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| Digital Pedagogies Lightning Talks and Workshop |
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Requirement B2 |
Have you been thinking about integrating digital technologies, social media, and/or other kinds of pedagogical initiatives using digital platforms into a new or existing course? Would you like to learn about innovations in classroom projects in a… |
| Teaching in a New Era: Exploring the Impacts of the 2016 Presidential Election (LUNCH event) |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
The 2016 election has affected the teaching and learning environment on campuses across the country. Many instructors are grappling with questions about how their teaching will or should change in the face of uncertainty about changing policies… |
| Community Engagement Series - Engaged Design: Developing Community-Based Learning Courses |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Co-sponsored by: Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, Center for Engaged Academic Learning Have you been thinking about integrating community engagement into a new or existing course? In this co-led session, we will… |
| Foundational Course Initiative Seminar: Students as Partners in Redesigning Foundational Courses |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
What happens when we engage students as partners in the process of designing a course? This talk will explore research on and practices of student-faculty partnerships that have the potential to enhance, and perhaps even transform, student… |
| Understanding How Stereotype Threat and Growth Mindset Affect Student Learning |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Research shows that when students worry about fulfilling a negative stereotype related to certain social identities, it can hurt their learning (a phenomenon known as stereotype threat). Research also shows that an instructor’s beliefs about… |
| Active Learning Laboratory: Advanced Practice Teaching |
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- Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance, participants review short online videos about active learning. Then, participants plan and deliver a 10-minute… |
| Opening Address by Associate Provost Hiram Fitzgerald, Michigan State University: Engaged Scholarship and Academic Values - A Broader Impact Through Community Engagement |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Dr. Hiram Fitzgerald is nationally recognized for his work on civic engagement. Undergirding his approach is the understanding that the academy is not the sole source of knowledge and expertise; both expertise and great learning opportunities… |
| CRLT Players Performance: Distress Signals |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
This workshop asks instructors to consider their roles and responsibilities in supporting students who face mental health challenges. Built around two scenarios that present situations and dynamics teachers commonly encounter with their… |
| CRLT Players Performance: Distress Signals |
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Faculty |
This workshop asks instructors to consider their roles and responsibilities in supporting students who face mental health challenges. Built around two scenarios that present situations and dynamics teachers commonly encounter with their… |
| Now That I Have It, What Grade Should I Give It? Evaluating Student Writing |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
Evaluating student writing is one of the most subjective and elusive tasks that we as instructors undertake each semester. In this workshop, we will work to alleviate some of the anxiety surrounding the evaluation process by discussing the use of… |
| Developing Your Teaching Philosophy |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Many academic employers require a teaching philosophy statement as part of the application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss research on hiring committees’ use of teaching philosophy statements, examine sample philosophies,… |
| Gameful Learning Community of Practice |
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- - - Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This community of practice (CoP) intends to create a space for instructors to engage in meaningful and productive monthly discussions about their use of gameful principles in teaching. Participants will have an opportunity to share their own… |
| Observing Classes & Conducting Midterm Student Feedbacks |
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Not eligible for Certificate |
This workshop is designed to give GSMs and GSI Coordinators a framework for observing their GSIs' classes and collecting student feedback. Using role plays and interactive activities, participants will learn how to set up classroom visits,… |
| Facilitating Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
This workshop provides an opportunity for GSIs in the Social Sciences and Humanities to experiment with active learning strategies aimed at improving discussions in the classroom. Strategies include icebreakers, group brainstorming, think-pair-… |
| Running Practice Teaching Sessions |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
At this workshop, participants will learn how to run practice teaching sessions to maximize the benefit for GSIs. Participants will take part in an actual practice teaching session and discuss what makes a practice teaching session work best. |
| Writing and Grading Exams: An Online Workshop |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
Workshop goals In this online workshop, you will learn about evidence-based practices for designing effective tests and exams. Specifically, you will:
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| Teaching Skills: Disrespect and Disruption in the Classroom - Strategies for Prevention and Response |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Disrespectful treatment of other students based on social identities or other characteristics, interruptions of faculty presentations, viewing of inappropriate websites during class: many faculty have felt that such student behaviors are on the… |
| Gameful Learning with GradeCraft |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
This session is a hands-on GradeCraft workshop that focuses on best practices for adding gameful elements into your course. Participants will learn how to transfer the gameful elements from a syllabus or course plan into GradeCraft, an… |
| Sharing Our Work: Key Insights from Faculty Communities for Inclusive Teaching (poster session and lunch) |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Learn about the wide range of projects sponsored by the Faculty Communities for Inclusive Teaching (FCIT) initiative during the 2015-16 academic year. Featured projects, from five U-M schools and colleges, include a workshop on LGBTQA… |
| Gameful Pedagogy: Potential Tools to Support Learning |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This session is intended for instructors who have decided to use gameful learning pedagogy in their course(s) and have already begun the course design process. Participants will be introduced to a range of potential tools that will enable gameful… |
| Gameful Engineering |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Participants at this session will learn about gameful pedagogy and explore ways in which gameful pedagogy could foster intrinsic motivation in their engineering students. We will brainstorm ways to give students choice in how they… |
| The Power of Peer Review: Collaborative Learning in the Classroom and in Canvas |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
This workshop focuses on exploring strategies and technologies to consider when embedding peer review in your course. Participants will learn about best practices for integrating peer review into a course and discuss strategies to avoid… |
| Stop Talking: Applying Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning in the Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
This session will introduce participants to pedagogical approaches based on traditional Alaska Native ways of teaching and learning. Through a series of exercises, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their current teaching… |
| Research-Based Principles for Making Learning Work |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Seven key teaching principles have been shown in the research literature to promote student learning. This session will allow participants to engage in a series of activities that highlight the principles and to identify ways to apply the… |
| Canvas for GSIs: Pedagogies and Practicalities |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
This is a hands-on session showcasing the Canvas learning management system (LMS) that GSIs might use in their classrooms, especially given that Canvas will be replacing CTools for courses this fall term. We'll start off with an overview of … |
