The purpose of this annual event is to highlight new, interesting, and effective approaches to teaching and learning at Lehigh. We hope to disseminate good ideas, inspire others to try new approaches, and recognize the work of those who have met with success of one kind or another in their teaching.
This year the Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 19th and Thursday, April 20th. Please review the schedule below and register for the sessions you are able to attend.
Pre-registration is closed, but we hope you'll drop by if you're able.
TIME | LOCATION | TITLE | PRESENTER(S) |
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8:00 am - 9:00am | Williams Global Commons | Continental Breakfast | |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Williams Global Commons |
Global Citizenship Education and the Public Purpose of Higher Education |
Ambassador Hahn Choonghee, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations |
10:15 am - 11:45 am | Williams Global Commons | Afterschool Passport | Anjela Yates, Dakota DiMattio, Tamara Jones |
Be Bethlehem, Be Here: Mapping the Southside | Corina Fitzgerald, Alejandra Silguero, Julia Patterson, Faith Rayches | ||
The Value of After-School Homework Clubs | Carolina Hernandez, Alicia Creazzo, and Paige Warbrick | ||
StepUp Intensive English Program - International Peace Garden |
Kayla Landers and Mary Newbegin |
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Improving Walkability on the Southside through Public Art and by Enhancing the Public Realm |
Karen Beck Pooley | ||
Revitalizing General Chemistry Experiments Through Technology: Making Challenging Concepts Thought Provoking | Denise Beautreau | ||
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Williams Global Commons | Coroporate Social Responsibility and Impact Investing | Jennifer Farrington, Vice President, BD Foundation & Senior Director, Social Investing |
Percy Hughes Social Justice Award | |||
LTS Library Awards | Christy Roysdon and Stacey Kimmel-Smith | ||
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Williams Global Commons |
FEED |
Maddie Smith, Ian McDonald, Grace Lloyd, Isabel Buenga, Casey Ching |
Rooting Our Voices | Miles Davis | ||
Smash the Stigma | Jenna Pastorini, Juan Palacio Moreno, Meg Kelly, Wenlue Zhong, & Mike DiMartino | ||
Transition for Refugees through Education and Empowerment (Mountaintop 2016) | Katie Morris | ||
SERVE Program: Transforming Communities and Student Learning through Meaningful Service |
Gabby Dardis and Joey Recupero, CSO Student Coordinators |
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Parental Engagement in Children's Kindergarten Transition |
Xinwei Zhang, Anu Sachdev and Peggy Kong |
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National Museum of Industrial History Outreach and Collaboration | Amy Hollander | ||
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Williams Global Commons |
Community Fellows Poster Presentation |
Community Fellows |
4:10 pm | Drown 210 | Documentary Film Screening: Rooting Our Voices (A History of Africana Studies) |
Filmmakers: Brenda Martinez, Miles Davis, Connor Burbridge, Donterrius Walker and Tamara Jones |
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TIME | LOCATION | TITLE | PRESENTER(S) |
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Innovative Approaches to Teaching | |||
8:30am-9:00am | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Continental Breakfast | |
9:00 am - 10:30 am | Leveraging 'YouSeeU' for Student Peer-review in a Project-based Course | Mike Lehman | |
Low-cost Active-Collaborative Student Assessment | Ed Webb | ||
Cooperative, Collaborative Experiential-Based Learning in an Energy Systems Class | Rudy Shankar | ||
Adapting Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL) Model to Increase Student Engagement in Organic Chemistry Recitations | Suzanne Fernandez | ||
ePortfolios in CAS: Promoting Learning and Creating Digital Resumés | Jennifer Swann & Susan Ellis | ||
Using the CITL One Button Studio and Google's G-Suite to Enhance Learning and Simplify Feedback. | Matthew Bilsky | ||
10:40 am - 12:00 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Reels, Risk, and Revisions: Three Ways to Enhance Examinations | Mike Lehman |
Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Participation in a Graduate Engineering Course with a Diverse Student Population | Ana Alexandrescu | ||
Creating and Experiencing Fully Immersive Virtual Reality with HTC VIVE | Scott Garrigan | ||
Frameworks for Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning (EML) for Engineers and others | John Ochs | ||
Teamwork Behavior Change though Active Learning | Vince Grassi | ||
Confessions of a Smart Board Junkie: Using Interactive Displays to Elucidate, Engage, and Enhance Lecture Presentations | Ed Webb & Rich Rosenblum | ||
Creative Inquiry and Impactful Learning | |||
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | LUNCH & Fun and Games in Project Management Classes | Kathleen Donohue |
Innovative Approaches to Teaching | |||
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Engaging and Guiding Students | |
Pedagogical Variety in Flexible Classrooms: Examples from Various Courses and Disciplines |
Greg Reihman |
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Encouraging Critical Reading through a Shared Digital Text with Perusall |
Rick Vinci, w/ Phil Hewitt, Steve Sakasitz |
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Life after Lehigh: Guiding Undergraduate Students for Graduate Programs |
Hyun-Tae Jung |
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Raising the bar on impact expectations: Designing and executing creative inquiry curricula. | Todd Watkins, Khanjan Mehta, Mark Orrs and Vince Munley | ||
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Learning Through Visualization & Digital Media | |
Student as Curator: Digital History for First-Year Students |
Alison Kanosky & Cory Fischer-Hoffman |
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Teaching the Storytelling Power of Numbers: The Development and Assessment of Modules on Data Journalism and Data Visualization |
Haiyan Jia |
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Women of Bethlehem Steel: A Digital Archive Chronicling Women’s Experiences |
Julia Maserjian & Rob Wiedman |
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Party Responsibly: Elevating Political Discourse |
Amalia Cote, Summer Sullivan, Soraya Todd, Mike Horgan, Maggie Norsworthy |
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The BioSFilm Festival: A Collaborative Multimedia Learning Assignment |
Krystle J. McLaughlin |
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4:10 pm - 5:30 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) |
Teaching with the "Historian's Eye" (Using A Public Humanities Photo/Web Project in the Classroom) |
Matthew Frye Jacobson (Professor of American Studies, History & |
The 2017 Symposium on Teaching and Learning at Lehigh will be held on Wednesday, April 19th and Thursday, April 20th. Please mark your calendars and attend if you are able.
The purpose of this annual event is to highlight new, interesting, and effective approaches to teaching and learning at Lehigh. We hope to disseminate good ideas, inspire others to try new approaches, and recognize the work of those who have met with success of one kind or another in their teaching.
All are welcome to submit a proposal to give a talk at the Symposium. This year, we especially encourage proposals that fall under the following themes:
Please submit your proposal by March 20th, 2017.
Sincerely,
The 2017 Symposium on Teaching and Learning at Lehigh Planning Committee:
98% of Symposium attendees responded that the Symposium was successful at meeting its goals - "to highlight new, interesting, and effective approaches to teaching and learning at Lehigh; to disseminate good ideas; to inspire others to try new approaches; and to recognize the work of those who have met with success of one kind or another in their teaching" [72%: very successful; 26% somewhat successful]
When asked, specifically, what made the Symposium so successful, attendees responded:
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
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Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) fosters excellence and innovation in teaching, learning, and research by providing faculty and students with development opportunities, teaching tools, course development opportunities, classroom and instructional support, and consultation services.
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