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Graduate Student Professional Development Fair - February 20
All grad students are invited to the 3rd Annual Professional Development Fair for Graduate Students! Learn about services and resources to help you build skills for success in graduate school and beyond. Need a professional head shot? Stop by anytime during the fair to have your picture taken and receive a free web resolution image.Look here for more information about the Professional Development Fair.
Make sure you stop by CITL's table to learn about our teaching certificates and other professional development opportunities.
Invited Special Guest Presenter - February 21!
Todd Taylor, Eliason Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be giving a special workshop in advance of theannual Faculty Retreat.Bring your laptop and set-up your Adobe Spark login (no cost, nothing to download) to join in a friendly hands-on competition to create a well designed, pedagogically innovative, multimodal assignment prompt. Prizes for best prompt in each discipline, best overall design, and best first-time web designer. This workshop will enable us to practice what we are preaching about transformative pedagogies and leave with a tangible, shareable assignment prompt.See the calendar entry for more information and to register.
TA Reading Groups Starting for Spring
How do the best college teachers teach? Find out by reading Ken Bain'sWhat the Best College Teachers Doalong with fellow TAs and a CITL facilitator. Meetings will be arranged to fit your schedule and participation will count towards the teaching certificates.Sign up for a reading group by following this link- you will be matched up with other TAs and a facilitator with similar availability.
Drop-In Data Consulting Services
Drop-in data consulting services are up and running this semester. Consultants can help you locate quantitative data to meet your courses objectives. See our schedule:http://go.illinois.edu/Surveystatsdata,or schedule an appointmentcitl-data@illinois.edu.
Workshop on Creating Inclusive Materials for Students with Visual Disabilities - March 5
Most instructors know they should make their course materials accessible to all students, but they don’t know how. We can help! Back by popular demand,Creating Inclusive Materials for Students with Visual Disabilitieswill be offeredon March 5 in room 428 Armory from 10:00 – 11:30am.This is afun and interactive workshopwhereyou’ll learn easy ways to modify documents, power points, and other course content and make them better for all learners, especially those with visual disabilities. Experience your course in a new way, and learn skills you can use in any program or teaching situation. Bring your laptop and course content to work on and be preparedto download cool apps. All other handouts and resources provided.See the calendar entry to register.
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Want to see what workshops and events are coming later in the semester?Look at our full calendar for more information.
Tuesday, February 19
EPI Workshop, Session 3: Learn strategies for answering open-ended questions
5:30 P.M. - 6:45 P.M., room 428,Armory
Speakers: Anita Greenfield, John Kotnarowski
Wednesday, February 20
The Power of Presentations: Enhancing your Slides for Teaching and Engagement
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M., room 172,Armory (Innovation Studio)
Speaker: Jamie Nelson (CITL)
Wednesday, February 20
Jr. Faculty Teaching Series #3: Creating a Promising Syllabus to Motivate Learning
11:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M., room 428,Armory
Speaker: Cheelan Bo-Linn (CITL)
Thursday, February 21
Encouraging Student Motivation through Authentic Activities
10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M., room 428,Armory
Speaker: Tyler Pack (CITL Graduate Affiliate)
Thursday, February 21
Hands-On Teaching and Learning with Adobe Spark, Audition, and Premiere Rush
1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M., Armory Building, room 428
Speaker: Todd Taylor
Tuesday, February 26
Responding to Student Writing
2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M., room 428,Armory
Speaker: Caroloyn Wisniewski (Writer's Workshop)
Tuesday, February 26
Remix Your Assignments: Student-Centered Remixes Across Genres, Across Disciplines
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., room 172,Armory (Innovation Studio)
Speaker: Robert Baird (CITL)
Wednesday, February 27
EPI Workshop, Session 4: Practice completing sample EPIs; set goals for oral English improvement; learn about resources you can use to improve your English skills
5:30 P.M. - 6:45 P.M., room 428,Armory
Speakers: Anita Greenfield, John Kotnarowski
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Technical training does not count for workshop hours towards theGraduate Teacher Certificateor theCertificate in Foundations of Teaching, but may count towards theCertificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching.
Tuesday, February 19
CITL Statistics, Data, and Survey Research Workshop Series - SPSS I: Getting Started with SPSS
5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M., Foreign Languages Building, room G8A
Wednesday, February 20
CITL Statistics, Data, and Survey Research Workshop Series - SAS I: Getting Started with SAS
5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M., Foreign Languages Building, room G8A
Thursday, February 21
Hands-On Teaching and Learning with Adobe Spark, Audition, and Premiere Rush
1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M., Armory Building, room 428
Speaker: Todd Taylor
Tuesday, February 26
CITL Statistics, Data, and Survey Research Workshop Series - SPSS II: Inferential Statistics with SPSS
5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M., Foreign Languages Building, room G8A
Wednesday, February 27
Emerging Tech Hands-on: 3D Scanning
3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M., TechHub (Armory Building Room 151A)
Speakers: Jamie Nelson (CITL) and Lisette Chapa (CITL)
Wednesday, February 27
CITL Statistics, Data, and Survey Research Workshop Series - SAS II: Inferential Statistics with SAS
5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M., Foreign Languages Building, room G8A
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Training Opportunities Across Campus
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Want to see what training opportunitiesexistacross campus? Though they don't count for CITL certificate credit, they can help you develop important technical and professional skills.Look at the Illinois Staff Training Calendar for more information.Also check outthe Savvy Researcher Series,andGraduate College Events.
Thursday, February 21
Effective Presentation Visuals
3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., room 106B1, Engineering Hall
Sponsor: Graduate College Career Development
Monday, February 25
Using Multimedia in your Research
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M., room 314, Main Library
Sponsor: University Library - Scholarly Commons
Tuesday, February 26
Do You Know Your Fair Use Rights?
1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M., room 314, Main Library
Sponsor: University Library - Scholarly Commons
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Hitting Pause - 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning
If we slip into a colleague’s classroom, we see a lot of what Jensen (2008) calls “nonstop learning” (p. 220), which is when teachers talk and there are no pauses for students to interact with what they are hearing. This is what we observe: The teacher is in the front of the room at the podium, PowerPoint slides are up on the screen, and the only break occurs when the instructor momentarily stops explaining and asks a question. If anyone responds, usually a student near the front of the room answers before anyone else has a chance to think of an answer. If instructors who think that their students are actively engaged because one person has come up with an answer to a question could observe their classrooms from the back of the room, they might notice that many of their students are looking at e-mail, texting on their mobile phones, and not paying attention. Students might wish that there was a pause button connected to their college professors.How helpful it would be if their instructors recognized the need to stop talking occasionally so that learners could rewind, take a moment to check for understanding, and prepare to continue.
How Good Are Your Discussion Facilitation Skills?
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