In-person workshop The way that instructors assess student performance has a profound effect on how students experience learning and how instructors spend their time inside and outside of class. In this discussion, participants will explore three alternatives to traditional grading that attempt to ameliorate the learning experience and make better use of instructors’ limited resources: […]
The Digital Equity & E-Inclusion Community of Practice (DECoP) will bring together faculty interested in supporting, exploring, and cultivating a digital equity practice. Over the semester, participants will work on an aspect of their course to address through the lens of digital equity. Participants commit to the semester long program when you register (opens in […]
Hybrid, Biweekly, Fridays from 10:00-11:00am This is a collaborative, faculty-led, practically-oriented community focusing on fostering equity through developing our syllabi and engaging them meaningfully in class. The group will focus not only on “how-to” craft an inclusive/equity-centering syllabus, but how to continue to engage the syllabus throughout the semester toward fostering equity in the classroom […]
Virtual meetings (via Zoom) Teaching Gradually: Practical Pedagogy and Classroom Strategies for Graduate Students provides tools, methods, and insights that are useful in teaching today’s students but are often not […]
Hybrid (In-person or virtual) Together, explore and learn about UMaine’s students, policies, and develop a strong foundation of teaching skills through the exploration of case studies and actual scenarios from the classroom. In parallel we will work on developing your teaching development plan to help guide your teaching goals at UMaine. A great way to meet […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Digital Equity & E-Inclusion Community of Practice (DECoP) will bring together faculty interested in supporting, exploring, and cultivating a digital equity practice. Over the semester, participants will work on an aspect of their course to address through the lens of digital equity. Participants commit to the semester long program when you register (opens in […]
Hybrid, Biweekly, Fridays from 10:00-11:00am This is a collaborative, faculty-led, practically-oriented community focusing on fostering equity through developing our syllabi and engaging them meaningfully in class. The group will focus […]
