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Jan 31, 2025

Jan 31, 2025

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This interdisciplinary group will read The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching by Elizabeth A. Norell. Norell explores how stress and insecurities may hold instructors back and suggests strategies for bringing authenticity and presence to our work. Meets from 2 to 3 p.m. on Feb. 14, Feb. 18, March 14, March 28, and April 11. Apply by Friday, Jan. 31. Interested in reading more about teaching and learning? Check out the center’s Jean C. Florman Honorary Lending Lib...

Feb 7, 2025

Feb 7, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Join the Center for Teaching for this workshop focused on exploring concrete strategies to build a positive classroom environment through valuing students' experiences. Originally offered at New TA Orientation 2024, this popular workshop will be reprised by co-facilitators Jamie Chen (English) and Greg Wickenkamp (History). The Center for Teaching advocates for effective, evidence-based, scholarly teaching and acts as a collaborative partner in sparking and shaping conversations about highe...

Feb 24, 2025

Feb 24, 2025

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Featuring special guest Dr. Susannah McGowan (Georgetown University), we will explore strategies for taking a scholarly approach to teaching and learning. Together, we will generate inquiries about how our students learn, develop pathways to answer those questions, and reflect on opportunities to share our work beyond the classroom. The Center for Teaching advocates for effective, evidence-based, scholarly teaching and acts as a collaborative partner in sparking and shaping conversations ab...

Mar 12, 2025

Mar 12, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

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Join Graduate Teaching Fellow Emily Wieder (French and Italian) in a teaching demonstration showcasing the pedagogical potential of Iowa’s superpowered TILE classrooms. Participants will become TILE-enabled. The Center for Teaching advocates for effective, evidence-based, scholarly teaching and acts as a collaborative partner in sparking and shaping conversations about higher education. Our work ranges from advancing excellence in teaching and learning at an organizational level to supporti...

Mar 21, 2025

Mar 21, 2025

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Graduate students and post-docs from all disciplines can register for this series to learn about teaching as research, develop their own projects, and earn CIRTL Practitioner Level certification. This six-part series will meet online on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. beginning March 26. Over the course of these sessions, you will learn to use your disciplinary research skills to develop a research question relating to teaching and propose a project that would allow you to investigate this q...

May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025

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Applications for the Center for Teaching's Course Design Institute are due by Friday, March 28. Apply online. The Course Design Institute is a multi-day, in-person workshop for instructors who wish to design, redesign, or revise a course.  Instructors accepted into the institute will use evidence-based strategies to create equitable and integrated courses, align course learning goals with assessments and activities, and be able to demonstrate their course structure through their syllabus. ...

Aug 11, 2025

Aug 11, 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Learn how to design assignments leveraging the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework, which a growing body of evidence indicates improves students’ learning experiences and creates more equitable courses. This casual retreat will include dedicated time and space for participants to plan assignments. Register online The Center for Teaching advocates for effective, evidence-based, scholarly teaching and acts as a collaborative partner in sparking and shaping conversations ab...