Center for Teaching & Learning

In this workshop we will help you reflect on your teaching and and share current research on teaching practices such as Kuh's High Impact Practices and Universal Design for Learning.

Check-in with colleagues in an informal, supportive conversation about the unique challenges of managing a pandemic semester with individual choices shaped by systemic barriers. We’ll share strategies for navigating these challenges in what can feel like an impossible semester using a supportive structure inspired by what we know about effective teaching.

Continuing and Distance Education’s Summer Online Teaching Boot Camp is a 2-week practical training in designing, building and teaching an online asynchronous course specifically for the accelerated summer format.  You will learn the nuts and bolts of online course creation, tips and tricks to make Blackboard work for you, and key strategies to make your course dynamic, challenging, and engaging for both you and your students.

Join us to reflect on our three semesters of experience with teaching writing-intensive mixed and remote courses. We’ll consider what worked for and challenged us and our students, what working remotely has taught us about teaching writing in the disciplines, and what questions or strategies we might carry forward.

During this workshop we discuss the value of articulating a personal teaching philosophy and important elements to include in your statement.

This workshop explores ways you can tweak your approaches to grading and responding to written student work. With an eye to reducing your stress and workload while increasing clarity and effectiveness, we'll explore a variety of practical grading tips. Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington

This workshop helps helps faculty reimagine their courses without barriers to learning. Faculty will learn strategies for removing obstacles to learning and promoting participation from all students. We’ll identify what prevents students from succeeding in a given course, options for removing barriers to desired outcomes, and course design that support an inclusive learning environment.

UVM welcomes Dr. Kamilah Majied, Professor of Social Work, California State University, Monterey Bay, contemplative practitioner and inclusivity/equity consultant to speak about attending to healing and how contemplative pedagogy can guide anti-racist course and curricula development and inform inclusive teaching practice.

This session offers a space for collective reflection on our teaching during the pandemic: making sense of how it has affected us and identifying what we hope to bring with us (or let go of) to be successful teachers moving forward with a more “normal” fall semester.

YellowDig is an alternative to Blackboard’s discussion board tool. In this session, you will learn about YellowDig’s features and Blackboard integration (e.g., no additional logging in, participation data transfer to gradebook if desired). Participants will leave the workshop able to decide whether YellowDig or Blackboard best serves their course goals.