TEACH Past Events

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TEACH Team Listening Session, September 2, 2021

The TEACH group has been attending listening sessions and de-briefs to hear from faculty about their teaching experiences. Presenter: Rajini Srikanth – Dean of the Honors College and Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts

Past Webinars - Spring 2021

1. Thriving in Remote Teaching: Demo and Questions Answered - 1/11 @ 1 pm
2. Synchronous Learning Fatigue - 1/12 @ 1 pm
3. Overview of EdTech Tools for Student Engagement: Demo and Questions Answered - 1/13 @1 pm
4. Recording Asynchronous Videos with Echo360: Demo and Questions Answered - 1/14 @ 1 pm
5. Zoom and Collaborate Practice Session - 1/15 @ 1 pm
6. Engage Students with VoiceThread Discussions and Assignments Demo and Questions Answered - Tuesday, 2/16 @ 1 pm
7. Engage Students with Echo360 Embedded Polling Demo and Questions Answered - Wednesday, 2/17 @ 1 pm
8. Learn How to Build Tests in Blackboard Demo and Questions Answered - Thursday, 2/18 @1 pm
9. Engage Students with G-Suite Apps Demo and Questions Answered - Friday, 2/19 @ 1 pm
10. Engage Students with Blackboard Groups Demo and Questions Answered - Monday, 2/22 @ 1 pm
11. Blackboard Lunch & Learns: Communications - Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 12 pm–2 pm
12. Blackboard Lunch and Learns: Exams - Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 12 pm –2 pm
13. Blackboard Lunch and Learn: Grade Center - Thursday, March 18, 2021, 12 pm –2 pm
14. Pronto: A new way to connect with your students - Thursday, March 18, 2021, 2 pm –3 pm
15. LinkedIn Learning: Free resources within Blackboard - Thursday, March 18, 2021, 11 am–11:30 am
16. LinkedIn Learning: Free resources within Blackboard - Friday, March 19, 2021, 11 am–11:30 am
17. Designing effective Assessments: Demo and Questions Answered- Friday, May 21, 2021, 10 am
18. Thriving in Remote Teaching: Demo and Questions Answered- Monday, May 24, 2021, 2 pm
19. Zoom Practice Session: Demo and Questions Answered- Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 1 pm
20. Remote Discussions: Keeping your class engaged Demo and Questions Answered- Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 1 pm
21. Recording Asynchronous Videos with Echo360: Demo and Questions Answered- Thursday, May 27, 2021, 1 pm

Past Events - Spring 2021

Reflections on Fall '20 Remote Teaching in Preparation for Spring ’21

January 7, 2021, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

We have invited back 5 distinguished faculty panelists from the Fall to report on one or two teaching practices from their Fall courses that they will or will not carry forward into Spring and why. Their reflections are intended to start a fruitful conversation among all participants about planning for Spring in the remote mode. Please join us for a rich discussion on matters pedagogical, technological, and relational in preparation for SP 21.

Panelists:

• Suha Ballout, Nursing
• Lauren Bowen, English
• Mary Ann Brink, History
• Chris Denning, Curriculum and Instruction
• Werner Kunz, Marketing

Beyond Stress Relief: Building resilience in the midst of uncertainty.

January 21, 2021, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Radical Self Care: Self-care for trying times. This workshop will focus on basic strategies for physical and emotional self-care, with an emphasis on integrating mindfulness into our everyday lives.  

Presenter: Linda Dunphy, Director, UHS Health Education and Wellness Program & Adjunct Faculty, CNHS

Using Breakout Rooms to Enhance Connection and Communication

January 22, 2021, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

The TEACH SPRING 2021 group has been attending listening sessions and de-briefs to hear from faculty about their remote teaching experiences.

No theme has come up more often than the use of breakout rooms to engage students interactively in their own learning. We have been impressed by the creative ways that breakout rooms are being used in large, medium, and small classes across the disciplines. These uses support our four governing concepts for remote learning: Connection, Communication, Flexibility and Consistency.

We invite you to attend our next event where a faculty panel will share their breakout room practices and purposes.  A discussion will follow.  We hope to see you there!

Presenters:

• Ellen Frank – Faculty, Economics, College of Liberal Arts
• Linda Chiofar – Faculty - College of Nursing and Health Sciences
• Deborah Budden – Faculty, English, CLA
• Members of the Zoom & eLearning Team

Accommodating Differences among Multilingual Students: The Power of Scaffolding 

Hadi Banat, Assistant Professor of English ESL Director

Monday, February 8, 2021: 2:30-3:30  

This workshop will familiarize faculty across the disciplines with the reasons for variation among multilingual student populations and offer practical strategies related to genre conventions and scaffolding in assignment design. The workshop will also demystify the surface language feature dilemmas that some faculty experience with multilingual writing and offer guidance on reading generously for meaning.

Strengthening Faculty-Student Interaction and Communication

Featuring Five Faculty Videos on Connecting with and Learning from Students

March 11, 2021, @ 2:30-4:00 pm

The TEACH group has been working since last summer to support faculty in the pivot to remote teaching. Hundreds of faculty members have joined us and we have found this collaboration gratifying.  Recent surveys sponsored by the Faculty Council and Undergraduate Student Government, however, have drawn our attention to areas of student discontent which include the perception of unmanageable workloads and a loss of connection with their professors.

We believe that more intentional, sustained communication between students and instructors would go a long way toward addressing these concerns.

For that reason, TEACH Spring 2021 has launched a video project in which selected faculty across the University to describe how they regularly solicit student feedback, do wellness checks, listen carefully, clarify their purposes and make adjustments as needed. We invite you to our first event using some of these impressive 3-minute videos.

We will focus on practical steps you can take at mid-term and offer how-to instruction in the technologies described. The video authors include:

• Lauren Bowen, English
• Bob Chen, School for the Environment
• Linda Chiofar, Nursing
• Chris Denning, Curriculum and Instruction
• Andrew Perumal, Economics

Moving Forward: Recognize, Appreciate, Share

Monday, May 17, 2021, 12:30 - 1:30 pm

• Join the TEACH Spring 2021 team as we celebrate our incredible faculty and amazing colleagues in Ed Tech and Instructional Design for their exceptional efforts in shifting to the remote mode!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in letting one of us know.  

Fall 2020 Webinars/Events

1. Blackboard for the Remote or Online Course
2. Synchronous Teaching with Zoom or Collaborate
3. Engaging your Students with VoiceThread
4. Recording Asynchronous Videos with echo360
5. Overview of EdTech Tools for Student Engagement
6. Surviving Remote Teaching: 5 Things You Need to Know
7. In the Remote Classroom: The Grading Workflow
8. Asynchronous Teaching with Echo 360 or VoiceThread
9. With Accessibility in Mind
10. Teacher Presence in a Remote Classroom
11. Zoom Practice Session
12. Blackboard Tool Talk
13. Assignments and Tests
14. Collaborate Questions Answered
15. Attendance in Blackboard
16. Assessments and Academic Integrity (interactive how-to session)
17. Grade Center Practice Session and Demo (Password: 13rU+ej)
18. Blackboard Groups Practice Session and Demo
19. Quickly Build Blackboard Tests with Respondus Quiz Builder
20. Manage Final Presentations in Zoom for Large Enrollment Classes

Past Events - Fall 2020

Focus Group: Faculty Teaching Large Classes (11/12/2020)

Teach Fall 2020 Listening Session (09/22/2020)

Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity in Remote Learning Assessment (09/01/2020)

• Carol Sharicz – Former Interim Dir. Center for Innovative Teaching - IT will present best practices to promote academic integrity in online education.
• Maryann Brink, Senior Lecturer, History, will discuss her process-based strategies for writing assignments that improve accountability and permit feedback each step of the way. 
• Swaminathan Iyer, Lecturer, Computer Science, will discuss the methods he used in Spring and new methods he is considering for Fall such as open responses, coding exercises, Gradescope, randomizing test questions, and extending time on exams.
• Kate Archard,  Writing Program Director, College of Management will discuss the use of Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor for writing placement testing in the College—their functionality and challenges. She will also describe alternatives for students who have a tablet PC or Chromebook rather than a laptop computer.  

Deep Dive into Using Zoom (08/18/2020)

• Supporting Student Writing Development Through Remote Instruction – Prof. Lauren Bowen, Department of English – Assistant Professor and Director of Composition Program

Synchronous and Asynchronous Approaches for Active Remote Learning (08/11/2020)

Other resources:

• Amy Cook – TEACH Fall 2020 PowerPoint and Sample Syllabus
• Andrew Perumal – Teaching Asynchronously (PowerPoint)
• Denise Patmon - Flipping teaching in the remote classroom
• Remote Teaching – Prof. Werner Kunz – College of Management, Marketing

Supporting Our Students’ Well-Being Remotely (08/04/2020)

• DOS Supporting Our Students
• Fall 2020 COVID-19 & Remote Learning at UMass Panel
• Recognizing when a Student is Struggling
• UHS Wellness Program 
• Asian American Student Success Program

Gaston Institute Webinars

Prof. Lorna Rivera resources:

• Voices From The Field: Latinx Students In Massachusetts During COVID-19
• Latinx Students Speak Out: Education in the time of COVID-19
• Early Education and Care: Latinx families and providers in the time of COVID-19
• Education in the time of COVID-19: The voice of the educators
• Fall 2020 COVID-19 & Remote Learning at UMass Panel  (PowerPoint)

Prof. Ester Shapiro Presentation:

• Ester Shapiro 8 4 20 Supporting Latinx UMass Boston students TEACH FALL 2020
• Asian American - COVID-19 Outbreak Racism Stories© Project

Engaging Students Remotely (07/16/2020)