Faculty Forum – Page 2 – Support for Teaching & Learning

About the Faculty Forum

The Faculty Forum offers a platform for faculty from across the University to share their strategies, successes, and challenges related to teaching. Here you can keep up with innovations in teaching that are happening at the University, as well as find out about the teaching resources, services and community-building opportunities available to instructors.

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Getting Started with SoTL Projects by Documenting Your Teaching

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) serves as a vital avenue for faculty to explore and improve their teaching practices through systematic inquiry and evidence-based methods. It emphasizes evidence-based inquiry, reflection, and dissemination of findings to contribute to the…

Engaging Students’ Mental Health in the Classroom: Understanding Your Role

Every instructor will encounter students whose learning is being impacted by mental health concerns. Students may be very open about it: They want to be recognized as whole people and they see faculty as potential mentors with whom to connect.…

Reflections on an Epic Engagement

Projects in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) are never solo endeavors, and the most successful partnerships are those where both parties are flexible and open to trying different approaches to their teaching and learning practices. Working with Dr.…

Incorporating Generative AI into Writing Assignments

September 29, 2023

Anton Borst

Author: Anton Borst, Senior Learning Designer, Office of the Provost When ChatGPT does the work of writing for students, it derails the process of learning how to write. But what happens when AI is brought into the writing process instead…

Labor-based contract grading and student self-efficacy

Authors: Gita DasBender, Nate Mickelson, and Leah Souffrant Contract grading has a long history in higher education. With roots in humanistic psychology (Combs, 1976), the approach has seen a renaissance in recent years in the field of writing studies as…

Inclusion through accountability: Using a receipt of syllabus form

In April, I attended the Center for Faculty Advancement’s Inclusive Teaching workshop. During this session, participants discussed the question of cultivating an inclusive learning environment while affirming student accountability. One strategy I have found effective is the receipt of syllabus…