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Dear graduate employees,
We hope you have been enjoying rich connections with your students and a productive fall term! The Teaching Engagement Program sends you this newsletter throughout the term to inform you of events, workshops, and resources designed to support your teaching.
As we reach the midpoint of our term, we want to ensure that you’re aware of the teaching-related services that are available to you, including our new Graduate Employee Teaching Support page. We would love your feedback!
With election day behind us, please engage difficult national and international contexts with care. The new Teaching in Turbulent Context Resource Guide offers principles linked to concrete practices and invites faculty and GE instructors to events that deepen and build on these ideas.
Sincerely,
The Teaching Engagement Program (TEP) and UO Online
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The Exit Ticket
Getting low-stakes, ongoing data about how your students are learning can be invaluable. And you can do it in less than a minute before you leave class. But how?
Toward the end of your class period, hand each student a 3x5 card and instruct them to answer any or all these prompts:
- Ask a question about something they were confused about during the lesson.
- Summarize something they learned.
- Compliment someone else in the classroom for something they noticed that promoted learning.
What are your exit ticket variations? Please send your exit ticket ideas to tep@uoregon.edu from your UO email address with the subject line “exit ticket idea.” Submissions received by November 30 will be entered into a prize drawing for a $10 coffee gift card.
Got a tip to share? Email tep@uoregon.edu with your questions or suggested topics.
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Developing your Online Course, Fall 2024
Nov. 7 from 2-3 p.m. in the EMU 107 Miller Room
Join us to explore the University of Oregon’s five Canvas Course Site Essentials for Online Classes: student orientation, structure and content, engagement, transparent assessment, and resources. In this workshop, you will learn why each component is essential to the success of an online course, see examples from your colleagues at UO, and brainstorm ideas for your course.
Post-election Teaching Forum
Nov. 12 from 1-2:30 p.m. in the Gerlinger Lounge
Our goals for this post-election event are to come together as a teaching community to discuss how unfolding national events are impacting our classes and to create a forum for strategy sharing, asking questions, and offering collective support. All faculty and GEs welcome. Hosted by the Division of Equity and Inclusion, College of Arts and Sciences, and UO Teaching Engagement Program.
Preparing to Teach Online, Fall 2024
Nov. 14 from 2-3 p.m. in EMU 230 Swindells
Join us to explore what it means to teach an online course at the University of Oregon. Students in online classes flourish when instructors engage with them in regular and meaningful ways and encourage a robust peer learning community. Building learning relationships in online and hybrid classes can be challenging, but meaningful interactions help students become critical thinkers in our classes and beyond.
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TEP GE Drop-in Office Hours
Wednesdays from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the Knight Library DREAM Lab or Zoom (linked)
Bring your questions, share experiences, and problem solve with TEP consultants.
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Science Teaching Journal Club: Teaching Large Classes
Thursdays from 9-10 a.m. in LISB 217 or Zoom
A friendly venue for learning about evidence-based teaching practices and how we can use them to improve our own teaching. Faculty and graduate students warmly welcome.
Teaching with AI Reading Group
Thursdays from 11 to noon on Zoom
Faculty and graduate students are invited to join this space for conversation and idea-sharing around how AI might support our students’ critical thinking skills and information literacy.
Neurodivergent Instructors and Staff Affinity Group
First Monday of the month from 10-11 a.m. on Zoom
This recurring affinity-group discussion is a space for neurodivergent instructors and staff (and those who hold identities within the umbrella of neurodivergence, like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, bipolar, etc.) to connect in ways that feel positive, and to share community, resources, strategies, questions, and scholarship around both neurodivergence and other things that matter to you.
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The Kimble First Year Teaching Award recognizes outstanding teaching by graduate student instructors who have demonstrated a commitment to inclusive, engaged, and research-informed practice. The annual prizes typically are awarded to one first-time lab or discussion section leader and to one first-time sole instructor.
This award, named in honor of professor emeritus Dan Kimble, is jointly sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Graduate Studies, and the Division of Undergraduate Education and Student Success, and administered by the Teaching Engagement Program.
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Olivia Matuoka
Discussion Section Leader
Olivia (she/her) holds Bachelor's degrees in English and Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's in Humanities from the University of Chicago. She is a Ph.D. student in the English department at the University of Oregon, where she is also pursuing a graduate certificate in New Media and Culture. Her professional backgrounds in advertising and digital marketing inform her current research interests in digital humanities, speculative fiction, and Asian American literary and cultural production.
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Luda Gogolushko
Sole Instructor
Luda Gogolushko is a disabled Ph.D. candidate in the Communication and Media Studies program. As a qualitative, constructivist scholar, her disability-centered research focuses on media, communication, and technology within media effects, media psychology, and children’s media. She currently serves as a student representative for the Society for Disability Studies Board of Directors and is a 2024-2025 AEJMC-MCSD Diversity and Inclusion Career fellow. Prior to joining UO, she studied Communication and Recreation at California State University of Northridge.
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We welcome your input to keep this newsletter informative and meaningful, so please send your ideas, resources, and suggestions our way. You can reach us at tep@uoregon.edu.
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