UVA Center for Teaching Excellence

Join us this summer for the 2023 Contemplative Institute for Teaching and Learning: Regenerative Practice for Earth, Soul, and Syllabus. To be held June 5-9 at Sevenoaks Retreat Center, the Institute is open to college instructors from all disciplines, career stages, and backgrounds at the University of Virginia and beyond.

This professional development retreat supports and creates community among instructors whose work intersects with environmental issues and/or who seek to integrate nature-connection practices into their teaching and personal lives. Participants will experience, develop, and share concrete strategies for integrating nature-connection into the design or redesign of a course or assignment to support embodied critical thinking, foster creative expression, and deepen students’ appreciation for beyond-human environments and one another.

Learn more & apply by March 17: https://bit.ly/CSCJun2023CITL

Apply now for the 2023 Contemplative Institute for Teaching and Learning 2023: Regenerative Practice for Earth, Soul, and Syllabus.

Our calling for nature-connected experiences in the curriculum is an essential response to the interconnected environmental and mental health crises. This professional development retreat supports and creates community among faculty whose work intersects with environmental issues and/or who seek to integrate nature-connection practices in their teaching and personal lives.

The Institute will be held June 5-9, 2023 at Sevenoaks Retreat Center, a serene sanctuary nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in Madison County, Virginia, about 80 miles southwest of the Dulles airport. It is open to college instructors from all disciplines, career stages, and backgrounds.

Learn more & Apply: https://bit.ly/CSCJun2023CITL

Sevenoaks Retreat Center UVA Center for Teaching Excellence Hoos Well UVA School of Continuing and Professional Studies UVA School of Education & Human Development UVa School of Medicine Faculty Development Wildrock Karolyn Kinane

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Submit an interactive session or short presentation proposal for University of Virginia's 2023 Innovations in Pedagogy Summit! Our theme is Brilliant, Resilient Learning. Proposals are due Friday, March 3.

https://cte.virginia.edu/home/call-proposals

Ahead of the spring semester, CTE Director Michael Palmer and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy (UVA) Associate Professor Andrew Pennock held an online workshop for University of Virginia instructors to learn about the artificial intelligence application ChatGPT and its implications.

“Generative AI is not something that we can just wish away. We will have to learn to work with it and live with it. And I think it can have beneficial implications for how we teach and how students learn. This will play out over time as the technology matures and we grapple with it in our courses,” Pennock said.

Faculty Members Weigh How To Enter the Brave New World of AI A recent faculty workshop explored aspects of working with artificial intelligence applications instead of fighting against them.

Applications are due Friday, February 24!

How can nature-connection enhance critical work of sustainability, climate justice, and professional resilience in higher education?

Apply to the 2023 Contemplative Institute for Teaching and Learning 2023: Regenerative Practice for Earth, Soul, and Syllabus being held at Sevenoaks Retreat Center JUNE 5-9, 2023.

Offered in partnership with UVA Center for Teaching Excellence. Facilitated by CSC's Karolyn Kinane, CTE's Dorothe Bach, and Wildrock founder Carolyn Schuyler.

🦚 Learn more and Apply: https://bit.ly/CSCJun2023CITL

Hoos Well UVA School of Continuing and Professional Studies UVA School of Education & Human Development UVa School of Medicine Faculty Development

📢HIRING: Our search resumes for an Assistant Director of Learning Technology Initiatives to join our team. This role will support the identification, adoption, and assessment of institutional-level learning technologies at the University of Virginia.

Review of applicants will begin February 13. This is an exempt-level, benefited position. The anticipated hiring range is $60,000-$80,000, commensurate with education and experience.

Please share widely and reach out with questions! Learn more and apply: https://at.virginia.edu/uvacteadlti2

SAVE THE DATE: The CTE's 10th Annual Innovations in Pedagogy Summit will take place on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 in Newcomb Hall at the University of Virginia. Stay tuned for keynote information and our theme coming soon!

Join the UVA Center for Teaching Excellence team as our Assistant Director of Learning Technology Initiatives! You will serve as a point person for the identification, adoption, and assessment of institutional-level learning technologies at the University of Virginia.

Learn more and apply: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJobs/job/Assistant-Director-of-Learning-Technology-Initiatives_R0040506

The CTE's Michael Palmer and Lindsay Wheeler appeared on the POD Network's Centering Center's podcast, discussing questions like: Should educational development seek to define itself as a discipline? What are the urgent conversations around our research and practice? Is the academy improving? They weigh in on what they've learned and makes them hopeful about the field's future.

Should define itself as a discipline?

What are the urgent convos around our research & practice?

Is the academy improving?

Michael Palmer and Lindsay Wheeler, Co-Editors of our To Improve the Academy journal, weigh in on what they've learned & what makes them hopeful about the future of our field.

Episode ➡️ http://ow.ly/GRmi50KLIuS
TIA Journal ➡️ http://ow.ly/1fm350KLIuR

National leader in open pedagogy Robin DeRosa is coming to Grounds! Robin will join us for two events: a public talk on Sept. 14 at 3:30 PM (no registration required) and a roundtable discussion on Sept. 15 at 11 AM (limited seating; registration only). Learn more: https://csc.virginia.edu/event/robin-derosa-stars-and-constellations-%E2%80%93-openness-equity-and-teaching-toward-unfamiliar-sky

Join the Contemplative Sciences Center and partners for this Open Education event with Robin DeRosa. This is a two-part event: Sept. 14, 2022, 3:30pm (ET): Public talk, "Stars and Constellations – Openness, Equity, and Teaching Toward an Unfamiliar Sky;" Sept. 15, 2022, 11:00am (ET): A limited-seating roundtable. LEARN MORE: https://csc.virginia.edu/event/robin-derosa-stars-and-constellations-%E2%80%93-openness-equity-and-teaching-toward-unfamiliar-sky

Sponsored by CSC with support from the University of Virginia Library, the UVA College of Arts & Sciences Learning Design & Technology, and the UVA Center for Teaching Excellence
Karolyn Kinane

Congratulations to our Assistant Director of Learning Technology Initiatives Matt Burgess on receiving a Hoos Building Bridges Award! Matt was recognized for his leadership and collaboration around advancing at the University of Virginia and developing the Learning Tech website.

Hoos Building Bridges Awards Honor Leadership in Collaboration The Hoos Building Bridges Awards celebrate cross-disciplinary partnerships and projects among UVA employees, offices and other units.

Thanks to a President and Provost’s Fund for Institutionally Related Research award, the CTE team will be collaborating with Jennie Grammer, Stern Bicentennial Associate Professor in Education and Neuroscience, to "observe and analyze instructors and students using a combination of electroencephalography and [other] methods ... to improve student attention and engagement in class." We're excited to be a part of this groundbreaking work!

Also, congratulations to our Faculty Fellow Rose Buckelew who was awarded funding for her project "Innovating an Equity-Minded Approach to Soliciting and Incorporating Student Feedback to Improve Sense of Belonging."

New Funding Highlights Student Experience and Well-Being, Sense of Belonging at UVA The President and Provost’s Fund for Institutionally Related Research made its third annual round of awards in an effort to support faculty research that shows potential to benefit the University community.