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  • SCHEDULE A WORKSHOP

    CITL offers 90-minute workshops for any instructional group on campus, such as faculty members at department meetings and graduate student instructor and teaching assistant groups. All CITL workshops are applicable to any discipline and draw from the teaching experience and expertise of the participants.

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INCLUSIVITY

INCLUSIVE TEACHING

This workshop focuses on building learning environments that promote equitable access to the skills and knowledge students need to succeed in their classes, and that utilize the strengths students bring to the classroom. Leave with several concrete practices that are known, from recent higher education research, to promote inclusivity—ranging from techniques that can be implemented immediately to ideas for re-designing the curriculum at the assignment or course level.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING

An educational framework that takes a proactive approach to accessibility, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is rooted in a commitment to equitable learning for students with disabilities, and is known to enhance learning for all students. The workshop invites participants to explore the framework in relation to their design of course curricula, assignments, and syllabi, as well as to their delivery of accessible content.

SUPPORTING MULTILINGUAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Beginning from the foundational notion that every student will have a different relationship to the dominant classroom language and culture, this workshop invites instructor teams to consider how classroom communication, assignments, and methods of providing feedback on student work can be attentive to and inclusive of linguistic and cultural differences.

SUPPORTING STUDENTS FACING ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL CHALLENGES

This workshop provides resources for supporting students who may be facing a range of challenges—such as mental health concerns—that might inhibit their academic success, and initiates collective conversation about instructor teams as “first responders” and developing supportive teaching practices and course policies.

STUDENT LEARNING

RUBRICS AND ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENT LEARNING

In this workshop, participants explore rubrics as tools for aligning expectations about students’ proficiencies, for inviting students to reflect on their learning and evaluate how they can improve, and for developing a shared classroom language about learning particular proficiencies and skills. Participants have the opportunity to workshop and develop rubrics related their own teaching contexts. Currently facilitated by faculty in the Writing Program.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Drawing from current research on academic integrity, including research conducted with UC Santa Cruz students, this workshop focuses on developing classroom cultures that value academic integrity. Workshop activities support instructors to develop effective approaches to addressing academic integrity with their students, and to craft or revise assignments that encourage academic integrity.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY FOR ENGINEERS

Drawing from current research in academic integrity in engineering fields, this workshop is designed with the particular teaching contexts of the Baskin School of Engineering in mind. Participants explore methods for promoting academic integrity, especially for program-based assignments, and tools for both detecting and addressing academic dishonesty effectively.

PROMOTING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT WITH AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEMS

Audience response systems are known to improve learning and participation in courses, but there are some common pitfalls and best practices that can make or break their successful use in a course. This workshop covers evidence-based practices for integrating an audience response system (e.g. clickers) into your course. Participants discuss the technology, best practices for introducing these systems in your course, how to construct questions that will provide the best outcomes, how to minimize the associated work as the instructor, and effective practices for allocating points. Facilitated by Robin Dunkin, Assistant Teaching Professor in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

TEACHING TEAMS

DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE TEACHING TEAMS

In larger courses that employ Teaching Assistants (TAs), developing a cohesive teaching team is critical to creating the conditions for equitable and meaningful student learning. In this workshop, faculty and graduate student TAs work together to reflect on and clarify the distinctive roles of instructors of record and TAs in a teaching team setting in their particular teaching contexts, and share strategies for effective communication across multiple members of an instructional team.

MENTORING

MENTORING GRADUATE STUDENTS

Drawing from evidence-based practices promoted by the National Research Mentoring Network and the Center for Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, this workshop addresses the key mentorship capacities of effective communication, aligning expectations, developing a mentor philosophy, and addressing equity and inclusion. An instructional group can request a one-time 90-minute mentoring workshop or a series of three 90-minute workshops on core mentorship capacities.

INTENTIONAL, INCLUSIVE, & EFFECTIVE PEER MENTORSHIP

In in this interactive workshop, graduate student peer mentors explore tools and resources for several key competencies of effective mentoring of peers and near-peers, including: articulating clear expectations, creating strong communication pathways, identifying shared values, sustaining conversations about belongingness, attending to positionality and identity, practicing critical mentoring, and addressing impacts related to structural inequity, imposter syndrome, microaggressions, and implicit bias. The workshop can be tailored for graduate student mentors of peers (e.g. of early-career graduate students) and of undergraduate students. A popular workshop among graduate student-led peer mentoring organizations.

DOCUMENTING TEACHING

DOCUMENTING TEACHING FOR THE ACADEMIC PERSONNEL REVIEW PROCESS

This workshop supports faculty to develop their evidence of excellence in teaching to provide a holistic and representative picture of themselves as educators, both for the personnel review process and for formative self-reflection. Acknowledging the research on limitations of Student Experience of Teaching (SET) data, the workshop provides guidance both for using SET data and for developing additional methods of documenting teaching.

DEVELOPING A TEACHING STATEMENT AND PORTFOLIO

Designed for graduate students and post-docs, this interactive workshop offers tools for developing and refining a statement of teaching philosophy, including reflection activities, organizational tools, and tips for communicating effectively about how your teaching supports student learning. We'll also discuss the uses of teaching portfolios and methods for incorporating student experience of teaching (SET) survey data.

SCHEDULE

To schedule a workshop, contact us. Please provide a list of possible dates, estimated number of participants, and the amount of available time.

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