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草榴社区 Institute for Teaching and Learning (VITAL)

Teaching and Learning Strategies (TLS) Program at 草榴社区, May 14, 9:30am-4:00pm, Bartley Hall

Call for Proposals is Open.

by Fri., April 11.

Registration will open Mon., April 28

The end of the academic year offers a fitting venue to reflect on our teaching practices and experiences: How did our teaching practices impact our students鈥� learning experiences? The TLS program provides a stimulating campus-wide forum to share instructional practices that support our students鈥� learning, exchange ideas with colleagues, and learn from and with each other. Contribute your teaching expertise by offering a 50-minute interactive session or panel discussion.

Audience: Colleagues from all subject areas who are interested in actively participating in the sessions; they value discussion and exchange of ideas. Please consider including the students鈥� perspective by inviting one or two of your students to join you and contribute their perspectives.

Your colleagues are interested to learn about evidence-based practices: What did you learn? What worked well? What did not work so well? What would you do differently? Why, how? While an approach may no longer be novel for you, it may be new and helpful to a colleague!

Completing online proposal form: We suggest you review the online submission form first to get an overview of what鈥檚 asked for, create the proposal in a word docx, and then cut and paste the information from the word document. Please contact Gabriele Bauer with your ideas and/or questions: phone#: ext. 9-5627 and e-mail - We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Part of the program will focus on Student Mental Health, guided by , author Mind over monsters: Supporting youth mental health with compassionate challenge, Simmons University.

AGENDA-AT-A-GLANCE

9:30鈥�10:00 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast

10:00鈥�11:30 a.m. Welcome and Keynote, Student Mental Health  

11:45 a.m.-12:35 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 1, Student Mental Health at 草榴社区

12:35 p.m.鈥�1:30 p.m. Lunch, Enjoy Lunch with Your Colleagues

1:40鈥�2:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 2        

2:40 鈥�3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 3       

3:30-4:00 p.m. Reception and Conversation

I found the entire day uplifting. The enthusiasm among the faculty was contagious and renewed my interest in being the best teacher possible.

Sessions raised my awareness of gender issues and micro aggressions and it made me more conscious of the need to create an inclusive learning environment.

I appreciate the opportunity to discuss what I鈥檝e learned with enthusiastic, motivated, intellectually curious, and caring colleagues.

I learned more ways to engage students, have them 鈥渄o more of the work,鈥� and what it means to be a teacher at 草榴社区. I feel very motivated and encouraged in my role as a teacher.

The keynote introduced some interesting perspectives about what motivates students to do the work of learning. I plan to communicate more clearly to my students the importance of the material in my classes.

Different approaches to building community in class as well as mechanisms for online sharing of course material.

I will try to use Kahoot as a classroom polling technology. I got a lot of good ideas regarding active learning strategies for helping students to feel more comfortable and engaged.

I learned some more details about flipped classes pertaining to technical content with details on getting students to watch the videos ahead of class, grading, and best enhancing the video without repeating it.

A colleague gave me an idea for a midterm survey related to participation that I plan to use - have the students evaluate their participation, and explain reasons for their level of participation.

It's great to gather as an interdisciplinary group all focused on teaching at 草榴社区. The insights shared in networking and the content from the sessions were excellent.

Past TLS Programs