Welcome back! We hope you return to the classroom feeling reenergized and ready to take on the fall semester. To help get you in the back-to-school mindset, we share some resources to support you and your students. We also invite you to participate in our upcoming opportunities, including a learning community for STEM instructors and two events with a national leader in open pedagogy. Lastly, check out our team updates, which include a few awards and new faces.
We look forward to seeing you around Grounds and connecting with you soon.
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For Your Teaching
Gear up for the start of the semester by exploring ways to create more inclusive learning environments.
- Digest: Inclusive Teaching
This Learning Scientists blog post provides a curated list of must-read research and resources about inclusive teaching practices.
- Flexibility with Boundaries
This scenario-driven resource offers tips and syllabus language for addressing flexibility, absences, extensions, and other policies that accommodate your and your students' needs.
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For Your Students
We encourage you to include these UVA-specific mental health resources on your course website and in your syllabi, in addition to mentioning them throughout the semester.
- SHW Mental Health Services and Access
Student Health and Wellness has a comprehensive list of resources available for students, from self-help tools to professional support.
- TimelyCare
Students can connect with a mental health professional for unlimited on-demand 24/7 telehealth support.
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Schedule a confidential consultation this semester with one of our faculty members or trained graduate consultants. You can choose from a one-on-one consultation, Engaging Students’ Perspectives (ESP) focus group, in-class observation, or combined ESP and observation. The fall priority signup period ends Friday, September 2. Email cte-consultations@virginia.edu with questions.
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Learning Tech has a new look! Check out the dozens of licensed learning technologies available at UVA that can enhance your teaching and students’ learning. You can search, filter, rate, review, and request tools, as well as view information about tool statuses and where to get support.
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How can you prove that your students are really grasping the most important concepts in your course? How can you assess whether or not a change in your instruction makes a meaningful difference? STEM instructors are invited to join this faculty learning community (FLC) to investigate how concept inventories can be used to assess and improve students' conceptual knowledge in their courses.
The group will meet every other week for four, 90-minute sessions, starting the week of September 26th. A follow-up meeting will take place after the end of the semester. The session dates and times will be based on participant input.
Register by Friday, September 2. Email Ann Reimers at aer2b@virginia.edu with questions.
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Want support for doing research on your own teaching? We want to hear from you! Take a short survey to tell us how the CTE can support the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at UVA.
SoTL is a framework designed to guide instructors through the systematic study of their own teaching and students' learning. Currently, we offer several SoTL-related programs and initiatives, such as SoTL Scholars, SoTL Grants, and SoTL Coffee & Connection.
The survey should take about 5 minutes to complete. Your feedback will be used to help shape the CTE's SoTL programming. Email Lindsay Wheeler at lsb4u@virginia.edu with questions.
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The Contemplative Sciences Center, Center for Teaching Excellence, UVA Library, and A&S Learning Design & Technology invite you to a public talk on open education and equity, followed by a roundtable discussion on the connections among open, contemplative, and anti-oppressive pedagogies.
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TALK - No registration required
Wednesday, September 14
3:30 to 4:45 PM
Wilson 142
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In this talk, guest speaker Robin DeRosa will cast a critical eye toward the challenges we face in public higher education and investigate how the daily work of faculty, staff, and students can be leveraged to restore a hopeful vision for the future of learning. The twin values of equity and openness will serve as a lodestar as we consider how pedagogy, course design, scholarship, and the daily operations of our universities can guide us into a future that is humane, vibrant, and beyond our expectations.
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ROUNDTABLE - Email Karolyn Kinane to register
Thursday, September 15
11 AM to 12 PM
Wilson 117
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This discussion focuses on open and contemplative pedagogies with particular attention to diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging. Registration is required and will be limited to 20 people.
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An advocate for open and public architectures for higher education, Robin DeRosa has worked with faculty and staff at dozens of institutions as they strive to make their learning environments more equitable and engaging. Robin was a high school English teacher and then an English professor for many years before she became the director of Plymouth State University’s student-driven Interdisciplinary Studies program. Today, she is the director of Plymouth State’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, which is a center for innovative pedagogy and critical instructional design.
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The following sessions offered by DDEI are open to all UVA faculty, staff, and students. For questions, email Sly Mata at gdh2ny@virginia.edu.
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I Felt That: Microaggression and Its Impact
August 25; September 22; October 20; November 17; December 15
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Online
This presentation provides an overview of the concept of microaggressions and examples of three distinct types and their impact on individuals. Participants will also learn about an approach to defend themselves from microaggressions called the R.A.V.E.N. method.
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That's the Way of the World: An Introduction to DEI
September 13; October 11; November 15; December 6
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Online
Diversity, equity, and inclusion. These are words that affect many of our lives but what do they really mean? How are they defined? What can they mean to you? Join us as we provide an introductory overview of these concepts and their potential value to you.
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Accolades
They say good things come in threes, and we can certainly attest to that. Our team received a trio of awards this summer. We are grateful for these recognitions and excited about the possibilities for advancing our work.
- The CTE's (now former) Assistant Director of Learning Technology Initiatives Matt Burgess received a Hoos Building Bridges Award for his leadership and collaboration related to the selection, implementation, promotion, and support of learning technologies at UVA. Read the UVA Today story.
- Stern Bicentennial Associate Professor in Education and Neuroscience Jennie Grammer and the CTE's Lindsay Wheeler and Michael Palmer received a President and Provost’s Fund for Institutionally Related Research Award for their project "Using Neuroscience in Real-World Settings to Improve Student Attention and Engagement." Read the UVA Today story.
- Our team was awarded an Inclusive Excellence Grant through the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The grant will help fund the creation of educational exhibits in Hotel D, the CTE's physical home, that seek to tell the untold stories of the enslaved laborers who built, inhabited, and maintained the hotels in the Academical Village.
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Some bittersweet news: Matt Burgess is no longer with the CTE, but fortunately didn't go far. Matt has taken on a new role as the Director of Learning Technology Services at ITS to lead UVA's transition to Canvas, the new learning management system chosen to replace UVACollab. See you around, Matt!
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We'd like to welcome Caroline Warren to our team! She is our Postdoctoral Research Associate, working with Assistant Director of Curriculum Development Elizabeth Dickens. Caroline is interested in inclusive and equitable teaching and educational development and will primarily support our curriculum and equity work.
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2022-23 PhD Plus Interns
Graduate students Kenn Dela Cruz and Annika Kraft are joining the CTE team this academic year as our PhD Plus Interns. Kenn will work with CTE Assistant Director Lindsay Wheeler and the University Teaching and Learning Technology (UTLT) committee to advance data- and assessment-related projects. Annika will work with CTE Assistant Director Adriana Streifer to support our graduate student programming.
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KENN DELA CRUZ
Psychology
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ANNIKA KRAFT
Chemistry
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