Join us every first Friday during the semester for a delicious pizza lunch and an engaging topic related to the latest in teaching and learning! Can't make it in person? No problem! Register on Campus Groups and you'll receive a Zoom link to join us virtually (you'll have to provide your own pizza, however!). Relax, make connections with colleagues across campus, and learn a thing or two with UCITE!
Keeping momentum alive all semester long takes intention—and community. As we move deeper into the term, sustaining high energy in our classrooms becomes more challenging, but also more essential. In this session, we'll explore strategies for energizing learning, swap ideas with colleagues, and consider small, high‑impact moves that help students stay engaged while supporting our own staying power as instructors.
Not to be confused with student evaluations of teaching!
Mid to late October is the ideal time for instructors to pause and take a reading from students to gather some insight on how they are experiencing the course. A brief check‑in can indicate what’s working, which teaching practices are supporting learning, and where students may be encountering obstacles. This session focuses on straightforward ways to gather student feedback and use it to make small, targeted adjustments that strengthen learning for the remainder of the semester.
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Part of AI Aware teaching and learning includes critical reflection of how teachers assess student learning. In this conversation, we will identify ways to observe the process of student learning that align with learning goals or objectives and support student growth through systematic feedback and measurement.
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Join us for our combination UCITE reunion and open house! Have you participated in any of our programming? Come reconnect! Want to learn more about UCITE and what we offer? Stop by for pizza and to discuss teaching and learning with your colleagues!
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Past Topics
- Starting Successfully: Reaching Students to Teach Students
- How Do I Read This?! Giving Your Students Tools for College Reading and Decoding
- Book Club: Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom by Jessamyn Neuhaus, 2025
- Book Club: The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking by Brookfield & Preskill, 2016
- Coping with Course Evaluation Trauma: Working with Peers to Improve Teaching
- How Can I Reach and Teach Students Who Are Struggling?
- Creating and Maintaining Productive Class and Learning Environments
- Book Club: Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin Gannon, 2020
- AI-Aware Instruction
- Using and Assessing Student Peer Review
- Failure as a Learning Tool
- What is Experiential Learning and Why Does it Matter?
- AI-Aware Writing Instruction
- Starting the Semester Successfully: Syllabus and Course/Class Sequence
- Student Feedback: Collecting, Acknowledging, and Learning from Student Perceptions
- Context Matters: What You Need to Know Before You Start Teaching a Course
- Teaching Matters: Start Writing Your Teaching Philosophy Statement
- Civil Discourse: Part 1, Planning Ahead
- Civil Discourse: Part 2, Facilitating Student Conversations
- Civil Discourse: Part 3, Managing Discourse in Crisis
- Who and What? GenAI in Teaching and Learning
- When and How? Assessing Student Writing in the Age of AI
- Why and How? Why Engage with AI and How Will AI Tools Continue to Impact Higher Education?
- You Have a TA - Now What?
- The Academic Job Search
- Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Teaching and Learning
- How to Create a High Structure Course to Enhance Student Learning
- Mentoring Success with Undergraduate Students
- Mentoring Success with Graduate Students
- Designing Your Course as an "Instructor of Record"
- Teamwork in Classroom Instruction
- Where's the Professor? Navigating Students' Perceptions of Young Professors