Kaneb Center Newsletter: Foundations of Teaching series and more

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Home      About      Blog This week's email includes information about Foundations of Teaching, our spring workshops, and a new blog post. To view our full workshop schedule, visit our Events page.  Foundations of Teaching This four-part series (1/11, 1/18, 1/25, and 2/1) will introduce and develop the fundamental skills of effective teaching, including communicating expectations, facilitating a class, grading, and teaching critical thinking skills. This will give first-time and early TAs a solid foundation for successful teaching in graduate school and beyond. Date: Tuesdays, January 11, January 18, January 25, & February 1 Time: 2:00pm - 3:15pm Presenters: Kathryn Trentadue and Julian Chike, Graduate Associates, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence To register for this virtual series, click here.

Upcoming Workshops We invite you to sign up for any of the following pedagogy workshops this spring. All workshops will take place via Zoom unless otherwise noted. For more information and to register, click here.   Enhancing Transparency and Structure to Improve Learning (Inclusive Teaching Mini Workshop) In this series, we’ll explore a variety of strategies to make our teaching more inclusive. This workshop will focus on the benefits of transparent communication and clear structures. Date: Thursday, January 27 Time: 11:00 -11:45 a.m. Presenter: Kevin Barry, ND Learning Senior Director Improve Your Teaching & Student Learning With Classroom Research Participants will explore the landscape of Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Participants will brainstorm potential research goals, questions, and data for their own course. Applied learning research support services and resources such as survey/rubric design, video observations, consent forms, and umbrella IRB will be shared. Date: Friday, January 28 Time: 1:00-2:15 p.m. Presenters: G. Alex Ambrose, Director of Learning Research, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence & Dominique Vargas and Emily Pitts Donahoe, Postdoctoral Fellows, ND Learning Inclusive Teaching Mini-Workshop Series Thursdays throughout the semester, 11:00am - 11:45am Gathering Early Semester Student Feedback  Tuesday, February 1; 3:30pm - 4:45pm Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions  Thursday, February 3; 2:00pm - 3:15pm   Supporting Student Wellbeing in the Classroom (Undergraduate Panel) Friday, February 11; 2:00pm - 3:15pm Teaching First-Year Students Wednesday, February 16; 11:00am - 12:15pm Supporting Student Wellbeing in the Classroom (Workshop) Wednesday, February 23; 2:00pm - 3:15pm Cultivating Attention in the Classroom Friday, February 25; 12:30pm - 1:45pm Facilitating Effective Discussion in the Humanities and Social Sciences Wednesday, March 2; 11:00am - 12:15pm Improving Your CIFs  Wednesday, March 16; 3:30pm - 4:45pm Creative Assignments and Assessments in Language and Culture Education Tuesday, March 22; 9:30am - 10:45am Hard Conversations in STEM Tuesday, April 5; 11:00am - 12:15pm Integrative & Engaged Learning with ePortfolios Wednesday, April 20; 2:00pm - 3:15pm Teaching for Social Justice Friday, April 22; 11:00am - 12:15pm New Blog Post Giving Quick & Meaningful Feedback to Students Through Canvas Speedgrader, by Alex Ambrose and Laura Cira "In recent years, notably the last two, instructors have increasingly utilized learning management platforms for collecting and assessing student work. As educational technology has matured, it is now possible to easily provide any of these forms of feedback within a single system. One of the most useful systems available to instructors at Notre Dame is Canvas and its SpeedGrader. ..."

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