DTEI Event Calendar

Want Your Students to be More Engaged in Learning? Teach Like a Coach

Faculty Facilitator/Presenter: Patrick Hong, Engineering

Instead of thinking our jobs as instructors are to dissimulate knowledge and assess retention, what about considering our roles more like coaches in sports? We provide foundational knowledge as guidance in the huddle (lectures). During practice (most of the class time), we stand on the sidelines and cheer them on as they help each other and apply the knowledge through constructive failures. After repeated practice, we watch them able to make decisions on their own at game time when it counts (final assignments), adapting to new, never-seen-before conditions. All this is active learning! Come to the workshop to learn best practices from different instructors across different disciplines and class sizes on how active learning can be implemented with various digital technologies.

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Building Class Community in Various Instructional Modalities

Faculty Facilitator/Presenter:  Brandon Golob, Criminology, Law & Society

In this workshop, we will explore different practices and activities for helping students connect to course material and each other to cultivate class community regardless of instructional modality.

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FrancesContreras,Dean of the School of Education, will be speaking on Wednesday, November 9,from 11-12pm in SBSG 1517 and via Zoom on “Challenges for First Generation and LatinoStudents Navigating UC: Confronting the Hidden Curriculum at UCI.”

Dr. Contreras, Dean and Professor in the UCI School of Education, will present on her work to advance research and practices across the UC to enhance academic and social supports for first generation and underrepresented students. This work draws on her research agenda as well as engagement with promising UC intervention programs designed to create more seamless pathways to the University of California and support student academic success, retention, degree completion and post graduate options.

As a first-generation college student and Professor, Dr. Contreras is the first Chicana/Latina Dean to lead a School of Education in the UC system. Previously, Dr. Contreras was an Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and a Professor in the Department of Education Studies at UC San Diego.

Questions? Email socsciequity@uci.edu.

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DTEI would love to learn more about your classes this quarter and how we can support your teaching goals. We are hosting a coffee break for all instructors in the School of Humanities and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts on Thursday, November 10th, from 10:00am - 11:30am in ALP 2200. This will be an opportunity for you to share what successes and challenges are happening in the Arts and Humanities classrooms and for us to hopefully provide you with valuable feedback. Your thoughts will also help us tailor future DTEI programming.

If you are interested in attending, we ask that you please RSVP so we make sure to have enough coffee and snacks for everyone.

Digital Tools for Student Engagement: Classroom Learning & Collaboration

Faculty Facilitator/Presenter:   Barry Goldenberg, Education

Tired of the usual think-pair-share activity? This workshop will present two digital tools that engage students in collaborative ways and promote shared thinking and active interaction with course content. This workshop will cover the What, Why and How of Padlet & Mentimeter, including best practices and effective methods of implementation. We encourage you to bring a laptop to get the most out of this hands-on workshop!

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Faculty enjoy exchanging teaching ideas with each other and sharing classroom experiences. Coffee Meets Teaching is a faculty speed dating program inviting UCI faculty from across campus to meet for coffee and engage in casual conversations about teaching. DTEI will offer each faculty participant a $10 Starbucks gift card to facilitate additional coffee and conversation sessions throughout the quarter.

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