Events

Students and instructors feel more stress now than ever before. Join us to explore concrete, empirically-based strategies that support student mental health and well-being. We will discuss how you can reduce stress in your educational setting, including areas of course climate and belonging, pedagogical strategies, managing cognitive load, and planning your course policies in the future.

This session links learning-centered course design strategies to specific rhetorical and pedagogical practices for developing your course syllabus for its primary audience: learners. Through a mix of presentation, examples, and discussion, participants will work to shape a learning-centered syllabus as an accessible, inclusive, audience-aware, core course document.

Crafting engaging media has proven to enhance learning outcomes by increasing attention, comprehension and retention. It also increases appeal and motivation! So, how do you do it? Learn some of the major design principles, see examples, and hear faculty experiences of how engaging media has improved learning outcomes.

This session will introduce participants to strategies for designing and leading engaging classroom discussions.

​​This webinar situates discussions in the larger context of class climate and student belonging. We will share considerations and strategies for designing and facilitating large and small group discussions that promote learning and engagement.

Building flexibility into our courses is an important aspect of inclusive teaching. And identifying how to integrate flexibility into our courses can be challenging, given our disciplinary contexts and workloads. We want to center our students' learning, and the most manageable and effective approach to flexibility is not always clear. 

In this interactive session, participants will be introduced to frameworks related to flexibility in their approach to teaching. We will discuss ideas, examples, and tools related to planning course flexibility for accessibility. The first hour of our session will be recorded, and the final 30 minutes of our session will not be recorded to offer time for open discussion.

In this session, the presenters will introduce two University resources that will help you and your students have successful team project experiences. You'll learn how to set up a successful team project including the characteristics of an effective project, how to form groups, how to to scaffold the project, and how to evaluate the individuals and the group. You'll also learn how to support students so that they are able to do their best work and have an impactful and enjoyable experience.

In this short, timely workshop, participants will be introduced to a four-part framework to approach planning for AI and ChatGPT in their fall (and future) courses. Participants will leave this workshop with a concrete rationale and tools for deciding whether and how to implement AI tools like ChatGPT in their courses, and the facilitator will be available following the session for additional discussion and strategizing.

This session introduces participants to an inclusive teaching framework focused on the experiences of BIPOC students at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI). This basic framework focuses on understanding and addressing:
1) PWI practices
2) class climate
3) pedagogy
4) course content

Participants will learn about each aspect of the framework and some ideas for implementing basic strategies to make their courses more inclusive to BIPOC students as well as white students.

Designing and Delivering Online Learning will help you explore and make plans to implement effective pedagogical practices in your online courses. This four module seminar is open to faculty and instructors systemwide and will be delivered completely online, making use of Canvas activities and incorporating Zoom. The four Zoom meetings will be held on Thursdays from 3:30-4:30pm between September 28 and October 26.

As part of the Inclusive Teaching at a Predominantly White Institution Workshop Series, this 90-minute interactive workshop introduces basic pedagogical tools that instructors use for effective teaching and course design. After we explore distinctions between content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, we will use Bloom's Taxonomy as one tool to understand and apply Backwards Course Design principles. This workshop will introduce concepts that will be referenced throughout the workshop series.

This 6-workshop series explores inclusive teaching by focusing on racial and Indigenous dynamics. We will explore the context of the UMN as a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) and its implications for classroom climate, equitable pedagogy, diversifying course content, and equitable assessments. The first workshop on Pedagogy Basics will provide a refresher on tools and practices that will be referenced in the following workshops.

As part of the Inclusive Teaching at a Predominantly White Institution Workshop Series, this 90-minute interactive workshop will explore dynamics of race and Indigeneity at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) like the University of Minnesota. Participants will examine and reflect on foundational assumptions about teaching and learning using core concepts such as PWI, identity, positionality, and race and identity stressors, among others.

This 6-workshop series explores inclusive teaching by focusing on racial and Indigenous dynamics. We will explore the context of the UMN as a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) and its implications for classroom climate, equitable pedagogy, diversifying course content, and equitable assessments. The first workshop on Pedagogy Basics will provide a refresher on tools and practices that will be referenced in the following workshops.

Students and instructors feel more stress now than ever before. Join us to explore concrete, empirically-based strategies that support student mental health and well-being. We will discuss how you can reduce stress in your educational setting, including areas of course climate and belonging, pedagogical strategies, managing cognitive load, and planning your course policies in the future.

As part of the Inclusive Teaching at a Predominantly White Institution Workshop Series, we will examine the differential experiences of BIPOC students, using data and scenarios. Participants will explore strategies (proactive, ongoing, and "in the moment") that address racial and Indigenous dynamics of class climate. Participants will consider typical PWI frameworks as well as stereotype threat as a race stressor.

This 6-workshop series explores inclusive teaching by focusing on racial and Indigenous dynamics. We will explore the context of the UMN as a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) and its implications for classroom climate, equitable pedagogy, diversifying course content, and equitable assessments. The first workshop on Pedagogy Basics will provide a refresher on tools and practices that will be referenced in the following workshops.