Come celebrate our new office space and connect with the team! The Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) invites you to pop-in and check out our new workspace located in Hershey Hall 230. We are excited to welcome you into our space, share what we have been working on, and offer [...]
Creating a more inclusive classroom for neurodivergent students About 20-30% of college students are neurodivergent. In this Teaching Tables gathering, we invite you to share your experiences with neurodiversity in and outside the classroom and discuss how we can all better support our neurodivergent students. Resource: Autism Goes to College Podcast. Episode 42: What professors need [...]
Anywhere between 10-30% of college students identify as neurodivergent. Come join us at this Interactive Lecture to learn from Dr. Yasamin Bolourian, Director of Outreach and Dissemination at UCLA Tarjan [...]
How can we support students in reviewing or learning the necessary math to succeed in college STEM courses, such as introductory physics? We will review some relatively simple promising interventions [...]
Paper we will discuss on Nov 5: Costello, Robin A., et al. “Highlighting Counterstereotypical Scientists in Undergraduate Life Science Courses.” CBE—Life Sciences Education 24.2 (2025): es1. About Journal Club: Are you interested in learning about the latest STEM education research but not sure where to start? Or feeling overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of literature [...]
Cultivating attention amidst distraction Laptops and cell phone use is extremely common in college classrooms now and there are growing concerns about students’ attention spans. What are some ways we might be able to help our students pay attention in the classroom? We invite you to share strategies that you have used to cultivate attention [...]
Paper we will discuss on Dec 3: Yuriev, Elizabeth, et al. “Integrating Generative AI in Chemistry Education: Enhancing Career-Ready Writing Skills in Pharmaceutical Science.” Journal of Chemical Education 102.5 (2025): 1991-2001. CEILS Journal Club for STEM Education About Journal Club: Are you interested in learning about the latest STEM education research but not sure where [...]
Reflecting Together on the Fall Quarter Come celebrate the end of the quarter with us and share your wins as well as the challenges you experienced in the Fall quarter. About Teaching Tables Teaching Tables is a space for all UCLA instructors to come together each month and share their joys and frustrations of teaching. [...]
Paper we will discuss on Jan 21: Chrin, S. R., & Nardo, J. E. “(Dis) Ability and Accommodation: Exploring the Accessibility of General and Organic Chemistry Course Designs”. Journal of Chemical Education, 102.6 (2025), 2305-2315. (Dr. Jocelyn Nardo, the TLC Scholarly Seminar Speaker in the Winter quarter, is a co-author on this paper) About Journal Club: Are [...]
Feb 4 - Teaching-as-Research Lightning Talks: Through the CIRTL program, graduate students and postdocs learn how to apply their research skills to their classrooms. At the February journal club meeting, we are excited to feature five talks by our CIRTL Scholars on their completed Teaching-as-Research projects. These talks will be followed by a reception. Caitlyn Fick, Chemistry [...]