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Event Series FOR NEW TAs! Teaching Tips and Techniques (TTT)

FOR NEW TAs! Teaching Tips and Techniques (TTT)

CITL - 1st Floor of Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono, ME, United States

In-person The TTT is a learning community where new TAs will learn teaching tips and techniques to support their teaching as well as form relationships with other first-time TAs. This is a community, not a course. Our core meetings will be every other Friday from 12:00-1:30 pm starting September 2nd. *Note* We also have an optional kick-off meeting […]

Making the most of your Student Evaluations of Teaching

Virtual program OIRA and CITL share strategies to improve the quality of the feedback from your students, including personalizing your SETs, approaches to reading and interpreting SETs, and methods to enhance your teaching narrative in addition to student evaluations.  This event has been postponed.  

Creating accessible slides for your courses

Virtual Location

Virtual event   "Plus-One Strategy:" an approach to inclusive teaching that involves making small changes to your course to include one more learner.  "Plus-one strategies" workshops will show how to proactively design course components that meet the varied needs of our increasingly diverse body of students. Each workshop will be designed with 40 minutes of […]

Event Series Teaching & Learning Book Discussion: Small Teaching

Teaching & Learning Book Discussion: Small Teaching

102 Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono

James Lang’s second edition of Small Teaching brings with it new evidence-based practices to improve student learning in bite-size pieces.  The book connects powerful new research from cognitive theory with practical strategies for deploying these insights in a modern classroom. Lang sets out to use research from the learning sciences to offer faculty small, practical changes they […]

Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice

Hybrid (In-person or virtual)

Hybrid (in-person but can accommodate remote participants) Alternate Wednesdays at 10:00am starting September 7th; opposite Wednesday can be reserved for asynchronous work Innovation in teaching provides exciting opportunities for research and scholarship on teaching practices. In this CoP, we will engage with peer mentoring and feedback as we: explore the fundamentals of the Scholarship of […]

Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice

Hybrid (In-person or virtual)

Hybrid (in-person but can accommodate remote participants) Alternate Wednesdays at 10:00am starting September 7th; opposite Wednesday can be reserved for asynchronous work Innovation in teaching provides exciting opportunities for research and scholarship on teaching practices. In this CoP, we will engage with peer mentoring and feedback as we: explore the fundamentals of the Scholarship of […]

Keeping the “Active” in Active Learning Classrooms

In-person program Barrows Hall Room 126 (ALC) Join in a discussion and demonstration of ways faculty can keep active learning classrooms active to maximize student engagement and learning.  Explore ways to avoid common pitfalls associated with teaching and learning in ALCs as well as ways to enhance collaborative learning and group work.  Register here for […]

Applications now open for the Graduate Teaching Academy!

In-person The Graduate Teaching Academy (GTA) is a catalyst for successful undergraduate teaching where students can explore the transferable skills of teaching, bringing their experience beyond the classroom, and is open to ALL Graduate Students who are interested in preparing for careers that involve teaching, inside and outside of academia. The GTA is a place […]

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