Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
The National Survey of Student Engagement: Using UVM Student Data To Inform Teaching
Microsoft TeamsUVM has administered the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) every three years since 2005, but the survey and its data have not previously been shared in faculty-to-faculty conversations about teaching practices. The role of this session is to introduce faculty to the survey and most recent set of findings in order to gather initial impressions of the data and its potential uses for faculty.
Tips for Conducting a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Literature Review
Microsoft TeamsThis session will provide tips and strategies for navigating educational literature in preparation for a SoTL project. The session will be led by Dan DeSanto, Library Associate Professor, who will provide an introduction to searching with the ERIC database as well as other tools to begin SOTL literature review work. To help jumpstart searching, participants will be afforded search time with their own topics of interest and will leave with a plan for moving forward with their literature search.
WID Institute for Course and Assignment Design
Microsoft TeamsThe WID Institute returns with a redesigned, 3-day format (May 17-19) emphasizing course planning in the context of UVM’s new general education program, the Catamount Core. During the Institute, you’ll create or revise a course with smart, sustainable plans for assignments that support your writing and information-literacy goals. By the end of the Institute, you’ll have a quality course-assignment-activities plan, and you’ll have a clear vision of how you want to guide your students.
Climate Wisdom Lab: Future-scaping
RemoteThe stories we live in shape our energy, agency, and purpose. This session combats powerlessness and despair by identifying assumptions about social change, and fostering new personal and collective stories that can support active engagement and thriving in times of rapid social and ecological change.
Obtaining IRB Approval to Conduct SoTL Research
Microsoft TeamsThis session, led by Dr. Ted Marcy, IRB Chair of the Committee on Human Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, will provide information that you can use to adequately protect the rights of students as research participants, apply for the appropriate study designation from the IRB, and obtain IRB approval in a timely manner.
Focus Group: Follow-Up on Dr. McGuire’s Metacognition Workshops
Microsoft TeamsThis session is for people who attended or watched one or more of Dr. McGuire’s metacognition workshops. We are eager to hear about your reactions to Dr. McGuire’s workshops and any thoughts and experiences you can share about incorporating metacognitive practices in your work and teaching. This will help as we consider future programming and support the Center for Teaching & Learning and the Tutoring Center can offer.
Climate Wisdom Lab: Change-Vision-Action
RemoteThis is an open-ended workshop to surface essential challenges, prioritize breakthrough leverage points, cultivate a desire for the future, and create a personal (or collective, depending on the setting) plan of action.
Using an Interactive Syllabus to Engage & Communicate with Students
Microsoft TeamsIt can be difficult to make static documents, such as syllabi, feel motivating, collaborative, and developmental for students. “Interactive” syllabi can transform the way you not only share information with students but build relationships with them, using a simple survey. During the workshop, we’ll explore several options, both thematically and technologically, for using an interactive syllabus, including starting from a template to reduce your workload.
Perusall: A Social Reader and Annotation Tool
Microsoft TeamsPerusall is a collaborative annotation tool that integrates with Blackboard (meaning no separate login is needed). Students can engage with a variety of course materials (readings, videos, podcasts, websites, student-generated documents)—in whole-class or in small groups—to collectively react, question, and discuss. This workshop will blend an overview, hands-on experience with the software, and guidance for use.
The Power of Transparent Assignment Design
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop presents an overview of Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (TILT), an award-winning, scholarly project focused on improving students’ learning experiences. In this workshop, we’ll share examples and a simple framework for transparent assignment design—Purpose, Task, Criteria. You’ll be able to start the groundwork to “TILT” two of your own assignments.
Project-Based Learning Primer
This session introduces you to project-based learning via a participatory exercise, illustrating the design and scaffolding of a student project experience. Working in small groups, we will work through the initial steps of a project and reflect on its educational design and strategies. This workshop is facilitated by Dr. Kristin Wobbe, director of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Project-Based Learning.
Planning Your TAP Course
302 Howe Memorial 302 Howe Memorial LibraryPlanning Your TAP Course workshop offers a one-day, in-person experience focused specifically on the TAP program. We’ll look at how the TAP program has evolved now that CAS has professional advisors, reflect on the four FWIL (Foundational Writing and Information Literacy) outcomes to see how your course assignments and activities can prepare students for further writing adventures, and think about how to construct assignments that are meaningful for first-year students in your course context.
Project-Based Learning: Strategies for Successful Teamwork
One of project-based learning’s key benefits and challenges comes from using team-based projects. In this session we will share and use tools that reduce stereotyping and bias on student teams, resulting in more effective and equitable teaming. Participants will begin a guided process of developing projects for their own classes, and the session will conclude with the group identifying remaining challenges and brainstorming solutions to these challenges. This workshop is facilitated by Dr. Kristin Wobbe, director of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Project-Based Learning.
Making Your Syllabus Work for You and Your Students
Microsoft TeamsA well-designed syllabus is more than a way to explain your course to students. A good syllabus thoughtfully connects your assignments, activities, and assessments to course goals, thus preparing you for more effective and efficient grading through the semester.
Introduction to Blackboard
Microsoft TeamsIn this workshop, we'll introduce Blackboard and its basic functions such as posting materials and using communication tools.
Making Your Syllabus Work for You and Your Students
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomA well-designed syllabus is more than a way to explain your course to students. A good syllabus thoughtfully connects your assignments, activities, and assessments to course goals, thus preparing you for more effective and efficient grading through the semester.
Perusall: A Social Reader and Annotation Tool
Microsoft TeamsPerusall is a collaborative annotation tool that integrates with Blackboard (meaning no separate login is needed). In this workshop, we'll show how students can engage with a variety of course materials (readings, videos, podcasts, websites, student-generated documents)—in whole-class or in small groups—to collectively react, question, and discuss.
Demystifying WIL2
Microsoft TeamsWondering what the Catamount Core’s new WIL2 requirement is all about? This short session will offer a brief overview of this new curricular option focused on writing and information literacy in a disciplinary context. We’ll spend most of our time on participants’ questions and comments.
You Don’t Have to Grade Like That! Exploring Grading Alternatives
Microsoft TeamsThis session provides an overview of ways UVM colleagues have challenged traditional grading systems in order to change classroom and power dynamics, improve student outcomes, and make grading more efficient. Join us to learn about their experiences.
Fall Faculty Groups “Teaser” Session
Microsoft TeamsIf you enjoy meeting with faculty colleagues for discussion and exploration of teaching ideas, you might be interested in participating in one of several faculty groups hosted by the CTL and/or WID this fall. In this short "teaser" session we'll briefly introduce our groups, focusing on...