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We are sending you a recap of the week in all things teaching and learning. These notes will share timely teaching tips, recent pedagogical scholarship, teaching events on and off campus, and Hub blog posts. Use this form to unsubscribe.

At the Hub we know the best solutions to challenges around teaching come from working and talking together about our pedagogy. Even though this is the third semester with Chat GPT and the second with UM GPT, we have fielded a range of responses from faculty about just what to do now. We’re offering a one-hour virtual session to surface these approaches and explore our shared educational terrain, with plenty of time for large and small group conversations that we hope will continue after the session is over. Join us on March 11th at 11:00 AM to hear about our collective approaches to this technology and to join in conversation with your colleagues. 

Definition: Instructors who reflect gather feedback on their teaching from self-assessment, peers, and students to regularly identify areas for growth. They pursue improvements to their instruction through engagement with professional development and scholarship.

Critical Teaching Behaviors:Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching,

Barbeau and Happel (2023) p 97

In what is, to my mind, the most exciting(!) book on evaluating teaching in higher education, Lauren Barbeau and Claudia Cornejo Happel have synthesized the research around effective teaching into six categories of behavior. Reflection is the category that includes and surrounds all the others - and is what we hope you have the chance to do in your time with us, whether reading this email, checking out the blog, or attending a workshop. We know how hard it is to stop on your own to observe work that has become ingrained into "how things are done." We'd love to get the chance to spend time with you and help you include reflection in your teaching routine!

You can schedule a 30-minute or 60-minute meeting with a Hub instructional designer using our Calendly scheduler:

This is a friendly reminder that our March DigPed meeting will be held THIS Friday, March 15th, from 1-2PM. Been a while since you could make it? We'd love to see you again! Never been and want to know what all the fuss is about? Now is your time to come share what you would most like to talk with others on campus about.

To join, please send an email to mbarak@umich.edu to be added to the listserv!

What's on your (digital) mind?

This week we'll keep things casual with an open discussion of any and all things digital pedagogy! Looking forward to checking in with everyone.

Questions or comments? Jessica Riviere, rivierej@umich.edu

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