Could you (or your students) benefit from some TLC for library research? Reference librarians are available for Zoom or phone consultations to assist UP students, faculty, and staff with their research. Ask us questions about getting started, choosing the best places to search, creating an efficient search strategy, identifying relevant resources, organizing and managing your […]
Teaching & Learning Collaborative
TLC Tip of the Week: Ways to Take Care of Yourself
These days, creating a sustainable “work-life balance” feels as elusive as a unicorn, but it’s an absolute necessity to ensure you are still whole and healthy by the time we get to The Other Side of the pandemic. A recent article by Rebecca Pope-Ruark in Inside Higher Ed lays out several doable strategies for college […]
TLC Tip of the Week: The Mindset of the Class of 2024
This is not so much a teaching tip as a snapshot of our incoming first year students. For years, Beloit College published a list of things first-year students had ALWAYS and NEVER known, to provide instructors with historical touchstones, and help us avoid making embarrassingly out-of-date pop culture references in class. The operation moved to […]
TLC From The TLC: Teaching Tip Of The Week
The Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC) would like to share a teaching tip of the week with a video reflection on “What is the Core of a UP education?” (as a follow-up on the Core curriculum revitalization). For past TLC teaching tips of the week see the Teaching and Learning Hub, which also has a […]
Core Matters: Fine Arts, History, and Math
Three new essays have been posted on the Teaching & Learning site as part of the Core Matters series, which offer richly thoughtful explanations of the role each discipline plays in our University core curriculum. Learn about a discipline you might not yet have pondered: Nicole Leupp Hanig and Mead Hunter discuss Fine Arts 207; Brad Franco […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Managing YOUR Stress as a College Instructor
The “UP Way” of being here for our students is unparalleled. Done with our whole minds, hearts and souls, it can also take quite a toll on us as teachers. As we head into the amazing perk of Christmas Break, the Tweet version of this TLC teaching tip is TAKE THE BREAK! The longer version […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Helping Students Get More Out of Group Assignments
In this 6-minute IGNITE-funded video, Naveen Gudigantala of the Pamplin School of Business Administration offers portable ideas for helping students learn more from group work. He also offers tips on avoiding common pitfalls of student collaborations. For more information, contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu.
A Conversation on Why Pronouns Matter, Oct. 2
On Wednesday, October 2, all are invited to bring a lunch and explore the background of why so many syllabi and email signatures include ‘his/him,’ ‘she/her,’ or ‘they/their.’ The Teaching & Learning Collaborative will host a brownbag lunch conversation around the question “Why do pronouns matter?” in the Murphy Room from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 […]
TLC from The TLC: Cultivating World Citizenship
UP aims to cultivate world-citizenship in its students; are faculty up to the task? In this week’s Teaching & Learning submission, Lars Larson reviews the book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things are Better Than you Think that can help orient our global imaginations more accurately. For more information contact Larson at larson@up.edu.
Untethered Lecture Capture Workshop, April 3
The Teaching & Learning Collaborative will host one more peer-led workshop from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, in the Murphy Room of Franz Hall. Come hear Carolyn James, mathematics; Jeffrey White, Learning Commons; Rebecca Smith, education; and Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, offer tips and pitfalls of the newly popular approach to teaching content-heavy […]