Workshop & Professional Development Series
- TLI’s Areas of Excellence Workshop Series
- Lifelong Learning Book Club Learning Community
- Inclusive Teaching Learning Community
- Introduction to Online Teaching Seminar for Graduate Students and Postdocs
- CIRTL F.U.E.L.
- Check out CIRTL’s “Upcoming Events” webpage to sign up to participate in additional CIRTL offerings.
Series Information
This spring, we are offering insightful conversations around timely topics related to TLI’s Areas of Excellence. In this series, we will cover topics related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), student engagement, and experiential learning. We hope you will join us for these events.
All instructional staff (including graduate student instructor and TAs) are welcome to participate. Registration links can be found below.
TLI’s Areas of Excellence Workshop Series: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Let’s Get Started
February 6th| 12:00pm – 1:30 pm | Register for Zoom Link
- Are you interested in publishing on teaching and learning in your classes? Are you overhauling your curriculum, and interested in publishing on the process? This presentation is for you! We will begin with an overview of the scholarship of teaching and learning, and then embark on a hands-on process to help you develop and refine your ideas and plans.
TLI’s Areas of Excellence Workshop Series: How to Increase Student Engagement without Driving Yourself Crazy
February 20th| 12:00pm – 1:30 pm | Register for Zoom Link
- About: This session in our series brings together a panel of outstanding faculty to discuss how they foster student engagement. They will share their stories about how they developed their practice, offer suggestions regarding practice, and engage the participants through questions and dialogue.
TLI’s Areas of Excellence Workshop Series: Human Subjects Considerations for SoTL Projects (Co-Hosted by IRB Staff!)
Tuesday, March 5th | 12:00pm – 1:30 pm | Register for Zoom Link
- About: Join staff from the Institutional Review Board and faculty from across campus in a conversation about how to prepare an IRB application when conducting research on our teaching methods, a process also known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
TLI’s Areas of Excellence Workshop Series: Experiential Learning Workshop
Thursday, April 18th, 2024 | 2:00pm – 3:30 pm | Register for Zoom Link
- About: This workshop is designed to promote experiential learning opportunities by discussing the course designation system for service-learning, undergraduate research, and internships. During the workshop, guests will discuss the value of experiential learning courses, the process of applying for a course designation, and other relevant information.
TLI’s Areas of Excellence Workshop Series:
Better Teaching through Neurodivergence Inclusion: Supporting Students’ Executive Functioning
Thursday, April 4, 2024 | 11:15 am – 12:45 pm | Library 212
- About: This workshop will introduce attendees to the concept of “executive functioning,” an important category of cognitive processes involved in performing tasks that often need extra support in not just neurodivergent learners but neurotypical learners as well.
TLI’s Areas of Excellence Workshop Series:
Thoughtful Teaching with A.I.: A Craft Workshop for Busy Instructors
Option 1: Tuesday, April 16 and Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am | via Zoom (Register for link)
Option 2: Wednesday, April 17 and Friday, April 19, 2024 | 10:30 am – Noon | via Zoom (Register for link)
Click here to learn more about this event! (Coming soon!)
- About: Do you want to help students engage critically with GenAI in your courses? Join us in a two-part hands-on Zoom workshop, co-hosted by Teaching and Learning Innovation, Digital Learning, the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center, and the Office of Innovative Technologies (OIT). Click here to learn more!
UT Libraries, the Department of Psychology, and Teaching and Learning Innovation invite anyone from UT to participate in the Lifelong Learning Book Club this Spring 2024 semester. This is the first of two learning communities we will offer to the campus in spring
We will be reading The New College Classroom: A Practical Guide to the Future of College Teaching By Cathy Davidson & Christina Katapodis .
This book club aims to promote a community of support around lifelong learning for teachers and students alike. Faculty, staff, and students are all welcome!
To access the book and learn more about this workshop, visit The UTK Libraries Website. Registration links and meeting times can be found below.
As an added bonus, Christina Katapodis, co-author of the book and featured speaker at TLI’s Innovative Teaching and Learning Conference will join our book club for the closing session in April.
Lifelong Learning Book Club: Session 1
Wednesday, February 21st | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Register for Zoom Link
- About: This session will cover chapters 1-4.
Lifelong Learning Book Club: Session 2
Wednesday, March 20th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Register for Zoom Link
- About: This session will cover chapters 5-8.
Lifelong Learning Book Club: Session 3
Wednesday, April 17th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Register for Zoom Link
- About: This session will cover chapters 9-12.
Teaching & Learning Innovation will be hosting its second learning community for the spring focused on inclusive teaching practices.
The following topics will be discussed during our monthly meetings: teaching challenging content in the college classroom, supporting our neurodivergent students, and fostering belonging in the online teaching space.
This learning community will be held in-person and have its own Canvas site so that members can stay up-to-date with the community, even if they need to miss meetings.
During the hour long meeting, we will briefly discuss the readings and/or videos and how these practices can be, or have been, brought into the classroom. Some sessions will feature faculty with significant experience in the classroom practice discussed that month, in order to provide a deeper understanding of how these practices work in learning environments.
Inclusive Teaching Learning Community: Session 4 (Teaching Challenging Content in the College Classroom)
Tuesday, February 13th | 12:00 – 1:00 pm |Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Claxton 224
Inclusive Teaching Learning Community: Session 5 (Supporting Neurodivergent Students)
Tuesday, March 19th | 12:00 – 1:00 pm |Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Claxton 224
Inclusive Teaching Learning Community: Session 6 (Fostering Belonging in Online Learning Spaces)
Tuesday, April 9th | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Claxton 224
Teaching and Learning Innovation in collaboration with Digital and Online Learning is again offering the How to Teach Online for Graduate Students seminar.
The seminar is designed to introduce graduate students and postdocs to online course design and pedagogy. This workshop is part of the Developing Future Faculty series, and participants will earn a certificate at the end of the seminar upon completion of all deliverables.
During this seminar, participants will learn and apply principles and best practices of designing and developing an online course, including online course design and development, assessment strategies for online courses, student engagement techniques, content creation, accessibility, and universal design for learning. For additional information on the dates and times for the seminar, please click here.