Examine ways to reduce teaching overwhelm and get ideas for how to teach well, while still having time/energy/focus for the other important things in your life.
Learn about teaching overwhelm, what contributes to it, why it matters, and how changes to teaching can improve instructor wellness.
Explore strategies for engaging students in discussion and active learning in a synchronous online class session and leave with a new plan for an online class session.
Get strategies to support both your graduate school and future faculty teaching.
Learn more about an approach to design education centered on craft in communion with local materials and create a collective craft object and meditate on the connection to place afforded by this process.
Reflect on your own teaching philosophy and practices, and consider how you wish to communicate these in writing.
Deepen your conceptual understanding of educational inclusivity and learn some frameworks to guide you as you implement inclusive pedagogical practices in your teaching.
Hear some "hot takes" about generative AI and online learning from a panel of faculty and discuss the complexities of adapting our online teaching to a world with AI.
Dr. Weerts will share his institution's approach to community-engaged scholarship in their PT&R process, their engaged-scholarship review committee, and what the impact across campus has been.
Introducing new graduate instructors to teaching at UVA.