Hi Friend of the CTE,                                                                 

We hope you’re having an enjoyable and productive summer so far! Take some time to submit a proposal for the Lilly Conference, mark your calendar for early fall CTE programming, and enjoy resources we’ve curated especially for you.

Upcoming Seminars and Events

In response to high demand and excellent reviews, we’re excited to offer this workshop again. New (or relatively new) AI users will engage strategies to facilitate their work as teachers and investigate useful strategies for supporting students’ learning, including guided, discipline-specific, and personalized exploration and experimentation with GenAI in this hands-on, in-person workshop.

Here’s what past participants had to say:

“I think this seminar was spot-on—flow was good, the breaks/pauses were strategic, and the dialogue was helpful.”

“The practical knowledge of how to create powerful prompts plus the thoughtfulness of when and how to use [Gen AI] in the classroom….”

News and Information

Proposal submissions for the 44th Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching (November 20-22 at Armstrong Student Center) close in just 2 weeks. Don’t miss the chance to share your teaching innovations with a community of teacher-scholars who share your passion for teaching and learning in a choice of format that best suits your learning goals for participants. If you’ve never submitted a Lilly proposal before, check out this video for helpful support.

The CTE’s external fundraising success has created a special opportunity for Miamians. We are thrilled to offer over 100 registration scholarships (excluding meals and preconference workshops) to Miami instructors, graduate students, and staff. Complete this short scholarship application to be considered. Please wait to register until you receive word on your application from LillyCon@MiamiOH.edu.

This Faculty Focus article, curated by Irena Kola (American Culture and English; CTE Faculty Teaching Associate), presents four key practices that help foster student success: curiosity, communication, connection, and compassion. These practices, respectively, enhance engagement and critical thinking, build trust, cultivate a sense of belonging, and improve motivation and well-being. Together, they create more humane and transformative learning environments.

Would you like students to come to class better prepared? This Faculty Focus article discusses strategies like transactional engagement, in which students interact with each other and with the instructor. Learn methods to use for before class (the SQ3R and Launchpad), the first 10 minutes of class (Focused Reflections), starting and sustaining conversations (Conversation Cards), and ending class (Accountability Audits).

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