Events for Faculty and Instructional Staff
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Spring 2025 Teaching Workshops
CATLOE's teaching workshops and benchwork sessions are highly interactive. They replicate active learning so you can experience what it might be like to use evidence-based strategies, methods, or techniques in your own classrooms. All of our events provide guided support for implementing what you’ve learned in your teaching.
Helping Students Use Generative AI to Support their Learning: A Benchwork Session
Wednesday, January 29, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Friday, February 7, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
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A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate, high-impact, low-effort changes. We invite you to join us for one of these sessions to develop pedagogically sound strategies to help students use generative AI tools to support their learning in your courses. You will work through a series of guided steps to explore key strategies for designing activities and assignments that incorporate productive and thoughtful use of artificial intelligence.
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Discourage Students from Cheating with AI on Assessments: A Benchwork Session
Thursday, January 30, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Tuesday, February 4, 10:30 – noon
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A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate, high-impact, low-effort changes. We invite you to join us for one of these sessions and bring in an assessment for a course you are currently teaching. You will work through a set of guided steps to help you make small changes that will discourage cheating with AI and prevent students from short-circuiting their learning!
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Developing an AI Policy for Your Course: A Benchwork Session
Wednesday, February 12, 10:30 a.m. – noon
Friday, February 21, 10:30 a.m. – noon
CATLOE (Directions to CATLOE)
A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate, high-impact, low-effort changes. We invite you to join us for one of these sessions to develop pedagogically sound strategies for communicating with students about AI and your course. Before the benchwork session, you will complete a pre-workshop guide that includes a series of preparatory steps to help you decide whether AI has a role in students’ learning in your course. At the benchwork session, you will learn ways to persuasively communicate your decisions about whether students will or won’t use AI in your course.
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Introduction to Generative AI: A Working Session for Beginners
Friday, February 14, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Tuesday, February 18, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
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A CATLOE working session is an opportunity to experience a specific pedagogical approach or tool with an eye to considering how it might be useful to you and your students. We invite you to join us for one of these sessions to learn how instructors and students can access and use Generative AI interfaces that are readily available to them. If you haven’t previously played much (or at all) with Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT, this working session is for you! We will cover the basics, such as accessing these platforms, prompt writing, and file sharing with AI. Please bring your laptop and your sense of exploration!
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Teaching with Technology Workshops
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Brightspace Training Webinars
We also invite you to visit our collection of Brightspace Training Videos.
Introduction to Brightspace
Monday, January 13, 10 – 11 a.m.
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Brightspace Quizzes
Monday, January 13, 7 – 8 p.m.
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Brightspace Discussions
Tuesday, January 14, 10 – 11 a.m.
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Introduction to Brightspace
Tuesday, January 14, 7 – 8 p.m.
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Effectively Build and Organize your Brightspace Course
Wednesday, January 15, 10 – 11 a.m.
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Brightspace Discussions
Wednesday, January 15, 8 – 9 p.m.
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Brightspace Assignments
Thursday, January 16, 10 – 11 a.m.
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Effectively Build and Organize your Brightspace Course
Tuesday, January 16, 7 – 8 p.m.
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Let’s set up your Brightspace Gradebook
Friday, January 17, 10 – 11 a.m.
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Brightspace Quizzes
Tuesday, January 21, 10 – 11 a.m.
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Let’s set up your Brightspace Gradebook
Tuesday, January 21, 7 – 8 p.m.
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Brightspace Assignments
Wednesday, January 22, 7 – 8 p.m.
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Workshops for Graduate Students
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Spring 2025 Workshops for Graduate Students - Preparing for Academic Job Interview
The academic job market is more competitive than ever, and a key part of the search process is preparing for screening and on-campus interviews (also called "extended” interviews when conducted remotely). In this three-part series, you will learn how to prepare for interviews, how to prepare a teaching demonstration, and how to prepare your “job talk” (the overview of your research required for most searches). This series of short, high-impact workshops will prepare you for the new reality of the academic job market. Graduate students in all stages are encouraged to participate; however, these workshops are most effective when taken in advance of the job search process, ideally at least a year before entering the academic job market. Register for all three or choose those you need most.
Making a Strong Impression in Interviews
Wednesday, February 19, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Zoom
If you’re getting ready for the academic job market or you’re on it, you need to get ready for interviews! In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn about the different purposes of interviews and the best ways to prepare for them. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of what to expect during interviews, how to avoid potential pitfalls, and how to come across as the calm, collected professional they are looking for. You’ll also get key tips on managing the Zoom platform during screening interviews. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the interview and be invited to work further on your interview skills and strategies with a CATLOE consultant.
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Powerful Teaching Demonstrations
Tuesday, February 25, 10:30 a.m. – noon
Zoom
Whether you’re applying for a teaching-focused or a research-focused faculty position, you will be required to demonstrate your teaching ability during the on-campus or extended interview. Don’t wait to prepare! This interactive workshop will help you make good decisions based on the context of the demonstrations you may be asked to do and give you some ideas of how to best communicate your teaching skills in this high-pressure situation. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the teaching demonstration and be invited to work further on the demonstration with a CATLOE consultant.
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Secrets of an Excellent Job Talk
Thursday, March 6, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Zoom
Whether you are interviewing for a position that focuses on teaching or research, you are likely going to be asked to give the “job talk,” where you share your research with the search committee and other attendees. But what are you really being asked to do when you give the job talk? If you don’t know the secrets of the job talk, you risk confusing or boring your audience during this crucial part of the on-campus or extended interview. In this interactive workshop you’ll learn how to create a job talk that impresses the audience and communicates more than just your research. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the job talk and be invited to work further on the job talk with a CATLOE consultant.