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Volume 5 | Issue 5 | March 7, 2018
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TA Teaching Workgroup

March 21, 2018
11:00-2:00PM

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If You Build It, They Will Break It

March 22, 2018
12:00-1:30PM

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Faculty Perspectives

April 27, 2018
11:00-1:00PM

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Accelerating Student Success Using Data 

Research conducted by the OTLT Research & Assessment team has shown consistent, positive associations between the use of Elements of Success and course outcomes. During the Fall 2016, Spring 2017, and Fall 2017 semesters, we tracked 9,107 students...Continue Reading
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Application Available for Course Design Institute

Learn, create, and explore. Applying these actions to your course, or a course you’d like to develop is made possible through the multi-day Course Design Institute – an intensive program that provides a platform to kick start your summer having thought deeply about your teaching...Continue Reading

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Kickstart Your Teaching Career

The Center for Teaching aims to provide valuable resources and services for the unique needs of graduate students, TAs, and post-docs at the University of Iowa. Each spring, the Center for Teaching selects four advanced graduate student instructors across any discipline to participate in the Graduate Teaching Fellows program...Continue Reading

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Peer Perspectives 

Peer review of writing can help students improve not only their writing but also their reading and collaboration skills. Recently integrated into ICON, Peerceptiv has proven to be a very useful peer-review of writing tool for UI students and instructors...Continue Reading

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I'm the First: Student Pioneers at UI

There are many ways to be “the first” during a college career, but first-generation students are, by definition, “first” from the day they set foot on campus: They are the first in their families to attend college, a status that can present them with a host of particular challenges...Continue Reading
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Strategies for Success

In this month's series, we will highlight three teaching strategies implemented by Michael Brown, Assistant Professor, Education, Iowa State University. Brown is leading at workshop at UI on March 22 titled "If you Build It, They Will Break It"...Continue Reading

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Teaching Awards
Teaching Awards

President & Provost Award for Teaching Excellence.

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Graduate Students

Join the TA teaching philosophy workgroup.

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Digital Bridges project supports UI profs’ publication on race and Othello.