The Storm Report, a newsletter produced by Nathanael Gough, Phil Tietjen and Dori Lloyd
October 21, 2021 | Issue 8
Table of Contents:

  • Center for Teaching and Learning

  • "It's OK for Faculty to not be OK."

  • Center for Teaching and Learning: Professional Development Funds Available & NISOD

  • "It's OK for Faculty to not be OK"

  • Global Labs a Hit!

  • College Transition Center and Growth Mindset

  • Changes in Student Services that Affect Faculty

  • Effective Teaching Online

  • Faculty Submissions to Journal of teaching Innovations

  • Do you have a story to share?

  • Teaching, Learning, and Global Engagement Program Offerings

  • Resource Highlight of the Week: The Learning Commons





Center for Teaching and Learning
Gloria Johnson, CTL Faculty Chair
Greetings, DDCC colleagues! Here’s this week's news from the CTL.

The CTL is accepting applications for professional learning funds. The funding is available for individual faculty members or small groups of 2 to 5 faculty. Professional learning includes but is not limited to attending virtual conferences, QM and ACUE certification courses, and reading books and journals. Please see this CTL information sheet for details; or fill out the application for professional learning funds.


Don’t forget about the NISOD virtual conference. It’s running from Wednesday, 10/20 through Friday, 10/22. If you registered to attend, you should have received an email titled “Here’s Your Link to Log In for the Conference!” To log in, go to www.nisod.org/vc and log in using the same email address you used to register.

Happy teaching and learning!
Gloria.
2021-2022 CTL Advisory Board

At Large: Michael Liu (FT), Arts, Science, Business, and Technology: Grant Jolliff (FT), and Aaron Prillaman (PT), Davie: Dee Edwards (FT), and Katrena Wells (PT), Health Sciences: Datra Delk-Patrick (FT), Teaching, Learning, and Global Engagement: Nathanael Gough (FT), Faculty Chair: Gloria Johnson (FT)
"It's OK for Faculty to not be OK"
Archie Messersmith-Bunting
You will learn a lot about our speaker Archie Messersmith-Bunting in his presentation in November, but first, here are a few highlights and fun facts about him.

"He prefers dogs over cats; soccer over football; Coke over Pepsi; and the Avengers over the X-Men. He’s been to every continent; accidentally went swimming with the walruses & penguins in Antarctica; and has performed at Madison Square Garden.

"Archie believes that self-care is selfless, your mental health matters, and that our feelings & emotions are not to be ignored."

Please save the date of November 4th from 3 - 4 PM for a powerful session from Archie called "It's OK for Faculty to not be OK." This program allows faculty to assess their own mental health and identify ways they can improve their daily self-care plan. Attendees learn to identify signs their friend, family member or colleagues may be struggling. Participants discover action steps to encourage help-seeking behaviors while avoiding the less-than-helpful things often said to those struggling with issues related to mental health. Bookmark the "It's OK for Faculty to not be OK" Zoom Session link.
Global Labs a Hit!
Amanda Klinger reports that students in her MAT-171 Precalculus Algebra class really enjoyed the new globalized labs. When asked what they liked best about the class, 64% of the students who responded named the labs. One student commented “I enjoyed having a globalized math class. It was very interesting to see a subject I didn’t think about as a global concept be easily made into one.” Klinger created the labs during the Summer Institute in an effort to build activities that are both global and culturally responsive. “My goal was to create a learning tool that helped students understand more than just graphs and equations. The students responded in a way that exceeded my expectations, and they also gave great suggestions for making them better.”

Amanda will be presenting on her internationalized mathematics labs at the National Mathematics Conference in the global mathematics themed session. Examples of the students’ work that she will be presenting are shown below:
Graph of Food using Circles
Tomato slices arranged overlapping in a circle next to a similar graph of overlapping circles that make a circle on an x y plane.
Graph Created using only Equations of Lines
Graph of Christ the Redeemer statue using lines.
College Transition Center and Growth Mindset
The Transition Center has been enormously successful in helping students get the foundation needed to achieve their goals. One of the reasons for this is their commitment to Growth Mindset. Next Wednesday (October 27th) evening starting at 5:30, Londa Pickett (Director of the Transition Center) and Charles Sterling (faculty member teaching in the Transition Center) will talk with New Faculty about how they apply Growth Mindset in teaching their students, and how faculty in any area of the college can make similar applications.

This seminar is open to all faculty and staff. You will be encouraged by the positive environment that can be created throughout education through the use of Growth Mindset. Bookmark the Growth Mindset Zoom Session link.
Changes in Student Services that Affect Faculty
Keisha Jones, MS: Dean, Student Engagement & Completion
Hello, Dr. Carnice McFarland has transitioned from a full-time role to a part-time role at DDCC. She will continue assisting us with communications with students/faculty regarding COVID situations and will be teaching some for us beginning in the Spring. For the other responsibilities that were part of her role, please reach out to Keisha Jones. Keisha will be the point of contact for Conduct and Title IX and the temporary contact for Counseling and the Nurse. Please use the email addresses below when you have needs specifically related to these areas:


For urgent and/or immediate assistance, please contact Keisha Jones directly at 336-249-8186 ext. 6359, keisha_jones@davidsondavie.edu 

Thank you,

Susan Burleson, Ed.D
Executive Vice President, Academic & Student Affairs
Effective Teaching Online
The Effective Teaching Online course is for instructors who are teaching hybrid or online courses for the first time. The Spring course runs from (1.24-3.27) and the Summer course runs from 6.6-8.1. To sign up, complete the Effective Teaching Online registration form.
NC Community College Journal of Teaching Innovation:
Call for Submissions
The North Carolina Community College Journal of Teaching Innovation (NCCCJTI) publishes research centering issues of Pedagogical Practice or Research related to North Carolina Community Colleges. The aim of this journal is to provide North Carolina Community College faculty and staff with an outlet for publishing manuscripts of research and practice as well as provide open access to readers or scholars interested in higher education topics surrounding North Carolina Community Colleges.

If you are interested in submitting, the editors have provided further details.
From the Editors: Do You Have a Story to Share?
We are looking for faculty stories! We want to keep the focus of your newsletter on you, the faculty. Would you please help us find those stories? Here are the kinds of things we are looking for:

  1. Faculty who have globalized their courses.
  2. Faculty who are doing something creative in class
  3. Faculty who have received awards
  4. Faculty reporting out on what they got from their professional development (could be written, video, podcast, etc.)
  5. Faculty who have received a new degree
  6. Faculty who are retiring
  7. Faculty Division Chair / Program Director Bios
  8. Faculty sharing their experiences of teaching in an active learning classroom
  9. Faculty Senate initiatives
  10. Faculty who have led overseas trips with students

Please contact one of the editors (Nathanael Gough, Phil Tietjen or Dori Lloyd) if you have ideas or referrals for stories.
Teaching, Learning, and Global Engagement Program Offerings
Calendar
For October:
Resource Highlight of the Week:
The Learning Commons
Do you know what is available to assist you as faculty in the Learning Commons? Often faculty are unaware of all the support that is available there. Tutoring and test-taking just scratches the surface. Carmen Davis, Director of the Learning Commons, prepared a video and slides for our new faculty in the fall. Watching the Learning Commons video will tell you all you need to know about the many ways in which the Learning Commons can support you. Please view the Learning Commons slides as well for a complete list of what they have to offer.

Teaching, Learning & Global Engagement