| Event | Dates | Short Description |
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| 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… |
| Facilitating Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
How can I heighten student participation in my sections? What are different ways I can plan a discussion and ask questions of students? How can I enhance students’ critical thinking skills? This seminar will provide GSIs in social science and… |
| Spicing Up Teaching to Improve Student Learning |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Creating a productive learning environment where students are engaged in critical thinking and problem solving can be challenging. In this session, participants will explore research-based teaching practices that can enhance student learning and… |
| Canvas Faculty Learning Community: Getting to Know Canvas |
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- - - - - Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This Canvas Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is intended for faculty who are new users of Canvas and will consist of 3 unique sessions. Each session will be offered twice in the same week, on a Wednesday morning and a Thursday afternoon. Please… |
| 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 that GSIs might use in their classrooms. We'll start off with an overview of Canvas. Next, we'll have two segments where GSIs can choose one of the Canvas features and… |
| 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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| Sharing Our Work: Key Insights from Faculty Communities for Inclusive Teaching (poster session) |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Learn about the wide range of projects sponsored by the… |
| Using Canvas to Support Effective Teaching |
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Faculty |
As U-M transitions to a new learning management system, instructors have raised questions about the ways in which Canvas will support their current practices or enable them to adapt new teaching strategies that will benefit student learning. In… |
| Teaching Lessons From the Fortune 500: Strategies for the Engineering Classroom |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
… |
| 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 that GSIs might use in their classrooms. We'll start off with an overview of Canvas. Next, we'll have two segments where GSIs can choose one of features of Canvas and… |
| Four-Session Training for Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
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- - - Graduate Students Requirement B1 |
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| Teaching With Technology: How Can I Include All Students? |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
This workshop will explore the intersection of technology and inclusive teaching. Participants will discuss the inadvertent assumptions about students' bodies and resources often implicit in assignments and classroom activities using technology.… |
| Faculty Panel: How Do We Teach About Privilege? |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Teaching about social justice, difference, and power brings many challenges and opportunities. Hear from accomplished U-M… |
| Perspective on Teaching: A Panel Featuring Peter Chen (EECS), Krzysztof Fidkowski (AERO), Mai Le (EECS), and Margaret Wooldridge (ME) |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
… |
| Canvas Faculty Learning Community: Session Three |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This is the third of three Canvas Faculty Learning Community sessions. |
| Advanced Practices for Inclusive Teaching |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Using teaching methods that effectively engage all students within a classroom is of ongoing interest to GSIs in any discipline. Instructors often ask: What does inclusive teaching really look like in practice? How do I know if the methods I am… |
| Canvas Faculty Learning Community: Session Two |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This is the second of three Canvas Faculty Learning Community sessions. You are not required attend each session to be a part of the Canvas FLC. Each session will feature:
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| Tools First: How Can Emerging Digital Scholarship Tools Inspire Your Teaching? |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
In this workshop, Justin Schell, head of the new Design Lab in Shapiro Library, will give an overview of a variety of emerging digital scholarship tools and… |
| Conveying Messages With Graphs: A Presentation by Jean-luc Doumont |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Graphical displays are poorly mastered by researchers, who often use the wrong graphs or use them in the wrong way. During Dr. Jean-luc Doumont's talk, he will discuss how to select the right graph for a given data set and research question, how… |
| Canvas Faculty Learning Community: Session One |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This is the first of three Canvas Faculty Learning Community sessions. |
| Getting Started With Community Engagement in Your Course |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
What is community engagement? Why should you infuse it in your course? Where do you begin? This participatory workshop for faculty (and GSIs* who are teaching their own courses… |
| Facilitating Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
How can I heighten student participation in my sections? What are different ways I can plan a discussion and ask questions of students? How can I enhance students’ critical thinking skills? This seminar will provide GSIs in social science and… |
| Research-Based Practices for College Teaching: An Online Workshop |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
In this online workshop, you will see examples of active learning at U-M, reflect on how these techniques could be applied in your own classroom, and engage with fellow graduate students to address any obstacles to implementing the techniques.… |
| 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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| Enriching Scholarship: Creative Uses of Technology to Assess Student Learning |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
How do you know your students are "getting it" before they take an exam or write a paper? Creative use of technology early in the learning process can help instructors efficiently gauge student progress and provide valuable opportunities for… |
