Spring 2024 Events
Creating Inclusive Course Materials: PDF Spotlight - April 2nd, 11-12pm on Zoom with CATE
Interested in creating materials for your courses that promote inclusivity? Do you want to know more about steps you can take to ensure your courses are on the right track to meet accessibility guidelines? In this interactive online workshop, participants will explore best practices for creating accessible PDFs and improving the accessibility of existing PDFs. Participants will engage with PDF documents both in Adobe Acrobat Pro and Microsoft Word. This workshop will focus on simple steps that instructors can take to incrementally improve the accessibility of their course materials. With some careful planning, you can optimize your course materials to be more inclusive.
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Exploring Teaching Careers at Research Universities with CIRTL Alumni - April 3rd, 12-1pm on Zoom with CIRTL
Faculty members who primarily teach, rather than do research, have become increasingly important for delivering courses to STEM undergraduates. Learn about the teaching faculty career path and ask questions of CIRTL alumni who are junior teaching faculty in this online panel event. Panelists will discuss the rewards and challenges of these positions, the opportunities for stability and advancement, and how non-tenure line faculty live in a research department. This is the first event in our four-part series “Exploring Career Paths with CIRTL Alumni.”
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Writing Your Research Statement for the Academic Job Market - April 3rd, 3-4pm on Zoom with CIRTL
Job postings in higher education often require a research statement as part of the application process. This session will focus on assembling a research statement for academic jobs. We’ll consider the intended audience and analyze examples from recent applicants. This is the sixth event in our eight-part series “The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series.”
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Writing Your Teaching Statement for the Academic Job Market - April 5th, 3-4pm on Zoom with CIRTL
Learn best practices for writing a teaching statement (also called a teaching philosophy statement) for the academic job market. This is the seventh event in our eight-part series “The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series.”
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Authentic Assessments for Student Success - April 11th, 12-1:30pm on Zoom with CATE
In this interactive online workshop, we will discuss what makes an assessment “authentic” and how to design authentic assessments, where students apply knowledge to real-world scenarios or products, to support student success. We will discuss the design considerations and tools for authentic assessments. Participants will have the opportunity to develop an authentic assessment for their course and discuss their design with colleagues.
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Student Evaluations of Teaching: Preparing for and Analyzing Student Feedback - April 18th, 11-12:30 on Zoom & in-person in TEB 201 with CATE
Whether you love them or hate them, it can be difficult to make sense of student evaluations of teaching. Students often leave conflicting or discouraging feedback, or worse yet, feedback that is unrelated to teaching practices. Considering that student evaluations remain one of the primary ways to get feedback on teaching, how can we help students provide useful and constructive feedback on evaluations? And once we get the feedback, how do we process it in a systematic and reflective way? During this workshop participants will learn about the bias and limitations of student evaluations, explore strategies to prepare students to give meaningful feedback, and engage with multiple approaches to analyze student evaluations of teaching.
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Using Backward Design as a Strategic Approach to Course Development - April 25th, 12-1pm on Zoom with CATE
Instructors want their students to understand the expectations for learning in their courses. However, ensuring this is happening without careful course planning can be challenging. In this interactive online workshop, we will discuss backward design (Wiggins and McTighe, 2005) for learning, an approach to instructional planning that starts with identifying desired results– what students are expected to learn or be able to do–and then proceeds “backward” to determine acceptable evidence of learning (assessments) and to develop instructional materials and learning activities that promote the desired results.
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Writing an Effective Teaching Statement - April 26th, 10-12am on Zoom and in TEB 201 with CATE
When was the last time you updated your teaching statement? Is it something that you dread doing, or are you unsure where to start? In this workshop, participants will discover how teaching statements can be used as a reflective tool that convey their effectiveness as an instructor in a holistic way. Participants will also evaluate their teaching through multiple lenses and brainstorm different sources of data about their teaching effectiveness that go beyond student evaluations. By the end of the session, participants will work together to distill their teaching philosophy into a thesis statement and leave prepared to write a teaching statement that demonstrates their efficacy and continued growth in teaching.
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On-going
Brick by Brick: An LGBTQ2SIA+ Campus Climate Survey that is student-centered and student-built
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