Oakland University Workshop Calendar

Implicit Bias in Teaching

Description : Learning outcomes: Understand the science and research of unconscious bias; Identify how bias and the processes of the unconscious mind can impact critical decisions and results in our everyday lives; Become aware of your own background, and its impact on your perceptions so you are better able to advocate for inclusion in your organization; Apply new strategies for practicing more conscious awareness individually and organizationally; Understand where biases show up in our academic environments

2023 Highlighting Teaching Excellence Award Event

Description : The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning are proud to co-sponsor a special session highlighting and celebrating the teaching excellence of our 2023 Teaching Award Winners. Come and hear their stories and how they engage, inspire and connect with students, and learn about the call for nominations for the 2024 Teaching Awards.

Meme-ingful Teaching: Leveraging Memes for Interactive Lessons and Activities

Description : In this workshop, participants will see examples of how to incorporate memes in their lessons. Regardless of your teaching modality (face-to-face, hybrid, online synchronous and asynchronous) you can use memes to add some variety and interaction in your courses. This workshop will highlight where to find meme templates and provide a few activity examples of memes in practice.

Collaborative Reflection with “Mapping Participatory Media”

Description : While reflective practice often occurs as a siloed activity, this Mapping Participatory Media tool facilitates a collaborative action-based guide to reflection for collaborative engagement. As a result of the session, you will be able to organize a research plan involving other participants, identify multiple components impacting a research process, and visualize and record elements of a research process in one place to assist reflective actions and better define research outcomes as a working cohort. Led by Karen McGarry, art educator and 2022 teaching grant recipient.

How Do We Know If We Are Being Inclusive?

Description : Connect and interact through informal and fun discussions led by knowledgeable voices on the topics.

How Do I Know My Students Are Learning? Using Different Assessments

Description : We assign homework and tests to measure student learning, but how do we know whether these activities measure the right knowledge, skills, and dispositions? In this workshop we will review multiple types of assessment such as small assessments used for growth (formative) and varied assessments for applying knowledge differently. Then we will apply these concepts to specific scenarios.

Dashboard Graduate Debrief meeting

Description : Let’s share with one another the progress made on course and program changes based on our work in the Data-Driven Decisions series earlier this year on using the Student Success and Equity Dashboard. We will also discuss challenges you have encountered and overall share ideas for removing barriers and increasing support for students based on the Dashboard data.

Games in the College Classroom

Description : Liz Shesko from the OU Department of History, will share her experience facilitating games for learning, particularly called Reacting to the Past, a library of role-playing games developed by Barnard College.

How Do We Learn? Boosting Students’ Metacognition Skills

Description : How can we respond when a learner's assessment of their learning doesn’t match their progress? “Metacognition” is thinking about your thinking; knowledge that can be used to monitor, self-regulate and develop learning processes. In this workshop, we will review and practice metacognitive strategies that help learners develop autonomy, resilience, and problem solving skills.

FDI: PASS! in STEM

Description : Our goal is to facilitate STEM interdisciplinary discussions on perceived student barriers, ways we can improve student outcomes, and methods to support reducing equity gaps.

Preparing Future Faculty [Winter 2022]

Description : Seeking a Position in Higher Education ? 1/18/22, Teaching in Higher Education ? 2/15/22, Developing Your Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities - 3/22/22, Alternative Career Options ? 4/12/22