Badges

Badges

The CTE currently offers these digital badges in recognition of participation in our workshops and programs.

• Four Teaching Essentials

  This is a four part workshop series on the teaching essentials. Faculty who complete all four parts of the series will receive a certificate and a digital badge. This series may be particularly useful for new or junior faculty.

   

  The Four Teaching Essentials workshops are:
  

   

  1. Community of Learners (now also available as an online, asynchronous workshop!)
     
  2. Active & Collaborative Learning
  3. Respect for Students
  4. Feedback Early & Often

   

  
  May be taken in any order!

  Badge Holders:

   

  • Amber Arsenault
  • Jeri Brehm
  • Rhonda Brodrick
  • Jackie Buchanan
  • Susan Burns
  • Mary Campbell
  • Brooke Carver
  • Donna Cherry
  • Misty Cook
  • Suman Dalal
  • Christina Dean
  • Dinah, DeFord
  • Laura Dower
  • Susan Epps
  • Wanda Franklin
  • Angela Flemmer
  • Jacqueline Ford
  • Robin Foreman
  • Lee Glenn
  • Kristen Goettl
  • Carla Green
  • Jennifer Hall
  • Kaci Hauldren
  • Emma Hopson
  • Jessica Hudson
  • Ghaith Husari
  • Wanda Jarrett
  • Kwangman Ko
  • Mary Langenbrumer
  • Michelle Littleton
  • Greta Marek
  • Carolyn Merriman
  • Christen Minnick
  • Holly Mitchell
  • Schyler Napier
  • Randy Nentrup
  • Patsy Pampkin
  • Mimi Perreault
  • Cindy Phillips
  • Catherine Powers
  • Tabitha Quillen
  • Debbie Ricker
  • Tricia Stewart
  • Jonathon Taylor
  • Beth Thompson
  • Kendrea Todt
  • Dea Thacker
  • Georgita Washington
  • Melessia Webb, Nursing
  • Vickie Hood-Wells
  • Helen Zakewicz

   

• High-Impact Teaching Practices: Spring 2025

  The options available for this badge will vary depending on CTE offerings for the current semester.
  

  For this badge, you workshop attendance can carry over from one semester to the next, even if a workshop previously included (that you attended) is no longer included. However, you are encouraged to implement and reflect close to your workshop attendances, so that the information you've learned is fresh and easier to recall as you put what you've learned into practice.

   

  Spring 2025 Badge Requirements

  Please see CTE Workshop and Flash Mentoring pages for dates and times when all below are offered.

  Attend or Complete (if available online) THREE:

   

  • Question Formulation Technique (QFT) workshop (can double-count toward Critical Conversations badge)
    
  • Active & Collaborative Learning workshop (can double-count toward 4 Teaching Essentials badge)
  • Community of Learners workshop (available as asynchronous workshop; can double-count toward 4 Teaching Essentials badge)
  • Using Questions to Drive Thinking & Learning workshop
  • Using Images for Thinking & Learning workshop
  • CEL Introductory Session

   

  Attend or View (if recorded) ONE:
  

   

  • Tips for Designing Your Class COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) Project
  • Flash Mentoring: Simple but Effective High-Impact Teaching Practices
    

   

  Implement 2 or more High-Impact Teaching Practices (learned in above events) in at least one of your classes.

   

  Can be done during the current semester or the following academic year.

  Please try to implement NEW or SIGNIFICANTLY REVISED practices based on approaches you learned from the sessions above, rather than ones you've already been using.

   

  Complete, with integrity, a reflection about the implementation.

   

  Can be done during the current semester or the following academic year.

  Reflection Form Link

   

• Critical Conversations in the Classroom

   

  The workshops and experiences included for this badge help you learn how to hold challenging conversations in a productive and supportive space, as well as encourage open and broad inquiry from your students.

  For this badge, you workshop attendance (or viewing) can carry over from one semester to the next. However, you are encouraged to implement and reflect close to your workshop attendances, so that the information you've learned is fresh and easier to recall as you put what you've learned into practice.

  Please see CTE Workshop page for dates and times when all below are offered. For recorded alternatives, see our Online Workshops page. Recorded workshops will be added to this page once they are created.

  Badge Requirements

   

  Please see CTE Workshop page for dates and times when all below are offered. For recorded alternatives, see our Online Workshops page. Recorded workshops will be added to this page once they are created.

  Attend (Required):
   

  • Committing to Critical Conversations in the Classroom workshop

   

  Attend or View (if recording available) THREE:

   

  • Question Formulation Technique workshop
  • Barriers to Critical Conversations and Open Dialogue: A roundtable discussion
  • ABCD (A Better Civil Discourse) Conversation experience
  • Living Room Conversations experience
  • Crash Course: Addressing Microaggressions in the Classroom (30 minute workshop)

   

  Implement a strategy learned from these sessions in at least one of your classes.
   

  Can be done during the current semester or the following academic year.

   

  Complete, with integrity, a reflection about the implementation.
   

  Can be done during the current semester or the following academic year.

  Reflection Form Link: coming soon!

• Alternative Grading

  For this badge, you workshop attendance (or viewing) can carry over from one semester to the next. However, you are encouraged to implement and reflect close to your workshop attendances, so that the information you've learned is fresh and easier to recall as you put what you've learned into practice.

  Badge Requirements

  
  Please see CTE Workshop page for dates and times when all below are offered. For recorded alternatives, see our Online Workshops page. Recorded workshops will be added to this page once they are created.

  Attend (Required):

   

  • Crash Course: The 4 Pillars of Alternative Grading (30 minute workshop)
    

  Attend or View TWO:

   

  • Crash Course: Ungrading (30 minute workshop)
    
  • Crash Course: Specifications Grading (30 minute workshop)
    
  • Crash Course: Standards-Based Grading (30 minute workshop)
    

   

  For Additional Help, Access these Resources (Optional):

   

  • Grading for Growth (book available for check-out from CTE holdings)
  • Ungrading (book available for check-out from CTE holdings)
  • https://gradingforgrowth.com/
    

   

  Implement an alternative grading practice in at least one of your classes.

   

  Remember that you can test-run alternative grading approaches in small ways, such as for an assignment, project, or module. You don't have to make a whole class alternatively-graded to qualify for this step!
  
  

  Can be done during the current semester or the following academic year.

   

  Complete, with integrity, a reflection about the implementation.
   

  Can be done during the current semester or the following academic year.

  Reflection Form Link

• OER Champion

  For implementing free and open educational resources into your teaching practice for the benefit of students' minds and wallets, the Open and Affordable Course Materials Program at East Tennessee State University does hereby recognize you and thank you.

  This badge has been awarded to these faculty and programs:

  Alex Sargsyan
  Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
  Creation for NRSE 5016 - Pathophysiological Foundations of Diagnoses and Intervention

  Alyson Chroust
  Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Adoption for PSYC 2800 - Child Psychological Science

  Annalee Tull
  Theatre and Dance, College of Arts and Sciences
  DANC 1500 – Introduction to Dance

  Ariel Cintron-Arias 
  Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  Adoption for MATH 2010 - Linear Algebra;  MATH 1710 - Precalculus I Algebra

  Brandi Eveland-Sayers
  Assistant Professor, Sport, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology, Clemmer College
  Adoption for PEXS 4977 - Exercise Management for Chronic Disease and Disability

  Candace Bright
  Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Adoption for SOAA 3350 - Intro to Social Statistics

  Catherine McCusker
  Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
  CHEM 3110 – Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry

  David Jennings
  Senior Lecturer, Geosciences, College of Arts and Sciences
  Adoption for GEOG 1012 - Intro to Cultural Geography; GEOG 1013 - Intro to World Regional Geography

  David Tarnoff
  Associate Professor, Computing, College of Business and Technology
  Adaption for CSCI 2150 - Computer Organization

  Elaine Boone
  Adjunct, Human Development and Learning, Clemmer College
  Adoption for HDAL 2310 - Developmental Psychology

  Ginette Blackhart
  Professor, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Adoption for PSYC 2000 - Social Psychology

  Jamie Clem
  Assistant Professor, Social Work, College of Health Sciences
  Adoption for SOWK 4340 - Practice with Families and Groups

  Jean Swindle
  Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations & Special Education
  Adoption for EDFN 3301 - Issues in Education

  Jill Channing
  Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, Clemmer College
  Adoption for ELPA 7812 - Qualitative Research; ELPA 7823 - Higher Education Finance; ELPA 6454 - Policy, Power, and Politics in Education; ELPA 6020 - Seminar in Educational Supervision

  Jonathon Taylor
  Theatre and Dance, College of Arts and Sciences
  THEA 1030 – Introduction to the Theatre and THEA 3330 – Scenic Design

  Kelly Reath
  Social Work, College of Health Sciences
  SOWK 5203 -- Social Work Practice Foundations II

  Kevin O’Donnell
  Professor, Literature and Language, College of Arts and Sciences
  Adoption for ENGL 1010 - Critical Reading and Expository Writing

  Kim Hale
  Educational Foundations and Special Education, Clemmer College
  HDAL 2310 – Developmental Psychology

  Kimberly Wilson
  Political Science, International Affairs and Public Administration, College of Arts and Sciences
  PSCI 3010 -- Chinese Politics

  Laurie Schroder
  Assistant Professor, Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health Sciences
  Adoption for RHSC 3600 - Ethics in Rehabilitative Science

  Laurie Schroder
  Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health Sciences
  RHSC 4300 -- Measurement and Assessment in Rehabilitation

  Lisa Dunkley
  Assistant Professor, Counseling and Human Services, Clemmer College
  Adoption for HDAL 4011 - Human Development and Learning

  Lisa Dunkley
  Counseling and Human Services, Clemmer College
  COUN 6593 – Advanced Internship and Supervision and HDAL 4027/5027 – Serving Ex-offenders: Facilitating Reintegration

  Lori Meier
  Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Clemmer College
  Adaption for CUAI 4220 - Social Studies Education in Multicultural Society

  Michelle Johnson
  Assistant Professor, Rehabilitative Sciences, College of Health Sciences
  Adoption for NTFD 5412 - Pharamacology in Dietetics

  Sarah Standridge
  Sport, Exercise, Recreation, & Kinesiology, Clemmer College
  SALM 3117 – Recreation for Special Populations

  Tammy Hayes
  Assistant Professor, Media and Communication, College of Arts and Sciences
  Adoption for RTVF 2600 - Intro to RTVF

  Wesley Wehde
  Assistant Professor, Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
  Adaption for PSCI 3440 - Research Methods

  Awards to Departments and Cohorts:

  Art and Design
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Organizer: Marie Barry, Adjunct
  Adaption for ARTA 1030 - Art Appreciation

  Digital Media
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Organizer: Gregory Marlow, Assistant Professor
  Creation for DIGM 1800 - Principles of Digital Media

  Psychology
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Organizer: Ginette Blackhart, Professor
  Adoption for PSYC 1310 - Introduction to Psychology

  MBA Program
  College of Business and Technology
  Organizer: William Heise, Professor
  Adoption for MBA Prerequisite Areas

  Geosciences
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Organizer: David Jennings, Senior Lecturer, and William Tollefson, Lecturer
  Adoption for GEOL 1040 - Geosciences: Earth and Society

  Early Childhood Education
  Clemmer College
  Organizer: Alissa Lange, Associate Professor
  Creation for SCED 3320, ECED 4450, ECED 5450 - Early and Elementary STEM Education Courses

  COMM 2025 -- Fundamentals of Communication
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Instructors: Adriane Flanary, Andrew Herrmann, Dallas Honeycutt, Erin Messmer, Laughton Messmer, Jamie Sproles, Thomas Townsend

  CHEM 1110 -- General Chemistry Lecture I
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Instructors: Brittany Butler, Ray Mohseni

  ENGL 1010 -- Critical Reading and Expository Writing
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Instructors: Tucker Foster, Amanda Miller, Cathy Whaley, Betsy Weems

• Universal Design and Accessibility

  This workshop series is offered in collaboration with Academic Technology Support and Disability Services. 

  UDA 

  Zachary Canter

  Literature & Languages

  Jill Channing

  Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

  Jennifer Hunt

  College of Public Health

  Jonathon Taylor

  Theater and Dance