UW Bothell Teaching and Learning Center

10/30/2019

CFP for the Teaching and Learning Symposium at UWS! Proposal deadline Dec 9.

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09/27/2019

UWB faculty and staff: Check out the amazing Learning Communities that your colleagues have proposed! Sign up now through October 3.

The Teaching and Learning Center at UW Bothell is hosting 14 Learning Communities for the 2019-2020 year. Faculty and staff are welcome to enroll. Below you will find the title and a brief description of each LC. You can view a more detailed description of each on the TLC LC website  HERE. To en...

09/26/2019

We're less than a month away from the International Virtual Exchange Conference co-organized by UWB's amazing Natalia Dyba.

IVEC 2019 is the largest and most prominent event on virtual exchange, providing a forum for an audience of practitioners, professionals, and policy makers from institutions around the world interested in technology, international education, and new pedagogies.

09/19/2019

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-firstday

What tips do you have for a great first day of class?

The first day of class is crucial both for your students and for you. This guide will help you make opening day as effective as possible.

05/08/2017

What do you think about these "common myths about teaching?" Are there others? Post your thoughts in the comments section. http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/08/05/ten-common-myths-about-teaching/

It seems everyone has an opinion about teachers and their profession these days … and most of them aren’t teachers.

05/08/2017

Please join us on Friday, May 12th 3:00‐4:30 pm in Discovery Hall 464 for the third in our 4-part TIPS series this quarter, Listening to Student Voices (a student panel).

Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to hear directly from a panel of undergraduate and graduate students about their experiences in class discussions at UWB. We will integrate the theory and practice gained from Workshops 1 and 2 with the students' perspectives on class participation.

All Learner-Educators (faculty, staff, and students) are welcome to attend any or all of the workshops. Please RSVP for the May 12th workshop to [email protected].

Materials from the workshops will be posted to the following resource page: https://www.uwb.edu/globalinitiatives/resources/intercultural-competence-tool-kit

Global Initiatives at UW Bothell is building an infrastructure for supporting more robust internationalization programs for students, faculty and staff across campus.

04/18/2017

Please join us at the UW Teaching and Learning Symposium. Over 50 posters from 50+ departments present innovative research on teaching and learning.
The research has been conducted by UW faculty members, students, librarians, and staff members from all 3 campuses. Professors Ellen Moore, Jim Pfaendtner, and Ursula Valdez give the keynote presentation, "Building Inclusive Classroom Communities."

Symposium Schedule:

Monday, April 24, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m., UW Seattle, HUB Ballroom

2:00 - 2:05 Opening remarks: Beth Kalikoff, director, Center for Teaching and Learning
2:05 - 2:50 Poster session #1
2:50 - 3:00 Welcome: Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, vice provost for digital initiatives and dean of University Libraries
3:00 - 3:45 Keynote: "Building Inclusive Classroom Communities"
3:45 - 4:30 Poster session #2

Keynote Speakers:
Ellen Moore, senior lecturer, Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma Jim Pfaendtner, associate professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, UW Seattle Ursula Valdez, lecturer, Environmental Science, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell

For more information and a link to the full program, see:
www.washington.edu/teaching/innovation/teaching-and-learning-symposium/

No registration or RSVP is required. We look forward to seeing you there.

University of Washington

04/18/2017

Our Writing and Communication Center was featured in a UW Bothell article: http://www.uwb.edu/news/april-2017/writing-center

04/05/2017

Another Lilly Conference is coming up in August! The deadline for proposal submission is April 7th.
https://www.lillyconferences-nc.com/

For over 36 years, Lilly Conferences have provided opportunities for the presentation of the scholarship of teaching and learning.

04/05/2017

Are you interested in how to include diverse student voices in classroom activities and discussions? Then join facilitators, Deirdre Vinyard (IAS Senior Lecturer) and Natalia Dyba (Director Global Initiatives) for a 4-part TIPS series this quarter to learn and share with other learner-educators (faculty, staff, and students) who teach undergraduate and graduate students!

All Learner-Educators are welcome to attend any or all of the workshops, but for those who would like to commit to participating in all 4 workshops, you can receive a spending credit of $150 to be used on class materials, books, travel, or other work-related purposes. There are only 20 of these spots available, so please fill out the RSVP form (https://docs.google.com/a/uw.edu/forms/d/1ANxjrvNPpJMGqyChcQVftt31sE16edB1LJllPygriEo/edit) asap.*

*Please note: when using the RSVP form, make sure to sign into your Google accounts via your UW credentials before opening the link to avoid the “permission” error page. You can also click on “Learn more” on that page and click “sign in” in the upper right corner, then re-click on the link for the rsvp form.

The Spring quarter workshops are being co-hosted by the Teaching and Learning Center and the Office of Graduate Studies.

03/29/2017

Save the date on your calendars for the first workshop in our Spring Quarter Teaching In Progress Seminar: Friday, April 7th from 10am to 11:30am in DISC-464! More info coming soon on the entire series.

03/02/2017

Once again the POGIL community will offer summer workshops to provide training and support for active learning pedagogies and facilitation.There are three tracks available: facilitation, labs, and activity writing.
The Pacific northwest workshop is in Portland at Lewis and Clark College from July 25-28th. For less than $250 you receive two and a half days of workshops, meals, and housing! Plus you get to interact with educators from all over the region! You do not have to be a POGIL practitioner to attend, you can learn as you go!
If you have any questions, feel free to email Dr. Charity Lovitt ([email protected]) as she will be part of the leadership team at the workshop this summer!
https://pogil.org/events

The POGIL Project is grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the Hach Scientific Foundation, and the Toyota USA Foundation.