The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is pleased to announce the 10th Annual UWM Teaching and Learning Symposium to be held virtually on Thursday, January 9, 2025.
We are now accepting proposals and are especially interested in sessions sharing how High-Impact Practices and/or their associated Eight Key Elements were embedded into teaching and student learning at the department, program, or college level. These sessions can be about any course mode (e.g., face-to-face, online, blended/hybrid). Submit your proposal by Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 11:59pm. There will not be a deadline extension.
For purposes of accessibility and universal access, all PowerPoints, slides, handouts, and/or recordings of accepted sessions must be submitted by Monday, December 16, 2024.
Session Types
CETL is accepting proposals in four different session formats:
- Strategies in Teaching and Learning
- Facilitated Panel Discussion
- Micro Presentation
- Teaching Topic Exchange
Note: Micro Presentations entail a traditional presentation mode. All other sessions involve planned interaction with participants.
Presentations in each format should encourage attendees to share pedagogical strategies, course designs, technology tools, curricular innovations, or department/institutional initiatives that support or advance teaching and student learning. We highly support sessions focused on scaling change across courses, departments, colleges, and UWM. Proposals must include a session plan and timeline that models active teaching strategies for interacting with attendees in a virtual session. Detailed descriptions of each session format are below.
Strategies in Teaching and Learning – 45 minutes
Strategies in Teaching and Learning sessions are designed for 1-3 colleagues to share a specific class, department, or curricular strategy that advances student learning across disciplines. The session facilitator(s) should:
- Describe the teaching and learning or college/department level strategy
- Provide a rationale on what was done and why.
- Explain how the strategy impacted student learning, what worked well, and future strategy enhancements.
- Provide ways the strategy is broadly applicable in other courses, disciplines, and programs.
- Plan for at least 15-20 minutes of the session to include interactive elements (e.g., chat, audio, polls) that engage attendees. This might include engaging the attendees using the strategy, discussing ways to apply the strategy in their own teaching, or soliciting extensions/applications of the strategy.
Facilitated Panel Discussion – 45 minutes
Facilitated Panel Discussions involve a facilitator posing a series of questions on a pertinent teaching topic (course, department, program, or college levels) to 3-6 panelists from different disciplines, programs, course formats, course sizes, and/or student populations. Panel questions should prompt panelists to share ideas and specific teaching examples or techniques through a free-flowing discussion among themselves. Further, the facilitator should encourage attendee interaction at various discussion points to bring in additional attendees’ ideas, perspectives, and respond to queries. Ultimately, attendees should gain different interdisciplinary viewpoints and tangible ideas related to the teaching and learning topic discussed.
Micro Presentation – 10 minutes each (3 per 45-minute session)
Micro Presentation sessions are succinct pre-recorded 10-minute presentations that share a specific teaching technique, assignment, or practice that can be adapted to a variety of class topics and types. These sessions are designed to give attendees great ideas for teaching in simple, concise, small bites to inspire new practices or practice adaptations. Three Micro Session pre-recordings will be clustered and played during the first (30 minutes). Presenters will attend the live session and must be available to engage with attendees for a 15-minute question-and-answer session.
Teaching Topic Exchange – 45 minutes
Teaching Topic Exchanges are designed for all attendees to share challenges, questions, practices, and ideas across disciplines, course formats, course sizes, and/or student populations. Rather than a presentation, the person proposing this session will identify a discussion topic and facilitate the exchange of information across all attendees while using online interactive teaching strategies to solicit conversation between attendees (e.g., chat, audio, polls). The session facilitator plays an important role in introducing a pertinent topic and generating interaction and ideas from attendees rather than sharing information. Session topics may include: redesigning your syllabus to support a growth mindset, AI assignment design, and/or increasing interaction in online courses.
We are particularly interested in advancing High-Impact Practices (HIPs). For more information on HIPs, please refer to our KnowledgeBase article.
Criteria
Proposals will be scored based upon the following criteria:
- Relevance of the submission to an array of instructors across disciplines or wider institutional initiatives to impact teaching and improve student learning
- Realistic session outcomes
- Potential interest to the campus community
- Effective plan for proposed interactive engagement strategies
- Reasonable session timeline that includes interactive attendee elements
- Alignment to the topic of High-Impact Practices and/or Eight Key Elements
- Quality of the proposal (clarity, organization, submission timeliness)
Submit one of the session types here before Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.