Join us via Zoom!
UT's Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) is partnering with UT Libraries to host our fifth Graduate Teaching Showcase to highlight excellent graduate student teaching at UT Austin. The centerpiece of the Showcase is a series of personal narratives about teaching presented by UT graduate students (check out videos of 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2016 awardees).
Join us via Zoom!
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“Graduate Teaching Showcase, March 26, 2021, 9-11am.
Learn about the interesting issues and ideas that UT Graduate students are encountering as instructors at UT! Graduate students around the university competed for an opportunity to present quick and compelling talks about teaching. There will be time for interaction, discussion and opportunity to apply new ideas to practice. Please see presenter info and abstracts below (please note, this is not the same order in which they will present). RSVP by March 24: http://bit.ly/GTS21RSVP
SPEAKERS
Jaden Janak, African and African Diaspora Studies. “The Consequences of ‘The Talk:’ Confronting Racially biased Policing in the Classroom.” This presentation meditates on the necessity of anti-racist curricula within the classroom. I will be sharing my experience as a Black Studies TA navigating deeply personal conversations about police violence with my students via Zoom. Whether in a Biology or Math classroom or an English or Black Studies one, anti-racist conversations within our classrooms are indeed a matter of life or death. It is imperative that all of us across the university, discipline, methodology, and rank, engage deeply with them.
Serena Brandler, Psychology. “Best Laid Plans: How Flexibility in Lesson Planning Enhances Student Learning.” Lesson plans are an important tool for educators, but it is often a balancing act to efficiently cover the material while responding to students’ needs in real time. This talk covers a moment in my own teaching where I discovered the power of going off script. I discuss a simple but effective peer instruction activity that came from this experience and introduce a framework for dynamically responding to students’ needs in class.
Heather Dunham, Curriculum and Instruction. “Morning Meetings: Building Classroom Communities In-Person and Online.” How do we build classroom communities with undergraduate students, especially in a classroom environment that requires us to interact with each other through a screen? One pedagogical practice that I have brought with me from my previous years teaching elementary school is a Morning Meeting—a Responsive Classroom Approach that helps facilitate a strong sense of community in the classroom. In this session, I will share how I adapted this strategy during the university’s transition to virtual instruction and why the importance of building a classroom community is still relevant, even in an online setting.
Sydney Landers, School of Architecture. “Personalizing Your Teaching Approach.” In ARC308, we teach our students to ‘experience’ architecture. By giving them the tools they need to interpret and analyze a wide survey of worldly buildings, students can begin to understand the impact of the designed environment they live in everyday.
Kate Nelson, French & Italian. “Balancing Voices in the Classroom.” This presentation will address strategies for balancing voices in the classroom between students who feel the privilege to speak out and those who don’t feel comfortable contributing to the conversation.”