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Recap: Teaching Today’s Students
“Pedagogy for a New Era” and “The Undergraduate Perspective”
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Recap: Study skills, flipped learning, and more at spring STEM teaching lunches
With the final spring STEM teaching lunch coming up on March 4th, here's a recap of what you missed at the first two lunches.
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Recap: Yes, And… Igniting Your Pedagogical Imagination
At CETL, many of our workshops are open to the entire university community. That means we’re often presenting information about teaching techniques and strategies to a highly diverse group of instructors. In the audience of one workshop, we might have a tenured faculty member teaching a 200-person Biology lecture,
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Recap: Winter AI Institute for Teachers
Last week, CETL partnered with the Department of Writing and Rhetoric to offer a second iteration of the AI Institute for Teachers to an audience of UM instructors from across disciplines. Nearly 60 faculty from 26 different departments and schools attended the three-day event. In a wide variety of interactive
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Recap: Student Belonging in STEM
by Derek Bruff, visiting associate director Last Friday, CETL hosted the third event in our STEM teaching lunch series. This conversation was focused on student belonging with a presentation by Rebecca Symula, instructional associate professor of biology; Susan Pedigo, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and Jessica Osborne, principal evaluation associate
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Recap: Beyond ChatGPT - New Tools to Augment Your Research
by Derek Bruff, visiting associate director Earlier this week, I had the chance to host another event in the series on generative AI organized by CETL and AIG. Wednesday's event was titled "Beyond ChatGPT: New Tools to Augment Your Research," and it featured speakers Marc Watkins,
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Recap: Getting Started with Alternative Grading Approaches
by Emily Donahoe, associate director for instructional support Last week, Josh Eyler and I facilitated a reprise of our workshop on “Getting Started with Alternative Grading Approaches,” a topic we’re both pretty passionate about. You can review our slides here. What follows are some highlights from this workshop. We’
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Recap: A Pedagogy of Kindness with Dr. Cate Denial
by Emily Pitts Donahoe, associate director of instructional support This past Wednesday, CETL was thrilled to host guest speaker Dr. Cate Denial, the Bright Distinguished Professor of American History and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College. Cate is the principal investigator on a Mellon Foundation grant exploring “Pedagogies,
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Recap: Teaching in the Age of AI (What's Working, What's Not)
by Derek Bruff, visiting associate director Earlier this week, CETL and AIG hosted a discussion among UM faculty and other instructors about teaching and AI this fall semester. We wanted to know what was working when it came to policies and assignments that responded to generative AI technologies like ChatGPT,
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Recap: What Instructors Need to Know When Working with Neurodivergent Students
by Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support In our August 8 blog, we shared a preview of our September 8 workshop on supporting neurodivergent students, including the following definitions of key terms: * Neurodivergent: a person with a brain that processes information in a way different from most individuals. * Neurotypical: