This session will facilitate a discussion of, and offer advice toward, creating exam prompts that get you the results you want.  Whether short-answer or essay, the questions you ask your students matter; bring your examples and hear others' successful exam prompts as we explore writing as a mode of testing.
Teaching and Learning/Blue Session

Friday Night at the ER is a team learning simulation game used by groups worldwide for quality improvement, leadership development, and exploration of systems thinking. The game challenges teams to manage a busy hospital during a simulated 24-hour period. Each simulated hour, patients arrive, transfer between departments, and exit. Department managers complete tasks, manage resources, make decisions, and document results. The simulation game is used worldwide by businesses and organizations from a variety of disciplines and would be beneficial to use in many different departments on campus. Come play and learn more about this resource!

(Lunch will be served at 11:30 and the game will run from noon-2 p.m.)

In Teaching Change, José Antonio Bowen argues that education needs to be redesigned to take into account how human thinking, behaviors, bias, and change really work. Drawing on new research, Bowen explores how we can create better conditions for learning that focus less on teachers and content and more on students and process. He also examines student psychology, history, assumptions, anxiety, and bias and advocates for education to focus on a new 3Rs―relationships, resilience, and reflection. Finally, he suggests explicit learning designs to foster the ability to think for yourself.

Join us as we continue the conversation Dr. Bowen began in the Adams Center by reading his new book together.
Teaching and Learning/Blue Session

Go Team! Using Student Groups and Teams in a Variety of Ways 
This session will feature a panel of faculty who incorporate groups or teams into one or more of their courses. Each uses groups/teams for different purposes and in different ways. Many of us set aside group work last year when we were required to keep students distanced. As you consider incorporating them back into your courses, come hear from these panelists for some reminders or new ideas about how to use groups/teams in your classes.
Teaching and Learning/Blue Session

Please join us for another session with Ryan Richardson, Associate VP for Student Life, as he shares student graduation rates based on demographics. Ryan will then discuss the Thriving data and how it might inform how we can best respond to this information in the classroom.
Mission/Green Session

Faculty often feel tentative or fearful to tackle issues of race in the classroom knowing that much of our culture has made race into a political issue. In this session, we will consider how reframing conversations on race into one of Christian moral witness allows us to lead with our faith commitments.
Teaching and Learning/Blue Session

In this session faculty will have the opportunity to create a LinkedIn profile and/or work on an existing profile to make it more appealing.
Scholarship/Research/Red Session