The second annual Provost’s Showcase of Scholarly Teaching will be held on April 4, 2025. This event, hosted by CAT and FSU libraries, is a celebration of the inspiring, innovative, and evidence-informed teaching that makes FSU the best place to learn. Across the university, faculty and TAs have been turning their scholarly attention to teaching, engaging in inquiry and reflection and exploring how different teaching methods affect students’ learning, experiences, and success.
If you have been developing teaching approaches or strategies that you would like to share with the larger campus community, we hope you will submit a proposal for a poster presentation. Or if you have a question—for example, one about teaching effectiveness, student engagement, or recent innovations in teaching—we hope you will consider hosting or attending a roundtable, where you can pose the question and explore possible answers with colleagues.
Even if you’ve never thought about presenting at a pedagogical conference before, you likely have insights worthy of discussion. We encourage you to submit a proposal and attend the showcase. Your proposed project could be something more formal, such as a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project (i.e., a research question you had about your teaching, the methods you used to investigate it, and what you learned). It could also be less formal, like sharing something you did in your teaching or beginning a discussion about students’ learning.
A few examples topics include:
- What happens when I ask students to solve more problems in class
- How two-stage exams turn assessments into learning experiences
- How I use formative assessment to make student thinking visible
- How I foster community in my large class
- How I use specifications grading to give students control of their learning
- How I help my students overcome math anxiety (or their fear of learning a specific subject)
- Why I provide most of my feedback on rough drafts rather than final papers
- How grade-norming sessions help my TAs grade consistently
- How I use clicker questions to give students practice during class
- How I use technology (AB card, MS Form, Padlet, Kahoot!, etc.) to promote active participation in class
- How I teach with AI
- How I get my students to come to class
Provost’s Showcase of Scholarly Teaching Program
Program for 2025 Provost’s Showcase – Full Program Available for Download
Logistics
When: Friday, April 4, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: Strozier Library Basement (116 Honors Way, Tallahassee, FL 32304)
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Schedule at a Glance
12: 30 pm -12:55 pm – Event Opens (Strozier Library Basement)
1:00 pm–1:10 pm – Opening Remarks by Joe O’Shea (Strozier Library Bradley Reading Room)
1:15 pm – 5:00 pm – Special Tables Hosted by ACE, OAS, ODL, and the Innovation Hub (Designated Area in the Strozier Library Basement)
1:15 pm–2:00 pm – Poster Presentation (P1, Designated Area in the Strozier Library Basement)
- Vanessa Dennen – “Using AI to Support Case-based Teaching and Learning”
- Sindy Chapa, Alessandra Noli – “Empowering Educators and Students: The Transformative Impact of Mentorship in Teaching and Learning Excellence”
- Matthew Vanden Bosch – “Quantitative Analysis: Understanding Student Engagement and Predicting Success”
- Allison McHugh, Leeann Barfield – “Designing graduate level curriculum that prepares the future nurse executive for the real world”
- Camilo Ordonez, Juan Ordonez – “Reinforcing Curricular Topics Through Hands-On Experiments”
- Rachel C. S. Duke, Taylor F. Henning – “From Wow to Wondering: Making Historical Resources Accessible to Students”
- Shatha Alrashdan – “I Am Because We Are”
- Yinghsuan Chao, Camilo Rubbini – “First class in statistics and econometrics: a classroom experiment”
- Jiabei Xu – “Becoming Scholars: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants”
- Hank Bass – “Empowering Student Wikipedians: Elevating Scientific Literacy in Biology Courses”
- Logan Chalfant – “Click, Compare, Confirm: Building Digital Literacy with Lateral Reading”
- Devin White, J. J. Jerez, Selena Ortiz, Lia O’Malley, Samantha Tackett – “How the Proactive Referral and Engagement Program encourages student success”
- Audrey Jacobs, Maclain Hardin-Kurza, Catherine Usewicz – “Reflecting the Real World in Undergraduate Arts Practitioner Education”
- Emil Asanov – “Inviting Self-Reflection and Reflexivity in a Language Teaching Methods Course”
- Amber Noor Mustafa – “The Big Three- Identifying key elements of effective lesson planning and execution”
- Natalie Sherer – “Empowered Singers: Engaging French Song Students with Practical and Inspiring Teaching Approaches”
2:00 pm–2:55 pm – Roundtable (R1)
Strozier Library Bradley Reading Room
- Anchalee Ngampornchai – “Peer Review Assignments: Learning Opportunities and Logistical Complexity”
- David Knapp, Steven Olson – “Reimagining Assessment as Content: Long-Format Scholar Interviews as Pedagogical Practice”
- Shuyuan Metcalfe, Shawn Banner – “Building Cyber Minds: From Consciousness to Competency in Cyber Defense”
- Amit Anshumali – “Strategies for Information Processing through Critical Thinking with Students”
- Meghan Mick, Scott Morrison – “Embracing Outdoor Teaching and Learning for Student Engagement and Well-Being”
Strozier Library Graduate Instruction Classroom (005A)
- Deanna Barath – “How to Gamify Writing Assignments”
- Asli Kaya, Sherry A. Southerland – “The Role of Vexations During Sense Making”
- Kevin Curry – “Why I force students to leave my classroom”
- Secil Caskurlu, Kadir Kozan – “Discussignments: Combining online discussions with assignments”
3:00 pm–3:55 pm – Roundtable (R2)
Strozier Library Bradley Reading Room
- Kerry Burner – “Developing Discussion Activities That Aren’t all Talk”
- Elyse Budkie, Samantha Tackett – “Approaches to support students through personal development activities”
- Mason Mathews – “Using video case studies to enhance student understanding of important themes and topics”
- Bruce Thyer, Emily Keeney – “How to Evaluate Student Learning Using the Counter-balanced Pretest-posttest Design: An Evidence-based Approach”
Strozier Library Graduate Instruction Classroom (005A)
- Sharanya Jayaraman – “Back to Paper: Using Handwritten In-Class Exercises to Support Conceptual Proficiency in the Age of AI”
- Amanda Ayers, Daniel Stefanelli, Micaela Cuellar – “The Teaching Process: A Framework for Collaborative Reflection and Revision”
- Radha Modi – “The Role of Deep Practice in Complexity”
- Jaesung Hur, Idam Kim, Vanessa Dennen – “Autonomy vs. Anxiety: Specification Grading”
4:00 pm–4:45 pm – Poster Presentation (P2, Designated Area in the Strozier Library Basement)
- Maria Cristina Ramos – “The Computational Social Science Pedagogical Toolkit”
- Idam Kim, Jaesung Hur, Nuodi Zhang, Shiyao Wei, Hui Shi, Vanessa Dennen – “Guiding Pre-Service Teachers on How to Co-Create with GenAI”
- Shawn Einarson, Danny Chiarodit, V. Casey Dozier – “Revolutionizing career development: Leveraging AI in career advising, teaching, and daily practices”
- Subhasree Sengupta, Richard Morris – “Using case studies to develop critical consciousness in applied data science courses”
- Genna Boyd – “Helping Students Navigate Academic Challenges: A Structured Framework for Holistic Support”
- Serena Bujtor, Jake Bucher, Danny Chiarodit, Justin Hultman – “Classroom Connections to Address Career Uncertainty”
- Laura Biagi – “Adapting Creative Writing Workshop Models to Improve Student Writing and Analysis in Writing and Humanities Classrooms”
- Mehdi Chalmers, Mira Talpau Joos, Carine Schermann – “Putting it All Together: Dynamic Scaffolds for Oral Production in Basic Language Classes”
- Helen Mahony – “Creating an online undergraduate statistics course: Ensuring student success using the Annoto and Lightboard tools”
- Bret Staudt Willet – “Reorganizing Classroom Activities to Situate Learning and Identity in Instructional Systems”
- Yeimy Roberto – “Revisar, Reflexionar, Repetir: Feedback for Second Language Writers in Spanish”
- Jessica Smith – “Setting the Standard: Evaluating Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments”
- Dina Vyortkina – “Technology Sandbox”
- Elaine Smith – “The 4 Rs: Community Building starts in the Syllabus”
- Erin Bush – “Empowering Creativity: Crafting and Implementing an Alternative Student Assessment”
- Leah Hollingsworth – “Operationalizing Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning: A Case Study of MAC1105 College Algebra”
4:45 pm–5:00 pm – Closing Remarks by James J. Clark (Strozier Library Bradley Reading Room)
Formats and Abstract of Presentation
There will be two presentation formats: poster presentations and round-table discussions. You may apply for only one format for each presentation. If you plan to apply for more than one presentation, you need to apply separately.
Poster Sessions
You can design a poster that summarizes the teaching innovation or scholarship that you would like to share. Your poster should include both text and figures (e.g., tables, graphs, diagrams, photographs). You will have time to present your poster and discuss your work with other participants, as well as visit other presenters to learn about their work.
If you’re interested in suggestions for creating an effective poster, please visit NYU Libraries’ How to Create a Research Poster article. When we notify you of acceptance, we will provide further guidelines regarding size and format of the posters.
Round Table Discussions
In this format you can share something you’ve been working on, get feedback and input from colleagues, and answer their questions about what you’ve been working on and why. You can also use this space to start a conversation about something that intrigues you, such as incorporating AI in teaching, or team-based learning. A roundtable is a particularly great format for starting a discussion about something you want to learn more about.
Roundtable discussions are very participatory and you can bring questions to engage your audience. Each round table discussion session will last for 60 minutes, but there will be a signal at the 30-minute mark for participants who wish to switch tables.
Eligibility
If you have taught (have been an IOR) at FSU or the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, you are eligible to apply to present. You may have taught collaboratively, and so you may co-present with a colleague, or include a colleague as a co-author on your poster. Co-presenters and co-authors can be grad students, Learning Assistants, etc. If you have questions about eligibility, please feel free to connect with us via pro-teaching@fsu.edu to check.
Consult with Us
If you’d like to discuss your project or idea for the Provost’s Showcase, or if you would like more guidance on the application process, feel free to contact us at pro-teaching@fsu.edu
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