2 years 2 months ago
Many international students often come to the U.S. with a limited sense of their own racial identity and undergo some challenges as a new "minoritized" identity is imposed upon them. In this session, we will discuss this issue and how we can support international students as they navigate new identities. We will also consider how the institution can support students and more specifically how we can create more inclusive learning environments to reduce the harm caused by discrimination and prejudice.
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When we ask students to consult and use source material in their writing, we're asking them to engage in a complex series of activities. First they must locate and understand material and then distill and integrate it into their own texts. Simultaneously comprehending and documenting material is challenging for any writer and, as a result, making choices as to whether to quote directly, summarize, or paraphrase material can feel arbitrary. Also, as they move between disciplines and genres, students are exposed to diverse practices and styles of source use and attribution. Are there ways we can make this process less challenging?
In this virtual workshop, we'll focus on identifying and teaching effective techniques for summarizing and paraphrasing various texts, including print-based articles, digital content, audio, and video.
Facilitator: Matthew Luskey (Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum)
Audience: Faculty, instructors, and graduate students
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Join us for
Canvas Coffee Time to share with colleagues what you have discovered or to ask questions you want addressed.
No registration required. We will meet each month in our
Zoom Online Meeting Room.2 years 2 months ago
This workshop is based on the presenter's recent four-year stint at NSF. It is designed to improve your understanding of what NSF means by "broader impacts" and how you can improve your broader impacts plans.
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2 years 2 months ago
Classroom concerns about accessibility and inclusion can be complex, and in many ways, COVID-19 has made them more complicated. This session presents a pedagogical framework for teaching with access and inclusion - even during a pandemic. We'll identify key concepts, review grounding principles, and discuss everyday teaching practices.
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2 years 2 months ago
With the ease and speed of online access to superabundant information, much research has shifted from physical searching to digital searching. How do we help students manage their online searches, the information they find, and their efforts to process it into useful knowledge?
In this panel, instructors and academic librarians will share how they support student research through the use of scaffolded activities designed to support information literacies.
Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.
Facilitator: Matthew Luskey (Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum)
Audience: UMN-Twin Cities faculty, instructors, and graduate students
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2 years 2 months ago
This session for multilingual English speakers addresses which words to highlight so that the message is conveyed accurately.
2 years 2 months ago
We know teaching can get messy and we want to celebrate and problem solve this messiness together with you! Each week we'll share a just-in-time teaching tip and resources and then invite you to share your questions, concerns, and successes. Join Center for Educational Innovation consultants Mary Jetter and Alyssa Bonnac and your peers for as many or as few sessions as you wish.
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2 years 3 months ago
In this open conversation around the theme of "Grading," we invite your pressing questions as well as your insights and ideas. While we have themed these open conversations to compliment the previous week's structured topic, they will be entirely directed by your questions and/or topics you wish to talk more about (on or off the theme). These open conversations are meant to provide a routine time and space to support and learn from each other as we each seek to address challenges and opportunities in our unique teaching environments.
2 years 3 months ago
We know teaching can get messy and we want to celebrate and problem solve this messiness together with you! Each week we'll share a just-in-time teaching tip and resources and then invite you to share your questions, concerns, and successes. Join Center for Educational Innovation consultants Mary Jetter and Alyssa Bonnac and your peers for as many or as few sessions as you wish.
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Students and instructors feel more stress now than ever before. Join us to explore concrete strategies that support student well-being. We will discuss how you can reduce stress in the areas of course climate and community, assignments, managing cognitive load, and in planning your course policies in the future.
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2 years 3 months ago
Join us for
Canvas Coffee Time to share with colleagues what you have discovered or to ask questions you want addressed.
No registration required. We will meet each month in our
Zoom Online Meeting Room.2 years 3 months ago
2 years 3 months ago
We know teaching can get messy and we want to celebrate and problem solve this messiness together with you! Each week we'll share a just-in-time teaching tip and resources and then invite you to share your questions, concerns, and successes. Join Center for Educational Innovation consultants Mary Jetter and Alyssa Bonnac and your peers for as many or as few sessions as you wish.
Register for Let's Talk Teaching2 years 3 months ago
Nearly two years into the pandemic, instructors have faced ongoing challenges and are feeling the effects of burnout. Recognizing this context, in this workshop, we will reflect on small changes to teaching during the pandemic that had a positive effect on student learning. Participants will learn about an approach to small teaching for longer term change, discover strategies and examples of small teaching changes, and generate ideas for one small change to make to their teaching. This workshop will draw on participants as a community of learners recognizing our capacity for change in the short and long term.
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In this open conversation around the theme of "Integration," we invite your pressing questions as well as your insights and ideas. While we have themed these open conversations to compliment the previous week's structured topic, they will be entirely directed by your questions and/or topics you wish to talk more about (on or off the theme). These open conversations are meant to provide a routine time and space to support and learn from each other as we each seek to address challenges and opportunities in our unique teaching environments.
2 years 3 months ago
We know teaching can get messy and we want to celebrate and problem solve this messiness together with you! Each week we'll share a just-in-time teaching tip and resources and then invite you to share your questions, concerns, and successes. Join Center for Educational Innovation consultants Mary Jetter and Alyssa Bonnac and your peers for as many or as few sessions as you wish.
Register for Let's Talk Teaching2 years 3 months ago
Is a heavily highlighted text a sign of careful and critical reading? Recent research on reading habits and practices documents how some writing activities (highlighting, annotating, copying, listing keywords, etc.) are more effectively employed to deepen understanding than others. Research has also shown that genres (narrative, informational, technical, etc.) and modes (print, digital, audio, etc.) of reading require different writing activities to deepen comprehension and learning.
In this Teaching with Writing virtual workshop, we will consider and develop writing-based activities that align with specific reading tasks and support strengthened learning. Participants are encouraged to bring a text (print, digital, or audio) they plan to assign in one of their courses.
Facilitator: Matthew Luskey (Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum)
Audience: Faculty, instructors, and graduate students
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