CATE Seminar Series

CATE Seminar Series

As an instructor, how do you know if your teaching methods are effective in supporting student learning? Instructors can do this by engaging in the reflective teaching process – observing what is going on in their classrooms by collecting data and feedback from students, and planning changes to their teaching based on those observations and data.

This seminar series features speakers who have engaged in this reflective teaching process in a systematic way. They will share their evidence-based innovations in pedagogy and curriculum, education and action research discoveries, and their scholarship in teaching and learning and learning sciences. Topics span diverse disciplines and may be targeted at the undergraduate, graduate or professional student levels. Speakers include colleagues here at UIC as well as outside institutions.

In these sessions, participants will learn about various research project findings, and have the opportunity in an interactive part of the session to reflect on and talk to their colleagues about how to apply the scholars’ teaching strategies, research methodology, and/or research findings to their own practice and research. All faculty, staff, graduate students and post-docs are welcome to join. Seminars will be in a synchronous-distributed format: they are  on-campus, in-person events with the option to join online via live streaming. Light refreshments will be provided.

Action Research Scholars

This series will also feature  some of the work of experienced UIC instructors who completed the CATE Janet Riddle Action Research Scholars program, a year-long professional learning program investigating how their instructional practices and curriculum impacted the learning experiences of their students in their courses.

Check back in Fall 2025 for our next set of seminars! 

Supporting material for past CATE seminars.