CTL Happenings - Message #523

The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Graduate Office is offering a four-part webinar series starting September 21 on fostering antiracists student learning experiences. Explore frameworks to unpack systemic racism, hear from faculty and fellow graduate students who have fostered their own sustainable antiracist teaching and learning practices, and reflect on your own ability to build an equitable learning environment.

This series is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in all disciplines and roles and is part of the CIRTL@IUPUI program. Sign up for a free CIRTL account and register for this webinar series.

Did you learn something new about using technology to teach or support student learning while teaching at a distance this past year? Have you been doing something interesting with technology that has improved your teaching or your student learning? Consider sharing what you know with your fellow instructors in a 15-minute “What did you Learn” session or a 40-minute Concurrent session!

The Advancing Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium, hosted by the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning, is Friday, November 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. virtually on Zoom.  For more information, see the Call for Proposals form.

Join this reading group to share your experiences with other graduate students and postdocs and engage in conversations about the book, Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education. The Zoom meetings will be from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. on the following Tuesdays: September 21, October 5, October 19, November 2, and November 16. Register today at https://go.iu.edu/414H.

Are you new or returning adjunct faculty at IUPUI, IUPUC, or IUFW? If so, join us for the Associate Faculty Teaching Forum (AFTF), online on Zoom, Sept 29, 5:15 - 8:15 p.m. Join your faculty colleagues in forum-style conversations about teaching and technology challenges. This year’s theme is Fostering Mental Health and Well-Being Among Faculty and Students, and this year's AFTF keynote speaker will be Julia Lash of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Registration is now open.

This virtual symposium celebrates teaching devoted to pursuing student learning and success through reflective, evidence-based teaching practices. Every year it provides faculty with a venue to share their promising teaching practices and to disseminate results of scholarly teaching interventions.

The keynote address, “New Takes on High-Impact Practices (HIPs) to Assure Quality and Equity,” will be given by Jillian Kinzie, Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute, IU School of Education. Concurrent sessions will feature presentations on high-impact practices in courses, programs, or co-curricular experiences and on the design, implementation, and results of Curriculum Enhancement Grant projects.

This year’s symposium is co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Institute for Engaged Learning, and LEAP Indiana. Learn more and register for the symposium.

The IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning seeks proposals from instructors teaching at higher education institutions across Indiana for the 2022 E.C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching. A key component of the symposium is the communication and sharing of new ideas in teaching and learning. We invite proposals for three types of sessions — interactive, micro-presentations, and TED-like talks — addressing your latest endeavors in teaching. The 2022 E.C. Moore Symposium will be held on Friday, March 4 on Zoom.

Carrasco, M. (2021, August 17). Incoming freshmen are mentally exhausted. Inside Higher Ed.

This year’s Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement, administered by the IU Bloomington Center for Postsecondary Research, found that while students are still mostly optimistic about their first year, over half of incoming freshmen reported a substantial increase in mental and emotional exhaustion. More information is available on the BCSSE website and provides more details on the toll of the pandemic on students.

Join us for an introduction to Top Hat and learn how to use our platform to engage your students before, during and after class. This webinar will focus on the key building blocks for creating a successful active learning experience for your students, in face-to-face or fully remote settings. Learn how to create interactive Top Hat content and how to digitally deliver that material in asynchronous and synchronous classes.

By attending this webinar, you will be able to:
  • Create interactive material in Top Hat
  • Apply best practices for engaging students in a remote environment
  • rack comprehension and engagement
  • Effectively deliver course content synchronously and asynchronous

This webinar will be repeated on September 16, 2:00 p.m. 

Getting students to come to class prepared can be a challenge, but it is essential to making productive use of class time. Learning increases when students prepare for class meetings and, in turn, helps students see the value of assuming responsibility for their learning. This session will introduce instructional strategies to guide students’ pre-class learning, making explicit the relevance pre-class work and its assessment to student learning outcomes.

Active learning strategies in the classroom have shown to increase student' motivation, improve critical and higher-order thinking skills, and stay engaged and attentive during the class session. It helps create a three-way interaction among the students, the subject content, and the instructor. In this webinar, we will discuss a broad spectrum of research-based active learning strategies that can be adapted into different learning environments and disciplines.

A teaching philosophy presents a faculty member’s reflection on the experiences and beliefs that shape his or her teaching and learning strategies. Often used as part of a job application, a promotion and tenure dossier, a teaching award nomination, or course syllabi, a teaching philosophy captures and documents a teacher’s values and aspirations in teaching. This webinar will review one model for structuring a teaching philosophy and will also examine some example philosophies. Webinar participants will take the first steps in articulating their teaching philosophy; those who have already begun to craft a philosophy will have an opportunity to continue that work. This webinar is the 1st 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.

Each semester, the Faculty Forum offers writing groups that provide encouragement, accountability, and a sense of community for faculty and staff. This fall, there will be two weekly online groups.  In the first 30 minutes, participants will discuss a writing-related topic and share specific writing goals.  The remaining 90 minutes will be spent quietly writing. 

There are two online options: Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., beginning September 21, led by Pamela Laucella and Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. beginning September 22, led by Aimee Zoeller.  Sign up for one or both! 

Membership is open to IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne faculty and staff of all ranks, appointments, and schools/centers.

This session will walk faculty through the digital teaching repository submission process and illustrate the value of the repository for faculty and teaching staff in all ranks and appointments. Emphasis in this session will be on the kinds of products that are often generated through community engaged and civic teaching practices.  The session will highlight faculty who have published repository artifacts. Facilitators will be available for Q/A.

• Interested in digital literacy? Attend the Digital Gardner Summit, Oct.1, Hine Hall, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
• ePortfolio Studio: The peer-run space where students can get help creating their portfolios is now open.
• Academy of Teaching Scholars: An Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Education Research
• Upcoming SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training