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    Teaching @ UMaine: Foundations for New Faculty

    Teaching @ UMaine: Foundations for New Faculty
    102 Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono

    Launch your teaching journey at UMaine with confidence, connection, and community. This welcoming, semester-long program is designed specifically for recently hired faculty who are new to teaching at UMaine. Together, we’ll explore our students, institutional policies, and the foundational practices of effective teaching. You’ll engage with real classroom scenarios, build a personalized teaching development plan, […]

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    Facilitating Constructive Dialogue in the Classroom (In-Person Workshop)

    102 Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono

    Planning and facilitating constructive dialogue in classrooms seems more important than ever, though it involves both course design elements as well as facilitation techniques. In this overview, we will review key elements and steps involved in facilitating constructive dialogue in your classes, as well as explore reasons students might resist engagement.  Faculty interested in practicing […]

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    (Virtual) Gradescope: What is it and how could you use it?

    102 Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono
    Virtual Event

    Are you an educator looking to streamline grading of handwritten exams or homework? Do you want to provide meaningful feedback to your students more efficiently? This workshop is designed to give you an overview of Gradescope, a powerful tool being piloted at University of Maine that can improve the grading process for educators and students […]

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    Why & how to collect mid-semester feedback of teaching (Virtual)

    102 Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono
    Virtual Event

    Collecting and using mid-semester feedback from students can result in both improved classroom experiences and end of semester SETs.  During this session we will: Discuss the benefits of collecting mid-semester feedback Evaluate […]

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    Using Writing to Help Students Learn (In-Person)

    102 Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono

    Using Writing to Help Students Learn We’ve known for half a century that writing is an important mode for learning. However, how to use writing in classroom settings to help students learn content often gives instructors a moment of pause. In this workshop, we’ll design short, easily assessable writing-to-learn (WTL) activities for use in your […]

  • a web of people connected together

    Teaching @ UMaine: Foundations for New Faculty

    Teaching @ UMaine: Foundations for New Faculty
    102 Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono

    Launch your teaching journey at UMaine with confidence, connection, and community. This welcoming, semester-long program is designed specifically for recently hired faculty who are new to teaching at UMaine. Together, we’ll explore our students, institutional policies, and the foundational practices of effective teaching. You’ll engage with real classroom scenarios, build a personalized teaching development plan, […]

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    Want to save time grading? Learn how Gradescope can help!

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    Virtual Event

    During this overview, we will walk through the tool and discuss how you can save time with grading, expand your assessment types and improve feedback and learning data. Gradescope was designed to allow faculty to include more diverse assessments with improved feedback while saving time on grading.  It provides capacity in larger classes where assessments […]