Program

The Retreat will take place from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm on Thursday, March 5, 2020 in the Illini Rooms on the main level of the Illini Union. Refreshments and lunch are included.

 

8:00 – 8:30

Registration

8:30 – 8:40

Introduction
Michel Bellini, Director, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL)

8:40 – 8:50

Welcome
Andreas Cangellaris, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost

8:50 – 9:10

Overview
Cheelan Bo-Linn, CITL
Lawrence Angrave, Computer Science

9:10 – 10:00

"Emotion in Action: Physical and Vocal Choices to Engage Students"
Allison Moody, Theatre    

10:00 – 10:25

"The Emotion of Discovery"
Karle Flanagan, Statistics and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, Computer Science

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee/Tea Break

10:45 – 11:00

Faculty Voices: Stories from the Classroom
Wendy Yang, Plant Biology and Geology. “Critical Emotional Connections in Online Courses”
Shawn Jordan, Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. “What’s Your Story? Using Storytelling to Propel Teaching”

Clarion Mendes, Speech and Hearing Science. “Creative Demonstrations to Enhance the Content”

11:00 – 11:35

"The Science of Emotion: It’s True!"
Shelly Schmidt, Food Science and Human Nutrition

11:35 – 12:10

"The Emotion of Surprise and Curiosity"
Gretchen Adams, Undergraduate Student Affairs, College of Applied Health Sciences

12:10 – 12:45

Lunch

Educational Innovation and Opportunities at Illinois
Kristi Kuntz, Executive Associate Provost for Academic Programs & Policies, and Exec. Director of the Campus Center for Advising & Academic Services/ Provost Office

  • 2019-2020 Faculty Retreat Grant Recipient: Ken Salo, Urban & Regional Planning.“Teaching Racialized Residential Segregation through Collaborative Online Mapping and Impactful Storytelling of Anti-Racist Protests on Campus and its Adjacent Neighborhoods”
  • 2019-2020 Faculty Retreat Grant Recipients: Clarion Mendes and Keiko Ishikawa, Speech & Hearing Science. “When Voice is Vocation: Collaboration, Clinic, and Quality of Life”
Conversations with Past Retreat Grant Recipients

12:45 – 1:30

"Teaching with Human-Centered Design: Instructors as Designers of Holistic Student-Centered Learning Experiences"
Saad Shehab, Siebel Center for Design, and Lucas O’Bryan, Siebel Center for Design

Video Vignettes:

  • Rachel Switzky, Director/Siebel Center for Design, “Human-Centered Design”
  • Dawn Bohn, Food Science and Human Nutrition, “Impact of Implementing a Human-Centered/Student-Centered Design in the Classroom”

Undergraduate Student Panel

  • Matthew A. McCarthy, Mathematics
  • Katy Miles, Statistics
  • Michael Victuelles, Food Science and Human Nutrition
  • Morgan Renee Young, Food Science and Human Nutrition

1:30 – 1:55

"The Emotion of Competition and Winning"
Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, Computer Science, and Karle Flanagan, Statistics

1:55 – 2:00

Closing
Michel Bellini, CITL

 

This Retreat is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL).

Acknowledgement to the Faculty Retreat Committee: Michel Bellini (CITL), Cheelan Bo-Linn (CITL), Shelly Schmidt (Food Science and Human Nutrition) and Wendy Yang (Plant Biology).

And…Special Thanks to Lucas Anderson, Robert Baird, Robert Dignan, David Favre, Kate LaBore, Michelle Marquart, Shawn Mills, Eric Schumacher, and Andrew Stengele (and to the Teaching Advancement Board – and our surprise faculty participants).

Our 2020 Faculty Retreat Presenters

We are pleased to have had the following faculty share the ways in which they have utilized the power of emotion to engage, energize, and motivate students and maximize opportunities for learning.

Please feel free to contact them.

Lawrence Angrave, Computer Science, angrave@illinois.edu
Allison Moody, Theatre, amoody@illinois.edu
Karle Flanagan, Statistics, kflan@illinois.edu and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, Computer Science, waf@illinois.edu
Wendy Yang, Integrative Biology, yangw@illinois.edu
Clarion Mendes, Speech and Hearing Science, cmendes2@illinois.edu
Shelly Schmidt, Food Science and Human Nutrition, sjs@illinois.edu
Gretchen Adams, Undergraduate Student Affairs, College of Applied Health Sciences, gadams4@illinois.edu
Ken Salo, Urban & Regional Planning, kensalo@illinois.edu
Clarion Mendes, Speech & Hearing Science, cmendes2@illinois.edu and Keiko Ishikawa, Speech & Hearing Science, ishikak@illinois.edu
Saad Shehab, Siebel Center for Design, shehab2@illinois.edu, and Lucas O’Bryan, lobryan2@illinois.edu,Siebel Center for Design.  Rachel Switzky, Siebel Center for Design, rswitzky@illinois.edu and Dawn Bohn, Food Science and Human Nutrition, dbrehart@illinois.edu.

 

View a print-friendly pdf of this program. You will receive a hard copy when you check in at the Retreat.