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Congratulations to UPLIFT and CIRTL Scholar-
Helen Vuong
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Helen is a scholar in the UCLA Postdoc’s Longitudinal Investment in Faculty Training (UPLIFT) program and received an award for her pedagogy poster at the 2018 Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) conference. Her poster described her teaching-as-research project, “Adapting Experiential Learning Activities to Enhance Neuroscience Education”, conducted as a certification component of UCLA’s Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (
CIRTL
) program.
This culminating experience in UCLA’s CIRTL program earnedHelen Scholar status, the topmost level in the CIRTL certification pathway. Helen’s achievements embody the CIRTL mission to enhance excellence in undergraduate education through advancing effective teaching practices for diverse learners as part of successful and varied professional careers.
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Advancing Mentoring Practices Workshop
September 12, 2018 | 8am - 5pm
During Day 1
: You will learn evidence-based approaches to research mentoring from the
Entering Mentoring
curriculum, which is specifically designed for research mentors across career stages.
During Day 2
(optional), in this Train-the-Trainer session, you will gain the knowledge and facilitation skills needed to design and deliver mentor training at your program/institution.
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Save the Date! 2018 Faculty Workshop on Best Practices in Teaching
September 20, 2018 | 8am - 5pm
Hershey Hall Grand Salon, Room 158
The agenda for our 2018 workshop is currently being developed and will be posted shortly. You can refer to our
2017 Workshop Agenda to see the type of topics that will be covered and format of the day-long event. We hope you will be able to join us in September.
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UCLA Minor in Biomedical Research is Hiring - Lecturer Opportunity
The UCLA Minor in Biomedical Research, an interdisciplinary program centered on undergraduate research, is hiring a full-time lecturer to begin in Fall 2018. Seeking an individual with a strong background in biomedical research and a passion for undergraduate education. Please see
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03940
for more details.
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i>Clicker Training Workshop
Monday September 24, 2018
2:30 - 4:00 pm Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Kristin Strong, Senior Technology Specialist at i>clicker
Have you considered using clickers in your course but you are not sure where to start? Come to this workshop to explore iClicker - a great tool for engaging and getting feedback from ALL of your students (even in those large enrollment classes!). You can see how the tool works, install and practice on your own computer, and learn some tips for designing engaging clicker questions.
Bring your laptop and
RSVP here so that we will have enough instructor kits available.
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Postdoctoral Scholars & Graduate Students
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CIRTL @ UCLA - Professional Development Opportunities for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
The Center for the Integration of Research,Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) provides national events and courses. UCLA is a CIRTL institution, and we offer in-person learning communities and training opportunities. For detailed information about CIRTL @ UCLA, please visit:
https://ceils.ucla.edu/cirtl-at-ucla/.
If you have any questions, please contact our program coordinator Dr. Rachel Kennison at
[email protected].
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Resource:
A favorite listserv for STEM education news, please
subscribe
to STEM|PROF
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Graduate students who are taught how to teach are
more likely to be prepared
for the realities of working in higher education without affecting their research capacity, according to a new study.
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Is the world-renowned researcher who is also a stellar teacher a realistic expectation? Times Higher Education surveyed academics to find out. (Times Higher Education)
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An essay examines why, in spite of the evidence in favor of active learning, changing the pedagogical practices of faculty is a difficult task with
no simple solutions
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In a review of the literature on student evaluations of teaching (SET), Philip B. Stark and Richard Freishtat—of the University of California, Berkeley, statistics department and the Center for Teaching and Learning, respectively—concluded, “The common practice of relying on averages of student teaching evaluation scores as the primary measure of teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure decisions should be abandoned for substantive and statistical reasons: There is strong evidence that student responses to questions of ‘effectiveness’ do not measure teaching effectiveness.”
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Most institutions say they value teaching. But how they assess it tells a different story. University of Southern California has stopped using student evaluations of teaching in promotion decisions in favor of peer-review model. Oregon seeks to end quantitative evaluations of teaching for holistic model.
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Instructors can learn something by looking at the inverse of attributes of good teaching, writes Paul F. Diehl.
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Teaching Turned Out to be a Highlight of Graduate School |
Science
Teaching may be full of unexpected rewards if approached with an open mind and a willingness to learn.
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Why We're "Speaking Up" About Inclusive Teaching Strategies |
ACUE Community
Here are some tools to empower faculty to make their courses more inclusive, starting with course design and classroom environment.
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Inclusive teaching holds the key to reducing high failure and withdrawal rates in introductory science courses, particularly among minority students, explains Bryan Dewsbury, assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island.
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Interactive Strategies for Engaging Large and Small Classes Alike
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Faculty Focus
One of the best ways to cultivate interaction is to literally go to where the students are.
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The graduation gap continues to exist between traditional and nontraditional students. Although the classroom experience has not been the focus of most institutions’ retention and persistence efforts, faculty can and do play a major role for improving the retention and success of all students. It’s a topic covered extensively in Kathleen Gabriel's new book,
Creating the Path to Success in the Classroom: Teaching to Close the Graduation Gap for Minority, First-Generation, and Academically Unprepared Students. In this book, she offers ideas that can be incorporated in, or modified to align with, faculty’s existing teaching methods
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Chemistry Education Research—From Personal Empiricism to Evidence, Theory, and Informed Practice |
Chemical Reviews
This Review of Chemistry Education Research (CER) provides an overview of the development of research in chemistry education from the early days, when ideas about how to teach chemistry and help students learn were guided by practitioner wisdom, to current research that is based on theories of learning and provides evidence from which to make arguments about improving teaching and learning.
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National Events & Webinars
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SABER West - Call for Talk and Workshop Abstracts & Save the Date
The third annual SABER West conference will be held on
January 19 and 20, 2019
at the campus of the University of California, Irvine. SABER is the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research and was founded in 2010.
CEILS will be organizing a UCLA group to attend this conference together. We hope you will consider submitting a talk, workshop, and poster abstract for this year's conference. Please save the date and we will share updates as they become available.
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August Scientific Teaching in Practice Webinar:
Introduction to the Summer Institutes Community and Resources
Friday, August 17, 3-4 PM Eastern Time (12-1 PM Pacific Time)
In this kick-off to our 2018-2019 webinar series, Elizabeth Luoma, Summer Institutes Program Director, will lead a discussion of SI community resources and engagement opportunities.
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2018 NABT Professional Development Conference
November 8-11, 2018
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
Early registration deadline: July 31, 2018
Submit a proposal to present at the 10th Annual Biology Education Research Symposium and/or the Undergraduate Biology Professional Development Summit at the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) 2018 Professional Development Conference.
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Featured Job Opportunities
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2018-2019 Lecturer for UCLA Minor in Biomedical Research
UCLA
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
Professional Developer in Inclusive Excellence
UC Santa Cruz
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
Director, PhD Program in Mathematics and Science Education, Tenure-track Faculty
Middle Tennessee State University
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
Chemistry Education Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
Miami University
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
Assistant Professor of Practice
University of Texas, Austin
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
Academic Coordinator I, Introductory Biology
University of California, Santa Barbra
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
Biology Faculty Position
University of Louisiana, Monroe
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
3 Lecturer Positions
Georgia State University
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
Tenure Track Biology Education Position
Sacramento State University
► Please see posting details and how to apply
here.
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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
[email protected]
.
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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