Return to Together
Friday April 21, 2023
Attendance options: In-person or via Zoom
In-person at Northfield Inn and Suites, 3280 Northfield Dr., Springfield, IL 62702 (Discounted rooms available for conference attendees.)
Register for Return Together
Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance.
Cost: $159. After March 24, the fee is $179.
Registration, payment and refund deadline is April 7, 2023. Reservations must be cancelled prior to April 7 to receive a refund.
Meet and greet: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7-9 p.m.
Join us as we celebrate, learn and reconnect at this event. Learn how to adapt teaching strategies to increase student success, build collaborative relationships with like professionals and receive support from CNA program experts.
Total CEUs: 6.25
Agenda
7:30-8 a.m. — Registration
7:55-8 a.m. — Welcome/Announcements
8-9:15 a.m. — Keynote: Michele Deck
9:15-9:30 a.m. — Break
9:30-10:45 a.m. — IDPH updates
10:45-11:30 a.m. — SIU education coordinators
11:30 a.m.-noon — SIUC updates
Noon-1 p.m. — Lunch
1-2:15 p.m. — Guided networking session: Michele Deck
2:15-2:30 p.m. — Break
2:30-3:45 p.m. — Q&A
3:45-4 p.m. — Evaluations, certificates, closing announcements
Keynote
Return to Together: Welcome and Connect
Today's learners are diverse consumers, who have been through the many changes in learning over the past 2-3 years. Our job now is to engage, teach and mentor students who have different learning styles, diverse expectations and short attention spans. We must adapt our teaching methods to build collaborative relationships, use involving methods, and get and keep their attention using the best of what we’ve discovered through this global challenge.
Guiding networking session
Celebrate and Share
Bring your best teaching practices, samples, props and experiences to celebrate our reconnection. Experience some guided networking activities and share with colleagues what technology, apps, hands on methods you have used successfully with your learners. Plan what you will immediately use in your classes this year.
About the presenter
Michele Deck, MEd, BSN, RN, LCCE, FACCE, has presented nationally and internationally on innovative teaching methods in the field of health care education and training for over three years. She is the recipient of many honors and awards for her creativity, innovation, productivity and exemplary leadership qualities. Honors include Association of Nurses in Professional Development (ANPD) prestigious Belinda E. Puetz Award, election to Sigma (formerly called Sigma Theta Tau) National Nursing Honor Society and Business Woman of the Year by the National Business Council. She is co-founder and chief executive officer of G.A.M.E.S., a company that specializes in seminars on adult learning and interactive training methods, and Tool Thyme for Trainers, a company which supplies innovative and creative presentation tools for educators worldwide. She has authored 12 books on creative and involving ways to teach adults. She is a past president of Lamaze International and past accreditation chair. She served on ANPD’s education committee and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development for eight years.