| Event | Dates | Short Description |
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| 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… |
| Maximizing Student Learning During Office Hours |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Participants will discuss ways to make office hours most beneficial to students and identify strategies for dealing with common challenges. Using role-play and case studies, participants will brainstorm how to teach effectively during office… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| GSI Teaching Orientation |
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Graduate Students Requirement A |
CRLT’s GSI Teaching Orientation is designed to help new GSIs prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It also has proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future. … |
| What's It Like to Teach at a Liberal Arts College? |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Interested in teaching at a liberal arts college? A faculty panel from liberal arts colleges will discuss job search strategies and faculty worklife. Please note that the date of this event has been changed from the… |
| 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.… |
| SLAM: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
For more information about learning analytics at U-M and to view videos and slides from past SLAM presentations, click here. |
| SLAM: Tell Us How You Really Feel: Insights from Large-Scale Text Analysis of Student Survey Responses |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
We present initial results from a large-scale text mining analysis of student written responses to UM course evaluation questions, based on a dataset comprising millions of comments for thousands of courses over 10 semesters. Our goals are to (… |
| Ways That Work: Effective Classroom Teaching |
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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… |
| SLAM: Education without States |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Throughout the twentieth century most educational data were produced and analyzed with government patronage, with the resulting knowledge defined as a public good for the improvement of citizens, workers and policies. Very recently, proprietary… |
| Inside the Inclusive Teacher’s Toolkit: A Workshop on Inclusive Active Learning Strategies |
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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… |
| What Do I Do Now? Strategies for Handling Sticky Situations with Students |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Student instructors face many teaching-related challenges that may be difficult to handle. This workshop will provide strategies for overcoming common challenges as well as an opportunity to discuss the not-so-common “sticky” situations. … |
| SLAM: Evidence that Class Participation Affects Student Outcomes |
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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… |
| Teaching With Technology: How Can I Include All Students? |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
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.… |
| Six-Session Training for Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
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- - - - - Graduate Students Requirement B1 |
Co-facilitated by staff from CRLT and The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR), this six-week seminar allows participants to both learn about and practice a range of effective facilitation strategies for use in U-M's multicultural classrooms… |
| Teaching in a “Flipped Classroom” – A Four-Session Learning Community |
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- - - Faculty |
The “flipped classroom” has garnered considerable attention in the academy over the past year. This approach to teaching involves the use of podcasting and other strategies to shift students’ initial exposure to content from the lecture hall to… |
| Hidden (dis)Abilities in the Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
In this session, the CRLT Players present a series of vignettes designed to prompt conversation around a range of… |
| Are They "Getting It"? Low-Stakes Ways to Assess Student Learning |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are quick and useful ways to gather information on what, how much, and how well students learn. Instructors can use the data to create more effective learning environments. Participants in this session will… |
| SLAM: The Stats 250 E2Coach Project: What did we do? What did we learn? |
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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,… |
| Learning Community on Undergraduate STEM Teaching |
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- - - - - Graduate Students Requirement B1 |
CRLT is hosting a learning community to support participants engaged in the “Evidence-based Undergraduate STEM Teaching” MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offered through Coursera in fall 2014. In six weekly face-to-face meetings of the learning… |
| Next Steps with IT |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
This is a hands-on session showcasing 4 technologies (Piazza, UM Box, Google Drive, and blogging) that GSIs might use in their classrooms. We'll start off with mini-intros/pitches for each of the technologies. Next, we'll have two segments where… |
| Engaging the World From Your Classroom |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
The purpose of this event is to highlight efforts on campus to provide significant global experiences for students in the context of their coursework, providing faculty with the opportunity to share their experiences and to encourage campus… |
| Teaching Is Not Learning |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Many instructors feel they have “done their jobs” when they have covered all the course material. But did students learn? In fact, have the instructors done anything that a good book or video could not have done in their place? From the… |
| SLAM: Learning Analytics, Digital Education, and Innovation at U-M |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
In this session, James Hilton, Vice Provost for Digital Education & Innovation, will give an update on the Digital Education and Innovation (DEI) office, the intersections of digital education and learning analytics, and how the university is… |
