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Teaching Metacognition: Empower your students to learn how to learn (online)

Online

Students often join our classes not knowing how to learn effectively. We will define self-regulated learning, explore ways to bring discussions into your classroom that will help your students evaluate how they learn, and share teaching approaches that reinforce these skills. Register for this event (opens in a new window)  

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Journal Club

Fernald Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Interested in learning more about the research and evidence on effective teaching and improved learning? Want to have an energetic discussion about teaching over coffee with peers?  This in-person discussion group will explore different topics in education research, research methods, and interpretation of results.  Effort will be made to view research implications through an equity-minded […]

Equity-Fostering Syllabus Working Group (online)

Online

This event will take place on Friday, Feb. 11 and alternating Fridays until April 22 at 2 p.m.  This is a collaborative, faculty-led, practically-oriented community focusing on fostering equity through developing our syllabi and engaging them meaningfully in class. In Spring 2022, the syllabus working group will focus on developing a sharable “equity starter pack” […]

Plus One Strategies for UDL: Creating Accessible Word Documents For Your Courses (online)

Online

These meetings will focus on “Plus One Strategies” you can adopt to proactively design courses that meet the varied needs of our increasingly diverse body of students. Each workshop will be designed with 30 minutes of learning on a specific strategy and 30 minutes of practice and Q&A to allow you to explore these strategies […]

Teaching Metacognition: Empower your students to learn how to learn

Fernald Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

In-person, Fernald Hall Room 102 Students often join our classes not knowing how to learn effectively. We will define self-regulated learning, explore ways to bring discussions into your classroom that will help your students evaluate how they learn, and share teaching approaches that reinforce these skills. Register for this event (opens in new window).

Equity-Fostering Syllabus Working Group (online)

Online

This event will take place on Friday, Feb. 11 and alternating Fridays until April 22 at 2 p.m.  This is a collaborative, faculty-led, practically-oriented community focusing on fostering equity through developing our syllabi and engaging them meaningfully in class. In Spring 2022, the syllabus working group will focus on developing a sharable “equity starter pack” […]

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