Fall 2024 Events
The State of AI in 2024 Open Meeting hosted by the Teaching with AI Learning Community
The first meeting of the Tufts Teaching with AI Learning Community is open to all instructors at Tufts. At this meeting we will discuss the state of AI in 2024 and its implications for our course design and our students learning.
Roundtable: Equitably Assigning and Assessing the Writing of Multilingual Students
Many faculty wonder how to be more equitable when assigning and assessing the writing of multilingual students. For instance, given that multilingual students are arriving in the course with different levels of English fluency, should your standards for grading written work be different than for other students? When responding to student work, how much time should you spend on grammar and style at the sentence level versus comments on the structure or argument of the essay? Join this roundtable to share questions and ideas with colleagues.
Learning Sciences Workshop
Engaging the Wandering Mind: Strategies to Engage and Deepen Learning
In this interactive workshop, we will explore three practices that engage learners and support retention. In an era where learners are easily distracted or can find alternate ways to produce information, these methods enable you to embed into your teaching, approaches that are simple, evidence-based, and will enable you and your learners to know what has been learned, what has been lost, and what can be applied.
CELT Difficult Dialogues Series
Difficult Dialogues and Challenging Classroom Roundtable: Managing Difficult Dialogues and Promoting Nuanced Thinking
In this roundtable conversation, we will discuss how and why polarized thinking has become more prevalent in classrooms. We will then imagine what a successful nuanced conversation among students would look like in the context of a disciplinarily-relevant scenario. Finally, after identifying strategies for facilitating nuanced conversations, we will generate a brief action plan for conducting conversations that encourage productive disagreement and intellectual curiosity.
Inclusive Teaching Seminar with Dr. Akane Zusho (with OIIE)
The Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional InclusiveExcellence (IIE) and the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) invite you to our Inclusive TeachingSeminar featuring Dr. Akane Zusho. An educational psychologist by training, Dr. Zusho is a full professor at Fordham University’s School of Education. This interactive workshop will provide practical skills to promote learning for all in a motivationally supportive, culturally responsive, and inclusive classroom environment.
Learning Science Workshop
Sticking With It When Learning Feels Hard
Learning sciences show that deep learning requires effort and can feel difficult. In this session, we will explore strategies to help students build skills they need to engage in effortful learning, accurately assess their knowledge, and persist when it starts to get hard.
CELT Difficult Dialogues Series
Difficult Dialogues and Challenging Classroom Roundtable: Responding to the Election
Learning Science Workshop: Applying the Science of Learning to Large Lecture Classes
The science of learning offers numerous approaches to address the unique challenges of large lecture courses. This interactive workshop will explore practical, science-of-learning strategies for building community, maintaining student attention, and increasing engagement. Grounded in cognitive science and educational research, these techniques are designed for implementation without additional teaching support. During the session, participants will collaboratively experience and adapt several strategies to their unique disciplines and contexts.
CELT Open House
As we bring this semester to a close, please join us to celebrate your hard work, devotion to your learners, and be taken care of a bit as we informally explore how the semester went and think of ways to mindfully plan for the spring 2025 semester.