Classroom demos, and
• Participation tracking.
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. - LUNCH
1:15 - 3:15 p.m. - TEACHING FOR DIVERSITY
3:15 - 3:30 p.m. - WRAP UP
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017
8 - 8:30 a.m. - BREAKFAST (Outside A. Glenn Hill Room 126)
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. - KEYNOTE WORKSHOP // Assessment and Test Construction (Group Testing) // Jay Howard
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. - LEADERSHIP: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CAMPUS PEDAGOGICAL LEADER AND CHANGE AGENT? // Paul Kelter
• Examining leadership case studies plus discussion?
12 - 1 p.m. - LUNCH
1 - 2:45 p.m. - ASSESSMENT PEER FEEDBACK AND WORK SESSION // Lisa Montplaisir
• Bring one learning goal from your syllabus, one daily plan for class that gets at teaching that, and one assessment that checks in on students' understanding.
2:45 - 3:30 p.m. - CLOSING SESSION (A. Glenn Hill Room 240) // Where do we go now?
• Complete the survey & planning documents.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 // Gateways - ND Workshop // Memorial Union, Prairie Rose Room
8 a.m. - BREAKFAST // Networking with Cohort 1, Cohort 2, and graduate students.
8:30 a.m. - ASSESSMENT: PART I - THE SILENT KILLER OF LEARNING // Eric Mazur, Ph.D.
10 a.m. - ASSESSMENT: PART 2 - DESIGNING GOOD QUESTIONS // Eric Mazur, Ph.D.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 // EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION COLLOQUIUM // Memorial Union, Century Theater
2 - 3 p.m. - INNOVATING EDUCATION TO EDUCATE INNOVATORS // Eric Mazur, Ph.D.
This is an optional event for Cohort members. If you are able to attend, please ensure you preregister early as there are only 300 seats available and the general public will be invited to attend.
Cohort Members
The following individuals were selected by the Gateways-ND grant committee members to be part of the first cohort for the Gateways-ND program. These individuals will begin making an impact on the way STEM classes are offered at NDSU. Congratulations to all the selected Cohort members!
Magdy Abdelrahman | Teresa Bergholz Assistant Professor Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences |
| Sarah Boonstoppel Assistant Professor Criminal Justice and Polical Science | Ganesh Bora Assistant Professor Agricultrual and Biosystems Engineering |
| Bradley Bowen Assistant Professor Teacher Education, Construction Management and Engineering | Julia Bowsher Assistant Professor Biological Sciences |
| John Buncher Assistant Professor of Practice Physics | Sarah Bundy Assistant Professor Emergency Management |
| Dong Cao Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering | Lisa Christenson Assistant Professor Animal Sciences |
| Ned Dochtermann Assistant Professor Biological Sciences | Thomas Dowdell Associate Professor Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems |
| Neil Dyer Professor Veterinary Diagnostic Services | Na Gong Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Christina Hargiss Assistant Professor Natural Resources Management | Harlene Hatterman-Valenti Professor Plant Sciences |
| Jeremy Jackson Assistant Professor Agribusiness and Applied Economics | Mary Jo Kenyon Senior Lecturer Biological Sciences |
| Ivan Lima Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering | Sylvio May Associate Professor Physics |
| Kevin McPhee Associate Professor Plant Sciences | Greg Oswald Lecturer Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| Alexander Parent Associate Professor Chemistry | Birgit Pruess Associate Professor Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences |
| Matthew Smith Assistant Professor of Practice Biological Sciences | Lydia Tackett Assistant Professor Geosciences |
| Annie Tangpong Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Deirdre Voldseth Associate Professor Entomology |
| Jinhui Wang Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering | Xinnan Wang Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering |
| David Westerman Assistant Professor Communication | Christopher Whitsel Assistant Professor Sociology and Anthropology |
| Mijia Yang Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering | Yan Zhang |