How CELT can support your teaching (CELT Teaching Tip)

We provide resources for instructors, faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs interested in teaching. Below you can explore a few ways that we can help support your teaching.

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CELT Teaching Tip • August 20, 2020

How CELT can support your teaching

The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), established in 1993, focuses on our mission of "Partnering with educators to advance student-centered learning at Iowa State University." We provide resources for instructors, faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs interested in teaching. Below you can explore a few ways that we can help support your teaching.

Attend

Register for our comprehensive online workshops, web talks, and webinars that cover everything from course design to fostering inclusion within the classroom to improving your online courses.

Discover the secrets from award-winning teachers at ISU! To get us started this academic year Dr. Tera R. Jordan, Assistant Provost for Faculty Development, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, is a facilitating a 3-Part Series: Reflection, Retooling, and Renewal: Strengthening your ability to be a more effective graduate student mentor , Sept. 11, 18, 25 (1:30-3 p.m., online).
Register for webinars, online workshops, and series on engagement, disruption, documenting your teaching and more on our Upcoming Events page.
Identify additional ways to foster equity and inclusion in your courses, the inclusive classroom programs page.
Improve your online courses with the Quality Matters at Iowa State page.

Engage

All of our resources and programs are open to the entire campus community:

Prepare for academic careers with the Preparing Future Faculty Program.
Engage deeper into a topic with the guidance of a program mentor with these specialized programs (advanced registration required):
CELT Innovation by Design: Project-based learning (CELT Faculty Fellow, Rob Whitehead)
CELT Teaching and Learning Academy (CELT Faculty Fellow, Monica Lamm)
CELT Teaching Partners Program (CELT Faculty Fellow, Monica Lamm)
SoTL Scholars Program (CELT Faculty Fellow, Ann Gansemer-Topf)
Participate in these programs (CELT maintains institutional memberships):
The 20-Minute Mentor Commons (Magna Publications) delivers actionable insights in highly focused 20-minute presentations designed to fit busy schedules.
The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) enhances excellence in STEM undergraduate education through implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices.

Seek Support

We offer a haven of support and build communities for instructors through:

Consultations that are formative and confidential.
CELT observations of teaching through the Teaching Observation Program .
Monthly Teaching and Learning Communities programming focused on a specific teaching and learning approach, including the ISU Online Learning Community (ISU-OLC), Discuss Published Education Research in Your Discipline, Team-Based Learning, and more.

Discover Strategies

CELT is responsive to the needs of the community. Revised and new online resources include:

Check out the newly designed resources under the Teaching with Technology page: instructional strategies, instructional tools, ISU Course Template, a searchable Canvas@ISU, and more.
The new Achieving Academic Integrity page uses approaches and methods that emphasize prevention and education and Guest Author Jordan’s Mentoring Graduate Student Scholars page.

Our programming and services are a click away on our website. Be sure to sign up for one (or more) of the exciting opportunities to engage, learn, grow, and share your teaching and learning success.

Best wishes for the start of fall semester 2020,

Sara Marcketti, Director

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Reach out

How to contact us

Contact CELT via email at celt@iastate.edu or call 515-294-5357. We will forward your information to the appropriate staff member or contact the CELT staff directly to schedule a meeting in a safe manner (virtually or face-to-face social-distanced).

Questions about teaching with technology?

Connect with our CELT instructional designers for support or pedagogical consultations by emailing celt-help@iastate.edu; this will also create a ServiceNow ticket for easy tracking.

Upcoming CELT 2020 Programs

CELT offers face-to-face one-off workshops/webinars, longer-term teaching and learning circles on selected topics, and facilitation of teaching and learning communities. Our program listing with descriptions and registration information may be found on the corresponding page on CELT’s upcoming events page or CELT’s programming schedule via ISU’s Events Calendar website.

3-Part Series: Reflection, Retooling, and Renewal: Strengthening your ability to be a more effective graduate student mentor

Dr. Tera R. Jordan, Assistant Provost for Faculty Development, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, is a facilitating the following topics:

Reflecting on one's mentoring experiences, Sept. 11 (1:30-3 p.m.)
Sharing mentoring philosophies: A panel discussion with Margaret Ellen White Award Recipients, Sept. 18 (1:30-3 p.m.)
Alignment, trust, and inclusiveness, Sept. 25 (1:30-3 p.m.)

To learn more and register, visit the 3-Part Series: Reflection, Retooling, and Renewal: Strengthening your ability to be a more effective graduate student mentor.

The Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching series is brought to you by Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching.

Web talk, Creating Community in Online Classrooms, Aug. 14 (3-4 p.m., Zoom)
Web talk, Using Flipgrid to Meaningfully Engage Remote Students, Aug. 21 (3-4 p.m., Zoom)
Web talk, Closeness at a Distance: How to Build Trust in Virtual Teams, Aug. 28 (3-4 p.m., Zoom) *HHMI/Yale
Web talk, Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity, Sept. 4 (3-4 p.m., Zoom) *HHMI/Yale

A call to action: Striving for racial justice in academic biology (7-part series) is an initiative sponsored by the Society for the Advancement in Biology Education Research (SABER) focused on promoting awareness, understanding and commitment to change academic biology environments to be more inclusive and strive for racial justice in STEM education. All talks will be posted on the SABER website following the event.

Web talk, Race REALLY matters. Discussion, Aug. 27 (11 a.m.-12 p.m., Zoom)
Web talk, Actionable steps toward equity STEM. Discussion, Sept. 3 (12-1 p.m., Zoom)
Web talk, Lessons from a hot spring: Authentic transformation in the higher education classroom, Sept. 21 (11 a.m.-12 p.m., Zoom)

Co-sponsored by Arizona State University’s HHMI Inclusive Excellence Project, SEISMIC Collaboration, and University of California Santa Barbara.

Where to go for support

For help with the Canvas, contact Canvas Support via the ?Help menu in Canvas:

Chat with Canvas Support use the live chat tool
Ticket support. Open the ?Help menu in Canvas and click Report a Problem
24/7 phone support. Call 515-294-4000 (listen to prompts to connect to Canvas support).
Find answers to common questions in the Canvas Instructor Guides.
Use the resources in the NEW Canvas @ ISU site (https://bit.ly/canvas-isu)

For technical support, contact the ISU Solution Center:

Email solution@iastate.edu
Call 515-294-4000 and follow the prompts to receive support from Solution Center staff

To receive one-to-one assistance for teaching with technology, contact the CELT Instructional Designers

Connect with our CELT instructional designers for support or pedagogical consultations by emailing celt-help@iastate.edu; this will also create a ServiceNow ticket for easy tracking.
Additionally, you may wish to contact one of the support units directly. Please note which program, department, or college each unit serves and contact the unit for your area.

Prefer a Print version? (To do)

To view the Teaching Tip as a printable document with the web addresses, download the CELT Teaching Tip for August 20, 2020 (PDF) (https://bit.ly/2QdcLrs)

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