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Apply to be a Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow!

We are now accepting applications for the 2021-22 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program. The program is designed to help you: Build understanding of principles of learning to inform your teaching Stock your teaching toolkit with new skills and approaches Develop a framework for course design Build teaching community Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows receive $2000 in…

Posted by on April 19, 2021 in Events, jftf, jftf program

Course Design Institute on Inclusive Teaching

This Spring – May 24th through 27th – the Center for Teaching invites you to join in our Course Design Institute on the theme of Inclusive Teaching.  This virtual event will take place via Brightspace and Zoom, May 24-27 (9am-4pm Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 9-12:30pm Thursday). During the four-day institute, participants will (re)design courses…

Posted by on April 15, 2021 in CDI, course design institute, Events

Online Course Design Institute

This one-week hands-on Online Course Development Institute (OCDI) will take place from May 17th through 21st. Participants will be guided through a systematic step-wise approach to designing an online course and facilitating synchronous and asynchronous interactions.  Participants will be equipped to make design decisions that support student engagement, meaningful learning and assessments, and equity and inclusivity. This…

Posted by on April 12, 2021 in Events, ocdi, online courses

Spring Science Teaching Lunch Series

  The Science Teaching Lunch series resumes in Spring 2021, typically meeting on the third Friday of the month from 12-1. In these lunches, we invite faculty to discuss common teaching challenges and to seek ideas and solutions from colleagues and the literature on science teaching and learning—in the past, over lunch, but now, over Zoom. This…

Posted by on March 24, 2021 in Events, science teaching

Active Learning Online: Five Key Principles with Stephen M. Kosslyn

Active learning leads to substantially better learning than occurs with traditional lecturing. This workshop will review the nature of active learning and explain why it is so effective. The workshop will focus on five fundamental principles drawn from the science of learning; these principles range from Deep Processing (the more mental effort one expends when…

Posted by on March 22, 2021 in Active Learning, Events, online teaching, Teaching Workshops

Upcoming Meeting Around Teaching and Race

On April 2nd, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm, at this link, we will focus our attention on what faculty can do to close race (and other) performance and persistence gaps across the disciplines.  Throughout 2020-21, a group of STEM faculty have met to discuss their concerns with disparities that exist between underrepresented and well-represented groups of undergraduate…

Posted by on March 17, 2021 in Events, Teaching and Race, Teaching Difference and Power

Transform your teaching with Perusall with Eric Mazur

Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. Through Perusall, we will demonstrate how…

Posted by on March 10, 2021 in Events, Perusall, Resource

Supporting LGBTQI+ Students

            In March, the CFT, the K.C. Potter Center and Office of LGBTQI Life, and the Faculty Senate, are proud to co-sponsor two discussions about how faculty and staff can better support LGBQI+ students. On March 12th (12:00-1:30pm), after some preparatory readings/videos on various social and academic challenges LGBTQ+ students…

Posted by on March 9, 2021 in Events, Inclusive Teaching, LGBTQI

Upcoming Spring Meetings Around Teaching and Race

As part of the 2020-21 Teaching, Difference, and Power learning community on Teaching and Race, the Center for Teaching is hosting meetings this Spring that we hope you will attend.   On  February 19th, from 9:00am to 10:30am, at this link, we are fortunate to have Rich Milner from the Department of Teaching and Learning, Peabody…

Posted by on February 16, 2021 in Events, Teaching and Race, Teaching Difference and Power

Spring Science Teaching Lunch Series

The Science Teaching Lunch series resumes in Spring 2021, typically meeting on the third Friday of the month from 12-1. In these lunches, we invite faculty to discuss common teaching challenges and to seek ideas and solutions from colleagues and the literature on science teaching and learning—in the past, over lunch, but now, over Zoom.  This semester,…

Posted by on February 15, 2021 in Events, science teaching

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