Academy of Teaching
Conference on Excellence in Teaching & Learning 2022:
PANDEMIC PEDAGOGIES
May 9th, 2022
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Longaberger Alumni House
2200 Olentangy River Rd.
AGENDA
ROOM CAPACITIES
- Drinko Conference Room (110) = 30 guests
- Sanders Grand Lounge (130) = 120 guests
- Mount Leadership Room (125) = 40 guests
- Rockow Board Room (210) = 20 guests
8:30-9:15 Check-in and continental breakfast
Lobby and Sanders Grand Ballroom
9:15-9:45 Welcome and conference announcements
Sanders Grand Ballroom
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-10:50 Breakout Session A
Sanders Grand Ballroom
Mount Room 125
Drinko Room 110
Rockow Room 210
11:00-11:50 Breakout Session B
Sanders Grand Ballroom
Mount Room 125
Drinko Room 110
Rockow Room 210
12:00-1:30 Lunch and panel discussion: Teaching in the midst of multiple pandemics
Sanders Grand Ballroom
1:30-1:45 Break
1:45- 3:00 Small group discussions of breakout topics
Sanders Grand Ballroom
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
ROOM CAPACITIES
- Drinko Conference Room (110) = 30 guests
- Sanders Grand Lounge (130) = 120 guests
- Mount Leadership Room (125) = 40 guests
- Rockow Board Room (210) = 20 guests
Session A
Sanders Grand Ballroom
10:00-10:20
Enhancing STEM Community and Science Identity in Underserved Students through Inquiry-Team-Based Lab Design
Nicholas Denton, College of Pharmacy and Amy Kulesza, Center for Life Sciences Education
10:30-10:50
Do No (Financial) Harm: Teaching Health Care Value and Affordability During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Benjamin Dralle, Lily Kreber, Hannah Shenton, Ryan Dopirak, and Anitra Karthic, College of Medicine
Mount Room 125
10:00-10:20
Blended Teaching Modalities: Meeting Student Needs for Flexibility during the Pandemic and Beyond
Megan Mefford, College of Pharmacy
10:30-10:50
Never Going Back: Habits from Hybrid Teaching
Sarah Dove, College of Arts and Sciences
Drinko Room 110
10:00-10:20
Building Bridges: Connecting students and faculty in a Hybrid HyFlex Course
Kristine Cline, Brianne Porter, Marje Winhoven, College of Pharmacy
10:30-10:50
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
Cindy Jiang, International Affairs, Howard Greene, College of Engineering DEI, Patrick Sours, College of Engineering, Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
Rockow Room 210
10:00-10:20
Delinking Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programs from Heteronormativity Engaging in an Embodied Experience: Coming Out Stars- Discovering LGBTQ+ Adversity
Sam Meyerhoff and Sue Sutherland, College of Education and Human Ecology
10:30-10:50
Empathy, feedback, and flexibility: Supporting students in and after a global pandemic
Amy Collins-Warfield, Office of Student Academic Success – Transition and Academic Growth
Session B
Sanders Grand Ballroom
11:00-11:20
What the pandemic revealed: How educational practices have undermined teaching and learning
Nicole Kraft, School of Communication and Melissa Beers, Senior Director of the GE Bookends
11:30-11:50
The Productivity Program: Motivation and social support for graduate students
Jacqueline von Speigel and Kelsey Varzeas, Dennis Learning Center
Mount Room 125
11:00-11:20
STEP Professional Development Co-Curricular expansion to Regional Campuses during
COVID-19
Rebecca Kapusta and Beth Fines, STEP
11:30-11:50
Providing undergraduates with significant learning experiences in distance learning courses
Molly Downing, Cynthia Canan, T’Bony Jewell, College of Pharmacy
Drinko Room 110
11:00-11:20
Making Communication a Priority: You Work Less, but Students Get More
Kristie Sigler and Mary Sterenberg, School of Communication
Rockow Room 210
11:00-11:20
By Any Media Necessary: Engaging student literacies utilizing digital media, pop culture, and visual arts
LaNorris D. Alexander and Christine M. Hines, College of Education and Human Ecology
11:30-11:50
Teaching with the “Pandemic Pedagogies”: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Jim Harris and Thomas F. McDow, Department of History
Lunch and Panel Discussion: Teaching in the midst of multiple pandemics
12:00-1:30 Sanders Grand Ballroom
PANELISTS
Christa Teston, Ph.D.
Christine Teston is Associate Professor of English and Vice Chair of the Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Program at The Ohio State University where she is the director of the Department of English business and technical writing courses.
Her book, Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Navigating Medical Uncertainty (University of Chicago Press), has won two best book awards from the Association of Rhetoric, Science, Technology, and Medicine and the National Council of Teachers of English’s “Technical and Scientific Communication” subfield.
Dr. Teston also co-edited a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly focused on contemporary research methodologies in technical communication. She coedits (with Wendy Hesford and Sharon Yam) the “New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality” book series (The Ohio State University Press). Some of her work has also appeared in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Written Communication.
She is currently working on her second monograph, which is focused on developing a practice account of human dignity based on site-based investigations of complex medical and scientific contexts.
Nicole Nieto, Ph.D.
Nicole Nieto is Assistant Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement in the Office of Academic Affairs at The Ohio State University.
Throughout her sixteen year-long Ohio State career Dr. Nieto has held positions in the Offices of Student Life, Human Resources, Research and Academic Affairs. Working to create inclusive communities of belonging has always been at the core of Nicole’s work.
She has a PhD in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) with a specialization in Folklore Studies from The Ohio State University. She serves on the President and Provost’s Council on Sustainability and on the advisory council for the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project. Dr. Nieto is a 2019 OSU Glass Breaker, an honor given to women who have advanced their careers at Ohio State while serving as mentors to other women.
Dr. Nieto teaches courses in WGSS on popular culture, literature and food. She is also a Second Year Transformational Experience faculty mentor. Prior to arriving at Ohio State, Nicole served as Assistant Director of International Student and Scholar Services at the University of Alabama.
Nikole Patson, Ph.D.
Nikole Patson (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2011) hails from Flint, Michigan, and is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Ohio State University at Marion. She teaches courses in Cognition, Language, and General Psychology.
As the first member of her family to graduate from college, she is passionate about inclusive teaching practices. She has received OSU’s Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award and the Marion Campus’s Teaching Excellence Award.
Her teaching focuses on trying to get students to think and feel like scientists. To encourage scientific thinking, she has adopted a guided inquiry teaching pedagogy in her courses.
Zakee Sabree, Ph.D.
Zakee Sabree is an Associate Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at OSU who studies how microbes are instrumental in the evolution of terrestrial animals.
Dr. Sabree also serves as the faculty director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at OSU, which reflects his interests in contributing to the training and elevation of the next generation of thought and research leaders.