CTE Weekly - March 2, 2021
CTE Weekly - March 2, 2021
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CTE Weekly

March 2, 2021
Hi Friend of the CTE,
In this edition of the Weekly, you will find information about upcoming seminars, resources from our FTAs, opportunities from our partners, and other engaging news.

Upcoming Seminars

Record. Rewind. Reflect. Repeat: Using Video Self-Reflection to Improve Teaching

This session, facilitated by 2020 E. Phillips Knox Distinguished Teaching Award winner Sarah Watt, will provide an overview of how to operationalize your own teaching goals, systematically observe the teaching and learning in your courses through video, and make improvements through an iterative process that takes very little time and effort.

Thursday, March 4, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Learn More and Register

Cultivating an Ecology of Dialogue in
the Classroom and a Community of
Belonging for Everyone

In part 2 of this Intergroup Dialogue Seminar Series, learn to navigate class conflict from diverse perspectives and lived experiences, interrupt implicit bias, and transform debate into dialogue.

Friday, March 5, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Learn More and Register

Developing Service Learning
Within Your Curriculum

Learn best practices in critical service learning pedagogy, including tools for integrating service learning into your curriculum and creating an authentic community-engaged classroom.

Thursday, March 11, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Learn More and Register

Promoting Academic Integrity in the Online Environment: Communication, Assessment, and Technology

Learn to promote integrity and enhance student engagement and learning through effective pro-integrity communication, authentic and varied assessments, and appropriate use of technology, including adaptations for all teaching modalities.

Tuesday, March 16, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Learn More and Register

News and Information

Major Teaching Project Grant Proposal Deadline: March 15, 2021

Submit a major teaching project grant proposal (up to $3,000). These grants encourage curricular and pedagogical innovations that will result in more engaged and improved student learning. Innovations may be at the course, department, program, division, and/or university levels.
Proposal Form

Crickets in the Classroom

What can you do when your class discussion prompts are met by "crickets"? Learn strategies for addressing those uncomfortable silences in an article curated by CTE Faculty Teaching Associate Ann Haley MacKenzie.

The Institutional Effectiveness -
Teaching Connection #111

The Connection's goal is to translate institutional data into considerations for improving teaching and learning at Miami. Connection #111 focuses on best practices for assessing experiential learning.
Learn More

CTE CLIP

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Using Weekly Canvas Quizzes
to Keep Students Engaged

In this latest Conversation on Learning, Innovation, and Pedagogy (CLIP), CTE Faculty Teaching Associate (FTA) Meredith Erb (CHM) interviews FTA Jennifer Blue (PHY) about an instructional modification she made to her large introductory course to support students during the pandemic in this video.

Teaching Conference Opportunities

AAC&U Virtual Institutes for
STEM Faculty and Administrators

Distance Learning Conference: Learning for ALL

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