Who Are Our Students: Understanding Today's Millennial Student

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Keynote: Understanding and Motivating Millennial Students
Terri A. Tarr and Megan M. Palmer 
According to the Beloit College Mindset List, traditional aged first year college students are wireless, but always connected and “google” has always been a verb. The millennial generation is hitting our campuses and classrooms with experiences and expectations different than those of earlier generations of students and faculty. Educational methodologies that worked for Baby Boomers and Generation X may not be as motivating or engaging for this group of students. During this session, participants will discuss generational differences and consider how the characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors of millennial students translate into implications for the classroom.
Understanding and Motivating Millennial Students presentation 

Featured Session: Student (mis)Conduct in the Classroom
Ruth Garvey-Nix, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Dr. Ruth Garvey-Nix will lead a discussion on issues related to student conduct in the classroom. Topics for discussion include, when is it appropriate to ask students to leave, what should you do if you feel threatened or unsafe, and what services are available to help students (and faculty)? Ruth will be joined by Chief of Police, Dennis Simon and Dr. Michael Day, Personal Counselor.
Michael Day's handout on helping students participate in responsible and professional group discussions 

Breakout Session Information:

Online Social Networking and Web 2.0
Maria Accardi, Instruction Librarian
Facebook, MySpace, Mojo, Second Life—how are these interactive social networking sites changing the way we communicate?  How do they affect the academic community, and the way we do research? Find out what those mesmerized students in the back of the room are doing with their cell phones and laptops!!! 
Maria Accardi's presentation 

Communicating with the Millennials
Rebecca Carlton, Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies
How can faculty communicate with students who are used to being online and connected 24/7 without feeing overwhelmed or lost in the sea of messages. What can faculty do to join students in an appropriate way and use it to your benefit.

This month's workshops

Please see the Oncourse Workshops section for a listing of all Oncourse workshops.

Monday, 3/17: 
Improving Student Success: The Role of Faculty 
LB 221
12:20 to 1:10 p.m.                                                
(BYOL: Bring Your Own Lunch)

Over the course of the next several months, the ILTE will facilitate a series of Brown Bag workshops for faculty to discuss ways in which they can positively impact student success and persistence to graduation without devaluing the academic process. While we all wish students would spend less time working and more time focusing on their studies, that isn’t likely to change given the current economic climate. How, then, can faculty challenge students to push themselves academically and to grow into the critically thinking, engaged, and informed citizens that the workplace and community demand? What role should faculty play, in and beyond teaching the required classes, in helping students succeed in their studies and, ultimately, graduate?

Faculty are the key to student persistence; business practices can change and support services increase, but students attend the university to learn, and faculty are there to teach. In this workshop series, we seek to address several of the primary areas in which faculty can increase student success and persistence. Each meeting will focus on a different area; faculty are invited to share their successes, challenges, and concerns regarding each topic. 

We already have two workshops planned, March 17 and April 1. During the March workshop, the focus is on YOUR views regarding the role of faculty in student success and persistence. In April, we’ll focus on shifting the instructional paradigm from a teacher-centered to a student-centered learning environment. Future workshops will focus on topics such as the following: advising, feedback, teaching critical thinking, and teaching strategies that hold students accountable for their own learning (e.g., time management, learning skills, help seeking, etc.).

Join us on March 17 in LB 221 (the ILTE conference room) from 12:20-1:10 to share your thoughts, ideas, and concerns. Your participation will help us in planning the subsequent workshops and in identifying the areas in which we need to provide additional resources. As we gather information and learn from your successful strategies and practices, we will add information to our website, eventually creating an area related specifically to student success through teaching and learning. 

Wednesday, 3/19: 
Best Practices in Incorporating Common Experience Into the Classroom 
UC 121
12:20 to 1:10 p.m.                                                
(BYOL: Bring Your Own Lunch)

Please join us on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. in U.C. 121 as faculty share their experiences successfully utilizing a Common Experience text into their classroom.  Materials and information about the 2008-09 Common Experience texts will be available, helping you to determine if using a Common experience text in your class can result in a meaningful learning experience for your students. 

2008 Teaching Symposium

"Who Are Our Students: Small Cultures in the Classroom"

Twelfth Annual Indiana University Southeast / FACET Teaching Symposium hosted at IU Southeast
Friday, January 25, 2008.

Register Today:
http://surveys.ius.edu/elisten/Surveys/08_symposium/08_symposium.html 

Sponsored by:

• IU Southeast Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET)
• IU Southeast Institute for Learning and Teaching Excellence (ILTE)
• IU Southeast Office of Academic Affairs

Event Schedule (Register today: http://surveys.ius.edu/elisten/Surveys/08_symposium/08_symposium.html)

A Note About Our Guest Speakers:

William Rozycki has a Ph.D. in Central Asian Studies from Indiana University and serves as associate director of the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. As a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1970s, he taught Russian and English at Hankook University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. After receiving his Ph.D., Rozycki taught at universities in Korea and Japan and returned to join the faculty at IUPUI in 2003.

Honnor Orlando received her MA in English as a Second Language from University of Hawaii where she continued on for three years following graduation as a teacher/lecturer in various ESL programs in the UH system.  She has been teaching at IUPUI for the past two years and officially joined the ICIC staff in the summer of 2007 as the full-time Lead Instructor for their training programs.  In this position, she is responsible for the cross-cultural language training of international medical residents at IU-Methodist Family Practice Center. 

Registration Due Date: January 24th, 2008 

The Symposium is FREE this year to all faculty!

Keynote Presentation

Culture in the classroom: Application of traditional and ‘small’ culture approaches
William Rozycki and Honnor Orlando, ICIC at IUPUI

An identification of the dynamics of multiple ‘small’ cultures in the classroom is increasingly supplementing the more traditional view of ethnicity as the vehicle of cultural identity. This workshop will begin with an exercise to get participants thinking about cultural differences at the individual level. Next, traditional and new conceptions of culture are presented in some detail. 

Principles to improve cross-cultural communication in the classroom within the ‘small’ culture framework will then be presented. Critical classroom incidents are discussed and the audience is encouraged to suggest ways to improve communication outcomes

Breakout Information:

Diversity in the Classroom
Sheying Chen (Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs) 
Resource List 

This session is a roundtable discussion about recognizing and appreciating diversity in the classroom as well as an exchange of ideas and best practices to promote educational excellence through diversity.  For those who are able, review of some of the links on the ILTE website is recommended.

The Synergy of Diversity:  The Effects of Interpersonal Dynamics on Group Work
Rebecca Carlton (Communication Studies) 

This interactive session will focus on the effects of interpersonal dynamics within the context of a diverse classroom.  Whether the group is the entire class or smaller units within the class, the synergistic effect of different cultures can influence the success of the group.  

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Best Practices in Incorporating Common Experience into the Classroom

Please join us on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. in U.C. 121 as faculty share their experiences successfully utilizing a Common Experience text into their classroom.  Materials and information about the 2008-09 Common Experience texts will be available, helping you to determine if using a Common experience text in your class can result in a meaningful learning experience for your students.