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Supporting Students in Distress

  • Co-Sponsored Event
  • Faculty Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty

As we pass the middle of the semester, we enter a time when students increasingly struggle to maintain their mental health and well-being. In this workshop, we will discuss signs that a student may be in distress and work through a variety of scenarios to consider strategies for how instructors […]

Helping Students Make the Most of Instructor Feedback

  • Faculty Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty

Instructors dedicate many hours each semester to commenting on and evaluating student work, but is this feedback helping students to improve in the ways that we want it to? Are the students actually reading our feedback and are they interpreting it in the ways that we hope they are? In […]

Pedagogy 101: Understanding Educational Terms and Practices

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

The first step to becoming involved in a new area of study is to understand the basics and learn the terminology. Through this workshop participants will learn both definitions of core concepts in pedagogical discourse and strategies to begin incorporating use of these concepts into their instruction. Participants will also […]

Adopting Inclusive Language Practices in the Classroom

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

In this virtual conversation, we will consider the importance of adopting inclusive language practices in the classroom. In particular, we will focus on best practices for addressing students, suggestions for adoption of gender inclusive alternatives to binary assumptive language, and suggestions for inclusive descriptive language practices. We will also consider […]

Pedagogy 101: Understanding Educational Terms and Practices

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

The first step to becoming involved in a new area of study is to understand the basics and learn the terminology. Through this workshop participants will learn both definitions of core concepts in pedagogical discourse and strategies to begin incorporating use of these concepts into their instruction. Participants will also […]

Creating Question Prompts that Focus on Process over Product

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

The process of learning to think, fail, and create with disciplinary content requires students to engage deeply with your course concepts and reflect on their own professional growth. This virtual conversation will explore how to design specific prompts and questions in your midcourse or final assignments that focus on process […]

Helping Students Make the Most of Instructor Feedback

  • Faculty Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty

Instructors dedicate many hours each semester to commenting on and evaluating student work, but is this feedback helping students to improve in the ways that we want it to? Are the students actually reading our feedback and are they interpreting it in the ways that we hope they are? In […]

Creating Question Prompts that Focus on Process over Product

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

The process of learning to think, fail, and create with disciplinary content requires students to engage deeply with your course concepts and reflect on their own professional growth. This virtual conversation will explore how to design specific prompts and questions in your midcourse or final assignments that focus on process […]

Fostering an Inclusive Classroom Climate

  • Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

While the classroom can be a space for open, respectful dialogue, it can also feel isolating or even hostile for student learners. What can an instructor do to promote a space for positive, fruitful collaboration? What does it take to create a truly inclusive classroom climate? In this workshop, participants […]

Moving Beyond the Gender Binary in STEM Courses

  • STEM Pedagogies Workshop
Danforth Campus
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Societal gender norms affect how people have traditionally been grouped and named in many aspects of our lives. These norms have been applied implicitly or explicitly to the design of problem banks, examples used in textbooks and other educational materials. In this workshop, we explore strategies for updating assignments and other […]

Developing Effective Summative Assessments

  • Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Summative assessments are modes of classroom assessment that are designed to evaluate how much students have learned in a unit or a course. These assessments are often high stakes, graded, and formal. The vast majority of college courses have summative assessments (e.g., exams, papers, projects, presentations), but what does it […]

Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement

  • Job Market Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

If you are applying for an academic position, it is likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Participants in this Job Market series workshop will learn about why academic search committees request teaching materials such as the teaching philosophy statement and […]

Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement

  • Job Market Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

If you are applying for an academic position, it is likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Participants in this Job Market series workshop will learn about why academic search committees request teaching materials such as the teaching philosophy statement and […]

Using the Jigsaw Method to Increase Student Engagement

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

In a jigsaw, students work in small, interdependent groups with individuals given the responsibility for becoming “expert” in one aspect of a topic that they then teach to their peers in order to accomplish a group learning goal. Participants in this virtual conversation will learn how to design and manage […]

Who’s in Charge? Negotiating Your Role and Establishing Authority in the Classroom

  • Foundations in Teaching
Medical Campus
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Managing a classroom environment can be one of the more intimidating components for being a new AI.  In this workshop, participants will learn about the factors that shape perceptions of an AI’s authority and how that authority can be used to create and maintain an inclusive, challenging, and fair learning […]

Crickets in the Classroom: Quick Tips for Jump-Starting Conversation When Participation Lags

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

In this virtual conversation, we’ll first reflect on reasons why students might be reluctant to participate during class time. Then, we’ll discuss strategies for responding to “crickets” in the classroom including some options (both high tech and low tech) for changing things up when large group discussion isn’t working as […]

Who’s in Charge? Negotiating Your Role and Establishing Authority in the Classroom

  • Foundations in Teaching
Danforth Campus
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Managing a classroom environment can be one of the more intimidating components for being a new AI.  In this workshop, participants will learn about the factors that shape perceptions of an AI’s authority and how that authority can be used to create and maintain an inclusive, challenging, and fair learning […]

Crickets in the Classroom: Quick Tips for Jump-Starting Conversation When Participation Lags

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

In this virtual conversation, we’ll first reflect on reasons why students might be reluctant to participate during class time. Then, we’ll discuss strategies for responding to “crickets” in the classroom including some options (both high tech and low tech) for changing things up when large group discussion isn’t working as […]

Bringing Equity into Assessment

  • Faculty Workshop
Danforth Campus
Event For:
  • Faculty

How can we make sure that our assessment practices are equitable for all of our students? In this workshop, we will discuss principles of equitable assessments and consider how we might implement these in our courses. Participants in the workshop will leave with concrete strategies to revise existing assessments and […]

Moving Beyond the Gender Binary in STEM Courses

  • STEM Pedagogies Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Societal gender norms affect how people have traditionally been grouped and named in many aspects of our lives. These norms have been applied implicitly or explicitly to the design of problem banks, examples used in textbooks and other educational materials. In this workshop, we explore strategies for updating assignments and other […]