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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
nterested 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 observe some pedagogies that your colleagues employ and reflect on how they might relate to or enhance your own pedagogies. 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 lunch for participating faculty!
AI Exploration
If you are interested in exploring AI further, please stop by the AI Playground (BML 201) every Friday, 3 - 4 pm, for a dedicated work time, conversation, tea and treats.
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).
CTL Presents (Tuesdays Convo Hour)
professional development sessions led by the CTL faculty fellows on various topics.
10/7/25, 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/
11/11/25, 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 11, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Hamline Plan Assessment - Paula Mullineaux and Irina Makarevitch
Are you teaching Hamline Plan courses this year? Do you know how to align your assignments, learning outcomes, and rubrics? Stop by to get resources, discuss learning outcomes, and brainstorm ideas on effective ways to teach communication in various formats
October 30, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Preparing Students for an AI-infused World
Welcome to today’s Brown Bag Conversation on Preparing Students for an AI-Infused World. As artificial intelligence reshapes how we learn, work, and communicate, educators face new questions—and new opportunities—in guiding students through this evolving landscape. This session invites open dialogue about how we can thoughtfully equip our students with the skills, ethics, and adaptability needed to thrive alongside AI.
CTL Book Club
read a book, come to talk about a book, learn from and with your colleagues
October 16, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm - "Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn't Matter—and What Really Does"
Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson (Author)
How college faculty and staff can help students "hack" their college experience through a proactive, personalized approach to success.
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. Do you want a free copy of the book? Ask Irina (imakarevitch01@hamline.edu)
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 25, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
October 23, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
November 20, Thursday; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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