Week Zero Workshops: Built for Instructors
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CATE designed this semester’s Week Zero offerings with one simple question in mind: What do instructors actually need in January? These sessions are deliberately created to give you the tools needed to manage the semester’s challenges.
Here’s what we’ve lined up for you:
Teaching in Turbulent Times: UIC Resources to Support Student Well-Being
Wednesday, January 7 | 2:00–3:30pm | Zoom
Students are arriving each semester with a wide range of personal, academic, and societal pressures. This session brings together leaders from key UIC student support units to help you recognize, respond to, and refer students who may be struggling. Panelists from the Undocumented Student Resource Center, Counseling Center, Dean of Students Office, Disability Resource Center, and Wellness Center will share what their offices provide and how they partner with instructors. You’ll leave with concrete guidance, campus resources, and strategies you can use the moment classes begin.Students are arriving each semester with a wide range of personal, academic, and societal pressures. This session brings together leaders from key UIC student support units to help you recognize, respond to, and refer students who may be struggling. Panelists from the Undocumented Student Resource Center, Counseling Center, Dean of Students Office, Disability Resource Center, and Wellness Center will share what their offices provide and how they partner with instructors. You’ll leave with concrete guidance, campus resources, and strategies you can use the moment classes begin.
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Creating an Inclusive Syllabus
Thursday, January 8 | 10:00–11:30am | Zoom
Are you updating a syllabus for an upcoming course? The syllabus is often the first point of contact with new students and offers an opportunity to set an inclusive tone for your course. Join us for this interactive online workshop, where you will identify key components of an inclusive syllabus that supports student success and examine language and design elements that can help promote equity, belonging, and growth mindset in students. You will also leave this workshop with strategies to help motivate students to read your syllabus.
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AI Planning: Proactive Strategies for Your Course
Thursday, January 8 | 2:00–3:30pm | Zoom
Unsure of how to account for AI in your course planning? Join us for this interactive online workshop when we consider how to adjust assignments and implement policies that build trust and transparency in the age of AI. We will also explore ways generative AI tools can support student learning and engagement. You will leave the workshop with actionable strategies that promote a positive classroom climate around AI usage.
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Each workshop is built to make the first weeks of the semester run a little more smoothly and to support you in the work that matters most. We hope you’ll join us for one or more of these sessions as you gear up for spring.
Best,
Lori