TA Project

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Difficult Conversations can be challenging to have in classrooms. This presentation will model how to prepare your students for productive discussions. By enacting three strategies—norm setting, historical context, and sense-making—any topic can be discussed in a respectful and productive manner.

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This workshop explores the purposes of a diversity statement for academic employment, reviews pedagogical practices for teaching diverse students, and examines how scholars can talk about diversity in their teaching and research. Armed with this information, participants review and critique sample diversity statements before work-shopping their own ideas and drafts of the diversity statement. Participants should bring any materials related to the diversity statement that they have already prepared.

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Designed to help graduate students prepare teaching portfolios. The major parts of a teaching portfolio will be covered, including teaching responsibilities, teaching philosophy and goals, and evidence of effective teaching.

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Instructors take on many roles, some expected and others less so. This session will discuss the multiple responsibilities TA’s take on as instructors in the classroom, including those associated with teaching, mentorship, discipline, listening, and making the classroom an inclusive space. Additionally, we will discuss effective ways to balance these roles, and how to set appropriate boundaries between instructor and student.

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In this workshop, we will explore how we can employ learning outcomes to support our students’ learning experience. Whether we set goals for an entire semester, for a specific module, a class, or a small activity: Deciding on the outcome and planning backwards will not only help our students but also sharpen our own perspective and teaching practice.

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This webinar will give an introduction and overview of Prezi’s newest applications:  Prezi Video - “lets you interact with your content live as you stream or record (instead of adding it later), for more natural, seamless, and compelling videos.” Prezi Videos can be produced from scratch, or you can, with one-click of your mouse, transport your Prezi Present file into a Prezi Video file.   Prezi Design – an editor that, “lets anyone make professional-looking charts, reports, maps, infographics, and more, then share them anywhere in any size."

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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This workshop will explore the incorporation of audio and video into PowerPoint presentations for the PC. We will cover the different audio and video formats that are compatable with PowerPoint and available web resources for downloading free content.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia web-based application that allows you to place collections of media-like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the center of a conversation. It can be an easy way to differentiate instruction while providing engaging choices to "show" learning, engage in conversation, and think openly and critically about content. In this workshop, you will learn how to use VoiceThread for your online courses and how to integrate it with your Sakai page.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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Prezi is a cloud-based presentation application (for both Mac and PC) that lets you organize and share ideas and information in a very dynamic way. You can lead your students (and audience) on a visual journey, collaborate in real time across time zones, and run your presentation from the cloud, desktop, iPad, or iPhone. In Intro to Prezi NEXT, you learn how to set up a free account, navigate the canvas, create topics and subtopics, utilize templates, apply text, images and video, and use the Tool/Prezi Editor.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

 

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This workshop will provide suggestions for creating an inclusive classroom environment. During this session, we will review the benefits of inclusive, equitable teaching practices and discuss specific, actionable ways that instructors and TAs can foster a welcoming environment for all students.