Programs and Events
Explore a variety of programming and events including teaching and learning workshops, Center conversations and collaboratories, and the Learning Innovation Collaborative fellowship.
Want to suggest a program or workshop? Share your ideas by emailing [email protected]!
Supporting Healthy and Productive Team Collaboration
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So much of professional work happens through team collaboration, and so many students complain about team projects! In this session, we’ll discuss practical strategies for supporting positive team interactions in learning settings. We’ll talk about techniques for team formation, ways to ensure that team dynamics are healthy and productive, and strategies for evaluating work done in teams. |
Creating Error-Positive Learning Environments
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Kathryn Schulz writes, “far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition.” Joshua Eyler explains that in many ways, “the brains of human beings are designed to detect and to learn from failure.” Failure is critical to the learning experience - it’s also not very fun. This session is designed to help students (and ourselves) embrace mistakes as markers of productive learning. We’ll focus on how to structure a favorable error climate and to help students make the shift from grades to learning. |
Teaching for Meta-Skills
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Learning outcomes, assignment designs, and evaluation approaches often only focus on the content knowledge and skills we want our students to gain. But there are equally important human capacities that merit overt inclusion in our course design. Meta-skills - such as creative problem-solving, openness to diverse perspectives, and teamwork - are higher order skills and abilities that promote adaptability and responsiveness to new experiences. In this session, we’ll explore how to bring meta-skills into our teaching, how to design learning experiences for meta-skills, and how to evaluate them in student work. Register here! |
Efficient Grading Practices
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| At the point in the semester when grading piles up and final exams loom, let’s explore strategies for completing thoughtful, feedback-rich grading that doesn’t take all-night work sessions. How can we balance our time to meet our students’ effort with respect and support for their learning? In this session we’ll talk about grading practices that save time, from rubric creation to group feedback and voice memos - let’s tackle the demands of grading and get ready for the final push. |