FACETs of Teaching at IU

Transformative Teaching speaks with Jenny Deranek

Galen Clavio, FACET Class of 2022 and Associate Professor of Sports Media at IU Bloomington. He is also the current Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Media School and Director of the National Sports Journalism Center. His research focuses on the impact of new and social media on interactions between consumers, media, and sports entities, including social media’s impact on journalism, content creation among fans, and the hybridization of communications and marketing in the digital sphere.

Sarah Johnson, FACET Class of 2022 and Lecturer of Health Policy and Management. She also serves as the Director for the Bachelor of Science in Health Services Management program, and before joining the department, she served as the Director of Career Development for the Fairbanks School of Public Health. She earned both her MS and BA degrees from Indiana University and utilizes her educational and career experience to focus on pedagogical and retention initiatives.

Virginia Hojas Carbonell, FACET Class of 2019 and Teaching Professor of Spanish at IU Bloomington. Her teaching interests lie in backwards course design and flipped learning, which she applies to her classes. She teaches the Honors section of S250 as a flipped class based on active learning and a backwards course design, which she started as a Mosaic Fellow, and she is developing an Intermediate Online Spanish for Business course based on the same principles and using a fellowship from the Center for Language Excellence.

Oi Lin (Irene) Cheung, FACET Class of 2021 and Professor of Finance at IU East. She is also the director of the IU East Business and Economic Research Center, which assists in capturing and creating economic data that will be useful in supporting the economic vitality of the Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio regions.

Jeong-IL Cho, FACET Class of 2021 and Associate Professor of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her research focuses on training teachers to use assistive technology with students with disabilities, the effective use of student evaluations of teaching in higher education, and the systematic development of positive learning environments.

Sridhar Ramachandran, FACET Class of 2019 and Professor of Informatics at IU Southeast, learned at a young age that teaching creates powerful connections. Katie, Sridhar, and I discuss the why and how of this power to create bridges that are both interpersonal and educational.

Welcome to Transformative Teaching, a new podcast presented by the Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching at Indiana University. In our first episode, FACET director Michael Morrone sits down with Katie Metz (FACET class of 2018), a senior lecturer in accounting at IU Bloomington and FACET’s Statewide Selection Committee Chair, to discuss her approach to teaching, how her classrooms have changed over the years, and what motivates her to continue to learn and grow in her profession. Tune in to hear Michael talk with Katie about blended learning, professional growth, and staying current in a constantly changing field - plus a surprise plot twist at the end!

During the FACET Retreat in October 2021, Christina Downey facilitated a panel of students from across Indiana University to discuss the obstacles, challenges, institutionalized barriers, and other issues they face on our campuses that affect their ability to receive equity and justice in their education.

In lots of ways higher education disproportionally focuses on evaluation at the expense of opportunity for student self-discovery of a future self image. Faculty, however, have the power to design these opportunities and integrate them into curricula. In this Great Conversation, Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind and Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization, describes the teacher’s role in helping students explore and see a personally meaningful future of self. He discusses the importance for our students of the move towards self-actualization and connection to their living meaningful lives.​