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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 […]

FOR NEW TAs! Teaching Tips and Techniques (TTT)

CITL - 1st Floor of Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono

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 […]

Creating accessible word-based documents for your courses

ZOOM

Virtual Workshop   These meetings will focus on “Plus-One Strategies" - an approach to inclusive teaching that involves making small changes to your course to include one more learner.  The 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 […]