CAFE: Center for Faculty Enrichment

Advising the whole student:  A workshop for new advisors
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CONTEXTUAL ADVISING: A refresher for experienced advisors
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What is our civic responsibility as educators after the presidential election on Nov. 3^rd? This is a difficult question to consider at a time when tensions are high, certainty is low, and our energy is waning.

How will we integrate this moment into our courses or class discussions? Should we? What if we didn’t? What if we did? Here at CAFE, we know that faculty across campus and across the country are asking

these same questions.  So, our staff decided to pull together resources that might be helpful as we prepare for November 4th.

As you know, this election feels different than previous cycles. Consideration of how election outcomes could affect our community are reflected well in the article, Preparing to Teach about the 2020 Election (and After):

The high stakes of the 2020 Election are deeply felt by members of our campus community and the results of this election will produce disparate impacts for students and instructors alike. When preparing to discuss the election and its results, it is important for you to consider what is ‘at stake’ for the members of the classroom community.

That statement reminds us that we cannot assume similarity of thought or impact among students, faculty, and staff post-election. You might want to check out the entire article for more information on

how classroom discussions might affect students differently. Fortunately, there are many resources that can help us teach effectively in the context of a high-stakes election.

Three resources that we found useful offer suggestions on how to discuss the value of voting Talking About Elections in Your Classroom, how to effectively Facilitate Controversial Discussions regarding the election, and

how to consider the potentially strong emotional responses that students may have after the election Teaching in Response to the Election. Some of us might be thinking that politics won’t come up in our classrooms.

While that may be true, you might find this article on how to navigate spontaneous discussions in your classroom that might otherwise catch us off guard: Guidelines for Discussing Difficult or High-Stakes Topics.

Regardless of your discipline or course topic, it is appropriate to acknowledge the moment if you wish, even if it is divergent from your planned discussions. Stanford University encourages you to ACT:

Anticipate the need to support students, Create space for students to process their reactions, and Tie current events into course learning. By doing so, we can foster meaningful discussions that help develop our citizen leaders.

Thank you for your good work in the classroom. Please contact us at CAFE if you have any questions or would like to discuss approaches to teaching after the election in more detail.

Flexible Teaching and Learning Workshop Series

The Digital Education Collaborative (DEC) and the Center for Faculty Enrichment (CAFE) are offering a series of workshops to help instructors prepare courses for the fall 2020 semester. These workshops will focus on pedagogy (why we do what we do) and technology (how to use appropriate tools) for in-person, hybrid, and online teaching and learning environments

Topics include:

Course Design 101+

Flexible Learning Environments: How to Blend or Flip Your Classroom

Teaching Writing 

Teaching Speaking 

Diversity, Inclusion, Equity 

Designing Assignments and Learning Activities

Teaching, Learning and Effective Communication Practices

Collaborative Learning and Group Projects

Research with Students: Using R for Statistical Computing and Graphics

Faculty Well-Being

 

We will emphasize developing practices that are specific to your course context; therefore, prior to each session, faculty will complete a situational analysis of the course(s). Each session will be 90 minutes with the option of an additional 30 minutes small group discussion for more focused mentoring.

All workshops are 1:00pm to 2:30 pm, unless indicated otherwise. Workshop details are located @ https://blogs.longwood.edu/covid19online/dec-cafe-workshops/ .

You can register for sessions @  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3J2pr6HqN2egPkeFgEZzd5_QbqILb7w78eVfO1BcT39K10Q/viewform​ 

 

 

Joe Hoyle is an Associate Professor of Accounting and a Robins Teaching Fellow at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

Tuesday, February 18th, 3:30 – 4:30 PM, Blackwell Ballroom

• Joe is an Associate Professor of Accounting and a Robins Teaching Fellow at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

• Joe has a passion for teaching as evidenced in his blog.  Check out the link: https://joehoyle-teaching.blogspot.com/2020/02/two-ways-to-get-better.html

• In 2015, he was named the inaugural winner of the J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook Prize presented by the American Accounting Association for superior undergraduate teaching.

• In 2012, he was named one of nine favorite professors in the United States by Bloomberg Businessweek.

• Joe’s talk is open to all students, faculty, and staff.

This event is sponsored by the College of Business & Economics.

For more information, contact:  Patti Carey, careypb@longwood.edu or extension 2460​

 

Joe Hoyle Bio

Joe Hoyle is an Associate Professor of Accounting and a Robins Teaching Fellow at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.  In 2015, he was named the inaugural winner of the J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook Prize presented by the American Accounting Association for superior undergraduate teaching.  In 2019, his former students created an Accounting Teaching Fellowship at the Robins School of Business that will be renamed the Joe Hoyle Accounting Teaching Fellowship upon his retirement.  His teaching blog, Getting the Most from Your Students, contains over 280 of his essays on teaching and has had more than 510,000 page views.  In 2012, he was named one of nine favorite professors in the United States by Bloomberg Businessweek.  He is a co-author with Tom Schaefer and Tim Doupnik of Advanced Accounting, a textbook which is in its 14^th edition and is published by McGraw-Hill.  He is also a co-author with C. J. Skender and Leah Kratz of Financial Accounting, a textbook which is in its 3^rd edition and is published by FlatWorld.  In 2007, he was named the Virginia Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).  In May 2020, Professor Hoyle will complete his 49^th year as a college teacher.

WELCOME NEW FACULTY!

Want to learn more about our new colleagues at Longwood University.  Go to http://www.longwood.edu/cafe/new-faculty-2019-2020/ and read their biographies.