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Hamline Provost's Office identified High Impact Practices and Serving All Hamline Students as two main area of focus for our work, program development and review. This work will, hopefully, result in more new students coming to Hamline and an increase in retention. The Center for Teaching and Learning is eager to support you in your work! Please look at the list of events we planned and let us know what else we could do to support you!
CTL Events Google Calendar - Please add this calendar to your google calendars to never miss a CTL event you need or want!
CTL Initiatives
Long-term projects that everyone is invited to participate in
Teaching Triangles Badge
If you are interested, please complete this quick initial interest Survey
Interested in supportive peer-led conversations related to your teaching? Then this initiative led by Jodi Goldberg is for you! Teaching triangles are made up of three faculty that agree to observe each others' teaching over the course of a semester. The goal IS NOT to provide feedback to the colleagues you observe, but rather to reflect on your colleagues teaching strategies in comparison to your own. Participants will be asked to meet once with their triangle before teaching observations, observe each colleague once during the semester, and meet again after all class visits are complete. There will be two reflections that participants will complete at the end of the experience. The CTL will provide funds for lunches for participating faculty!
AI Investigations
If you are interested in presenting during Faculty Development Day on how you are exploring the use of AI for your work or with your students, please email Irina (imakarevitch01@hamline.edu). Here is the current draft of Hamline Recommendations / Guidelines for the use of AI in the classroom - your opinion matters - please add your comments and suggestions!
CTL Presents (Tuesdays Convo Hour)
professional development sessions led by the CTL faculty fellows on various topics.
10/8/24, Tuesday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - CTL Presents: It's about Learning, not Teaching - student engagement and active learning approaches
When you enter the classroom, what is your goal? What are your goals for your students? What are your students' goals? When most of us were in school, the goal for the instructor was to tell students about the topic or "to get through" a particular chunk of material. The goal for students was to take good notes and maybe understand some of it. We now know that active learning is a more efficient way to learn and many of us accept that the real goal of that class is for students to learn not for us to teach. These active learning strategies could look very different for different disciplines or be surprisingly similar. During this session, we will discuss our favorite strategies of active learning and learn with/from each other.
https://www.teachersfortomorrow.net/
10/15/24, Tuesday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - XYZs of 3D Printing
The Digital + Studio Arts department is hosting a 3D printing workshop on Tue, Oct 15, 11:30am-12:30pm in BSC 6. Any faculty and staff are invited to register. Seats are limited by lab space and offered on a first-come first-served basis but more sessions will be offered if there’s demand.
Workshop participants will learn:
how FDM 3D printers work
how to slice models and generate .gcode for 3D printing (using PrusaSlicer)
how to print models on our new Prusa MK4S 3D printers
how to change filament and choose common filament types
how to schedule time to use the 3D printers
where to find help, tools, and other 3D printing resources
The workshop will not cover 3D modeling beyond an overview of available CAD software. All materials will be provided, including small models participants can slice, print, and take home.
Register here–seats are limited by lab space: https://forms.gle/fYTWV8f7DrPqgHSb7
10/22, Tuesday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - CTL Presents: Student-Centered Pedagogy (High Impact Experiences) - Alina Oxendine and Sarah Greenman
During this hour we will explore the models for integrating High Impact practices in your courses and identify the steps you can make to improve student experiences in your courses.
11/5/24, Tuesday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - CTL Presents: Introduction to Universal Course Design - Leveling the Playing Field
During this session we will discuss Whys and Hows of the Universal Course Design - strategies to give students greater choice in how to achieve learning outcomes and how to adapt the course to students' interests and needs.
11/12/24, Tuesday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - End of the Semester Blues - strategies to help ourselves and our students
The last weeks of the semester are so important and yet could be so daunting. We will discuss strategies to maximize the value of these weeks while managing the load for both instructors and students and maintaining energy.
https://hub.hindscc.edu/blog/conquering-the-end-of-semester-blues
CTL Brown Bag Lunch, Cookies, and Conversation
collegial sessions of sharing challenges and solving problems while enjoying snacks and conversation.
September 5, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Teaching W and O courses - Kris Deffenbacher, Catheryn Jennings, Curt Lund, Kathy Burleson
Are you teaching Hamline Plan W or O courses this year? Stop by to get resources, discuss learning outcomes, and brainstorm ideas on effective ways to teach communication in various formats
September 26, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Teaching through conflict - working with students in the classroom during contentious political and social times.
Ken Fox and Kris Norman from HSB will facilitate this brown bag lunch where participants can discuss the various types of roles faculty can play in relation to contentious issues, different frameworks for constructive discussion across deep divides, and other related topics of interest.
Slides - thank you, Kris and Ken!
October 3, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Academic Freedom in Our Classrooms
Join us for a session on free speech and its limits at Hamline. We will discuss what kinds of processes could be most effective in adjudicating disputes over speech in the classroom, how to integrate discussions of free speech into our curriculum, what the differences are between free speech and academic freedom, and how we can have these discussions safely with our students.
CTL Book Club
read a book, come to talk about a book, learn from and with your colleagues
October 24, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
October 31, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Please be ready to name one idea that sticks with you / touches you the most. And please send in discussion questions you might be interested in bringing up. Sign Up Here!
Looking forward to the discussion and thank you!!
Scholarship and Pedagogy Seminar
Present your work, support your colleagues, learn, collaborate, and enjoy
If you are interested in presenting a 20-30 minutes presentation of your work - this space is for you. It could be a chance to have a trial presentation for a conference, or a discussion of your most recent project that is not quite done yet; an idea-generation session; or a conversation about something you are eager to try in your classroom. This is a space for scholarship (including creative inquiry and pedagogy) conversations with your peers from various fields.
If you are interested in presenting on one of the dates below - please email Irina (imakarevitch01@hamline.edu).
September 12, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Casper Voyles
Piloting the "CAMP-FIRE" LGBTQ Cultural Awareness Training for EMS
Despite the substanital health disparities faced by LGBTQ persons that necessitate care by Emergency Medical Services (EMS), LGBTQ-specific training for EMS have neither been evaluated in the scientific literature, nor been mandated by national EMS organizations. The time is right to engage fire departments and their EMS leaders in such efforts, as a recent industry needs assessment revealed a desire for prioritization of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. CAMP-FIRE - an intervention based on the CAMPERS Framework (Acquaviva, 2017) - is undergoing a second phase of piloting in preparation for the 2025 Pride season in partnership with the Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST). Dr. Casper Voyles and student research assistants will present their work to date on this recently funded effort and outline future plans.
October 17, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Katharine Adamyk
What does it mean to do scholarship in mathematics? In this talk, I'll use an ongoing collaborative project in algebraic topology (like geometry, but squishy) as a framework for talking about what research in theoretical math looks like and what it's for. There will be lots of pictures and lots of analogies!
November 21, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Sonal Gerten
Product, promotion, and consumer receptivity characteristics of successful inclusive brand expansions or line extensions
How are legacy brands such as Lego, Barbie, Tommy Hilfiger, and Monopoly succeeding—and falling short—with their inclusive product launches, and what is the impact on consumer sentiment? Through Amazon review analysis, we sought to identify patterns of successful launches. I welcome any questions, and ideas for integrating these research next steps into the classroom.
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