I recently attended a webinar about High-Impact Practices (HIPs) presented by Jerry Daday and Tom Hahn (Institute for Engaged Learning, IUPUI) and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL). High-impact practices are educational practices that have been shown to increase student engagement and retention (Kuh 2008). There are eleven HIPs: service-learning/community-based… Read more »
Keep missing our events? Watch our recordings!
When quarantine started in March, I thought about throwing my beloved planner into the garbage. It seemed like plan after plan was cancelled and I was facing a wide-open schedule of nothing. (Cue chirping crickets and a tumbleweed blowing by.) However, as our world quickly transitioned online, it didn’t take long for many of our… Read more »
Campus Training and Orientation for Graduate Associate Instructors
Graduate students come to IUB with a wide range of instructional experience. Whatever level of teaching experience our new Associate Instructors have, we’re confident they can learn something new at our upcoming Associate Instructor Orientation (AIO) series. The CITL’s AIO will provide an overall introduction and socialization to the research-based practices and culture of teaching… Read more »
Small Teaching Online: Lessons from Part 1 of the Book
Small Teaching Online: Lessons from Part 1 of the Book As we’re preparing to teach summer course online, many of us are looking for easy tips and tricks to improve our instructional practices. The CITL has been sponsoring reading groups of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby and James… Read more »
Supporting Sudden Online Teaching as an Associate Instructor
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. If you’re an Associate Instructor (AI) in a course that is being moved online quickly because of a campus closure or emergency, you… Read more »
Experienced AIs – We want your voice at fall AI Orientation!
Can you remember the feeling of being an Associate Instructor (AI) for the first time at IUB? Most of us feel nervous before teaching a new class – stomach jitters, sweaty palms, trying to remind ourselves why we wanted to go to grad school. Being a bit nervous before teaching is normal and the Center… Read more »