Event Dates Short Description
How Do You Motivate Engineering Students to Want to Learn in Your Class? -
Faculty
Lunch will be provided.
 
Are your students off-task, apathetic, or absent? Do you want to stimulate their intellectual curiosity? If so, then join us at this interactive workshop that will provide you with evidence-…
SLAM: Evidence that Class Participation Affects Student Outcomes -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate
In this session, Perry Samson, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences will discuss his analysis of data gathered in his Extreme Weather course through the LectureTools platform.  Preliminary analyses have identified relationships between how…
SLAM: The Stats 250 E2Coach Project: What did we do? What did we learn? -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate
In this session, Brenda Gunderson and Omar Chavez describe how they implemented E2Coach, a tailored communication system, in Statistics 250. Because of the size of the course and the on-line resources already in use in this course,…
Using Technology to Check Student Understanding and Provide Feedback: An Online Workshop -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology
In this online workshop, you will explore technologies that can be used to help check student understanding and provide feedback on student learning. You will have the option to explore these tools in the context of teaching concept based…
Online Workshop: Using Technology to Check Student Understanding and Provide Feedback -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology
In this online workshop, you will explore technologies that can be used to help check student understanding and provide feedback on student learning. You will have the option to explore these tools in the context of teaching concept based…
Using Technology to Check Student Understanding and Provide Feedback: An Online Workshop -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology
In this online workshop, you will explore technologies that can be used to help check student understanding and provide feedback on student learning. You will have the option to explore these tools in the context of teaching concept based…
Dance & Dialogue: Human Contact and Democracy -
Everyone
How can the body be a laboratory for examining dialogue, choice-making, roles and habits?  In this critical theory seminar/ interactive workshop, geared toward instructors of all disciplines, choreographer and U-M MFA alum…
Ways That Work: Effective Classroom Teaching -
Faculty
Not eligible for Certificate
How can faculty support student learning and engagement during class time? This session will focus on that very question, highlighting research-based practices that are efficient and can be implemented into engineering courses. Participants…
Eighth Annual Research and Scholarship in Engineering Education Poster Session -
Everyone
Faculty and students across the university are engaged in scholarly work in the field of engineering education. This poster session, held over lunch, will feature the work of faculty, staff, and students from engineering, education, physics,…
Teaching for Student Retention in Engineering: What Can GSIs Do? -
Graduate Students
Requirement B2
Extensive research on why students leave engineering suggests that individual instructors can play a key role in supporting and retaining a diverse student body. In this workshop, specific classroom strategies and teaching behaviors that…
Frameworks for Groups: Making Teamwork Work -
Graduate Students
Requirement B2
Effective use of groups in the classroom can increase student learning and enhance students' problem solving abilities, if instructors ensure that all students are engaged and included. In this session, participants will explore research-based…
Student Persistence, Performance, and Disciplinary Pathways: The Effects of Race, Class, Gender, Institution, and Discipline -
Dr. Matt Ohland leads the MIDFIELD project, a multi-institution research study involving a dataset that includes academic records of more than 200,000 engineering undergraduate students and more than 800,000 non-engineering students. Through…
Opening Address by Associate Provost Hiram Fitzgerald, Michigan State University: Engaged Scholarship and Academic Values - A Broader Impact Through Community Engagement -
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…
Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Digital Badges and the Analysis of Learning & Educational Activity -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate
Digital badges are web-enabled tokens of learning and accomplishment. Unlike traditional grades, certificates, and transcripts, badges can include specific claims and detailed evidence in support of those claims. The Design Principles…
Managing Emergent Crises in Diverse Student Teams (Inclusive Teaching @ Michigan Series) -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching
Designing and supporting student teams can be tricky, especially when considering the range of identities, experiences, abilities, and personalities in our classrooms. Even so, research shows that when students learn alongside with diverse…
Active Learning Laboratory: Advanced Practice Teaching -
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Graduate Students
Requirement B2
Choice of four sessions, February 3 & 4, 2016.
 
This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a 
small peer group. In advance, participants review…
CRLT Players Performance: Distress Signals -
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 -
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…

Developing Your Teaching Philosophy -
Graduate Students
Not eligible for Certificate

This session does NOT count for GSIs looking to make up missed orientation training.

Many academic employers require a teaching philosophy statement as part of the application process. In this interactive…
Developing Your Teaching Philosophy -
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…

Developing Your Teaching Philosophy -
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 consider teaching philosophy statements as a particular type of academic writing.  We will…

Organize, Streamline, and Simplify: Teaching Efficiently With Technology *SESSION IS FULL* -
Graduate Students
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology

In this interactive session, we will discuss some of the common challenges of being a GSI and share technology resources that can help you overcome them. Possible topics covered will include

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Foundational Course Initiative Seminar: Exploring Student Reasoning to Support Better Teaching -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate
This presentation demonstrates the use of discipline-based education research to inform curriculum development and enhance student learning in chemistry, with discussion of general implications for instructional teams engaged in evidence-…
The Influence of Gender Stereotypes on Role Adoption in Student Teams -
Everyone
Drs. Lorelle Meadows and Denise Sekaquaptewa won a Best Paper Award for their research on student teams at the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference. Their work shows that, in Engineering 100 group projects,…
CRLT Players Performance: Distress Signals -
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…