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GTREET 2024: Transformative Teaching and Learning
Workshop: Friday, January 19, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Expedition Hall Home Park Room
Focusing on High Impact Practices (HIPs) and Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), GTREET will explore transformative teaching and learning through sessions that highlight current TTL projects and guide participants in developing CUREs and preparing a proposal for TTL funding.
Spring 2024 Book Club
The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) will be hosting a book club this spring focused on inclusivity with technology. Join GT faculty and staff as we take a deep dive into technology and race. Find community and support for evaluating the technologies we use in teaching and every day life.
Supporting Student Wellbeing with Canvas
December 6, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
CULC 102
Canvas tools paired with the Canvas Course Template can not only reduce student cognitive load but also simplify your course design and management. Strategies shared in this workshop apply to courses offered in all modalities.
Future Faculty Teaching Workshop Series
Measuring Learning (T2T F4.2)
Thursday, Nov 16, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Crosland Tower 416
The teaching workshop series presents a variety of pedagogical theory and hands-on practice to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are teaching assistants and/or preparing for careers as faculty in higher education. Attend one workshop or the entire series!
Fostering Help-Seeking Behaviors in the Undergraduate Classroom
Workshop: Friday, November 10, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Crosland Tower 4160
In this workshop, faculty will present their research on student attitudes towards help-seeking, including extension requests, in their courses at Georgia Tech. Collectively, participants will explore practical interdisciplinary strategies to normalize help-seeking behaviors and support student well-being in the classroom. Join us to share your own ideas and experiences and hear from colleagues across Georgia Tech.
Future Faculty Job Search Academy
November 10th, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Klaus 1116 East & West
Candidates for faculty positions experience an interview process that is unique to academic positions. Participants in this workshop series will learn what to expect in first and second round academic interviews, how to make a positive impression on the interview committee, and how to structure and deliver a job talk that wows your audience.
Addressing Barriers to Teaching with the SDGs
Friday, Nov. 10, 2-3:30 pm, Zoom
Please join us for this next meeting of the Georgia Community of Practice on Teaching with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Speakers from Georgia Tech, UGA, and Kennesaw State University will share examples of how they have overcome barriers to teaching with the UN SDGs.
Future Faculty Teaching Workshop Series
Writing Learning Outcomes (T2T F4.1)
Thursday, Nov 2, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Klaus 1116 East & West
The teaching workshop series presents a variety of pedagogical theory and hands-on practice to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are teaching assistants and/or preparing for careers as faculty in higher education. Attend one workshop or the entire series!
2023 Celebrating Distance Teaching & Learning Symposium
Monday, October 30th, 2023 |
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (EST) |
Held entirely online via Zoom
Join us virtually on Oct 30th for this year's Symposium where we will be celebrating educators who have forged high-quality practices for teaching at a distance. This year's theme will focus on the transformative potential of distance education and feature sessions showcasing innovative methods and technologies you can take back and use in your own courses.
Can’t commit to the whole day? That’s alright! While we would love to have participants attend all of the symposium, we welcome you to register and join us for the sessions that fit your schedule.
Fostering Academic Integrity: A Teaching with Technology Roundtable
Tuesday, October 24th |
11:00 to 12:00 | Clough 466A
Recent advances in AI technology have challenged the measures we take to promote academic integrity in our assessment of student learning. Learning technologies have introduced new features that claim to detect student use of AI. Other technologies lock down a student’s browser and can remotely monitor students’ behavior during an assessment. This conversation will focus on best practices for promoting academic integrity, both in terms of pedagogical design and use of campus technologies. Bring your questions and examples!
Future Faculty Teaching Workshop Series
Teaching with Technology (T2T F5.1)
Thursday, Oct 19, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Klaus 1116 East & West
The teaching workshop series presents a variety of pedagogical theory and hands-on practice to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are teaching assistants and/or preparing for careers as faculty in higher education. Attend one workshop or the entire series!
Enhancing Inclusive Teaching with AI
Tuesday, October 10th |
Noon to 2pm | Clough 102
Lunch provided | Space is limited
Have you been using Generative AI and want to explore how it can be used to help foster a more inclusive learning environment? Or maybe you’re working on a more DEI-focused classroom and want to see how you too can use AI? Generative AI’s ability to foster a more personalized, diverse, and responsive classroom environment not only enhances the learning experience but also benefits the mental and emotional wellbeing of every student. Join us on October 10th from Noon-2pm (EST) for the next revolutionary workshop in our Teaching and Learning in an Age of AI workshop series: Enhancing Inclusive Teaching with AI: Getting a Jumpstart on Creating a Positive Learning Environment.
Future Faculty Teaching Workshop Series
Teaching for All through Universal Design for Learning (T2T F5.2)
Thursday, Oct 5, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Klaus 1116 East & West
The teaching workshop series presents a variety of pedagogical theory and hands-on practice to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are teaching assistants and/or preparing for careers as faculty in higher education. Attend one workshop or the entire series!
Georgia Multi-Institutional Community of Practice: Teaching with the SDGs
Please join the September 22 session of the Georgia CoP on Teaching with the SDGs to network and learn about the SDG teaching initiatives that instructors are leading at their respective institutions.This community includes educators teaching with the SDGs or working with faculty who do so, in colleges and universities across Georgia. Its purpose is to support effective SDG teaching through resource sharing, peer-to-peer learning, and networking. Our session on September 22 at 2:00pm will feature three faculty members discussing how they empower students to lead change through their courses.
Future Faculty Teaching Workshop Series
Begins September 21
The teaching workshop series presents a variety of pedagogical theory and hands-on practice to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are teaching assistants and/or preparing for careers as faculty in higher education. Attend one workshop or the entire series!
Generative AI Based Assignments: A Teaching with Technology Roundtable
Tuesday, September 19th |
11:00 to 12:00 | Clough 466A
Exploring ways to teach students how to apply AI to your discipline, but aren't quite sure where to start? Dabbling with integrating AI into your curriculum? Piloting a great AI-based assignment and want to share it with the community? A growing number of Georgia Tech faculty are implementing generative AI technologies into their teaching and learning. Join us for this Teaching with Technology Roundtable to share your ideas, examples, and questions in a whole group discussion on creating AI-focused assignments.
Asynchronous Book Discussion
September 4-30, Online
Join us for an asynchronous, author-facilitated communal reading experience that offers an overview of evidence-based practices to help you identify good teaching and guidance on how to capture and present teaching accomplishments. This reading group will be facilitated through Perusall, a campus-supported social annotation platform.
Get Students to Do the Pre-Work: A Teaching with Technology Roundtable
Tuesday, August 29 | 11:00 to 12:00 | Clough 466A
Are you looking for new strategies to get your students to come to class or lab meetings prepared this semester? Do you have a successful method for fostering student preparation that you want to share? In our inaugural Teaching with Technology Roundtable, we’ll discuss the struggles of and strategies for getting students to do the prework. Bring your questions and examples!
Using the Course Template in Canvas
Friday, August 18 | 9:00 to 10:00 | Zoom
Join the session to learn how to effortlessly design student-friendly Canvas courses with the Georgia Tech Canvas Course Template. We will demonstrate how to import the template to Canvas shells and customize it to meet your course needs.
TA Development Academy
Friday, August 18, 8:30am-12:00pm
Teaching Assistants (TAs) are an important part of Georgia Tech's ability to create and deliver a transformative learning experience. New and returning TAs are invited to attend TA Development Academy (TADA) to build their teaching capacity and confidence at this interactive face-to-face event that enhances their preparation to support student learning
Transformative Teaching with the SDGs - Join our New Community of Practice!
Thursday, August 17, 11:00am-1:00pm
Crosland Tower (lunch provided)
The Undergraduate Sustainability Education Committee's Faculty Development Working Group, in collaboration with CTL, is launching a new Community of Practice on Transformative Teaching with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Share with and learn from your peers who are teaching with the SDGs!
Developing Course Guidelines for Students' Use of Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, August 15, 3:00-3:45pm, Zoom
Do you want to develop effective guidelines for students’ use of AI in your course? Want to see examples of course guidelines that promote students’ development of academic integrity and ethical use of AI? What is the role of the Office of Student Integrity (OSI) in supporting and enforcing course policies about student use of AI? Join this interactive conversation between Peter Ariev, CTL, David Joyner, Online Education and OMSCS, and Ronald Mazique, OSI
CTL Book Club
Fall 2023
Interested in a Book Club? The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) will be hosting a book club this fall focused on inclusive teaching. Join other faculty as you read about inclusive teaching strategies and practices and find community and support for implementing inclusive teaching practices within your courses
Fall Teaching Kick-off
Monday, August 14, 2023, 9:30am-3:30pm
What information should I include in my syllabus? How can I establish an inclusive learning environment where all students can thrive? How can I tell my story as an effective teacher? What course elements do I need to prepare this week to feel ready to meet my students?
The Center for Teaching and Learning invites you to our annual Fall Teaching Kickoff! At this signature event, we'll explore the questions above in order to help you feel energized, inspired, and uplifted so that you are ready to begin the new academic year.
