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The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Graduate Office will conduct the 2017 IUPUI TA Orientation on Thursday, August 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the IT Building. Graduate students anticipating to be first-time teaching assistants in Fall 2017 or Spring 2018 are encouraged to register for and attend the TA Orientation. Attendees will learn more about IUPUI policies and procedures and be equipped with basic tools and strategies to successfully start their teaching responsibilities at IUPUI. Click here to view the schedule and register for the 2017 IUPUI TA Orientation.
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Are you a new or returning Associate Faculty member at IUPUI or IUPUC? (Sometimes Associate Faculty are called part-time faculty or part-time lecturers.) If so, you are invited to the Associate Faculty Teaching Forum. This event provides an opportunity to engage in forum-style conversations with your associate faculty colleagues and consultants at the Center for Teaching Learning (CTL) about teaching and technology challenges encountered in the classroom or online. The event will be held at IUPUI's CTL. Read more..
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The CTL can now provide support for migrating Adobe Presenter files off of the Adobe Connect server. There are a few different options on how to migrate the content. Learn more about the Adobe Connect Retirement.
Click here to fill out a form and we can see how best to help.
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The QM workshop introduces faculty and staff to the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric and to the QM Process. Quality Matters is a nationally recognized quality assurance organization for online course design, and the QM Process is a faculty-led peer review process that uses the research-based standards (criteria) of the QM Rubric to certify online courses.
In-person QM workshops will be offered on the following dates. Each workshop will be from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. To register for an event or for more information, click on the dates listed below.
| Wednesday, July 19, UL 1130 |
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Friday, August 11, IT 121 |
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Friday, September 8, UL 1130 |
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Monday, October 16, UL 1130 |
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Friday, November 17, UL 1130 |
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Wednesday, December 20, UL 1130 |
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
Note: Participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop to receive QM certificate.
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Thursday, July 6 | 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer(s): Kimmaree Murday and Presenter(s): Sarah Hammond
This webinar is provided by IU Top Hat representative, Sarah Hammond, in partnership with IT Training.
After a university-wide pilot, Top Hat has been selected as Indiana University’s new student response system. TurningPoint Cloud will continue to be available for Spring and Summer 2017 terms, but will no longer be supported in Fall 2017.
Top Hat is an interactive, cloud-based teaching platform that enables instructors to engage students both inside and outside the classroom with compelling content and activities.
Note to Instructors: Prior to this session, please prepare by taking the steps below:
- Review this provided Top Hat Overview page
- Create your account by following the steps on this provided Indiana University - Single Sign-On Account Setup page
If questions, please contact Sarah Hammond (sarah.hammond@tophatmonocle.com)
What you'll learn:
- Use Top Hat to take attendance
- Use Top Hat to ask interactive questions with automated grading
- Use Top Hat to facilitate open-ended discussions and activities
- Use Top Hat's seamless integration with Canvas to update Top Hat rosters and send Top Hat grades to the Canvas gradebook
Note: This workshop is also scheduled for the following date:
• Monday, July 10, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Thursday, July 13 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer(s): Doug Jerolimov and Presenter(s): Doug Jerolimov, Richard Turner A teaching philosophy presents a faculty member’s articulation of the experiences and beliefs that shape his or her teaching and learning strategies. Often used as part of a job application, a promotion/tenure dossier, or a teaching award nomination, a teaching philosophy captures a teacher’s values and aspirations in teaching. Webinar participants will begin to draft a teaching philosophy; some may continue developing their draft.
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Thursday, July 20 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer(s): Doug Jerolimov and Presenter(s): Doug Jerolimov, Richard Turner
Faculty and graduate students: interested in documenting your teaching successes for a promotion dossier? Or for a job, award, or grant application? The session introduces different approaches to capture evidence of teaching and learning, and to make the case for your teaching achievements. Learn how to shape and document your evolution as a teacher through the use of student course evaluations, peer reviews of teaching and, especially, through ways to measure your student learning.
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Making Academic Change Happen is an interactive, participant-focused workshop to explore the processes and approaches necessary to introduce, promote and implement innovative programs.
This COLLABORATIVE retreat will help you communicate your good work, garner support for your academic ideas, and provide tools to make an impact on your program, school, and campus!
Bring a team! Build solutions! Workshop facilitators are from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
For more information, contact Kate Thedwall, kthedwal@iupui.edu
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The 22nd annual FACET Associate Faculty and Lecturer Conference (FALCON) will be held November 3 - 4, 2017. This years topic if Exploring the Future of TEaCHing: Innovative TECHniques in Higher Education. The Call for Proposals date have been extended to June 30th. Registration and information can be found at:
https://facet.iu.edu/programs-events/falcon/2017. To send your Call for Proposal, click here to
SUBMIT.
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Miyake, A., Kost-Smith, L. E., Finkelstein, N. D., Pollock, S. J., Cohen, G. L., & Ito, T. A. (2010). Reducing the gender achievement gap in college science: A classroom study of values affirmation. Science, 330(6008), 1234-1237. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6008/1234.full
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