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Save the dates:

Teaching Renewal Week 2024 – January 8-12
Celebration of Teaching 2024 – May 15 & 16

 

 

Accessibility Community of Practice: Accessible Teaching Practices

Wednesday, October 4, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework that seeks to break the one-size-fits-all mold of teaching and learning. This session will address how to use UDL to make your syllabus policies and teaching practices more inclusive of all learners, especially those with disabilities.

 

Support to Write Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Join colleagues to brainstorm and draft descriptive language for the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that your course aims to teach. Have support to discern the appropriate level and scope for each student learning outcome.

 

Accessibility Community of Practice: Accessible Assessments 

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Assessments should demonstrate that students have mastered the desired learning outcomes. But do yours present unnecessary barriers? In this session, we’ll continue exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, looking at how to measure student learning through active, authentic assessment.

 

Graduate Training Series – Decode and Conquer II: MaxQDA

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Participants will be able to use MaxQDA for their qualitative data coding needs.

 

Review of Teaching: Improving the Quality of Student Feedback

Thursday, October 12. 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Given the potential benefits of student feedback data for our teaching effectiveness, we should have two related goals: We want to collect more student data with a greater response rate, and we want to collect quality feedback that provides actionable points for improving our teaching. However, this isn’t always what we get. Response rates on student feedback surveys are often lower than we’d like to see, and we often question the utility of open-response student comments that are sparse, vague, or emphasize factors unrelated to our teaching. This workshop focuses on how to best achieve these dual goals based on what we know from the available research on student feedback surveys in higher education.

 

Teaching Essentials Session 3: Active Learning Based on the Science of How We Learn

Thursday, October 12, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Join us for a new semester of Teaching Essentials. This workshop series, primarily for new and early career instructors, will address teaching, learning, and assessment evidence-based practices to help all students learn and succeed in every class. We’ll present theory and strategies for online and in-person classes across the disciplines.

When we teach classes based on what we know about how people learn, we maximize the opportunities for meaningful and durable student acquisition of new knowledge and skills. Purposefully incorporating active learning strategies and intentional use of tech can powerfully facilitate student learning.

 

Review of Teaching: Self – Reflection

Monday, October 16, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Details about this session are forthcoming – please check again soon for more information.

 

Support to Complete Curriculum Maps

Monday, October 16, 2023
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Join colleagues to align your course’s student learning outcomes to program level outcomes. Get started aligning your assignments, activities, and assessments, too.

 

Accessibility Community of Practice: Digital Accessibility Practice: Word and PowerPoint

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

After this session, you will be able to identify barriers to accessibility in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents and use the built-in Accessibility Checker to find and resolve those barriers.

 

Teach, Learn, Lunch Series for New Faculty: Canvas Integrations and the Digital Media and Innovation Lab

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

New faculty are invited to bring a lunch and engage with colleagues from with the Teaching for Learning Center, the Campus Writing Program, Missouri Online, and the University of Missouri Libraries about support for teaching and learning. Participants register for the series and are expected to attend all four sessions. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

Canvas Integrations and the Digital Media and Innovation Lab

Your students may not be aware of the information resources and services the library provides to help them be successful in your class. In this session, we will discuss how library resources and services can be integrated directly into your Canvas course. The discussion will cover collaborative possibilities and practices for teaching and learning such as scheduling in-person or online instructions sessions, creating, and using interactive library learning modules and tutorials including self-guided tours for students. You will also be introduced to the Digital Media and Innovation Lab (DMiL) in Ellis Library which offer tools for creative course projects and assignments.

 

Community of Practice: Innovating with AI in Teaching

Friday, October 20, 2023
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Join colleagues who are eager to explore new generative AI tools for teaching. This monthly community of practice aims to share hands-on experiences with tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E, Scribe, Fetchy, and more. This educational peer community offers a supportive space to gain experience and discuss opportunities and challenges. Pizza will be served. Space is limited to 30.

 

Book Club: The Allure of Play

Friday, October 20, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Interested in exploring how to boost active-learning with your students and incorporate a range of playful activities and/or simulations or learning games? Join Dr. Tori Mondelli for a book club that will introduce you to her ALLURE method for learning game and activity design.

 

Support to Write Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes

Tuesday, October 24, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Join colleagues to brainstorm and draft descriptive language for the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that your course aims to teach. Have support to discern the appropriate level and scope for each student learning outcome.

 

Support to Complete Curriculum Maps

Tuesday, October 24, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Join colleagues to align your course’s student learning outcomes to program level outcomes. Get started aligning your assignments, activities, and assessments, too.

 

Accessibility Community of Practice: Digital Accessibility Practice: Canvas and Multimedia

Wednesday, October 25, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

In this session, you will learn to identify and address accessibility barriers in your Canvas course site. We will also discuss the importance of live transcripts for Zoom sessions and accurate captions for Panopto media.

 

Graduate Training Series – Decode and Conquer III: Saturate

Wednesday, October 25, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Participants will be able to use Saturate for their qualitative data coding needs.

 

Teaching Essentials Session 4: Effective Assessment and Grading Strategies

Thursday, October 26, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Join us for a new semester of Teaching Essentials. This workshop series, primarily for new and early career instructors, will address teaching, learning, and assessment evidence-based practices to help all students learn and succeed in every class. We’ll present theory and strategies for online and in-person classes across the disciplines.

Inclusive grading that promotes equitable student learning is key to student success. We’ll consider assessment strategies that don’t burden faculty with an overwhelming grading load.

 

Review of Teaching: Introducing Mizzou’s New Student Feedback Survey

Monday, October 30, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

In response to common critiques of end-of-semester student feedback surveys, the MU Faculty Council and the Provost’s Office approved a new student feedback survey instrument that will be implemented starting this year. This new survey was designed and tested by an expert team of Mizzou scholars, informed by the research literature on best practices for student feedback surveys and the use of resulting data, and refined based on feedback from the Mizzou faculty and student communities. In this workshop you will be introduced to the new survey instrument, learn how it incorporates MU’s dimensions of Inclusive and Effective Teaching, and find out about important changes to how student feedback data will be reported for faculty review.

 

Teaching and Supporting First-Generation Students

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Did you know that 25%+ of our student population at MU are First-Generation students? Join us to explore evidence-based teaching practices that can serve to address some of the unique needs of our students, such as: demystifying Higher Education jargon such as “Office Hours”, building cultural capital, and developing personal relationships with students.

 

Accessibility Community of Practice: Creating Accessible STEM Experiences

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

This session will address the unique challenges of making STEM learning accessible, including equations and complex images.

 

Support to Write Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes

Monday, November 6, 2023
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Join colleagues to brainstorm and draft descriptive language for the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that your course aims to teach. Have support to discern the appropriate level and scope for each student learning outcome.