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CEILS Monthly Newsletter
Issue #103 | March 2024
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Upcoming CEILS Programming | | | |
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Come join us to celebrate the end of the quarter!
March 21st 3-5pm, Hershey Hall South Courtyard
You're invited to celebrate the end of the Winter Quarter with food, refreshments, and quality time together! Please join us anytime between 3:00 - 5:00pm in the Hershey Hall South Courtyard.
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Are you a UCLA Early Career Faculty in the Sciences? We invite you to join our
Learning Community on Teaching at UCLA
The CEILS team invites you to carve out a little time - one lunch each month - to gather in community and get support from each other on all things related to teaching here at UCLA. This community is designed to support early career faculty across disciplines in the sciences who have joined UCLA within the past 5 years.
All meetings take place on Thursdays in Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 from 12:30 - 2pm. Lunch will be provided. Based on the feedback and discussion from the end of winter quarter, the topics this spring will include:
- Mar 21- Partnering with Campus Resources to Support Student Well-Being
- April 11 - Equitable Grading Strategies for Assessment and Feedback
- May 9 - AI in the Classroom - the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown...
- June 6 - End of Year Reflections - Goal Setting for Next Year
Please kindly RSVP to let us know which sessions you will be able to attend (so we can order the right amount of food - yum!). Contact jessgregg@ceils.ucla.edu with any questions. Hope you can join!
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Conversations on Equity and Justice
CEILS invites you to join us for “Conversations on Equity and Justice” this Spring Quarter. Our overall goal is to create a communal space for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students to discuss, learn, and consider strategies to support themselves and their students in the classroom. These conversations are topic-based and you can drop in for one or come for all. Light refreshments will be provided!
RSVP below and come be a part of this in-person conversation series!
Here are the topics/readings we will be discussing in Spring below from 12:30-1:30 pm in Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100:
- April 9th: Our Brains, Emotions, and Learning: Eight Principles of Trauma-Informed Teaching by Mays Imad
- April 16th: How Trauma-Informed Care Principles Can Contribute to Academic Success for Students in Hispanic-Serving Institutions by Joy Patton and Lauren Cortez
- April 23rd: Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy by Gloria Ladson-Billing
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Save the Date! CEILS Scientific Teaching Institute - Foundations of Equitable Course Design & Inclusive Teaching
July 17-24th, 2024
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Stay tuned for more details coming shortly! This summer CEILS will once again offer our week-long course design bootcamp.
Description: The CEILS Scientific Teaching Institute is designed to introduce you to evidence-based strategies for inclusive teaching and course design. The experience is facilitated by CEILS staff and other UCLA faculty; and you will receive feedback on your daily assignments, culminating at the end of the week with a syllabus draft, assessment plan, sample lesson plan, and embedded feedback strategy. Tips, strategies, and resources for equity, accessibility, and remote/online design will be integrated into the workshops and course site resources.
See more details on our website: https://ceils.ucla.edu/learning-communities-trainings/summer-institute-on-scientific-teaching/
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‘A Culture of Fear and of Pandering’: What Readers Told Us About Teaching Evaluations
By: Beth McMurtrie
A recent story on the problem of how teaching is evaluated struck a chord with many in higher education. As our reporting showed, student course evaluations — which are known to be flawed measures — still carry a lot of weight on most campuses during annual reviews. Some colleges add in peer observation, especially when a faculty member is up for promotion and tenure, but even that can be problematic.
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CBE Life Sciences: Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors
By: Melo-Jean Yap, Jasmine Foriest, Kalli Walker, Sara Sanford, and Adrienne Rice
A “critical access point in the STEM pipeline for Latinx students and other students of color” (Herrera et al., 2018), community colleges provide a seminal breeding ground for academic pursuits (Bahr et al., 2017). However, how personal networks influence STEM pathways of two-year college students remains largely unexplored. This mixed methods case study explores influence of personal networks on pursuing STEM fields via social network analysis and qualitative narratives.
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Upcoming Partner Events & Resources | | |
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Inclusive Stem Teaching Project MOOC
(free online course)
The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project, a NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education program, is hosting a six-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from March 4 - April 26, 2024 via edX. Join our community of over 11,000 faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff, and register for our online course this fall. By participating in this course, you will learn how to:
- Advance awareness, self-efficacy, and ability to cultivate inclusive classroom environments;
- Support your development as a reflective, inclusive practitioner;
- Engage in reflection and discussion around topics of equity and inclusion across a variety of institutional contexts;
- Implement inclusive teaching methods in your classes which will remove common barriers and enhance learning in STEM for all students.
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Spring 2024 10+10 Pop-up Series (TLC)
During Spring quarter on Tuesdays at 10am, UCLA’s Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) instructional designers are offering a series of seven pop-up sessions on focused, specific topics related to online/hybrid course design.
For 10 minutes, we will demo how to do something in your course that will benefit your students’ learning, while simplifying your teaching with Bruin Learn. An optional, additional 10 minutes is available for discussion and Q & A.
- 04/09 - Add a Template to Your New Bruin Learn Course Site
- 04/16 - Giving Feedback in Bruin Learn Speedgrader
- 04/23 - Handling Large Classes with Fewer TAs: Some Strategies
- 04/30 - Inserting Images into Bruin Learn Pages and Assignments
- 05/07 - Sequencing Learning Material in a Module
- 05/14 - Design a Grading Rubric using Generative AI (ChatGPT)
- 05/21 - Five Ways to Use AI in Teaching and Learning
Zoom link for all sessions: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98654413254?pwd=SXAzcUFsS1VpM0doU0tQUy9hKzdodz09
Meeting ID: 986 5441 3254 Passcode: 196561
For more information, go to: https://online.ucla.edu/sp-2024-10plus10-series/
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Be Well Bruin
Share with students, add to your syllabus, add to your email signature! This website is a student-facing resource with an intuitive user design that allows students to easily find resources to support their physical, academic, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing. It also includes information on access to basic needs such as food, housing, childcare and transportation. This website is the result of a cross-campus initiative from multiple wellness organizations at UCLA.
Visit their website: https://bewellbruin.ucla.edu/
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Disabilities & Computing Program
The mission of UCLA’s Disabilities and Computing Program at the Office of Advanced Research Computing is two-fold. The first goal is to facilitate the integration of adaptive computing technology into the areas of instruction, study, research, and employment at UCLA. The second goal is to make information – including electronic text and multimedia – accessible to all students, faculty and staff.
Visit their website: https://dcp.ucla.edu/
Check out their most recent newsletter - "Spilling the DisabiliTea!"
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Additional UCLA Training Events
Visit the following websites to view additional training events that support teaching and learning at UCLA:
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Bruin Learn Workshops
Join the BruinLearn Center of Excellence and register for the upcoming training events:
- Group Member Evaluation Using FeedbackFruits
- Developing Student Video Assignments
- Maximizing Quiz Creation: Tips for Effective Preparation in Bruin Learn!
- Teaching Smarter, Not Harder: Practical Tips for Effortless Assignments, Discussions, and Grading in Bruin Learn!
- Tracking student progress and understanding results in Peerceptiv
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For more information about CEILS events and resources, including a list of STEM education events from previous mailers, please visit the CEILS website at www.ceils.ucla.edu or stop by our CEILS office in 222 Hershey Hall. If you wish to be added to the CEILS mailing list for future newsletters and special announcements, please send your request to media@ceils.ucla.edu.
Please note, this monthly newsletter is circulated through many departmental listservs. Most other CEILS correspondence, including special event announcements and reminders, are sent to CEILS mailing list recipients only. If you have questions or have difficulty reading this newsletter, please email us at media@ceils.ucla.edu.
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