Wake Up and Connect! Strategies to Engage and Keep Student Attention

If it works for your students, let it work for other Touro students! Touro College’s core competency is learning and teaching and the faculty are our experts. At the first annual TCUS Faculty Learning Strategies Exchange Conference, your fellow instructors will present and demonstrate interactive learning strategies that they have found effective with their students. 

Program Presenters and Topics:

• Kam Kwong, Advancing Competency-Based Practice Research: An Innovative, Experiential Pedagogical Approach
• Folusho Otuyelu, Using a Resource Deficit Activity to teach Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice
• Sankung Susso, Cloze Reading: Assessment and Vocabulary Development
• Tracy Norton & Jack Graves, Technology-Leveraged Learning for Problem-Solving Classes
• France Weill, Developing Observational Skills
• Shulamit Rubin, Collaborative Close Reading of Text
• Shulamit Rubin, Using the Whiteboard to “Mark-Up” Projected Text
• Henry Abramson, Celebrating the Death of PowerPoint
• Rebecca Cope, Utilizing Google Forms to identify Muddiest Points
• Joyce Addo-Atuah, Liven Up your Classroom with Team-based Learning
• Marcella Bullmaster-Day, Let the Learner do the Learning: The Role of Attention and Memory in Learning
• Shu Jen Chen-Worley, Understanding the Concept of Disability
• Ching Ching Lin, Equity and Inclusion of Questioning in Classroom Community Inquiry
• Shakira Kennedy, This is Jeopardy: Where Teaching Innovation meets Learning
• Tara Casimano & Meira Orentlicher, Engaging Students in Faculty Research Agenda
• Franklin Schindelheim, Ok! Cell Phones Away: The Dilemma of 21st Century Classroom Management
• Timothy Bellavia, Sage Doll Test
• Mariluz Henshaw, Clinical Vignettes as a Teaching Tool in Medical Biochemistry
• Paramita Basu, Interprofessional Education (IPE) Program teaches Importance of Collaborative Care
• Birgit Wolf, Introduction of Student Learning Classrooms
• Meredith Miller, The Use of “Clickers” in the Classroom
• Marlyn Press & Roslyn Haber, Comics in the College Classroom

Touro College Faculty Learning Strategies Exchange Conference (PDF)