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2017-2018 Instructional Improvement Grant Program, UCLA Office of Instructional Development
The Instructional Improvement Grant Program supports curricular experimentation and development and instructional improvement of undergraduate offerings. Projects may be initiated by faculty, departments, or larger units. Proposals should address the specific needs of an undergraduate course or curriculum and explicate an appropriate and cost-effective response to a clearly defined pedagogical problem.
New this year are two initiatives aimed at spreading and sharing teaching improvements more broadly across campus:
- Faculty Improving Teaching (FIT) Communities. These faculty communities of practice will be an opportunity for all grantees to receive ongoing feedback and support from fellow IIP-supported faculty members and OID consultants.
- IIP Grantee Reporting. Every grantee will be expected to present their project in some venue (which could be quite informal). An additional reporting requirement is to provide a list of other instructors or courses which might benefit from similar teaching approaches.
All proposals must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 4, 2018.
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Save the Date!
Upcoming Workshop: Sharing Best Practices Across the Curriculum
May 2, 2018 | Luskin Conference Center | UCLA
Sponsored by an AAU STEM Mini-Grant as part of the project, "Building a Framework to Integrate STEM Curricular and Co-Curricular Innovations at UCLA".
To RSVP for this event, please click
here
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Apply Today!
UCLA Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching
August 6-10, 2018 | Hershey Hall
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CEILS Journal Club for STEM Education Research | Learning Community Meetings
Fridays every Quarter from 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location:
1100 TSLB
About Journal Club:
Participants explore relevant education literature in more depth and develop greater understanding of assessment techniques and data analysis methods. Presenters may select a paper and lead a discussion about how education researchers have documented the relationship between effective teaching practices and their impact on student learning, knowledge retention, and persistence in STEM majors. Alternatively, presenters describe classroom innovations and evidence-based instructional strategies they are trying in their own courses, soliciting feedback from participants while sharing their expertise in a variety of areas supporting instruction and assessment in STEM classrooms. Faculty, graduate students, and postdocs are welcome to participate!
Spring 2018 Schedule:
- April 6 | Jess Gregg, CEILS Associate Director for Educational Development
- "Left Behind: How Exclusion in California's Colleges and Universities Hurts Our Values, Our Students, and Our Economy" - Report by The Campaign for College Opportunity, March 2018
- April 13 | Elizabeth Reid-Wainscoat, Masters Candidate and Lecturer in the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- April 20 | Jane Shevtsov, Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) Fellow and Lecturer in the Life Sciences Core Education Department
- April 27 | No Journal Club
- May 4 | Bill Grisham, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology-Behavioral Neuroscience
- May 11 | No Journal Club
- May 18 | Jenny Link, UCLA Postdoctoral Longitudinal Investment in Faculty Training (UPLIFT) Scholar in the Dept. of Medicine-Cardiology
- May 25 | No Journal Club
- June 1 | Kirsten Turlo, Lecturer for the UCLA Biomedical Research Minor
*Please join us for a social hour following the last journal club of the quarter on June 1.
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Postdoctoral Scholars & Graduate Students
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CIRTL @ UCLA - Spring 2018 Programming
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Join the CIRTL community to access resources and events.
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RESOURCE: UCLA Career Hub
Professional Development for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
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UCLA Office of Instructional Development - TA Training Program
Spring 2018 Workshops
The TA Training Program is excited to announce new TA workshops for Spring Quarter. Whether you are currently TAing or would like to TA in the future, please join us to learn new strategies and skills for the classroom in our small-group, hands-on workshops. Topics for the month of April include:
- Starting the Teaching Portfolio
- Creating Inclusive Classrooms
- How Students Learn
- Improved Communication for the Multicultural Classroom
- Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences Writing
- Active Learning Strategies for STEM Discussion Sections
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Resource:
A favorite listserv for STEM education news, please
subscribe
to STEM|PROF
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New study of undergraduate STEM courses finds that lectures remain dominant -- despite finding after finding questioning their effectiveness.
See the research paper published in the March 2018 issue of Science Magazine:
Congratulations
to Erin Sanders (CEILS), Blaire Van Valkenburgh (Life Sciences), Frank Laski (Life Sciences), Kevin Eagan (Education), Christopher Lee (Physical Sciences), and Marc Levis-Fitzgerald (OID) for their contributions to the largest-ever observational study of undergraduate STEM education.
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Strategies for making learning more accessible for students with disabilities often make the classroom experience better for all students, writes Sara Schley.
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A new study in PS: Political Science combines elements of prior research on gender bias in student evaluations of teaching, or SETs, and arrives at a serious conclusion: institutions using these evaluations in tenure, compensation and other personnel decisions may be engaging in gender discrimination. The study says students rate male instructors more highly than women, even when they're teaching identical courses.
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Columnist Anne Curzan argues for faculty members' engaging in more discussion and mentoring about graduate pedagogy.
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"Sexual minority" students were 7% less likely to persist towards a STEM degree compared to their heterosexual peers.
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EPIC Inaugural Conference - Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching
April 5-6, 2018 | Royce Hall | UCLA
UCLA’s Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program is pleased to invite you to its inaugural conference, Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching on April 5-6, 2018. This conference encompasses many of EPIC’s investments towards innovative teaching and learning in the humanities during the program’s five-year span. The event will bring together panelists who are working within the humanities or in interdisciplinary humanities fields and who are committed to creating inclusive and impactful learning environments for students through their pedagogical approaches and research work. Through this conference, humanities teaching will be highlighted as a locus for cutting-edge and culturally responsive teaching, while showcasing the immense value of humanities education.
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Opening Reception - Inspirational Illuminations: Reacting to Medieval Manuscripts
April 5, 2018 | 3-5p
UCLA Powell Library Rotunda
You are invited to join the students of History 119D to celebrate the opening of their exhibit "Inspirational illuminations: Reacting to Medieval Manuscripts" on April 5, 3-5pm in the Powell Library Rotunda. The collection of works includes reaction projects to the Getty Center's summer 2017 exhibit on women in the Middle Ages. The full exhibit will be on display from April 3 through June 15th.
Please come and support our undergraduates.
RSVP
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Summer Institutes - Scientific Teaching in Practice Webinar
5-Minute Teaching Ideas
April 20, 12-1 PT
This webinar will focus on sharing short learning activities that can be quickly implemented in the classroom without significant prep work. (
https://yale.zoom.us/j/905450379
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Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
May 18, 12-1 PT
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National Events & Conferences
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CSUF HSI Conference - Dissecting the STEM Education Ecosystem in Hispanic Serving Institutions: Regional Insights from Southern California
April 25-27, 2018
Marriott Fullterton, Fullerton, CA
The three-day workshop will discuss six topics relevant to and representing the ecosystem processes of undergraduate STEM education at HSIs: preparing pre-college students, transforming the first-year college experience, smoothing transitions from two- to four-year HSIs, building coalition among stakeholders in the undergraduate research experience, removing academic barriers, and sustaining ecosystems on HSI campuses.
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National STEM Education Center (NSEC) 2018 National Conference
June 6-8, 2018
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, OH
Call for proposals coming soon in January! Poster abstracts must be submitted by April 30th.
Early discount registration rates runs until April 3 ($385), at which point we will transition to regular registration until May 9 ($405), and late registration until June 6 ($425).
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Wicked Problems: Investigating Real-World Problems in the Biology Classroom (Summer Workshop 2018)
June 18-23, 2018
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
Climate change. Emerging infectious diseases. Water quality. Crop production. We invite you to explore how to use wicked problems like these to engage your students in your classroom, and beyond. Wicked problems are open-ended, complex problems without clear solutions, which involve both social and scientific challenges. These problems are a space to add effective pedagogical approaches such as case pedagogies, and community based or place-based learning. Wicked problems also provide a rich space to include systems thinking, interdisciplinary approaches, and quantitative skills such as data science and modeling.
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2018 ASCN Systematic Change Institute
July 18-20, 2018
Philadelphia, PA
The Institute is designed to support campus change agents in using institutional change strategies to advance STEM change projects to greater scale and sustainability. Institute participants will learn about the national context and drivers for change, theories and frameworks of change and the logistics of managing change projects to advance them to scale and sustainability. The Systemic Change Institute is a year-long commitment from ASCN to support teams, and a commitment by teams to work with mentors toward achieving project goals. Institute participants will be mentored throughout the year by STEM leaders, researchers, and change agents who have experience with reform projects. Virtual progress meetings will also be scheduled throughout the following year, and mentors will make one site visit to each team's institution.
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2018 PKAL STEM Leadership Institute
Institute I: July 10-15, 2018
Institute II: July 17-22, 2018
The Claggett Center, Adamstown, MD
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CourseSource Writing Studio Workshop
July 25-27, 2018
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Editorial board members for the journal
CourseSource
are hosting a Writing Studio workshop just ahead of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) meeting in July. This opportunity is open to instructors who teach biology to undergraduate students (including faculty, graduate students, and postdocs) and are interested in publishing their work in CourseSource.
The Writing Studio will provide time for you to work on your
CourseSource
manuscript, receive advice and feedback from editorial staff, and connect you with other prospective authors.
Application review will begin on May 4, 2018.
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2018 SABER National Meeting
July 27-29, 2018
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Submit abstracts and workshop proposals now! The deadline for submission is April 9.
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2018 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education
July 29 - August 2, 2018
Notre Dame University
The 25th BCCE is designed to provide you with opportunities for interacting with chemistry instructors of all levels in formal and informal settings. There will be a mixture of plenary lectures, symposia, workshops, chemical demonstrations, poster sessions, exhibits and tours of chemistry research areas.
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2018 SENCER Summer Institute
August 2-5, 2018
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
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2018 SACNAS Conference - The National Diversity in STEM Conference
October 11-13, 2018
San Antonio, TX
SACNAS is an inclusive organization dedicated to fostering the success of Chicano/Hispanic and Native American scientists, from college students to professionals, in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in STEM.
Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral scholars are encouraged to participate by presenting research via a poster or an oral presentation, and will receive valuable feedback from mentors.
Deadline: April 13, 2018
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Read more
about eligibility, application requirements and deadlines.
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2018 POD Network Annual Conference
November 14-18, 2018
Hilton Portland Downtown, Portland, OR
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Featured Job Opportunities
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FEATURED LISTINGS:
Postdoctoral Opportunities (Various Fields)
Vanderbilt University
► For more information and how to apply, see the current listings
here
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Lecturer Position - Genetics
University of Michigan
[Tenure-Track] Biology Faculty
Hartford Community College, Maryland
Postdoctoral Research Associate in STEM Education
Automated Analysis of Constructed Response Research Group
Michigan State University
Associate Director, Center for Science and Math in Context (COSMIC)
University of Massachusetts Boston
Assistant Professor: Mathematics Education / Associate Director of the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center (MSLC)
San Diego State University
PREVIOUS LISTINGS:
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position
Western Michigan University
Teaching Specialist Position
The University of Kansas
(Two) Visiting Faculty Position in Biology
University of Richmond
Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Microbiology
La Salle University
HHMI Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental DNA Research and Science Education Research & Communication
University of California, Los Angeles
HHMI Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental DNA Research, Education, and Outreach
UC Santa Cruz
Assessment and Evaluation Specialist
Cornell Center for Teaching Innovations
► Please view the job description and apply
here.
Preparing Future Faculty Fellow Position
James Madison University
Director, Endeavor Center for Faculty Development
Rollins College
Contract/Grant Professor (Open Rank) of Science Education
Western Michigan University
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Connect with UCLA's Center for Education Innovation & Learning in the Sciences
For more information about CEILS events and resources, including a list of STEM education events from previous mailers, please visit the CEILS website at www.ceils.ucla.edu or stop by our CEILS offices in Hershey Hall (Rooms 122,126, 210 & 243).
If you wish to be added to the CEILS mailing list for future newsletters and special announcements, please send your request to
media@ceils.ucla.edu
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Please note, this monthly Newsletter is circulated through many departmental listservs. Most other CEILS correspondence, including special event announcements and reminders, are sent to CEILS mailing list recipients only. Thanks!
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