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November 11June 8, 2015 2016 | 10 am :00 - 11 am :00 am | Room: Catherwood 237

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   a. Note taker/additional agenda items

2. Sub-team updates -

   25m

   20m

   1. Website - need chair. 

   2. Technology/Learning Spaces

   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
   6. Programming
   Library Teaching Certificate Proposal - 20mPlease read the very draft-y proposal that the Instruction Leadership Team put together and come prepared to discuss.

   1. - will invite anyone who administers events to a training session to be sure they all know who to use new system. Only people who schedule workshops where people need to be registered need to be admins. We can have multiple admins, but need to keep it to people who do have this responsibility. Will discuss how to show just a unit's workshops or all, etc. 

   2. LibGuides - planning workshop on teaching with LibGuides. Some time in August. Also workshop on LibGuides for liaisons. May be mid-summer, not yet scheduled.

   3. Assessment - have surveys, but need to meet to discuss. Assessment in Action project from ACRL. Projects demonstrating learning. Poster session at ALA for these projects. Chris will send info to list. Kelee, Kelly, Chris and Mary will try to get to this. 

   4. Programming - have not meant since the program. Collecting feedback which was very positive. How do we use lessons learned? Was too much packed into the program? Could have talked about morning program in afternoon, rather than pack in more topics. Could have follow up using video recordings. Need practice! Would he be willing to share ppt slides? Bring David Way continue conversation on this? Big take away for David Feldshuh was that librarians are funny :-) At LOEX biggest thing was empathy in building a relationship with a librarian. 

   5. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership

      1. Membership/leadership changes - new chair is Kelee Pacion. New incoming chair is Kelly LaVoice. 2 new members, Alique and Malika. Chris will give them an orientation to get them started. New members will come to next meeting. Thanks to Lance for 3 years of leadership service on the committee. Lance will continue as RMC rep. 

      2. Subteam assignments for 2016-17. Survey coming forthwith! 

3. Online Learning Task Force update - 5m

   1. The coordinated call included volunteers for this group. We will coordinate with this group. Chris is on Tech & Learning Spaces sub-team and a member of this group. Group starts July 1. 

4. CUL Open Workshops for Admin Staff - 5m

   1. Mary will follow up on the email that she sent to Organizational Development. 

5. Proposal for Information Literacy Fellowship(s) - 10m

   1. Chris brought this to PSEC steering committee. Suggested getting rid of the word "leadership" in the name of the fellows program. Other questions - how are we going to evaluate applications? Who will do this? Make this more explicit. Ad hoc committee to select fellows in conjunction with Kornelia. Add requirement to get supervisor's approval. Finalize at leadership team then send to LDLT. Who is the mentor for the person selected? Instruction leadership team? Not Kornelia. Mary in collaboration with leadership team. Find space in another unit outside individual's own unit. Discuss office space issue at LDLT - Olin, Mann?

6. Top-level goals for 2016-17 for Annual Report - 5m Annual report is supposed to have top level goals. What are our key goals for next year?
   1. Peer mentoring program
   2. Follow up on David Feldshuh program
   3. Continue work on assessment
   4. Launch information literacy fellowship program
   5. Collaborate with Online learning task force
   6. ACRL Framework - develop our plans for implementation

7. Miscellaneous/Additional agenda items - need to schedule new leadership team meetings. Last one on calendar is June 20.

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May 11, 2016 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Room: Catherwood 237

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
   2. Membership update
2. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces
   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Programming
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
3. ePortfolios - 5m
4. Online Learning Task Force update - 5m
5. Orientation changes - 5m
6. CUL Open Workshops for Admin Staff - 5m
7. Proposal for Information Literacy Fellowship(s) - 10m
8. Miscellaneous/Additional agenda items

Membership update. Coordinated call going out soon. We are requesting 3 new members at large. Eric is replacing Marsha as Specialized Humanities cluster rep. 

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April 13, 2016 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Room: Catherwood 237 - CANCELLED

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
2. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces
   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Programming
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
3. Follow-up from meeting with Kornelia - 5m
4. Coordination of "Get Started" session collaborations - 5m
5. CUL Open Workshops for Admin Staff - 5m
6. Proposal to approach Knight Institute to create modules for FWS - 5m
7. Miscellaneous/Additional agenda items

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March 9, 2016 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Room: Catherwood 237

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
2. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces
   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Programming
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
3. Moving the Peer Observation program forward - 10m

   1. https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/instruct/Peer+Observation

4. Review of Focus Area Discussion on "Preparing Students to Use and Produce Knowledge in the Digital World" held March 3 - 10m

5. Miscellaneous/Additional agenda items

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February 10, 2016 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Room: Catherwood 237

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
2. All-staff takeaways - 5m
3. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces
   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Programming
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
4. Instruction assessment rollout - 10m
5. Instruction brochure - 10m

Notetaker: Jeremy Cusker

All-staff meeting notes: For the 'instruction-centric' question discussed ("How do we make students more digitally/information literate?"), Amy and Erin facilitated. Ideas proposed included further collaboration with Center for Teaching Excellence and Academic Technologies. At the event, Kornelia agreed it was important to discuss further and there will be another discussion of this specific point on March 3 at 2 PM (details to follow). Kornelia really wants to see these discussions lead to something tangible.

Sub-team reports:

-Website: New site is live, according to brief note forwarded along by Mickey. Testimonials now included. Workshop listing also live, although 'currency' a bit in doubt. Somewhat hard to find given overall navigation. Also "Instruction" link goes directly to request form. Maybe it would make more sense to instead say "Request Instruction".

-Technology and Learning Spaces: All PSEC Instruction team members, plus Bob Kotaska and Lynn Bertoia, have trial LibCal accounts. All are encouraged to play around with them. Return feedback to Jeremy by end of February.

-LibGuides: Series of fixes instituted, including removal of course guides from subject guides.

-Assessment: had meeting. Emails to all instruction coordinators regarding survey going out. Idea for 2016 fall: Linking assessment to instruction, tie into the goals discussed at the all-staff meeting. New way of creating surveys put into place, as is streamlining compilation of the data. This will likely be a mandate within those libraries (like Mann) where it is not already. Use of the survey electronically may be difficulty in situations where instruction takes place in classrooms without computers in place (i.e. RMC, where paper forms are being used). At Mann, use of the survey is already mandatory and paper forms are not to be used.

-Programming: Lance not present but sent message: Working on May event planning, "Communicating Your Value", a program based on the earlier SPARC talks program. Collaborating with Prof. D. Feldshuh in Theater; program to focus on public speaking skills; he would be the main speaker during this event.

Overall, goal of Programming to have a problem every month now seen as impractical/unrealistic.

-Information literacy: Mentoring and teaching observation program going forward. Will be discussed with steering committee, then brought up at PSEC Instruction again.

Instruction brochure: Draft text went out by email. Text generally approved-of.

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March 9, 2016 minutes

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items- Kelee taking notes
2. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website-confirm website is ready to announce. They are going to send the announcement to CUL. Review of draft in meeting. Going to change wording of PSEC Instruction to team and not committee. Otherwise looks great. Change bullet in best practices from “discuss which” to “discuss what”(changed by Nina).
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces-sample accounts to libcal are out. We have received no complaints about using libcal. Need to take next steps to go live with libcal for CUL. Perhaps by the end of the month. Want to test in summer. Discussion of training and how to include anyone that might be interested.
   3. LibGuides- next meeting is this friday. want to talk about libguides programming for the summer (requested by liaison steering committee).
   4. Assessment- no updates.  Waiting for surveys. Will start meeting soon to talk about next steps in how to collate data. Talked about possibility of getting student help to get the data together.
   5. Programming- meeting with R&O to plan collaborative end of semester event- will have David Felcher do a session on teaching as performance. Postponed discussion of planning around this event. trying to get a  feel from Kornelia to frame program around the new goals. Waiting to see what is needed based on results from the discussions and results of assessment survey.
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership-going to meet with CTE and discuss peer observation form and discuss end of semester event, and institute for end of semester (JR Faculty Institute). Discussion of which folks should go, possibility of a librarian that teaches a for credit class. Ball is in our court on working with CTE to conduct library training in teaching.  What would it look like and why would we want to participate in this? Discussion of for credit classes and pros and cons- sustainability and scalability and how useful are they?  how to we improve relevancy and efficiency? Talk about how to balance all types.
3. Moving the Peer Observation program forward - 10m-

https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/instruct/Peer+Observation

How would this work? reviewed notes left by Meghan. Chris will send out notes and ask folks to comment on the notes. How do we move it forward?  Need to have one person to be in charge of this to try and plan next steps to create this program.

1. Review of Focus Area Discussion on "Preparing Students to Use and Produce Knowledge in the Digital World" held March 3 - 10m-     identify goals for the coming year.
   1. increase capacity for open instruction how to function in a digital environment (video instruction included) increase open workshops. want to reach all audiences including alumni
   2. explore opportunities to increase IL into curriculum (increase number and variety of for credit classes) Integrate the framework
   3. provide staff training-  not fully identified as to what this would look like.
   4. Miscellaneous/Additional agenda items- none

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January 13, 2016 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Room: Catherwood 237

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
2. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces
   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Programming
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
      1. Membership
3. Demo of LibCal for event registration - 15m
4. December Event Debrief/Follow-up - 10m
5. PSEC-I Budget - 5m

Website subteam: we are good to go with the new instruction request form. Materials to designers later this week. Just a few edits to vignettes. No complicated email routing system. Shouldn't be too complicated to make changes in the future. Nina put together list of credit bearing courses which will also go on the website and will be sent to Kornelia to highlight. Should go live by beginning of semester.

CANCELLED - December 9, 2015 | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Room: Catherwood 237

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
2. Sub-team updates - 25m
   1. Website
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces
   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Programming
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
3. Demo of LibCal for event registration - 15m

November 11, 2015 | 10 am - 11 am | Room: Catherwood 237

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
2. Sub-team updates - 25m
   1. Website - Mickey? - Nina: two members of the website team met with Melanie to help with the vignettes. - Form is still in the works - updates have been made to the Instruction Coordinator list.  On track for launch at the beginning of next semester.  Tony: list of credit courses needs to be added 
      1. Tony - reported on the Instruction Coordinator discussion - everyone went around introduced themselves - updated what their programs were focused on currently - looked at some of the difference between the larger and smaller units - Tony meeting with Martha Walker individually - Kelee recommends doing it again in the future
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces - Jill: team met with PTAC chairs Dan Blackaby and Hannah Chapman - no one likes eVanced, looking into LibCal - team will continue investigating LibCal - added bonus, would save us money to go with LibCal in some ways - LibCal funding is already secured by PTAC - Dan and Hannah are going back to PTAC to make sure it's ok for our team to have admin accounts, possible demo in next meeting
      1. Mary: Mann's website is incorporating LibCal into the hours function - Olin may be as well - driving force behind upping the license - Sara E. Wright behind this
      2. Meghan: would be great to have a demo account to share with workshop coordinators for testing as well
      3. Jill: grouping people together who do the events, etc. for input 
      4. Brief discussion of registering versus not registering
   3. LibGuides: subject headings - aren't as helpful as they could be - fine-tuning and tweaking to increase findability 
      1. Continuity between databases and LibGuides headings? - Don't want to go too far away from that but looking at some of the peculiarities that don't fit the database headings
   4. Assessment: finished getting all the pilot data.  Will be compiled shortly.  Nothing serious or concerning. Getting ready to prepare for the December event. 
   5. Programming: Chris read update from Lance - Friday, November 20, article discussion - December 10th event - reports/updates from Assessment, Engineering videos, with a focus on instruction/assessment
      1. Marsha - will send out the article discussion to CU-LIB today
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
      1. Course Design Institute this Friday/Saturday - Chris has contacted the liaisons - 2 from economics, 2 from hotel, 1 from engineering, 1 africana, 1 from romance studies, food science/nutritional science - Chris will send a release of the hold on everyone else's calendars - Chris and Meghan will be presenting 
   7. Gaby - Zsuzsa is making the rounds to talk about the graduate student survey - burning questions that you think should be asked of graduate students, both professional and PhD programs. Instrument will be developed in the spring.  Gathering input through December from CUL. Based on that, January and February, Assessment will be developing questions, possibly with the Survey Research Institute - launched in late March or so. Not sure there will be input on the instrument itself, but early input will be informing it.
      1. Meghan sent out prompt for feedback to PSEC-INSTRUCTION
         
         
3. Library Teaching Certificate Proposal - 20m
   1. Please read the very draft-y proposal that the Instruction Leadership Team put together and come prepared to discuss. (below)

      1. Questions for PSEC Instruction:

         • What would be the value of this to instruction librarians?
         • Who would benefit from going through this?
         • Cohort (limit number of people going through the program at one time) or self-paced (whoever wanted to pursue the certificate could and work their way through the program)?
      2. Discussion
         1. Value? Yes - could you get credit for past experience? Would it be a professional credential? Is the library administrative supporting it in our professional development as librarians?  
         2. Would everyone see the value in it?  What would be the incentive? What incentive do you think it would take to make it worthwhile? 
         3. Who is issuing the certificate? What does it mean to have the certificate? What would make the certificate valuable?  Why does the certificate mean anything? This is what we need to know to propose it to the administration.  Professional development that could be used as evidence in a promotion portfolio, transferrable to other professional opportunities, monetary award
         4. When faculty go through a similar program at Cornell, what do they get? Goes on your CV. 
         5. Tony: has the Teaching Scholars certificate from CTE - activities for the year, framed in office - thought it was worthwhile and has concrete things he does in his classes from it - required a reflection at the end. was already attending workshops, showed an accumulation of attendance
            
            1. Would it mean more if it came from CTE? From an outside organization? Teaching Excellence idea
         6. Newer librarians with teaching responsibilities - CTE emails aren't necessarily inviting librarian participation - a new librarian that's eager for feedback and find out more about teaching - it's a rich learning experience - CTE is interested in teaching you - something to put in your portfolio - not just that 
         7. Don't expect a huge demand for this - help yourself feel more comfortable in the classroom - the more you prepare yourself, the more comfortable you feel
         8. Would make people more comfortable working with CTE - it's their job to make us better teachers
         9. Tony: mix of workshops/seminars from CTE staff and from faculty in CTE programming
         10. Library-focused sessions as part of the available sessions seems important. Library-specific needs that CTE may not meet. Focus on the challenges of things like the one-shot and faculty collaboration around student learning.
         11. Going beyond librarians - invite anyone who has teaching responsibilities
         12. Cohort or self-paced - cohort program could delay people - low participation - what is the incentive? if it's financial, there would be limits
         13. Would CTE be doing all the teaching? No, CUL staff would do some and CTE would do others
         14. Gaby - could CTE do a first observation in the classroom - sort of a pre-test/post-test scenario - looking for improvement - It would be useful for them and useful for the participant to gain that insight - practical difference between library instruction and faculty teaching - CTE needs to see it, but the feedback from CUL staff would also be helpful - CTE observations might limit participation - hard to make them do 20 observations - pilot with smaller group?  Need CTE's feedback

Library Instructors Teaching Certificate Program - Draft Proposal

Overview

The Library Instructors Teaching Certificate Program is open to all Cornell librarians [and others in the Library?] who have teaching responsibilities.  It provides opportunities to interact with colleagues across campus and explore diverse, innovative, and timesaving teaching strategies. The Certificate Program focuses both on developing and refining teaching strategies to maximize student learning and minimize administrative overhead and implementing teaching strategies that maximize the efficacy of various technological tools to enhance student learning. 

Participants in the program receive a certificate upon completion of the program components.

The Teaching Certificate Program is a space for you to:

• Identify and implement new teaching approaches and concepts in your instruction sessions
• Discuss teaching excellence and student learning with colleagues and teaching professionals
• Assess strengths of and alternatives to your current teaching methods
• Identify the factors that affect student learning.
• Apply new teaching approaches or concepts into courses and assess their impact on learning

Requirements of the Library Instructors Teaching Certificate Program 

The Certificate programs represent critical inquiry into teaching practice and have the following components, which we recommend be completed in a 2-3 year timeframe:

Attend 6 small-group working sessions.

Everyone has their own specific teaching interests based on the type of classes they offer and their own teaching style and philosophy. You choose the sessions that fit your interests and schedule. In these hands-on sessions you will develop teaching strategies that you can implement in your classes right away.

Proposed Library-specific small-group sessions: 

• Creating effective online tutorials for information literacy instruction
• What makes a good research/information literacy assignment?
• Developing effective learning outcomes for information literacy instruction 

Some existing CTE sessions that might be a good fit:

• PowerPoint design for learning: It's not just about how it looks!: What's the best way to foster engagement with PowerPoint? Come learn some tricks of the trade to make your presentations more interactive and visually appealing. Bring a PowerPoint presentation you'd like to change to this hands on workshop.
• Strategies to Effectively Use iClickers in the Classroom -- Technology doesn't automatically enhance learning, it must be thoughtfully integrated to achieve optimal results. Come to this conversation to discuss the pros and cons of clickers and develop a plan to effectively utilize them in your course.
• Extending the Classroom: Designing Online Course Modules -- There are so many options for online course modules, the possibilities seem almost endless! Come learn how to effectively utilize online strategies, and let us help guide you to some user friendly tools and techniques.
• Using Online Learning Tools to Enhance Teaching -- With the explosion of online tools available for teaching, how do you choose the most effective one? Join our conversation to discover how these tools have been integrated into Cornell classrooms to enhance teaching and the student learning experience. 

Engage in a classroom visit [by a CTE staff member or CUL colleague?]

Is there anything specific that you want to know about how students are responding to content and activities or how they are engaging with you and their peers? Having someone visit your class is one way to find out. The visit is preceded by a conversation about the course overall, the class in particular, and what specifically you want to know about the classroom and its dynamics. After the visit, we review and discuss the class. 

Teaching Project Discussions

We’ve all made changes in our teaching. The Teaching Project Discussions provide a space to give a short presentation on the changes that you have made in your teaching and how you feel those changes have impacted student learning. You will then lead a brief discussion about your changes. Each participant will receive a worksheet with reflective prompts to guide the development of the project discussion.

Upon completion of the Faculty Teaching Certificate Program, participants will receive a certificate of completion.

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October 14, 2015  10 am - 11 am Room: Catherwood 237

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