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1. Effective Teaching and Learning Environments
The pandemic created both an urgency for academic continuity and a disruptive effect on those environments in place and forthcoming learning environments and/or modalities. This track showcases best practices contextualized to the technological, temporal, spatial, and pedagogical breakdowns of the emerging learning environments.
Topics may include: engaging students effectively, assessing learning, curating content for digital instruction, hybrid and HyFlex pedagogies, trauma-informed pedagogy, and synchronous vs. asynchronous online instruction.
2. Ensuring Student Success
With this track, we examine effective and evidence-based practices of student services that meet the needs of all students and are not diminished by mode of interaction (face-to-face or distant). These practices motivate and support students in their academic pursuits and/or address non-academic factors that impede their academic progress and persistence.
Topics may include: incorporating efforts to support a growth mindset and intelligent practice in instruction, removing barriers to facilitate academic success, and addressing the needs of students (face-to-face or distant) with regard to admissions, registrar, financial aid, tutoring, office hours, personal counseling, First Year Programs, etc., and aligning services with instruction.
3. Extending Diversity and Inclusion
This track aims to showcase examples of rebuilding for a more inclusive future using lessons learned from the past and intuitions that must be brought forward. We will hale efforts that encouraged feelings of trust, inclusion, belonging, and engagement within the institution and its constituency of students, faculty, and staff.
Topics may include: empathic teaching, restorative practices, informed care & pedagogy, culturally-responsive pedagogy, fostering global citizenship across the content areas, social justice at BCC, difficult classroom discussions on race, gender, culture, and/or sexual orientation, strategies and activities to integrate diversity and inclusion, the challenges of actualizing anti-racist teaching practices, critical race praxis, decolonizing curricula, professional development, and training for culturally competent faculty and/or staff.
Welcome to the LibGuide for BCC's 10th Annual Winter Conference!! This guide is a curated compilation of relevant resources that supplement the conference focus and thematic tracks.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nationally we witnessed the voluntary departure of employees from their jobs. Colloquially known as the Great Resignation, similar forces emerged as the Great Disengagement in academia as students, faculty, and staff across college campuses personally questioned their happiness, career paths, choices, and financial survival. It has resulted in lower student enrollment and mass migration to online courses, as well as distracted, fatigued, and burned-out campus communities that are still in pursuit of reestablishing basic teaching and learning in the new norm. There is much rebuilding to do, perhaps the greatest being feelings of strong ties not only between faculty and students but also between each of those and their institutions. But not all has been lost; there have been many lessons learned and obstacles overcome. As re-engagement begins, we recognize that those positives should come with us as we rebuild in a post-pandemic era. This year we examine the struggles of recapturing an excellent educational experience, adopting impactful new practices and norms, and generally re-engaging the students, faculty, and staff of our campuses.
Emma Antobam-Ntekudzi (Reference & Instruction Librarian): emma.antobam-ntekud@bcc.cuny.edu
LaRoi Lawton (Head of Learning Services): laroi.lawton@bcc.cuny.edu
Mark Lennerton (Director / Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology): mark.lennerton@bcc.cuny.edu
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