Spring 2021 Special Events

Spring Forward: Transformational Teaching Practices that Support Students’ Success

Last spring, the global pandemic forced many universities and colleges to abruptly close their campuses and pivot to remote learning. Since then, faculty have worked tirelessly to adapt, innovate, and evolve their teaching practices to support their students’ success and build inclusive learning spaces. Guided by recent research and best practices, Dr. Lisa Hanasono will present a collection of transformational teaching practices that will help faculty spring forward into the new semester, promote inclusive excellence, and support students’ success. 

Communicating Inclusivity: Workshopping Classroom Activities and Assignments

Are you interested in designing more inclusive classroom activities and assignments? In this interactive workshop, Dr. Hanasono will provide a set of practical principles, tips, and strategies for creating more inclusive activities and assignments. In addition to receiving several sample activities and assignments, you will have an opportunity to develop or adapt an activity or assignment that could be useful in your own courses.

Come play a game with us! We will demonstrate a variety of easy-to-build online learning games that will engage your students and reinforce critical course learning and content review. We provide a full step-by-step for each tool and will give you opportunities to brainstorm your own games for your courses.

This session offers guidance and advice on setting consistent course policies and expectations, how to access services for students as issues crop up, addressing attendance issues, and/or circumventing issues of academic honesty. The conversation will allow for individual questions and discussion on your courses and students.

In this session, faculty will share their approaches to teaching and adapting courses for multiple modalities.

How can we engage students in an online environment? In this workshop, we will discuss some active learning strategies and collaborative learning tools to promote student engagement in an online asynchronous or synchronous environment. 

In this session, participants will become familiar with using advanced features in Zoom including managing breakout rooms, and polls. 

Whether you are new to Canvas or not, there may be tricks that you were unaware of or possibilities in teaching your course that you have not considered. This presentation will showcase some of the features within Canvas that can take your Canvas skills to the next level.

What are some of the ways we can build interesting and engaging assessments? In this workshop, we will discuss the benefits of designing authentic assessments, tools that we can allow students to use to demonstrate their understanding of the content we teach (outside of the typical quiz or paper), and ways we can develop rubrics that can aid us in communicating our grading expectations.