CTL Faculty Liaison's Monthly - Message #39

Proposals are now being accepted for the Teach, Play, Learn Conference that will be held at IU Kokomo on Friday, June 24, 2022. The Teach, Play, Learn conference is IU’s annual academic conference on game-based teaching and learning. Proposals are now being accepted for presentations on real-life usage, empirical studies, and theoretical discussions. Proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. on April 11, 2022. For more information and to submit your proposal, visit the Teach, Play, Learn website.

This year’s Plater Institute theme is Interculturality and Inclusivity: Pedagogies that Dig Deep. Dr. Kathryn Sorrells will provide a keynote address on "Engaging Pedagogies and Practices for Human Dignity, Inclusion, and Justice: An Intercultural Praxis Approach". The institute will also feature interactive and engaging concurrent sessions, a "Reflections on Pedagogies that Dig Deep Panel," and a student panel, all focused on diverse, but interrelated facets of the theme. Register for the institute.

Wednesday, April 6 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jessica Alexander and Presenters: Jessica Alexander and Anusha S Rao

Students who have a growth mindset view intelligence as malleable while those with a fixed mindset view intelligence as finite. Students can grow with persistence and effort, but having a growth mindset underlies these behaviors. This, in turn, is dependent on the instructor’s mindset as well. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the differences between growth and fixed mindset theories of intelligence and discuss activities they can incorporate into their classes to foster growth mindset. They will also reflect upon their current teaching practices that align with growth mindset and identify new activities.

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online mini-workshop series focused on foundational teaching skills, Teaching Foundations (previously known as 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.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Learning Theory (L), Inclusive Teaching (I)

Thursday, April 7 | 4 - 5 p.m. | Faculty Crossing (UL 1125M)
Register » Organizer: Thomas Lewis and Presenter: Karen Baldner

The Faculty Crossing presents an in person Teach Talk on April 7, from 4 to 5 p.m. with book artist, papermaker and printmaker, Karen Baldner. Karen is this year’s Herron Faculty Teaching Resident at The Faculty Crossing. She will talk about teaching strategies from her art practice that can be brought into classrooms of other disciplines. She will lead participants through a hands-on bookmaking session that will explore the experience of communal learning discussed in her previous talk. Materials will be provided. Session will result in a finished book.

Tuesday, April 12 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jessica Alexander and Presenters: Jessica Alexander and Yi Shi

Diversity statements are increasingly becoming a required component of job applications in order for employers to discern potential employees’ contributions to equity and inclusion. In this workshop, the purpose of and best practices for writing a diversity statement will be reviewed. Participants will also begin to craft the core components of their diversity statements by reflecting on how their teaching, research, service, and other activities have contributed to equity and inclusion.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the IUPUI Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals program.

Thursday, April 14 | 12 noon - 12:45 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Kimmaree Murday and Presenters: Kyle Jones and Amy Pawlosky

Have your online class discussions fallen into the "make a comment, then respond to two posts" trap? Do you long to see your students engage on a deeper level with the texts for your course? What if students could annotate a passage right where that passage lives? Hypothesis is a text annotation tool developed to make reading a more active experience. Students can comment on others' annotations to discuss specific passages of text within the text itself. You can use it on pdf documents in Canvas or on the web and on websites themselves.

Kyle Jones, IUPUI Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, Department of Library and Information Sciences, is teaching an online course around the use of Hypothesis this semester. Join us for this webinar to discover the successes and lessons he’s learned while integrating the tool into his teaching.

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