The document discusses improving teaching and learning in higher education. It addresses topics such as engaging employees, creating connections, igniting talent, keeping momentum, metacognition, mentoring, and research on mentoring. Specific points mentioned include that actively disengaged employees cost $450-550 billion annually in lost productivity, the need to "disturb the universe" in how faculty engage students, and benefits of mentoring such as improved teaching, leadership skills, self-reflection, and sensitivity to others' challenges.

1. Peg Balachowski
Associate Dean of Teaching
and Learning
Former FACTC Representative
Liberating Faculty to
Create Chaos

2. Why are you here?
The statewide Assessment, Teaching,
and Learning community includes
educators, administrators, and
institutional researchers who provide
campus leadership to improve
teaching and learning through
assessment and faculty development.
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4. Talk about changing the world…I don’t have
a job. I have a higher calling!
“We can see ourselves as
bricklayers or cathedral
builders.”
John Vaihmeyer
KPMG Global
Gallup: $450-550 BILLION worth of
productivity is lost every year to actively
disengaged employees.
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6. • “Doing more of the same will just
get us more of the same.”
• “disruptive innovations” and
“deeper engagement, scalable
interventions”
Community College Week Point of View October 2012
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Disturbing the Universe
Terry O’Banion

7. The BIGQuestion
How DO we get
faculty to disturb
the universe?
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9. What are the things that happen at a
college or technical school that, more
than anything else, produce
“engaged” employees on a fulfilling
career track?
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10. Your Challenge Today
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13.  How do you create
connections?
 How do you ignite your
talent?
 How do we keep
momentum going?

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15. Reflection & Metacognition
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16. METACOGNITION
The gift that keeps on giving.
Donna Wilson, Ph.D., in Edutopia
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17. “The Boss of My Brain”
Explicit instruction in
metacognition puts students
in charge of their learning –
no matter who the
students are.
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18. Why Mentor?
• An investment in retention
• Continuous growth
• Increase reflective and responsive
practices
• Frame the professional journey
• Facilitate professional growth –
mentor AND mentee!
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19. The Research says…
• Mentoring will improve your own
teaching!
• Improve your leadership skills!
• Offer an opportunity for self-
reflection about your own career
path!
• Increase your sensitivity to the
challenge of others!
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20. This could be you!
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