Past Events

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Student Attendance and Participation

Aug 26, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Attendance, Student Engagement

Join us to discuss instructional strategies for responding to shifting trends in student attendance and engagement. We’ll consider strategies for incentivizing and assessing student attendance and in-person participation along with options for establishing norms that work for both you and your students.

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Explore AI for Designing Instructional Materials

Aug 21, 2024, 1:30 – 3:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence, Student Engagement

Are you curious about how Generative AI can assist with designing and building out various components of your courses? During this session, we will explore Generative AI's capabilities for refining syllabi language, creating practice problems, generating images, providing alt text for images to improve accessibility, and more.

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New Faculty Orientation

Aug 16, 2024, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM

New Faculty Orientation welcomes all recently new and incoming faculty at the University of Kentucky and provides a high-level overview of critical aspects of professional and academic life at UK including research, student success, teaching and learning, benefits, etc. A faculty panel also discusses strategies for success.

Teaching Neurodivergent Students

Aug 15, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Universal Design for Learning

The prevalence of neurodivergent students in higher education continues to rise as more and more students seek out diagnoses. Meanwhile, many other students who may need accommodations go undiagnosed. The good news is that there are some simple adjustments you can make in your courses that support students who are neurodivergent (regardless of whether they have an official diagnosis).

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UDL Staff Boot Camp

Jul 16, 2024, 9:00 AM – Jul 18, 2024, 3:00 PM

Universal Design for Learning

This three-day CELT Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Boot Camp will introduce staff to the theory and practice of Universal Design for Learning (UDL): an inclusive, research-based planning framework that helps educators reduce learning barriers through proactive design. Staff will explore and apply UDL-informed approaches to their work with the goal of fostering equitable and accessible learning environments for all students. Lunches and light breakfasts will be provided for all three days.

UDL Faculty Boot Camp

May 14, 2024, 9:00 AM – May 16, 2024, 3:00 PM

Universal Design for Learning

This three-day CELT Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Boot Camp will introduce faculty to the theory and practice of Universal Design for Learning (UDL): an inclusive, research-based planning framework that helps educators reduce learning barriers through proactive design. Faculty will explore and apply UDL-informed approaches to their teaching with the goal of fostering equitable and accessible learning environments for all students. Lunches and light breakfasts will be provided for all three days.

Incorporating Virtual Reality in your Classroom

May 13, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Student Engagement

Participants will have the opportunity to use MetaQuest headsets to explore virtual reality (VR) applications for the classroom. The session will introduce VR and allow time for both assignment brainstorming and experimentation with the headsets’ capabilities.

Exploring the Pedagogy of Play

Apr 30, 2024, 2:00 – 3:30 PM

Mindfulness, Motivation, Student Engagement

This in-person workshop will introduce participants to the benefits of incorporating play as a strategy for teaching and learning into the classroom. Participants will learn from peer examples of playful pedagogy, explore through play, and brainstorm ways that play could be incorporated into current and future courses. Tentatively located in the Cornerstone Innovation Space.

Designing a Syllabus Students Will Actually Read

Apr 23, 2024, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Executive Functions, Student Engagement

How many times have you said, “That’s in the syllabus”? Students are often overwhelmed by the syllabi they receive at the beginning of each semester, but there are some small changes instructors can implement that will make a huge difference for students. This session will introduce faculty and instructors to some visual design techniques and executive functioning supports that will make your syllabus more approachable for your students.

Graduate Teaching Academy: Using Student Evaluations for Reflection and Growth

Apr 19, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Student course evaluations are an imperfect measure of teacher effectiveness that research has found to be problematic. This workshop seeks to lessen the anxiety around reading your evaluations by reframing how we read and internalize student feedback. We will focus on how evaluations can be used in ways that benefit our growth as instructors.