This past spring, we surveyed the CITL’s faculty clients to find out what sorts of issues are most important to you, so that we can align our summer work to meet your needs. The topics you and your colleagues identified as top priorities are:
- Inclusive Teaching Practices
- Equitable Assignments and Grading
- What New Instructional Practices to Keep for Fall
We have developed the following summer events in response to that information, and we will continue to work on website and video resources throughout the summer. Here is what we have lined up so far.
Instructor Feedback as Communication
This past year has created considerable challenges for instructors as they have tried to communicate effectively with their students in distanced environments. This discussion will examine feedback as a powerful way in which instructors can encourage students to feel like a vital part of the class, whether remote or in-person.
June 18, 10:00 -11:00 am
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Transparent Assignment Design for Student Success
Come learn about a simple approach to clarifying assignment goals and processes that has a strong research base for improving student success, especially among underprepared students.
June 23, 10:00-11:00 am (Part 1: an introduction) Learn more and register
June 30, 10:00-11:00 am (Part 2: an assignment workshop) Learn more and register
Designing Effective and Equitable Group Assignments
Group work can have many benefits for students’ learning, but group projects can go awry if the instructor has not thought about group formation, the establishment of group norms, and access to the tools and strategies that groups need to be successful. In this webinar, participants will learn about and share strategies for creating, supporting, and evaluating effective and equitable group assignments.
June 24, 10:00 – 11:30 am
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Simplify Communications and Promote Peer Learning in Large Classes Using InScribe
How can you foster student engagement and course ownership while saving yourself time? Come learn about InScribe, a commuity-driven Q&A tool that instructors can use to manage the influx of questions from students while promoting peer learning through the crowd-sourcing of answers. Come learn about the tool and how instructors are using it to promote student success in large classes.
June 30, 2:30 – 4:00 pm
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New Tools to Foster Community
A sense of belonging is critical for students to succeed. Come learn about technologies that help foster that community in your classes. We will explore VoiceThread, Miro Whiteboard, and Canvas Discussions.
July 23, 10:00-11:00 am
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Strategies to Support, Challenge, and Connect with All Your Students
In this interactive webinar, we will discuss Universal Design for Learning as a set of concepts and strategies to support, challenge, and connect with all our students.
July 26, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
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What Will You Keep? Video Series
Many instructors found valuable ways to improve student success during our year of remote learning, approaches that will serve them and students well when we return to in-person instruction this fall. Come see what some of your colleagues are keeping. This will be a regular installment in our CITL blog, so check it out and subscribe so you don’t miss one.
We may have more programming announced throughout the summer, too, so subscribe to our weekly Friends messages, and watch our Events page for new program additions. And, as always, let me know if you have other programming ideas that will help your teaching.
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