TRC Workshops & Events

We are thrilled to invite you to participate in our Spring Book Club, where we'll dive into Connecting in the Online Classroom: Building Rapport Between Teachers and Students by Rebecca Glazier. This insightful book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, explores practical approaches to fostering strong connections with students in online learning environments.

In this book club, we’ll break the reading into three sections:

1. Part 1: The Problem
2. Part 2: The Solution
3. Part 3: What It Will Take

Each section will culminate in a group discussion, allowing us to share ideas, discuss challenges, and explore solutions. These conversations will provide valuable insights and strategies to help enhance our online classrooms and build meaningful rapport with students.

To sign up and join a discussion group, please complete the form below:

Spring Book Club Signup Form

Thank you for considering this opportunity to connect with colleagues and explore new strategies for engaging students in the online classroom. We look forward to the enriching conversations ahead!

Led by Jennifer Seagraves
Faculty & Staff Orientation

Join us for an engaging and interactive workshop designed for faculty and staff interested in connecting and learning from one another. Whether or not you've read the book Relationship-Rich Education, this session is open to all and offers a space to explore the meaningful relationships you create on campus.

Faculty and staff who read the book this summer were inspired by its examples and were eager to share their own experiences with one another. For example, in discussion about everyday mentoring we had examples from asking a student, "How are you?" to walking them across campus to connect with a resource, to flipping office hours to "student hours," our community has countless stories of fostering vibrant and rich relationships. For those faculty and staff who read this summer, this is your opportunity to share what takeaways, examples of other universities doing interesting work, and even share what changes you have made to your syllabus, classes, etc. that were inspired by this text.

Come ready to be active, learn, and share why relationships and the work you do matter. This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on your experiences, gain new insights, and celebrate the power of connections in our academic community. Let's learn from each other and continue building a supportive and vibrant campus culture!

Led by Morgan Pajak

Morgan Pajak will provide valuable insights into the integration of service learning principles within the academic curriculum, fostering a dynamic learning environment that extends beyond the confines of the classroom. Through an interactive and collaborative discussion, we will delve into innovative approaches for incorporating service learning into various disciplines, while also examining its profound impact on student engagement, community empowerment, and the cultivation of lifelong civic responsibility. Join us in this transformative endeavor as we collectively explore how to enrich the educational experience and empower our students to become active agents of positive change in their communities and beyond.

Register online: https://campbell.libcal.com/calendar/events/service

Resources:

• Link to recording
  Passcode: rM0&yL#0
• Link to Campbell Serve
• Slides

Led by Allison Lee and Jacqueline Gartner

Come join us for a hands-on activity to learn about a useful tool for both students and educators to visualize their current understandings of concepts. Our session will include creating concept maps on multiple topics so you will be ready to implement this new tool in your courses.

Join us for food, fun, and making new connections.

Link to register: https://campbell.libcal.com/calendar/events/conceptmapping

Led by Faithe Beam and Borrée Kwok

More information to follow.

Register online: https://campbell.libcal.com/calendar/events/earlyimplementation

Facilitated by Dr. Alison Polasik and Dr. Sherry Truffin

A Jigsaw is an easy and fun tool for increasing engagement in a class that can be used in a range of classes and subject areas. It gives agency and responsibility for learning back to the students. In this lunch-and-learn meeting, we (Drs. Sherry Truffin and Alison Polasik) will explain what a jigsaw is and give several examples of how we are using them in both English and Engineering classes to engage students, help them to access higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, break up long lecture periods, and (we believe) improve learning. Jigsaws are difficult to explain in words - and a big of a puzzle to figure out - but once you do, you will have a powerful tool in the fight for student learning and against student boredom.

This is an in-person workshop, and lunch will be provided to registrants.

Registration link: https://campbell.libcal.com/calendar/events/jigsaw

We are reading Relationship-Rich Education, How Human Connections Drive Success in College by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert. You may have encountered this text through the Belong webinar series earlier this year or heard of the two authors as they are local here to Elon University.

You have been invited to participate in reading and engaging with your educational peers this fall.

Access to the ebook is available through the following link on the library website: https://campbell.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CAMPBELL_INST/h4a75h/cdi_eric_primary_ED608540

Additional resources related to this title include:

• February Belong Webinar: Connections are Everything
• 9 minute clip from the webinar: Webinar Short - Connections Are Everything
• Reading Questions

Register here: https://forms.gle/A5CCDxiAFLQSLvX98