Join the CIRTL@UCLA Community
There are many ways to engage with the CIRTL community at UCLA.
In addition to our online communities there are many courses and workshops designed for the advancement and professionalization of graduate students, postdocs, and faculty. Check out our monthly newsletter for more upcoming offerings!
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Current CIRTL@UCLA community members (associates, practitioners, and scholars), please login to the
CCLE website
to update your progress and complete the
required questionnaire
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Save the date!
Sept 23-34 Campus Wide TA Conference
(see announcement below)
During the conference we will be hosting a CIRTL information session that will include Teaching as Research Project presentations from CIRTL Scholars.
More information below!
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Check out some recent success stories from members of the CIRTL@UCLA community!
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Katie Dixie
CIRTL Scholar
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New Position(s)
Aspire2Lead Fellow
Co-Instructor Grad 496A Course
Katie recently became an Aspire2Lead Fellow with the Aspire Alliance California Regional Collaborative. She will participate in a Leadership development internship with the Los Angeles Community College District.
Katie will co-instruct the UCLA course
Grad PD 496A, An Introduction to Evidence Based Teaching
course this fall (
see more information below
) and she will also lead a
Planning your Teaching-as-Research Project
learning community.
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Matthieu Delcourt
CIRTL Practitioner
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New position
Professor of M
icrobiology and Molecular Biology at the University of Ottawa
TAR Project
Matthieu recently presented his TAR project titled "How do teaching strategies influence students note-taking and performance?"
TAR Question
Can more structured notes help students develop higher order cognitive skills?
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Sunny Chang
CIRTL Scholar
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New Position
Instructor of Chemistry in the Dept of Chemistry at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Note from Sunny
The training through CIRTL helped me to understand which evidence-based practices in the classroom are most important to me and how to articulate that in interviews. Schools were interested in my experiences with active learning and that I had tried Teaching-as-Research in the classroom.
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Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning
Teaching as Research
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CIRTL Info Session and TAR Presentations
Date:
Monday, September 23rd
Time:
10:15am - 11:45am
Location:
TBD
This session will highlight TAR presentations from CIRTL Scholars as well as provide general information about the CIRTL@UCLA Program.
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SAVE THE DATE!
46th Annual Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Conference
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Date:
September 23rd - 24th
Time:
8:30am - 5:00pm
Location:
UCLA
Each year, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (formerly OID), TA Training Program organizes a conference to provide teacher training and resource information to both new and continuing TAs. Even if you will not TA in 2019–20, you are welcome to attend the conference in preparation for future teaching assignments.
Our annual conference meets for two days—the Monday and Tuesday of Week 0 on September 23rd and 24th. The conference will kick off with a complimentary breakfast and an informative resource fair that connects TAs with essential campus resources for undergraduate teaching. We will start our first day together with a keynote lecture by expert faculty to introduce you to UCLA's undergraduates and teaching at UCLA.
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Enroll in Grad PD 496A:
An Introduction to Evidence Based Teaching!
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Course Begins: Wednesday, October 2nd 2019
Days: Wednesdays
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: TBD
This is a fully flipped 2 unit S/U class, with online videos each week and an in-person learning community comprised of
graduate students and post docs
who are committed to teaching inclusively.
This is the first in a 3 course series of the STAR program and will count toward your certification as a CIRTL Associate.
Open to
ALL disciplines
and you are not required to be teaching concurrently.
Weekly topics:
Week 1 What is a Learning Community focused on Evidence Based Teaching?
Week 2 Principles of Learning, Part 1
Week 3 Principles of Learning, Part 2
Week 4 Introduction to Backward Design
Week 5 Assessment and Feedback
Week 6 Practicing Alignment
Week 7 Active Learning Part I
Week 8 Active Learning Part II: Group work
Week 9 Inclusive Teaching
Week 10 Lesson plan presentations and wrap up
Enrollment will open soon!
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CIRTL Network's online programming
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Schedules will be online and announced by August 12.
All our offerings except for the MOOC require advance registration during defined registration periods
. Early bird registration for participants from
CIRTL member institutions
will open August 19
; regular registration, open to participants regardless of their affiliation with CIRTL, opens on a staggered basis relative to when programming takes place.
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Courses have live, real-time online sessions and require regular homework outside of those class meetings. Short courses typically meet weekly for one to two months, while full courses typically meet for two to three months. Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority.
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CIRTL MOOCs take place on the EdX platform and use video-based modules, discussion boards, and peer-reviewed assignments to teach participants about different aspects of evidence-based STEM teaching over the course of 8 weeks. Registration is required; there is no cost to participate and no enrollment cap. For more information, visit the
CIRTL MOOC website
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Workshops have live, real-time online sessions and require independent work outside of those meetings. Workshops can have one, two, or three online sessions (multi-session workshops typically have one session per week). Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority.
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Learning communities have live, real-time online meetings and rely on participants completing related work outside of those meetings. Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority. Communities may have prerequisites that participants must meet in order to take part, and they may have an additional application process to confirm participants meet those requirements.
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Teaching summits have live, real-time online sessions. Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority.
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Engage in CIRTL@UCLA in whatever way meets your needs. It is common to start off as a community member and as you get more interested in learning more about teaching, you may want to increase your participation. Each level has a variety of ways to engage. All activities in each level are aligned with the CIRTL network
core ideas
and
learning outcomes.
CIRTL Levels of Engagement include Associate, Practitioner and Scholar. Requirements for the three levels are described on our
website
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Track your Certification progress
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If you are interested in becoming certified as a CIRTL Associate, Practitioner or Scholar, join the CCLE collaboration site to keep track of your progress through engagement levels.
Click on the level of certification you are engaged in and complete the tracking form.
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Scholars for Teaching as Research Program (STAR)
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The STAR program allows you to move through the pedagogical training from Associate to Scholar through a series of courses (Grad PD 496 A, B, C).
Grad PD 496A, An Introduction to Evidence Based Teaching
is offered in
fall
quarter. This course is taught in a flipped format, with videos each week and in-person learning community meetings where we practice the theory of evidence based practice. Most of the work is done in class, other than watching the videos outside of class. Most students find this course to be a lower effort course, because of the way it is structured, and can be taken either while you are teaching or not.
Grad PD 496B, Teaching as Research,
is offered in
winter
and is a more rigorous course, and requires a good deal of outside the classroom work. The outcome is a proposal for your Teaching as Research project. While you are not required to be teaching while you take the course, you are required to plan to implement the project in a course you will be teaching either in spring, summer or fall. Because of the rigor, you should not take Grad PD 496B until you are ready to spend the time developing your proposal, which may not be right after you take Grad PD A, which is fine.
Grad PD 496C, Implementation of TAR,
is offered in
spring/summer.
This is a learning community that provides you with support while you are iterating and implementing your project, analyzing your data and planning to present. This course should be taken directly after Grad PD 496B.
Graduate students who have completed their qualifying exams and have advanced to candidacy may have more time to devote to teaching and training and might be ready to move from the Associates Level to the Practitioner level.
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POD Network Communications Coordinator
Position Description:
The POD Network is the oldest and one of the largest educational development professional associations, with over 1,400 members worldwide. Educational development is a growing and dynamic field, which focuses on improving postsecondary teaching and learning through faculty/instructor development, course/curriculum development, and organizational development.
The full-time position of Communications Coordinator will administer the POD Network’s social media marketing and advertising, as well as scheduled communications between committees and special interest groups (SIGs) and the organization’s membership.
See full postin
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here
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Instructional designer in the eLearning team at Cal Poly Pomona
The full announcement and application portal can be found
here
see the External Applicants link and look for posting
#60687.
You are also welcome to contact Victoria Bhavsar (
vbhavsar@cpp.edu)
directly for questions and more information.
Victoria Bhavsar, Ph.D.
Director, Faculty Center for Professional Development and the eLearning team
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Biochemistry Instructor - Cal State University Channel Islands
The Chemistry Department at CSUCI is seeking applicants to teach
Biochemistry
this Fall (16 week semester beginning 8/26/19):
The available sections are M/W 12-1:15pm and T/Th 1:30-2:45.
That's 6 units, which makes the candidate eligible for health insurance and other benefits.
PhD in biochemistry or a related field is preferred, but an MS in Chemistry is the minimum academic preparation
. Please contact
Blake Gillespie, PhD
directly by email for information about applying:
blake.gillespie@csuci.edu
Blake Gillespie, PhD
Professor and Chair - Chemistry Department
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The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is a national network providing graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with online training on evidence based teaching and professional development. UCLA is a member of CIRTL giving you access to all CIRTL online programing across the network.
To register for the National network please visit
CIRTL.net
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