SILA Faculty Development 2019
Session Schedule
DatePresenter(s)TopicContent

Number ofParticipants

April 2

A. Passos

1st year course
registration advising

To clarify how to help 1st year
advisees in their course
registrations

17

April 18

A. Howard

Senior Thesis Rubric

To get opinions and feedback
17
about how to implement some of
the changes to senior thesis thatwere passed in Faculty Council;
to ideas on how to adapt it toother thesis assignments; todiscuss the roles of first andsecond reader, and to come upwith general guidelines for theseJuly 26

A. Yasutomi

Active Learning Using aDocument Camera

To explain how to use adocument camera which is aneffective instrument for activelearning

10

September 24

A. Passos

Explanation of Student
Evaluation

To explain how student
evaluation of teachers is
conducted

17January 10

H. Nishitani

Evaluating the Impactof International
Education: Implications
and Applications fromthe Beliefs, Events, andValues Inventory (BEVI)

To explain the management of5
BEVI and to staff members and todiscuss the effects of BEVI toteachers

January 14

A. Passos

EducationalImprovement using ICT

To introduce the new system that 9 (ILA)
can measure students’ Diploma
Policy achievements

February 13K.
Kusumoto

Consideration andSupport for Disabled
Students

To talk about how universities
can support students withdisabilities.

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March 30

A. Simpson

Zoom FD Session

To introduce Zoom

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Session Feedback Form
1. The objectives of the session were clearly defined.
2. Participation and interaction were encouraged.
3. The topics covered were relevant to me.
4. The content was organized and easy to follow.
5. The session experience will be useful in my work.
6. The presenter was knowledgeable about the training topics.
7. The session length and pace were appropriate.
8. The session room and facilities were appropriate.
9. The materials distributed were helpful.
10. What aspects of the session could be improved?
11. How do you plan to apply the contents of this session to your work?
12. Additional comments
NOTE:
Number 1 = STRONGLY DISAGREE
Number 5 = STRONGLY AGREE

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1st year Course Registration Advising (A. Passos)
Date: April 2, 2019
Session Start/End Time: 16:15~17:15
Place: 1-201
Summary:A. Passos clarified how the faculty can help 1st year advisees in their course registrations.

Participants:
A.PassosE. Bond
S. LimA.Howard
K. Bishop
D. OcchiA.KasaiJ. Adachi

E. HeadR. Schmidt
A.Yasutomi
J. Hong
F. Kobayashi
A.Simpson
C. Mork
W. HallP. Mlodkowski

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1st year course registration advising (A. Passos) - Session Feedback
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Yesn/aWill use it whenevaluating ST.

Yes

It was good for thepurpose.

I used the knowledge
to advise mystudents.
Thank you.

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Senior Thesis Rubric Workshop (A. Howard)
Date: July 18, 2019
Session Start/End Time: 16:20~17:15
Place: 1-201
Summary:
In this FD session, A. Howard elicited opinions and feedback about how to implement someof the changes to senior thesis that were passed in Faculty Council. The first of these is arubric. A. Howard has written a draft and received a lot of valuable feedback from K. Bishop,
but she wanted to get opinions from different disciplines. She also wanted ideas on how toadapt the rubric to other thesis assignments (currently it only applies to the completedthesis). The rubric will have to be used this year so it was good to get something most of thefaculty can agree on. In addition, she discussed the roles of first and second reader, and cameup with general guidelines for these.

Participants:
A. Howard
E. Bond
S. LimD. OcchiA.AdachiF. Kobayashi
R. Schmidt
C. MorkG. Dunne
A.Howard

A. Yasutomi
E. HeadW. HallA.Kasai
K. Bishop
A.PassosJ. Hong5Senior Thesis Rubric Workshop (A. Howard) - Session Feedback
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NAFollow the advice
from the meeting andany updates resulting
from the meeting.

Yes.

slides rather thanpaper?

will need it for sr.
thesis!

Yes.

It was good for thepurpose.

I will use theinformation to grade
thesis.

Yes.

NAAs we must.

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Active Learning Using a Document Camera (A. Yasutomi)
Date: July 26, 2019
Session Start/End Time: 14:40~13:40
Place: 1-201
Summary:
Dr. Yasutomi explained how to use a document camera which is an effective instrument for
active learning.

Participants:
A.Yasutomi
E. HeadR. Schmidt
S. Lim
E. Rummel
K. Bishop
D. OcchiW. HallC. Mork
J.C. Choi

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Feedback
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Q8555555555555554544252444Q9Q10Q11Q12Yes.

I suggest adding thedocument camera to
the booking menu on
google calendar if itgets popular. In fact it
might be an idea tohave an extra one
because it is a reallyhandy thing. Carrying
it around is a bit
I might use acumbersome so it
document camera
would be good tosometimes. We had have one in building 1
one installed inand one in building 2classrooms at KGU so or one on each floor
Nothing, it was good. I was used to using it. or something.

None weredistributed.

-Yes.

probably won't usecake, I want cake. and the camera. i haveorange juice,alternatives.

My days arenumbered.

8Explanation of Student Evaluation Mechanics (A. Passos)
Date: September 24, 2019
Session Start/End Time: 14:45~15:30
Place: CCR 2
Summary:
A. Passos explained how student evaluation of courses is conducted at the end of each term.
A. Passos also discussed M. Yasuda’s GPA analyses results.

Participants:
J. Adachi
F. Kobayashi
E. Bond
A. Simpson
Y. Atsushi
N. Brown
F. Jimenez
E. HeadL. Walker
R. Schmidt
S. LimC. Mork
B. Rodda
E. Rummel
J.C. Choi
A. Howard

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Explanation of Student Evaluation Mechanics (A. Passos) – Session
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It was interesting toknow about the datafrom student surveys
and see that by andlarge my results thisIt was a bit long.
year good even
Rather than having
compared to others. Iquestions direct toI will pay attention to was surprised thatthe presenter I would the comments from the average class size
suggest having a little students. There iswas 15 students since
time for freer
nothing new in thismy classes havediscussion in groups but I understand the generally been overand reporting back. context a bit better. 25 students.

None weredistributed.

I do not know.

teachingSomewhat.

NoneI don'tNone weredistributed.

The syllabus FD thatwas promised wasnot carried out. TheFD was missing
collegiality from somefaculty members whocontented themselveswith heckling
everything that theDean said.
in no way.

I would hope to see
improved FDs in thefuture. Otherwise
they are rather awaste of time.

10Evaluating the Impact of International Education: Implications andApplications from the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (H. Nishitani)
Date: January 10, 2020
Session Start/End Time: 14:40~17:15
Place: room 1-201
Summary:Prof. Nishitani (Professor, Department of Policy and Legal Affairs, Graduate School of Social
Sciences, Hiroshima University) held a workshop on BEVI (Beliefs Events and Values Inventory),
which is used by more than 15 institutions nationwide to evaluate study abroad. did.
Part 1 gave a presentation on the management of BEVI to staff, and Part 2 gave a lecture on theeffects of BEVI to teachers.
BEVI consists of background questions (20 questions) and psychological characteristics questions(165 questions), and can be conducted in 20 to 30 minutes. Background questions such as genderand affiliation are used for classification during analysis. Information obtained through thepsychological characteristic question is analyzed by a computer, and the analysis result is shownin the form of a report. It was shown that it can be used not only for evaluation of study abroad,but also for various evaluations.

Participants:A.Kasai
G. Dunne
E. HeadC. MorkA.Passos

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Evaluating the Impact of International Education: Implications andApplications from the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory –(H. Nishitani) Session Feedback
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This is an
informationalsession so I don't
think there is muchto improve
No plans at this time
I wanted to hearmore about
possible practicalapplications toMIC.
I will consider using
BEVI for workshop
evaluations in future.

Yes.
Yes.

Q12

examplequestions?

Sorry I could not stay
to the end. I feel sorry
for the presenter that
this was held on sucha busy day for ILA.
Otherwise more
people may haveattended.

Am interested in
becoming qualified

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Educational Improvement Using ICT (A. Passos)
Date: January 14, 2020
Session Start/End Time: 16:20-17:15
Place: 1-201
Summary:
As a part of the AP program, MIC has recently established a system which can measure
Diploma Policy achievements using two different measures: student’s self-evaluations andstudent's course grades. Mahara®, which has been used in our e-portfolio system until now,
has been given a plug-in function to generate graphs that show how much of our DPs
students are achieving based on the two measurements mentioned before. Professor
Anderson Passos, who has been instrumental in building this system, showed us how thesystem works and discuss some of the possible future uses for it.

Participants:
F. Kobayashi
E.BondS. Lim
R. Schmidt
J. Adachi
A.Simpson
A. Passos
E. HeadD. Occhi
K. Bishop

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Educational Improvement Using ICT (A. Passos) - Session Feedback
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None weredistributed.

I am getting a better
understanding of thediploma policy andhow rubric-based
syllabi contribute to
The content was
students'
somewhat familiar as development. I can
we have had sessions connect classroomon this before but as activities with thean update it was still diploma policy a bitinteresting.
more.

Somewhat.

handout

advising

None

Rubrics working
group reportYes.

can't think of any

It's already applied,so we need to beaware of it

Somewhat.

Working projectors

Included in my syllabi

Yes.

Q12

Anderson has
impressive bilingual
skills!

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Consideration and Support for Disabled Students (K. Kusumoto)Date: February 13, 2020
Session Start/End Time: 13:30~14:30
Place: 1-201
Summary:K. Kusumoto gave a talk about how universities can support students with disabilities.

Participants:(A. Higuchi)

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Consideration and Support for Disabled Students (K. Kusumoto) – Session
Feedback
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Q2Q3Q4Q5Q6Q7Q844444554Q9Q10Q11Yes.

申し訳ありません
が、時間が経過しているので、お話の終了後に感じたことは記憶に残っていません。

発達障害などに対する考え方、捉え方を確認することができたように思います。
それによって学生への対応も変わると思います。

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Zoom Workshop (A. Simpson)
Date: March 30, 2020
Session Start/End Time: 13:30~15:00
Place: Different locations (online meeting)
Summary:
A. Simpson introduced Zoom to the faculty. Attendees set up their accounts and trieddifferent available functionalities such as doing break out rooms. Attendees also talked about
numerous possible issues with the application.

Participants:
A. Simpson
L. Walker
E. HeadA. Passos
F. Kobayashi
A. KasaiA. Howard
N. Brown
F. Jimenez
E. Bond
G. Dunne
A. Yasutomi

C. Mork
W. HallD. OcchiJ. Adachi
S. Lim
E. Cho17

Zoom Workshop (A. Simpson) – Session Feedback
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Online teaching

Many faculty would be interested ingoing to a hybrid on-line teaching modelin the current situation. I would like ongoing support about how to do it. Wheneveryone gets busy it will be moredifficult to experiment. I am interested
in students using more than one app.
Then how to get them used tonavigating and logging in to several
things, may be a problem. I don't think
we can expect them to master morethan one app right away! But we are,kind of, expecting them too.

Yes

More
advanced
notification
would havebeen helpful.

I am going to familiarize
myself with Zoom a bit
more. Then I will try toincorporate it into myteaching wherever it
may be useful.

None weredistributed

It was timely
and practicalnothing toimprove

I want to use Zoom forclasses.

YesnothingWith the coronavirus
around, it will be very
Many thanks to Alan for organizing this.
useful to use this kind of I hope there will be more online FDs like
software for classes
this in the future.

None weredistributed

NothingClass discussion?

None weredistributed

As an intro toZoom, it wasextremely
usefulI will use Zoom to thegreatest degree that theadministration willpermit me to use it.

Yes

naOnline teaching usingzoom

None weredistributed

More time?

Hope to use for classes

Yes

It was great

It will be useful when we
have online classes

Thank you for doing this. I feel better
about using zoom.

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