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Name it, Flip it, Frame it: Tools for positive classroom change using Appreciative Inquiry
No full textImagine transforming classroom challenges into opportunities for growth and success���this is the purpose of Appreciative Inquiry. In this interactive workshop, faculty will explore AI principles and engage in reflective, small group processes that focus on identifying what works well in teaching. Participants will learn to reframe obstacles, share success stories, and co-create actionable strategies to enhance their teaching practices. By the end of the session, faculty will leave with practical tools to foster positive change and a renewed sense of what���s possible in their classrooms.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will learn the core principles and process of Appreciative Inquiry and how it applies to educational settings.
Faculty will identify existing strengths and successes in their teaching that can be built upon.
Participants will learn tools of reframing classroom challenges into positive change potentials.
Faculty will co-create specific, actionable strategies to enhance student engagement and learning.
Participants will engage in collaborative discussions, fostering a supportive community of practice among colleagues
Deep Phosphorus Banding in Winter Wheat: A risk management tool for the Southern Great Plains
No full textInvestigating the Relationship Between Habitual Behavior and Punishment Resistance in Rats
Get PDFAddiction is brain disease that is characterized by the inability to stop behavior in the face of negative consequences. Despite addiction causing harm on a personal and societal level, treatments for addiction remain relatively limited. Understanding the behaviors and circuitry that drive compulsive behavior seen in addiction have begun to unveil how addictions form. In laboratories, compulsive behavior has been modeled in rodents using punishment resistance. Currently, there exists conflicting evidence implicating both goal-directed and habitual behaviors in the development of compulsive behavior. Here, I investigated if habitual behaviors are linked to compulsive behavior. One of the main reasons this particular question has remained unanswered is due to the fact that assessing habitual behavior, specifically with intravenous (IV) drugs has proven difficult. Therefore, we first developed a novel outcome devaluation via satiety approach to test for habits in rats self-administering IV cocaine. We validated this method in several ways, including the use of schedules of reinforcement and dorsostriatal lesions. Next, using this method, we found that punishment resistant rats showed greater use of habitual behavior than punishment sensitive rats in both males and females. We also found that punishment sensitive rats, if habitually seeking prior to punishment, would switch to a goal-directed strategy. Finally, we found that a random-interval 60 (RI60) schedule (previously shown to bias towards the use of habits) can drive increased resistance to punishment under some circumstances. This resistance seen in RI60-trained rats was driven by the disconnection between the seeking rate and reward rate that is generated by random-interval schedules. Additionally, in food self-administering male rats, we found that rats trained on random-ratio 20 (RR20) schedules were highly resistant to punishment, which seems to be driven by a goal-directed increased motivation for reward. Together, these data reveal that punishment resistance can be driven by either the goal-directed or habitual system
Fueling the mind, feeding the world: Decision making ��� Taking effective and appropriate action (DM02)
Get PDFFall 2024 version. Created at Texas A&M University as part of a grant sponsored by the USDA.
For additional information, visit the Texas A&M University Science Communications Lab at https://scicomm.tamu.edu/.This packet contains instructional materials and online modules prepared for Fueling the mind, feeding the world: Decision making ��� Taking effective and appropriate action (DM02). It includes curriculum, PowerPoint slides, activities, handouts, grading considerations, and notes for instructors. These materials were created as part of the USDA Grant entitled "Fueling the Mind, Feeding the World: Enhancing Communication and Decision-Making Skills of Secondary Agricultural Education Students."
MODULE OVERVIEW: If you were presented with a problem that needed a quick solution, what actions would you take toward a possible answer? This packet includes a curriculum guide and five classroom-ready assignments with grading considerations. The content focuses on how to take effective and appropriate action when faced with a problem. Furthermore, the content goes into detail about assessing the situation, evaluating your options, and identifying the hidden dangers that need to be avoided during the decision-making process.Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom (SPECA) Challenge Grants Program no. 2019-38414-30265 and Hatch Project No. TEX09825 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Reliability Analysis of Plug-In Electric Vehicle Charging Systems
No full textTransportation is responsible for approximately 27% of total energy consumption in the US, mainly from crude oil, and is the largest source of air pollution in the populated areas. Electrifying transportation is considered an effective solution to reduce the greenhouse gas emission and air pollution in populated areas. It is also beneficial to energy security as petroleum may not be easily available in the near future. Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are capable of being recharged from the power grid can partially replace the fossil fuel required by transportation by electric energy from the power grid. The focus of this research is to analyze and evaluate the reliability and impact of PEV charging systems in both component and system levels.
In the component level, a reliability framework is proposed to assess and analyze the reliability of power electronic circuits in the PEV charging systems. The general infrastructure of electric vehicle charging systems is described and different charging levels are discussed. The impact of each component in the charging system on overall system reliability is discussed, and specifically, the sensitivity to temperature, safety factor and capacitor type are studied. Also, the impact of repair is investigated and evaluated on overall system reliability and the reliability indices for repairable and non-repairable charging systems are calculated and compared.
In the system level, the impact of the PEV charging on the power grid reliability is evaluated and analyzed. A methodology is proposed to estimate the PEV charging load and available storage profile model using the travel pattern derived from the national household travel survey (NHTS). A reliability framework is proposed to assess the reliability of the power system with plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) integration. The numerical results demonstrate the potential to enhance power system reliability and reduce the Expected Energy Not Supplied (EENS) by utilizing vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. This involves injecting surplus power back to the grid from PEVs as needed. However, it is important to note that this approach may impact drivers��� satisfaction, as there could be instances where insufficient energy remains in the PEV battery pack for subsequent trips
