Fostering Curiosity: CEILS Annual Faculty Teaching Workshop

This year, our annual workshop will focus on approaching your teaching with curiosity as a way to manage the highs and lows in the classroom and prioritize our well-being. Our goal is to provide you with resources, concrete strategies, and practice to maximize student success. We invite you to join us and engage in any or all of the three experiences described below:

1. Come share and discuss strategies for setting up your classroom as a learning community, designing an inclusive syllabus that provokes curiosity, and creating assessments designed for equitable learning opportunities.
2. Engage with invited instructors, who will present lightning talks followed by a panel discussion on how they are approaching teaching and meeting the challenges of today.  Those topics include embracing AI within their disciplines, designing courses to allow for pivot in format if needed, addressing student wellness needs, and leveraging technology to reduce workload without negatively impacting learning.
3. Meet key leaders at our resource fair social (lunch provided) from across campus that support student success and well-being. You may often refer students to these campus centers so please stop by so you can meet the dedicated folks who serve the campus at the Center for Accessible Education, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Career Center, Undergraduate Research Center, Library, and more.

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).

RSVP HERE