Welcome to the weekly UTLC Newsletter supporting teaching and learning at UNCG.
Week of October 21, 2024
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10:00 - 11:00 AM
Tomorrow!
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☕️ UTLC Faculty Coffeehouse in the Weatherspoon courtyard
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CoffeeHouses are a space to gather with colleagues. No set agenda, just coffee (or tea), snacks, and great conversation. This year, Coffeehouses will be hosted in different locations across campus. As always, coffeehouses are open to all instructors at UNCG. Consider bringing a reusable coffee mug in order to make our efforts more sustainable!
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TEACHING TIPS
This section is full of timely and evidence-based practices to apply in your teaching
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With only two weeks to go until the U.S. general election, you may be wondering how to facilitate conversations with students about current issues in a way that connects to your disciplinary content or that helps them become more informed about the voting process. This week's teaching tips provide tools and resources for teaching and supporting student learning during this year's election.
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UNCG Resources. The Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement offers a wealth of resources to help educate students about the voting process and encourage participation in this civic duty. Instructors can request a Voting 101 workshop for your course by emailing lead@uncg.edu or import the Voting 101 for UNCG Students Canvas module into your course from Canvas Commons. Students, faculty, and staff can stay up to date by signing up for a once-a-week email newsletter from OLCE or following the office on Instagram (@olce_uncg). You can also share the Election Stress Kit (must login with your UNCG email to access this resource) from Counseling and Psychological Services with your students as a way to support their holistic wellbeing.
- University of Michigan Teaching Blogs
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Preparing to Teach During the 2024 Election. This article provides guidance for connecting election issues to course and discipline content to support student learning and create opportunities to practice civic discourse. There are also handouts to encourage reflection and instructions for facilitating dialogues including how to intervene in “hot moments.”
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Selecting Classroom Activities for Discussing Policy, Politics, and Social Issues. For further guidance on using the election as a teaching moment related to your discipline, review the resources in this article that provides activities, discussions, and prompts to get the conversation going. These can be adapted for any delivery format (face-to-face, hybrid/hyflex, online), so consider which activities might best align with your stated learning outcomes and try them out with your students.
- Prefer to listen to an audio version of these teaching tips? Check out this Election 2024 Teaching Tips podcast that synthesizes the resources mentioned above created using Google’s Notebook LM. The audio includes captions and a downloadable transcript.
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UTLC FEATURED ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Check out the latest updates and offerings from the UTLC.
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Reminder | EDUCAUSE AI Webinar Series on Supporting Literacy and Effective Practice
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The EDUCAUSE AI Webinar Series is a five part series. Each webinar dives deep into the latest innovations, practical applications, and future trends of AI, providing you with the knowledge and tools to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. UNCG is an EDUCAUSE member so instructors can sign up for each of these webinars for free. Just be sure to use the InCommon Federation login option and select University of North Carolina at Greensboro to use the single sign on feature.
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FACULTY ENGAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
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Check out these upcoming opportunities from the UTLC and other partners on campus. Additional training opportunities are available at workshops.uncg.edu.
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Upcoming Events, Training, and Workshops
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| 🧑🏫 New Faculty Development Program | Syllabi for Spring 2025
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Led by the UNCG Provost Fellows with the UTLC, this workshop is part of a series that is open to all UNCG faculty and staff. Register below to receive full event details. Please use the Provost Fellows question form to contact the fellows about this and other initiatives.
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Call for Grant Proposals: CDLC Benjamin “Benji” Chang Grant. The Coalition for Diversity in Language and Culture (CDLC) provides competitive grants to support those engaged in research, grant writing and project implementation activities that fulfill the CDLC mission (http://cdlc.uncg.edu/). Individuals and groups including at least one UNCG tenured, tenure track, or professional track faculty may apply. Research groups are also encouraged to include graduate students.
Application Deadline: December 15, 2024, by 11:59 pm
Questions may be directed to: Dr. Melody Zoch, mzoch@uncg.edu.
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