CEILS Annual Faculty Teaching Workshop

“I have absolutely loved this experience! The CEILS team and facilitators were extremely knowledgeable and supportive.”
“I feel more connected to a teaching/instructing learning community. I also gained a new awareness of how many resources there are to assess your teaching and improve your teaching.”
“It was really helpful and I loved connecting with other instructors with similar missions.”
“This experience educated and helped me grow in profound and lasting ways. This is a reflection of the time and attention you have put into creating it. You have not only taught me much, but have encouraged thought and self-reflection, and have modeled what you have taught and discussed.”

This event has concluded for the 2025 Acadmic Year. We look forward to your attendance in Fall 2026. This page will be updated with event information soon.

This year, our annual workshop will focus on supporting you in creatively responding to the changing institutional environment while maintaining your well-being. Our goal is to provide you with resources, concrete strategies, and practices to maximize or maintain student learning.

We invite you to join us and engage in any or all of the experiences described below:  

    1. Hear from experts on AI about maintaining academic integrity in the age of AI
    2. Learn about strategies for designing an inclusive syllabus and creating community on the first day of class, helping your students learn how-to learn, and reimagining your course with reduced TA support.
    3. Get to know folks from the UCLA Disabilities and Computing Program and learn about making your course materials more accessible.
    4. Engage with invited faculty, who will present lightning talks followed by roundtable discussions, each led by one of the invited faculty.

All are welcome to join this community of caring instructors who are excited to talk about teaching! We especially encourage instructors who either are relatively new to college teaching or who have instructional responsibilities in large enrollment gateway courses for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors.

Record your participation in your dossier as evidence of your efforts to improve teaching and as an activity that helps promote equal opportunity and diversity in education. Such efforts in both categories, on behalf of all faculty, are now a recognized component of the promotion and tenure process at UCLA (see APM 210-1, and Appendix 41).

 

Faculty Teaching Workshop 2025 Agenda

Join any or all sessions.

Day 1 – Sept 18

8:45 am Coffee, Pastries & Registration

9:10 am  Opening Remarks

9:20 am Session 1: Adapting your syllabus and engaging students on the first day of class to increase equity, belonging, and learning in your course

11:20 am Break

11:30 am  Session 2: Introduction to Digital Accessibility from colleagues at the UCLA Disabilities and Computing Program

12:30 pm  Lunch

1:30 pm Session 3: Panel & Practice: Maintaining authenticity, equity and academic integrity in assessments in the age of AI. We are excited to have 5 panelists contributing to this conversation – you can learn more about them here: Meet the Panelists!

Day 2 – Sept 19

8:45 am Coffee, Pastries & Registration

9:15 am Community circle: Teaching experiences – This circle provides an inclusive space for instructors to share experiences and build connections through deep listening and intentional, compassionate dialogue.

9:45 am Session 4: Supporting your students in learning how to study for your course

10:45 am Break

11:00 am Session 5: Reimagining your course with reduced TA support

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Two truths and a lie: Teaching Edition

1:45 pm Faculty Lightning Talks + Roundtable discussion

  • “Decolonizing Chemistry – Incorporating Global Perspectives in Chemistry” by Dr. Dory DeWeese, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • “Compassionate Facilitation for Effective Collaborative Classrooms” by Dr. Sandra Batista, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science
  • “Accountable and authentic learning in the age of unchecked and artificial intelligence” Dr. Idan Blank, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

2:45 pm Happy Hour with CEILS Mingling Bingo!