CTL Happenings - Message #534

Register now for the virtual 2022 E.C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching
This year's symposium will feature a keynote address by Dr. Mays Imad on the neuroscience of toxic stress and how understanding it can help empower us to help ourselves and our students, cope, engage, connect, and learn. It will also include a variety of concurrent sessions from your fellow instructors and a panel discussion on best practices in multi-cultural teaching. The symposium will be held on Zoom on Friday, March 4, 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Register for the symposium.

NEW! Register for the Virtual Follow-up Workshop on Trauma-Informed Teaching
Dr. Mays Imad will offer a virtual follow-up workshop on A Deeper Dive into Trauma-Informed Teaching on Monday, March 7, 2 - 3:15 p.m. where you can engage deeply through a case-study analysis, individual reflections, and small-group discussions and leave with actionable strategies to use in your teaching contexts. Learn more and register for the virtual workshop.

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.

Pittman, C. & Tobin, T. (2022, February 7). Academe Has a Lot to Learn About How Inclusive Teaching Affects Instructors. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Many inclusive teaching strategies advocate for giving students a sense of ownership and assume that all instructors are perceived to have the same level of authority in classroom spaces. Two instructors share their different experiences and results from using inclusive teaching practices. They also offer practical recommendations for how to use inclusive teaching strategies in a way that acknowledges inequities faced by instructors.

If you are interested in applying for the Extended Reality Initiative (XRI) Faculty Fellows Grant, you should attend this information and Q&A session. A brief overview about this new grant will be given followed by the opportunity for you to ask questions about applying.

Diversity and inclusion play an important role in promoting student learning. Today’s college students are increasingly diverse compared to prior generations. Traditional teaching strategies have also been shown to lead to lower academic achievement for underserved students compared to majority students even when differences in GPA and other factors are controlled for. By considering the diversity of the classroom and implementing equitable teaching strategies, instructors can increase student learning and sense of belonging for all students, not just those who are underserved. In this webinar, participants will learn how to leverage student diversity and incorporate inclusive teaching strategies in their classrooms. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

This workshop introduces faculty and staff to the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric and to the QM Process. Quality Matters is a nationally recognized quality assurance organization for online course design, and the QM Process is a faculty-led peer review process that uses the research-based standards (criteria)  of the QM Rubric to certify online courses. Eventually, many online courses within the IU system will undergo the QM Process with the goal of achieving national QM recognition. Faculty may also use the QM Rubric as a guide to design online courses. And, for faculty who are interested, this course serves as a pre-requisite for QM's Peer Reviewer Course, which is a required course for faculty who seek certification as a QM Peer Reviewer, allowing them to participate in QM course reviews for courses created here at IU and at other universities.

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 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.

For many graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, a guest lecturing experience may be an important means of gaining experience related to teaching in a university setting.  This session will address fundamental knowledge required for being successful as a guest lecturer, present the experiences of a guest lecturer or guest paper discussion leader in a STEM discipline, and discuss how to succeed in these opportunities and leverage them for future career opportunities and development.

Candidates for academic positions are often asked to give a teaching demonstration as part of an on campus interview. This webinar will be facilitated by faculty members from IUPUI and University of Pikeville , some of whom have recently done a successful teaching demonstration and others who have been part of faculty search committees and evaluated teaching demonstrations. You will learn about a framework for planning a teaching demonstration and some example approaches to teaching a given topic. You will also discuss the importance of considering the institutional and pedagogical contexts and situational factors such as the pandemic when preparing a teaching demonstration. if you will be on the faculty job market in the near future, this is a great opportunity to ask questions and learn about tips and strategies to deliver a stellar teaching demonstrations!

Note: This workshop is offered as a part of the Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals program.

Each semester, the Faculty Forum offers writing groups that provide encouragement, accountability, and a sense of community for faculty and staff. Participants will meet on Zoom for two hours each week. In the first 15 minutes of the meeting, participants will discuss a writing - related topic and share session writing goals.

The remaining time is spent quietly writing, and there are two options:
      1. Tuesdays 10:00 a.m. - noon
      2. Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. - noon (members of the Wednesday group can participate online or in person at The Faculty Crossing at IUPUI)

The Tuesday and Wednesday writing group sessions have already begun. However, you can join anytime throughout the semester. Membership is open to IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne faculty and staff of all ranks, appointments, and disciplines. For more information and registration or contact faccross@iupui.edu.

The Faculty Crossing presents an online Teach Talk, March 3, 2022 
Join book artist, papermaker and printmaker, Karen Baldner for our online Teach Talk. Karen is this year’s Herron Faculty Teaching Resident at The Faculty Crossing. She will speak from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. about teaching strategies from her art practice that can be brought into classrooms of other disciplines. For more information and to register.

Creating your own professional ePortfolio, presented by Dr. Amy Cicchino, Auburn University - Feb. 16

Getting Started with IU eTexts: Are my course materials available through IU eTexts - Feb. 17

SEIRI Seminar: Dr. Cody Williams from Western Michigan Univ., Feb. 24

Call for Proposals for ePortfolio Symposium due Feb. 27

Next Generation 2.0 applications now open, deadline March 20 

The Adjunct Faculty Scholars Conference is for all campuses and is a day of professional development and networking- April 24