Past Events
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Scheduled
Date and time: Feb. 3, 2023, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Location:CTL Lab (PCL 3.349)
These special events provide an introduction to the fundamentals of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), explore key questions to guide SOTL projects, and feature UT students and faculty engaged in SOTL and who are current/potential campus leaders in this area.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Feb. 2, 2023, 3 to 3:45 p.m.
Location:CTL Lab (PCL 3.349)
This book discussion series about Ungrading (Blum) will provide you an opportunity to explore with fellow faculty how grading influences learning and discuss effective ways of assessing student work.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Feb. 1, 2023, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.
Location:Online
This book discussion series about Ungrading (Blum) will provide you an opportunity to explore with fellow faculty how grading influences learning and discuss effective ways of assessing student work.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Jan. 27, 2023, 1 to 2 p.m.
Location:Online
This informal discussion centers UT students’ perspectives on ChatGPT. Students will share their perceptions and questions regarding the tool and its applications within and outside of the classroom. Panelists will also discuss what they want UT instructors and staff to know about their concerns and feelings around ChatGPT, and will begin to collaboratively imagine possibilities for a future in education that considers its role and potential impacts.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Jan. 26, 2023, 3 to 3:45 p.m.
Location:CTL Lab (PCL 3.349)
This book discussion series about Ungrading (Blum) will provide you an opportunity to explore with fellow faculty how grading influences learning and discuss effective ways of assessing student work.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Jan. 25, 2023, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Learn the characteristics of an effective teaching statement —including what search committees look for —and begin drafting/refining your statement to vibrantly convey your teaching values and the instructional choices you make to help students achieve learning goals.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Jan. 25, 2023, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.
Location:Online
This book discussion series about Ungrading (Blum) will provide you an opportunity to explore with fellow faculty how grading influences learning and discuss effective ways of assessing student work.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Jan. 20, 2023, noon to 12:30 p.m.
Location:Online
2022-23 Teaching Innovation Grant (TIG) recipients explain to fellow faculty what they did, what they learned, and how you to use the ideas in your own classes.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Jan. 20, 2023, noon to 1:30 p.m.
In this workshop, participants will learn the basic outline of a lesson and practice creating these steps for their own teaching material: the objective, introduction, activity, wrap-up, and assessment. We will dwell on the “activity” stage to discuss scaffolding techniques. Finally, participants will brainstorm assessment methods to check if their lesson plans were successful. Instructors will leave with a useable lesson plan for their classrooms.
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Jan. 19, 2023, 2 to 3 p.m.
PTF Monthly Meetings are for current and alumni Fellows to come together for updates, discuss new ideas, and hear about second-year PTF projects-in-process. These meetings occur throughout the academic year from September through May. PTF Monthly Meetings are open to current Fellows, Alumni Fellows, and some invited guests.