August

Strategies & Tools for Full-time Faculty (FTF)
Strategies and Tools is for instructors who are new to URI and want to launch a successful – inclusive and effective – teaching career at URI.

Date: Aug 14 – 17, 2023
Time: 9am-12:30pm
Location: Virtual
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Strategies & Tools for Part-Time Faculty (PTF)
Helps prepare new part-time faculty in their first or second semester at URI for a successful semester by building connections with colleagues, learning more about the URI community and resources, and establishing or further developing their teaching practices.

Date: Aug 28 – 31, 2023
Time: Asynchronous & synchronous meetings
Location: Virtual & on-campus gatherings
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September

Strategies and Tools for Graduate TAs (GTA)
Elevate your teaching skills and make a lasting impact in the classroom with this series of dynamic workshops crafted to empower your teaching journey.

Session one: Active Learning: Participants will practice high-impact teaching strategies to deepen learner understanding of course material.

Date: Sep 11
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: Virtual
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International Graduate Teaching Assistant Community of Practice (GTA)
Strategies and tools empowers international grad TAs to become confident, skilled educators who can excel in their roles while fostering a sense of belonging within the academic community. 

Session one: Embracing cultural wealth

September 12
4-5pm
Tyler 225
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International Graduate Teaching Assistant Community of Practice (GTA)
Strategies and tools empowers international grad TAs to become confident, skilled educators who can excel in their roles while fostering a sense of belonging within the academic community. 

Session one: Embracing cultural wealth

September 12
4-5pm
Tyler 225
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Strategies and Tools for Graduate TAs (GTA)
Elevate your teaching skills and make a lasting impact in the classroom with this series of dynamic workshops crafted to empower your teaching journey.

Session two: Feedback: Develop strategies for giving feedback that are efficient, supportive, and effective.

Date: Sep 18
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: Virtual
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Large Lecture HIT Seminar (FTF)
If you have ever thought, “How can I help students understand this material?”, this High-impact Teaching (HIT) seminar is for you.

Session one: Building from your strengths

September 18
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Tyler Hall, Room 225
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Strategies and Tools for Graduate TAs (GTA)
Elevate your teaching skills and make a lasting impact in the classroom with this series of dynamic workshops crafted to empower your teaching journey.

Session three: Student Engagement/Study Cycle (Engaging and Assessing Gen Z): Participants will learn strategies to help their students learn how to study effectively and efficiently.

Date: Sep 25
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: Virtual
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International Graduate Teaching Assistant Community of Practice (GTA)
Strategies and tools empowers international grad TAs to become confident, skilled educators who can excel in their roles while fostering a sense of belonging within the academic community. 

Session two: Embracing cultural wealth, part two

September 26
4-5pm
Tyler 225
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Inclusive Teaching Learning Community/Book Club (FTF, PTF)
Explore inclusive and equitable teaching practices and consider ways to apply those strategies to their teaching practice, while developing collegial relationships along the way.

Session one: Inclusive Teaching as a Mindset

Date: Sep 27
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Location: Hybrid
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Part-Time Faculty Community of Practice (PTF)
Designed for PTF teaching at URI for their 1st or 2nd semester, helps develop relationships with colleagues and further develop their teaching practice.

Date & Time: Meetings will be arranged based on faculty needs and preferences, with support offered during key times of the semester – 2nd or 3rd week, before midterms, before the semester ends, and a final meeting to celebrate successes and future teaching plans
Location: Virtually or in-person, based on faculty schedules
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October

Online Pedagogy Competency Course (AIN)
A 4-week, asynchronous online workshop designed to give you the background and knowledge of best-practices to enhance and hone your online teaching skills using the Brightspace platform.

Date: Oct 2 – 30
Time: Asynchronous
Location: Virtual
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Large Lecture HIT Seminar (FTF)
If you have ever thought, “How can I help students understand this material?”, this High-impact Teaching (HIT) seminar is for you.

Session two: Growth mindset and the impacts of disciplinary socialization on teaching.

October 2
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Tyler Hall, Room 225
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Strategies and Tools for Graduate TAs (GTA)
Elevate your teaching skills and make a lasting impact in the classroom with this series of dynamic workshops crafted to empower your teaching journey.

Session four: Accommodation/Universal Design: Participants will create learning pathways that are open and accessible to all learners.

Date: Oct. 2
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: Virtual
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Inclusive Teaching Learning Community/Book Club (FTF, PTF)
Explore inclusive and equitable teaching practices and consider ways to apply those strategies to their teaching practice, while developing collegial relationships along the way.

Session two: The Value of Structure and Designing Your Courses and Syllabus with an Inclusive Mindset

Date: October 4
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Location: Hybrid
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Thinking through Your Assessments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AIN)
As you prepare for the midterms, effective assessment becomes even more critical as a tool to accurately measure student learning. This session is for you if you would like to explore the impacts of AI on your midterms, finals, projects, essays, or other types of assessments this semester. Please come with an assessment you would like to explore.

Date: October 6
Time: 10am-11:30pm (OK to come late if you teach at 10)
Location: Virtual
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International Graduate Teaching Assistant Community of Practice (GTA)
Strategies and tools empowers international grad TAs to become confident, skilled educators who can excel in their roles while fostering a sense of belonging within the academic community. 

Session three: Crafting Space for International TAs, part 1

October 10
4-5pm
Tyler 225
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Inclusive Teaching Learning Community/Book Club (FTF, PTF)
Explore inclusive and equitable teaching practices and consider ways to apply those strategies to their teaching practice, while developing collegial relationships along the way.

Session three: Launching Your Course

Date: October 11
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Location: Hybrid
Registration is full
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Strategies and Tools for Graduate TAs (GTA)
Elevate your teaching skills and make a lasting impact in the classroom with this series of dynamic workshops crafted to empower your teaching journey.

Session five: Badge distribution/High Tea

Date: Oct. 16
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Location: Tyler 225
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Large Lecture HIT Seminar (FTF)
If you have ever thought, “How can I help students understand this material?”, this High-impact Teaching (HIT) seminar is for you.

Session three: Overview of Metacognition and how to teach Bloom’s taxonomy.

October 16
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Tyler Hall, Room 225
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International Graduate Teaching Assistant Community of Practice (GTA)
Strategies and tools empowers international grad TAs to become confident, skilled educators who can excel in their roles while fostering a sense of belonging within the academic community. 

Session four: Crafting Space for International TAs, part 2

October 24
4-5pm
Tyler 225
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Inclusive Teaching Learning Community/Book Club (FTF, PTF)
Explore inclusive and equitable teaching practices and consider ways to apply those strategies to their teaching practice, while developing collegial relationships along the way.

Session four: Classroom Environment and Interactions

Date: October 25
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Location: Hybrid
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Large Lecture HIT Seminar (FTF)
If you have ever thought, “How can I help students understand this material?”, this High-impact Teaching (HIT) seminar is for you.

Session four: How to use the study cycle as a teaching tool.

October 30
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Tyler Hall, Room 225
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November

Inclusive Teaching Learning Community/Book Club (FTF, PTF)
Explore inclusive and equitable teaching practices and consider ways to apply those strategies to their teaching practice, while developing collegial relationships along the way.

Session five: Inclusive Practices Outside the Classroom

Date: November 1
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Location: Hybrid
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Tell Your Teaching Story: IDEA – More than a number (AIN)

Have you ever wondered how IDEA calculates the scores? Or what those scores mean? Or how to use IDEA to enhance your teaching? This session is for you.

Date: November 3
Time: 10am-11am
Location: Virtual
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International Graduate Teaching Assistant Community of Practice (GTA)
Strategies and tools empowers international grad TAs to become confident, skilled educators who can excel in their roles while fostering a sense of belonging within the academic community. 

Session five: Learning by observing, part 1

November 7
4-5pm
Tyler 225
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Tell Your Teaching Story: IDEA – More than a Number (AIN)

Have you ever wondered how IDEA calculates the scores? Or what those scores mean? Or how to use IDEA to enhance your teaching? This session is for you.

Date: November 8
Time: 11am-Noon
Location: Tyler 225
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Inclusive Teaching Learning Community/Book Club (FTF, PTF)
Explore inclusive and equitable teaching practices and consider ways to apply those strategies to their teaching practice, while developing collegial relationships along the way.

Session six: Reflecting and Documenting Your Inclusive Practices

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Date: November 8
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Location: Hybrid
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Tell Your Teaching Story: Creating a Teaching Portfolio (FTF)
Participants in this hands-on session will explore how to use Interfolio 180 and other tools to create a portfolio that they can use to document their teaching effectiveness. The goal of this session is to help instructors create an efficient way to keep track of the artifacts they will use in their teaching statements for tenure and promotion.

Date: November 10
Time: Noon-1pm
Location: Virtual
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Large Lecture HIT Seminar (FTF)
If you have ever thought, “How can I help students understand this material?”, this High-impact Teaching (HIT) seminar is for you.

Session five: Implementing transparency.

Week of November 13: Asynchronous work to accommodate Veterans’ Day
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Tyler Hall, Room 225
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International Graduate Teaching Assistant Community of Practice (GTA)
Strategies and tools empowers international grad TAs to become confident, skilled educators who can excel in their roles while fostering a sense of belonging within the academic community. 

Session six: Learning by observing, part 2

November 21
4-5pm
Tyler 225
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Large Lecture HIT Seminar (FTF)
If you have ever thought, “How can I help students understand this material?”, this High-impact Teaching (HIT) seminar is for you.

Session six: Implementing strategies to help students develop a growth mindset.

November 27
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Tyler Hall, Room 225
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December

Tell Your Teaching Story: Telling Your Story (FTF)
If you have ever had difficulty with writing your teaching statement, this session is for you. Participants will explore research-backed criteria for teaching effectiveness. Then they will practice connecting those criteria to their teaching. Participants will leave with a heuristic they can use to overcome writer’s block when it comes time to write their teaching statement.

Date: December 1
Time: Noon-1:30pm
Location: Virtual
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Large Lecture HIT Seminar (FTF)
If you have ever thought, “How can I help students understand this material?”, this High-impact Teaching (HIT) seminar is for you.

Session seven: Finishing touches.

December 11
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Tyler Hall, Room 225
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