Keeping Students Engaged
October 23, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location
Teaching Excellence Building (TEB), Room 201
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Have you ever wondered whether your students truly grasp the material you are teaching? Do your students seem disengaged and zoned out while you go over content? Or, do your students ask for more feedback than you can provide? If any of these scenarios sound familiar, you should consider incorporating Classroom Assessment Techniques or CATs into your teaching toolkit. CATs are activities that are often non-graded and used to gauge student learning and provide timely feedback to both students and instructors. Workshop participants will explore a variety of CATs and examine ways to integrate them into their courses as a way to engage students and gather feedback on the teaching-learning process.
After participating in this workshop, you will be able to:
- Identify applications of CATs that engage students and gauge their learning
- Apply CATs to your own courses
- Use CATs to receive feedback on your teaching effectiveness
EVENT FORMAT: This workshop will be held on-campus, in-person in room 201 in the Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) located on 924 S. Morgan Street.
EVENT LEAD: Lauren Woods, lmwoods@uic.edu
EVENT CO-FACILITATOR: Katie Pierson, piersonk@uic.edu
Inclusion and Accessibility Information: CATE is committed to making events accessible. CATE’s in-person events typically involve a combination of presentation and discussion-based activities. We welcome ASL interpreters, note-takers, and accompanying assistants to all CATE events. The TEB is wheelchair accessible with an elevator to the second floor space. The TEB space is equipped with fixed-height tables that are moveable and can be reconfigured. There are single-occupancy, all-gender, accessible bathrooms on the second and basement levels of TEB. If you have any accessibility questions, requests, or to coordinate accommodations, please contact the CATE team at teaching@uic.edu.
Date posted
Aug 5, 2024
Date updated
Oct 8, 2024