Welcome to the weekly UTLC Newsletter supporting teaching and learning at UNCG:
Week of March 4, 2025
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TEACHING TIPS: Communication, Well-Being, and Student Contact
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As we approach Spring Break, students are stressed; we're stressed; and constructive communication may be becoming more difficult. The following are several options for communicating with students depending on your comfort level and goals.
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The Reflect App, available on your MS365 account, lets you set up check-ins with students about how they're feeling that day, but also easily poll students about a host of other subjects.
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If it fits into your class subject matter, incorporate information about burnout and its prevention into your class - which provides an opportunity to ask students how they're feeling about their own well-being and to take stock of such. The University of Waterloo Pharmacy Program has provided information and research about their activity, "Check-In".
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As stress levels rise in the middle of the semester, email communication can be more difficult. Inside Higher Ed has insights and advice on compassionate student emails and Higher Ed Jobs discusses how to write emails with clarity and kindness.
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Course Recording Syllabus Language
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We have just added to the UNCG Sample Syllabus sample language for "Recording within a Course." This language provides the instructor with options for allowing or constraining students recording courses for personal use, while addressing students with formal accommodations through OARS.
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"You may not audio or video record this course without my express written permission or that of the Office Accessibility Resources & Services (OARS). If you have requested the use of assistive technology as an accommodation and completed the OARS Welcome Form, please let me know if you plan to record this course. Remember that authorized student-initiated recordings must be used only for your learning and education, while you are enrolled in this course. If you make a recording available to anyone, in any fashion, including posting online or through other media without my express written consent, the case will be forwarded to the Office of Students Rights & Responsibilities as a violation of the Student Code of Conduct."
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New Opportunity with ACUE and Project Kitty Hawk
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In partnership with Project Kitty Hawk & Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), the UNC System offers faculty a new self-paced course, Effective Teaching 101: Starting the Semester Strong, which is designed to equip faculty with a set of powerful, evidence-based teaching practices to help them start their semester off on the right foot.
This course will help online or face-to-face faculty:
- Actively engage students starting day one
- Set a positive tone for the semester
- Build immediate rapport with their students
- Clarify course expectations
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Use classroom assessment techniques to monitor student learning
Space is limited. Complete the interest form today!
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| New date due to inclement weather.
Please share with Students: This resource fair has been designed to support students and their families with planning for a successful spring semester during uncertain times. Thank you for all you do each day to promote UNCG's Culture of Care to our students.
Have a Plan Resources Fair
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 6-8pm
Elliott University Center Auditorium and Pre-Function Lobby
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Course Accessibility Checklists and Support
Updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires that all campus digital content (public facing websites, digital course materials, digital campus resources – including campus trainings) meet the WCAG 2.1 (level A and level AA) standards for accessibility by spring 2026.
UNCG has several campus resources that you can utilize now to make the transition easier, with more tools and resources on the way.
| Drop-In Adjunct Support Hour
The UTLC is pleased to announce that it will be offering a drop-in support hour for adjunct instructors every Tuesday from 12pm - 1pm (Teams link) started March 18th through the beginning of May. This time is meant to be drop-in for questions or just connecting with the UTLC and other adjunct instructors.
This time may not fit in your schedule! Please don't forget that consultations are available to all UNCG faculty and staff with teaching responsibilities, and we're also available at utlc@uncg.edu.
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FACULTY ENGAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
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Upcoming Events, Training, and Workshops
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Workshop: Teaching Effectiveness: Peer Review
This Workshop will focus on current models and rubrics for peer review that may serve as a template or starting place for units-level processes as part of the UNCG Teaching Effectiveness Policy . The models presented were created by decades-long, multi-institutional studies on the evaluation of teaching and learning. RSVP at the link above!
In the Faculty Center
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Workshop: Teaching Effectiveness: Beyond Teaching Evaluations
This Workshop will focus on alternative inputs for evaluating teaching effectiveness (e.g., student work products, course reviews, mid-semester student feedback, etc.). Using national models created by decades-long, multi-institutional studies on the evaluation of teaching and learning, this workshop will assist in the development of unit-level processes as part of the UNCG Teaching Effectiveness Policy which is pending final approval by the UNC System, and was developed by an institutional work group. RSVP at the link above!
In the Faculty Center
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TEACHING EVALUATION PILOT
UNCG is administering a pilot of a new teaching evaluation system. The pilot and the current system (Class Climate) will run in parallel for two years; when the Class Climate contract expires, administration will make a decision about which or neither system to keep.
Anthology uses research validated common questions, along with offering units the chance to add custom questions. It’s mobile friendly, which may increase response rates. You can see more information here: Evaluation of Teaching Pilot Project.pptx
If you are interested in participating in the Summer or Fall 2025 or Spring 2026 Cohorts, please click the button below to fill out the interest form.
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