I know this year is already starting off with sadness in our beautiful state and there are many in our community impacted by the Marshall Fire. There's been such an outpouring of support that donation centers are reporting they can no longer house all the physical donations. However, there are ways to provide other support for our fellow Coloradans .
With everything happening in the world, the country, Colorado, and with the teaching, research, and service trifecta (or coursework and comps for graduate instructors) I know it can be difficult to think about adding something extra to your workload. So, this post isn’t pushing you to do anything but just letting you know that there are CETL workshops and events this semester if you have the time and capacity to participate. Where we can, we will record and share these opportunities so that you can watch as you find the time.
Preparing for Inclusive Teaching Series
Through the frameworks of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) this series will prepare you to embrace an inclusive teaching practice. You will begin the personal work of interrogating your personal identities and (re)consider syllabus and course delivery through an inclusive lens. You will leave this series with practical tools and a plan for continuing your personal work in equity and inclusion and sustaining your inclusive teaching practice.
We have moved the Inclusive Teaching Series (mostly) online and will record each session so that you can watch on demand at a time that best first your schedule.
Deaf Culture Series (hybrid delivery)
CETL is partnering with the Disability Resource Center to host a four-part series on deaf culture and working with interpreters. By attending these workshops, you will learn about deaf culture, understand Audism and its impacts, and learn best practices for working with interpreters and communicating with deaf individuals. Each workshop includes 15 minutes of basic sign language instruction. Workshops will be hybrid and folks may attend online or in-person. Sessions will be recorded. All workshops are presented by Justin "Bucky" Buckhold, founder of Linguabee.
New Learning Community
We are hosting one new learning community this spring – Teaching Climate Change Across the Disciplines. Through this learning community participants will explore ways to weave climate change themes into a range of diverse disciplines in a way that is seamless and works to enrich existing course content.
Scholar Spotlight
February 2, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join Dr. Jean Kirshner for a discussion of the work between classroom teachers in Colorado and Belize, Central America, which is described in recently published Routledge title, “Decolonizing Transcultural Teacher Education through Participatory Action Research.” It describes our collective journey in becoming vulnerable to each other. In the spaces of each other’s “life worlds”, that is, each other’s classrooms, homes, and communities, we were able to co-create new spaces for our identities.
March 3, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
What truly decides someone's experience on our teams? How do we know when we've made a good hire? What factors determine the success of someone within a role? Join Dr. Janine Weaver-Douglas to explore the concept of environmental ethics in the context of how we recruit, select, train & develop professional staff leaders, via the Plant Theory. We examine how the conditions of environment, the application of resources & existing underlying beliefs come into play when it comes to evaluating staff performance.
Teaching & Assessment Symposium
March 22 - 23, 2022
Mark your calendars for the 2022 Teaching & Assessment Symposium! During this 2-day
event we recognize and celebrate the work faculty and staff are doing to support student
learning at UNC. We are offering both in-person and virtual sessions. Tuesday, March
22 will be in-person and Wednesday, March 23 will be virtual.
We will have two keynote speakers. Dr. Emily Holt, UNC’s Sears Helgoth Teaching Award
winner and Dr. Mays Imad, a Gardner Institute Fellow and an AAC&U Senior Fellow within
the Office of Undergraduate STEM Education.
Submit a Proposal for the 2022 Symposium!
Are you doing something cool in your classroom to engage students? Have you done something to enhance and increase student achievement? Do you have ideas to share about teaching or assessment? Did you try something and fail, but learned something people should know about supporting UNC students? Have you implemented changes in a program or event that has benefited students? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should submit a proposal for the 2022 Teaching and Assessment Symposium!
