CTE News

October 31, 2023

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Hi Friend of the CTE,

In this spooky edition of the CTE News, sign up for a Winter Term Book Club, register for the Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching, and engage helpful resources.

News and Information

Get Fired Up for the Lilly Conference!

Just two weeks remain until the Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching (November 16-18), the nation’s premier Conference on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Join colleagues from Miami and across the nation for three days of community and learning right on the Oxford campus at Armstrong Student Center.

Curious about which pedagogical research areas are being investigated? View the Lilly Conference Theme Tracks for listings of sessions with the most popular keywords among the over-100 total sessions.
Want opportunities to engage with colleagues in a more relaxed format? In addition to themed refreshment breaks during the Conference (see the 3-day schedule), social activities for Lilly participants include our annual Trivia Night and music by the Lilly Hammers.
Wondering why Lilly participants find the experience so valuable? Read what Conference organizers and participants have to say!

Get re-energized at Lilly to help you and your students finish the semester strong!

Winter Term Book Clubs - Register Now!

Winter term is a great time to read a new book on effective teaching and talk about it with colleagues. We’ll buy the books and facilitate the virtual discussion session.

Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time. Book Cover

Monday, January 8, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom. Book Cover

Wednesday, January 10, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College Book Cover

Wednesday, January 18, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Midterm Assessment Flowchart with process parts listed

Last Call: Schedule Your Midcourse Consultation Now!

Just a few spots (7 spots, to be exact!) remain for scheduling a confidential consultation to help you make the most of your students’ midcourse evaluation feedback. Midcourse evaluation is one of the University’s recognized measures of teaching effectiveness, and a CTE Faculty Teaching Associate can help you maximize the results, including how to document your instructional response to support your teaching effectiveness.

Request a Midcourse Consultation

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Get Support for Common Teaching Challenges

So many of us want to inject innovations like group work into our courses but haven’t gotten the results we hoped for. A CTE FTA can collaborate with you to unlock the keys to teaching goals like community building, effective group work, and robust in-class participation that we aspire to for learners in our courses.

Schedule Your Consultation Today

What Do Haunted Houses Have in Common With Effective Classroom Learning?

This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education explores four lessons in how the research on “recreational fear,” or the enjoyment people derive from being scared, can be applied in the classroom to enhance student learning.

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Opportunities From Our Partners

The Institutional Effectiveness-Teaching Connection, No. 113

The Institutional Effectiveness-Teaching Connection is a collaborative product of the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness and the CTE whose goal is to translate institutional data into considerations for improving teaching and learning at Miami. The latest issue (No. 113) focuses on “Innovative Methods of Assessment: Leveraging Alumni Feedback in Project Dragonfly Programs.”

Call for Applications: First-Year Research Experience Fellows

The Office of Research for Undergraduates (ORU) invites teams of faculty, staff and graduate students to apply for the inaugural First-Year Research Experience (FYRE) Fellows program (2024-25).

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