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UCITE session: “Improving Classroom Discussions”
The ability to listen and exchange ideas with one's peers are critically important skills, but developing these attributes in students can be challenging. Because groups often have a mixture of eager participants and quiet listeners, the discussions can easily become unbalanced. At the next Univers...
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UCITE session: "Using Concept Mapping to Assist Students with Reading Difficult Texts"
The ability to understand and analyze scholarly texts and journal articles is a critical skill for students. However, many students have difficulty in reading and understanding this material. At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education session, Dianne Kube, a biology lect...
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UCITE session: Canvas demonstration
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will host a demonstration of Canvas today (Jan. 26) noon to 1 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Herrick Room (use Adelbert Road doors). Attendees will learn about some of the most powerful and useful features of the system, i...
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UCITE session: “Creating a Positive Classroom Environment”
The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will address how faculty can create a positive classroom environment. Much has been written about the academic benefits of applying positive psychology to secondary—and even elementary—school classrooms, but there a...
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UCITE Mentor Fellows program application deadline extended to Dec. 16
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will offer its eighth Mentor Fellows program to promote and recognize good mentoring practices. The deadline to apply for UCITE’s Mentor Fellows program has been extended to Dec. 16. This series of seminars is designed to encou...
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Improve mentorship skills with UCITE Mentor Fellows program
Mentoring relationships between graduate students and faculty are meant to foster the creation of new knowledge at a research university. The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will offer its eighth Mentor Fellows program to advance the goal of promoting and recognizing good...
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UCITE session: “Flipped Classrooms”
The “flipped classroom” has become a popular technique in education. The technique takes what is typically done in the actual classroom (listening to a lecture) and asking students to do this outside of class time (using pre-recorded lectures or similar resources). Then, what is typically done outsi...
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UCITE session: "Canvas Is Here"
The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will offer an overview of Canvas, ӰƵ’s new learning management system. Lauren Rogers, Katie Skapin and Genevieve Mathieson Kilmer, members of University Technology’s Teaching & Learning ...
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UCITE session: “Promotion and Tenure”
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will host a session for faculty who are on the tenure track or anticipate a tenure track position someday. The typical criteria for tenure and promotion are scholarship, teaching and service. All universities subscribe to this but how t...
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UCITE session: "International Students in the Classroom"
One of our core institutional values at ӰƵ is to strengthen our commitment to internationalization. As a result, as a university, we have successfully quadrupled the number of international students entering at the undergraduate level. In addition, approximately 25 perc...