CTL Faculty Liaison's Monthly - Message #38

The Extended Reality Initiative (XRI) Faculty Fellows Grant provides faculty with technical and instructional support and funds to implement Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) assignments/projects/activities into their course(s) that are designed to improve student learning and success at IU.
For more information and to apply.

This year’s Plater Institute theme is Interculturality and Inclusivity: Pedagogies that Dig Deep. The institute will feature a keynote address by Dr. Kathryn Sorrells on Engaging Pedagogies and Practices for Human Dignity, Inclusion, and Justice: An Intercultural Praxis Approach. Faculty and staff from various IU campuses will lead panel discussions and interactive concurrent sessions on diverse, but interrelated facets of the theme. Learn more and register.

 | 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.Register » Organizers: Anusha S. Rao and Jeani Young and Presenters: Mays Imad and others

E.C. Moore Symposium Online Program and Micro-presentations Previews Available. Register now!
Check out the symposium online program with session descriptions and video previews of micro-presentations! Join us on Zoom on March 4, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., to engage with fellow instructors in a variety of concurrent sessions and micro-presentations. This year's symposium will feature a keynote address by Dr. Mays Imad and a panel discussion on best practices in multi-cultural teaching. Register for the symposium.

Monday, March 7 | 2 - 3:15 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizers: Anusha S. Rao and Jeani Young and Presenter: Dr. Mays Imad

In this interactive session, we will discuss how to move from theory to practice and look at every-day strategies we could use to enact a trauma-informed approach to teaching. You will work individually and with others to consider what it means to use a trauma-sensitive lens and how such an approach not only supports your students' student wellbeing, engagement, and learning, but also your own wellbeing  We will examine a case study that models trauma-informed education and interrogate how the case also models inclusion and equity. Finally, you will develop you own set of go-to strategies to support the education of the whole student.

This is a follow-up workshop to the Dr. Mays Imad’s keynote address on Beyond Theory: A Practical Approach to Trauma-Informed Teaching & Learning at the E.C. Moore Symposium. If you were unable to attend the keynote address, we strongly encourage you to watch the video recording on the E.C. Moore website prior to the workshop to learn about the theoretical basis and the practical strategies of trauma-informed teaching approaches which will be applied in the workshop activities.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Instructional Strategies (IS)

Tuesday, March 22 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jessica Alexander and Presenters: Jessica Alexander and Douglas Jerolimov

Transparent assignment designs have been proven to motivate increased student effort and to promote student success. Clarification and elaboration of an assignments’ purpose, task, and grading criteria works to scaffold student learning activities. Doing so helps all students, but especially students from underserved populations and students who are unfamiliar with college success strategies. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the transparent design framework, analyze sample transparent assignments, and will begin drafting or revising a transparent assignment.

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s webinar series focused on foundational teaching skills, Teaching Foundations. Designed for new faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and those looking for a refresher on good teaching practices, the webinars are short, with a brief presentation interspersed with opportunities for interaction and questions. Grounded in current research, the workshops address various teaching topics and provide participants with strategies and resources to make instruction more effective, efficient, and enjoyable. Sessions are scheduled with the time of semester in mind, to keep topics relevant for faculty needs at that time.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Assessment Methods and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (A)

Wednesday, March 23 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Douglas Jerolimov and Presenters: Douglas Jerolimov and Richard Turner

This session introduces faculty and graduate students to the practice of documenting one’s teaching. Participants will examine different kinds of evidence and documents to capture, and to make the case for, teaching achievements.  Participants will consider how to shape their evolution as teachers through the use of many kinds of documents that include—but do not rely on—student evaluations of teaching. This webinar is the 3rd webinar in a 3-webinar series designed to introduce faculty and graduate students to the process of creating, refining and documenting one’s teaching practices.

This webinar is one of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online mini-workshops focused on foundational teaching skills, a series of webinars called Teaching@IUPUI. Designed for new faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and those looking for a refresher on good teaching practices, the webinars are short, with a brief presentation interspersed with opportunities for interaction and questions. Grounded in current research, the workshops address various teaching topics and provide participants with strategies and resources to make instruction more effective, efficient, and enjoyable. Sessions are scheduled with the time of semester in mind, to keep topics relevant for faculty needs at that time.

Friday, March 25 | 10 a.m. - 12 noon | UL1130
Register » Organizer: Randy Newbrough and Presenters: Todd Kirk, Jeannette Lehr, and Yvonne Wittmann

Learn how to create a memorable, immersive experience for your students with interactive 360-degree images.  This workshop will lead you from taking photos with a 360-degree camera to editing and then sharing them with your students.  See how others have used these images to engage their students from lab safety to virtual fieldtrips.  You will also have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas with your colleagues for adding this active learning technology to your course.