Platform for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETAL) Spring 2021
About this Event
A calendar of events and workshops hosted by the Platform for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETAL).
FEBURARY EVENTS
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
PETAL Welcome Coffee Hour
A big welcome to all new teaching faculty. Here you will be able to meet our support team as well as new colleagues from all UM campuses. We look forward to meeting you at the coffee hour, sharing information about our programs and events, providing resources, and hearing about your previous teaching experience, as well as teaching needs.
REGISTER: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudequqDMpGNNhw9RWGzusArpoen9VMtLi
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Friday, Feb. 12, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Course Mentors Program Orientation
The Course Mentors program is designed to assist faculty who would like to improve their teaching through 5- 6 small group discussions with peer faculty, an instructional designer, and a facilitating faculty member. This orientation will kick off the program, provide detailed information about the meetings, and bring together each group for their first meeting. Interested in the program? It's not to late to join! Registration will still be available at the orientation.
REGISTER: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckce6srTIoG9eYx_6ZQGe0c3cnZziyzN_I
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Thursday, Feb. 25, 3:30–5:00 p.m.
Institutional Academy for Teaching Excellence (I-ATE)
QEP and Cognates Workshop
The Institutional Academy for Teaching Excellence (I-ATE) workshop on UM's QEP (quality enhancement plan) and cognate programs is hosted by UM's Platform for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETAL). This workshop will introduce faculty to UM's unique teaching solutions to enhance and assess undergraduate learning. In this interactive workshop, faculty will be able to discuss innovative teaching methods (i.e. Harkness, Problem-based, Flipped Classroom, etc.), identify UM supports, and ask facilitators important and key questions for implementation.
REGISTER: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdO2opzkqGdeYhKBgR822DtNtqTUpMfSI
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MARCH EVENTS
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Institutional Academy for Teaching Excellence (I-ATE)
Assessment and Evaluation Panel
Get and give feedback that works! Join PETAL for innovative and interdisciplinary tips, tools, and resources to improve course and student assessments. Speakers will discuss creating a culture of feedback, course design, as well as innovative formative and summative assessments.
Our panelist:
- Robin Bachin, Phd, the Center for Community Civic Engagement
- Andrew Porter, PhD, School of Health Studies
- Derin Ural, PhD, College of Engineering
- Yunqiu “Daniel” Wang, College of Arts and Sciences
REGISTER: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpfu6hqDwvG9AyGgSTv4cm32Wxh0soWUOl
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Thursday, Mar. 25, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
PETAL Speaker Series
Convergent Teaching: Tools to Spark Deeper Learning in College
Speaker: Dr. Anna Neumann, Teachers College
Join Dr. Anna Neumann, Co-author of Convergent Teaching: Tools to Spark Deeper Learning in College, will speak about the innovative “convergent teaching” approach which looks holistically at the process of learning. Using this approach, college teachers are encouraged to simultaneously attend to students’ prior knowledge, the subject matter, and the social, cultural, and emotional context. Throughout the presentation, Dr. Neumann will bring to life the convergent teaching approach by providing examples of some campus-based initiatives that implemented three key guiding principles including, targeting, surfacing, and navigating. Come join us as we offer new ways to support and advance your students’ learning.
Anna Neumann, Professor of Higher Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, studies teaching in urban colleges and universities, with an eye toward improving first-generation students’ subject-matter learning in first- and second-year courses (in general/liberal education), and in post-graduate work (in law school). In this work, she seeks to illuminate what good teaching means and how it unfolds, how professors learn to teach, and professional development practices and programs for supporting teaching improvement. Neumann’s research, which also examines professors’ intellectual careers, doctoral students’ learning of research, and academic organization and leadership, has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Higher Education, Teachers College Record, Review of Higher Education, and others. A Fellow of the American Education Research Association and an elected member of the National Academy of Education, she also is the recipient of her field’s top two research awards: the Research Achievement Award of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the Exemplary Research Award of the American Educational Research Association, Division J (Higher and Postsecondary Education). Neumann is past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. For over a decade she directed the Program in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College where she also served as department chair.
REGISTER: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdu-tpzwqHdH1u9nlpXf41yjDMwco7T5A
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Friday, Mar. 26, TBA
College of Engineering
TALIS Day: Teaching and Learning Innovation in STEAM Day
University of Miami College of Engineering (CoE) puts the spotlight on teaching and learning by hosting their third annual Teaching and Learning Innovation in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) day – also known as TALIS day. The day will feature special guest speakers and presentations by faculty and teaching assistants on a wide range of innovative teaching methods including service learning, flipped learning, collaborative learning, gamification and augmented reality.
SUBMIT A TOPIC: https://umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hoVYC6btduj12d
SUBMIT A PRESENTATION: https://umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_77X8FxlfRVXRi0m
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APRIL EVENTS
Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Institutional Academy for Teaching Excellence (I-ATE)
Utilizing Primary Sources Workshop
The IATE Utilizing Primary Sources Workshop will introduce faculty to teaching with primary sources, focusing on pedagogical strategies for student engagement. Faculty presenters from UM Libraries, Special Collections, and the Lowe Art Museum will give an overview of primary sources, highlight specific UM resources through our distinctive and digital collections, and provide guidance on finding aids, resources, support.
REGISTER: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuceihrzwiEtwZ2GpxNi7x2dM09enMf05t
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Friday, Apr. 23, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
PETAL Speaker Series
Breakfast w/ Social Justice: Creating a Classroom Climate that Fosters Dialogue
Speaker: Dr. Kira Banks, Saint Louis University
Today, teaching amidst calls for social justice is eminent. Have you ever wondered how to have meaningful discussions about inequity or current events in the classroom? Come join Dr. Kira Banks who has been successfully facilitating difficult dialogues for over 20 years and has been described as making complex and controversial topics accessible and intergroup interactions more understandable. She has done so in schools, communities, institutions of higher education and corporations. In this talk Dr. Banks will share 1) why these dialogues are relevant for any classroom, 2) tips about how to structure them, and 3) advice for what you need to do personally to be most effective.
Dr. Kira Banks has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves, others and systems of oppression for over 20 years. She co-founded the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity at Saint Louis University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. Banks’ research examines the experience of discrimination, its impact on mental health and intergroup relations. Her courses have ranged from Abnormal Psychology to the Psychology of Racism. Banks has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed outlets including American Psychological Association journals such as American Psychologist, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. She has also contributed to The Harvard Business Review and popular media outlets such as The Guardian and The Atlantic.
Banks’ expertise was sought after and she served as a racial equity consultant for the Ferguson Commission and continued as the Racial Equity Catalyst for Forward Through Ferguson. Her thinking and writing has helped frame racial equity in the St. Louis region. Banks has a podcast, Raising Equity, where she supports adults in talking to kids about systems of oppression and translates psychological concepts for lay people. She believes strongly that research should be useful and can inform our everyday lives.
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https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpc-Gprz8rHNODL3EF3JKiyfVCev1CohHG
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