Welcome to fall term and, with it, a return to UO’s beautiful, energizing campus.
You’ll find
essential policy and guidance as we return to more in-person teaching at the
Fall 2021 Teaching Resources and Support page. Highlighted there: Academic Council’s expectations, including
that quarantining and isolating students should be
held harmless by course attendance and participation policies and have
equitable access to course content.
Corona Corps has developed an
Instructor Guide and
other resources you can use in your classes about classroom COVID safety. Corona Corps asks that instructors, especially of larger classes, consider seating charts or zones to help with contact tracing.
Mike Urbancic, senior instructor of economics, has provided more than
25 seating charts of large classrooms, now incorporated into the classroom information available at
classrooms.uoregon.edu. (
See an example for Straub 156.) Seating charts help instructors learn and use students’ names, and they can be used to form and promote small groups for in-class activities and discussions (
read more).
New Resources
Canvas Commons is Live
Commons is a digital library that facilitates the sharing of Canvas resources across the UO teaching community. For example, you’ll find TEP’s
Welcome Module, which you can use to orient students to the course and to each other, and the
Ducks Have Integrity module, designed to help your students develop a shared understanding of academic integrity. You’ll also find a page with all the Office of the Provost
approved syllabus statements that you can import into your course.
Academic Integrity from Day One
All incoming first years and transfer students have engaged with a new, substantive Canvas module called
Ducks Have Academic Integrity: IntroDUCKtion module. Faculty and staff in UO Libraries, TEP, UO Online, and Student Conduct and Community Standards collaborated on the module, and reaching each incoming student was made possible through a partnership with IntroDUCKtion. Instructors can view the module to see what students may have engaged with by clicking the link above, and instructors interested in using a module on academic integrity in their own class can import a shorter
Ducks Have Integrity module for individual classes. For more support around academic integrity, see our resources at the new
Teaching Support and Innovation website.
What Students Say about ‘Inclusive’ Teaching
Invitations
I. Structuring more inclusive, democratic class discussions
Thursday, October 7, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Knight Library DREAM Lab, 122A
Find out more and register here.
Structure more inclusive, democratic classroom discussion by identifying discussion ”parts” and principles, and practicing both.
This workshop identifies six parts to a discussion, six research-informed principles to apply, and will practice them together as a group.
II. Defamiliarizing Discussion
Thursday, October 21, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Knight Library DREAM Lab, 122A
Find out more and register here.
This workshop will consider how masks prompt us to rethink the dynamics and logistics of class discussion. We’ll strategize use of alternative social cues, virtual tools, and new techniques that defamiliarize discussion yet can enhance student contributions and collective inquiry, allowing us to facilitate lively discussions in our current context and beyond.
New Mixed Modalities Teaching Series: The Teaching Lab
Join TEP, UO Online, and Information Services for a new, experimental Teaching Lab series—a hands-on opportunity to experiment with technology tools that may enhance student engagement in the face-to-face classroom. Together we’ll explore the promise—and challenge—of particular technologies in the classroom as we practice with tools, platforms, and strategies together. 30 spaces available for each session.
I. Making the Most of ‘HyFlex’
Friday, October 15, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Tykeson Hall 204
Find out more and register here.
II. Zooming In and Out in the Face-to-Face Classroom
Friday, October 29, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Tykeson Hall 204
Find out more and register here.
III. Digital & Analog Tools for Collaborative Learning
Friday, November 12, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Tykeson Hall 204
Find out more and register here.
Science Teaching Journal Club: Teaching Science Literacy Skills
Thursdays at 9:00 a.m., LISB 217
Science literacy is more important than ever as we face COVID, climate change, and other challenges. A scientifically literate person must possess knowledge and skills in a variety of areas, such as information and visual literacies, numeracy, and more. Join us this term in the science teaching journal club as we explore these and other aspects of science literacy and examine strategies for teaching them to our students, non-science majors and science majors alike.
Connect Students to Get2KnowUO
The Division of Student Life, the Division of Undergraduate Education and Support Services, and the UO Incident Management Team are running a Get2KnowUO promotion as a way to help students learn about the many resources available to them. They would appreciate your help getting the word out and
offer these slides in case you’d like to use them. Students can complete challenges and win prizes, and can register by visiting
https://get2knowuo.uoregon.edu/ or downloading the UOregon app in the App Store or Google Play.
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