TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

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8:00am CDT

Breakfast

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:30am CDT

Lake Room

Grab some coffee and a snack to kick off your day at TEACHx!

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:30am CDT
Lake Room

8:00am CDT

Thursday Registration

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm CDT

Louis Lobby

Stop by the Registration Desk to check in to TEACHx and claim your name badge.

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Louis Lobby

8:30am CDT

Achieving Balance as a Grad TA Through Small, Consistent Steps

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Northwestern Room

It's difficult to know where to funnel your energy when someone or something is constantly demanding your attention- especially as grad TA's. How do we set ourselves up for success? How do we accomplish what we need to do and do it exceptionally well? How can we be masters of time? In this talk, I will share real tools that you can take with you to downsize your stress, organize your day, and determine what your priorities and boundaries are.

Speakers

Ashley Rasmussen

Graduate student, University of Illinois at Chicago

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Northwestern Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Graduate Instructor Track

8:30am CDT

Echo360: Transforming Student Engagement

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Rock Room

In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, fostering active participation and enhancing student engagement remains a focal point in higher education. This session will explore EchoPoll’ impact on student engagement, providing case studies of demonstrated success, and how the solution’s interoperability with Echo360’s Learning Transformation Platform™ (LTP™) - the Echosystem™ - is transforming the future of education.

Through the power of the EchoSystem, the world’s and only first Learning Transformation Platform, Echo360 has delivered a wholistic approach to student engagement with EchoEngage. By leveraging real-time, interactive polling technology, EchoPoll, one of the two EchoEngage solutions, instructors around the world are transforming traditional classroom dynamics into a more accessible and personalized exchange of ideas.

EchoPoll empowers instructors to integrate data-driven engagement strategies into lectures in a new way, seamlessly adding polls, quizzes, and surveys into their live and recorded lessons. This real-time interaction, which can always be captured and distributed for asynchronous engagement and review, not only provides immediate feedback on student understanding but also promotes critical thinking and semester-long discussions. This technology ensures that every voice is heard, regardless of class size, and allows students to respond anonymously, which can improve participation rates and reduce the barriers to speaking up.

Speakers

James O'Donnell

Account Executive, Echo360

Michael Wright

Customer Success Manager, Echo360

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Rock Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

8:30am CDT

GEST: A Card Game to Reinforce Music Theory Terminology

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Arch Room

During the spring 2024 quarter, a PhD candidate and music theory professor teamed up to conduct a teaching experiment across four sections of 2nd year music theory (including two sections taught by graduate students). The question: Could a card game improve students' retention and recall of music theory terminology definitions? This digital poster will describe the terminology card game, present the process and results of our teaching experiment, and outline plans for future modification/implementation.

Speakers

Jaz Thomasian

PhD Candidate, Bienen School of Music

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Arch Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Graduate Instructor Track

8:30am CDT

Self-Efficacy and Student Learning

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Wildcat Room

Can a student's belief affect their behavior and learning? Research supports that self-efficacy can predict performance and account for poor performance when students have the required skills needed to learn. In this presentation, we will evaluate and explore our own self-efficacy as well as gain a general understanding of the impact of self-efficacy on learning. Then, we will discuss ways that we, as professors, administrators, parents, teachers, aunts, uncles, and others, can increase the development of belief in oneself and others. Lastly, we will work on setting two concrete goals with an action plan to implement steps to reach those goals. If a person's belief, or self-efficacy, that they can succeed influences learning, we must implement strategies to build self-efficacy.

Speakers

Susan Schulhof

Assistant Professor, National Louis University

Susan Schulhof is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education. She has been working in the Early Childhood Education field since 2001 with previous experience in Elementary Education and Social Work. In addition to teaching and leading others, she was an Assessor and Training... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Wildcat Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Student Success and Assessment

8:30am CDT

The Digital Accessibility Coach (DA Coach): AI-Powered Inclusion Support

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Big Ten Room

This session presents the Digital Accessibility Coach (DA Coach), an AI-powered assistant designed to support faculty and staff in ensuring digital accessibility compliance within university course materials. Developed by the Innovation in Digital Accessibility (IDA) Working Group, this initiative aligns with ADA Title II regulations, providing a scalable solution for achieving 100 percent accessibility compliance across diverse pedagogies and course materials.

Participants will explore the AI-driven accessibility assessment tool, built using Python and API integrations, which provides one-on-one personalized support for digital accessibility learning and compliance. The DA Coach will guide users through step-by-step accessibility checks, improving usability, user experience, and WCAG compliance through an iterative design process.

This approach not only enhances faculty accessibility practices but also drives long-term student success in a fully digitally inclusive learning environment.

Speakers

JaEun Jemma Ku

Director, IT Accessibility & Technology Solutions, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jeremy Riel

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Rocco Catrone

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Andrew Nichols

Director of Information Systems, Security, and Compliance, University of Illinois Chicago Division of Specialized Care for Children

Andrew Nichols is the Director of Information Systems, Security, and Compliance at the University of Illinois Chicago Division of Specialized Care for Children. With extensive experience in higher education IT leadership, he oversees enterprise information systems, cybersecurity strategy... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Big Ten Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Accessibility and UDL

8:30am CDT

Unlocking Deeper Learning: How AI Can Make That Happen!

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Lake Room

This presentation explores a novel approach to leveraging AI in education, not as a replacement for critical thinking, but as a catalyst for it. We'll delve into a case study where students used AI Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze a business case, and then reflect on the AI's strengths and weaknesses. The surprising outcome? Students produced unusually insightful and lengthy reflections, demonstrating a level of engagement and ownership rarely seen in traditional assignments. This presentation will unpack the pedagogical principles behind this success, focusing on how AI-assisted assignments can naturally incorporate spiraling, spaced repetition, and agency -- three key elements for deep and lasting learning. Participants will leave with practical strategies for designing their own AI-enhanced assignments to promote deeper learning in their classrooms.

Speakers

William Burnett

Associate Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Parkside and Milwaukee

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Lake Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

9:00am CDT

Emerging Technologies Lab

Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am CDT

Armadillo Room

Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of cutting-edge technology at the Reality Room! This drop-in event is your chance to experiment with the latest in augmented and virtual reality, photogrammetry, motion capture, and creative generative AI. You'll be able to try on augmented reality headsets, explore virtual reality simulators, create stunning 3D models with photogrammetry software, capture your every move with motion capture devices, and learn how to use AR/VR tools for prototyping. With inspiring guest speakers from various fields, you'll learn how these technologies can transform education, entertainment, and design. Come and experience a new reality that will leave you spellbound and ready to take your own projects to the next level.

Speakers

Kat Caribeaux

Doctoral Student, Northwestern University

Rodolfo Vieira

Developer Lead, Northwestern University

Zoran Ilic

Senior Academic Systems Engineer, Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation

Vince LaGrassa

Developer, Northwestern University

Orzu Tursnova

Full-Stack Software Developer, Northwestern University

Craig Stevens

PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Northwestern University

Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
Armadillo Room

Hands-on Lab

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

9:30am CDT

Educating Humans to Thrive in an AI World

Thursday May 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT

Louis Room

It is hard to ignore the AI threats to economic, academic, political, environmental and psychological well-being. Higher education, however, finds itself in a unique position to understand and combat these threats: asking better questions and judging answers has always been at the center of a critical thinking education. Education manages the tension between learning to be fully human and preparing for a successful career. Since expertise is also essential to using AI well, we will need to prepare students to be experts in a world where AI can produce better work than many interns. Understanding how we might (or might not) use AI to support human thriving will be essential as we begin the process of maintaining the best of our tradition while rethinking curriculum for a new world.

Speakers

José Antonio Bowen

Educator, Musician, Scholar

José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami and SMU, and as president of a top ten USN&WR most innovative college until 2019. He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, leadership and inclusion consulting and training for Toyota, AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, and other Fortune 500 companies.Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Louis Room

Keynote

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

10:00am CDT

Emerging Technologies Lab

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT

Armadillo Room

Speakers

Kat Caribeaux

Doctoral Student, Northwestern University

Zoran Ilic

Senior Academic Systems Engineer, Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation

Vince LaGrassa

Developer, Northwestern University

Craig Stevens

PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Northwestern University

Orzu Tursnova

Full-Stack Software Developer, Northwestern University

Rodolfo Vieira

Developer Lead, Northwestern University

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Armadillo Room

Hands-on Lab

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

10:45am CDT

Designing Data Infographics for Adaptive Learning: Enhancing Engagement

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Rock Room

I did a study to investigate how learners with diverse cognitive abilities process data stories presented through infographics, focusing on the impact of visual and verbal data representations. Conducted in a controlled lab setting using an eye tracker, the experiment examined how individual cognitive differences -- such as working memory, visuospatial abilities, and inhibitory control -- affect infographic comprehension. I used Machine Learning algorithms to analyze learners' eye movement data and explored how they engage with data presented through both visual (graphs, charts) and verbal (textual descriptions) formats.

The results suggest that learners engage more effectively with data stories when critical information is communicated verbally rather than through data visualizations, especially when the content requires comprehension of complex data relationships. Furthermore, the findings emphasize the need to minimize seductive details in graphical representations, as these details can distract learners and hinder their ability to extract key information.

The study also highlighted important implications for educators and developers. Teachers should implement strategies to enhance learners' visuospatial abilities to improve overall engagement with graphical content. Developers should consider using eye-movement data to create adaptive infographics that cater to individual cognitive strengths, ultimately improving accessibility and comprehension for all learners.

Speakers

Kristine Zlatkovic

Mellon Postodctoral Fellow, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Hi!I am Kristine, and I’m excited to share with you my presentation, "Designing Data Infographics for Adaptive Learning: Enhancing Engagement." This presentation is based on my research aimed at understanding how people generally comprehend visual data and make decisions in learning... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Rock Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Accessibility and UDL

10:45am CDT

From Plato to Pixar: Using Storytelling Frameworks to Drive Engagement

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Northwestern Room

From Succession to Squid Game, from Game of Thrones to Severance, we live in a culture saturated with stories. As educators, technologists, and researchers, we're frequently told that using stories will keep our audiences engaged when we need to convey information in a presentation or instructional-based format. How do we do that, though? We're not all natural-born storytellers, but there are effective, powerful frameworks that can help us tell compelling stories regardless of the subject.

After reviewing the four cornerstones of narrative, we'll cover two key frameworks for engagement through storytelling: Campbell's Hero's Journey and the Pixar Storytelling Framework. Participants will take what they have learned about the Pixar storytelling framework and apply it to a segment of content from their own area of expertise. After a brief working period, participants will be asked to share their work with the session audience for feedback. Each participant will leave with the experience of applied knowledge and be better able to tell stories in their own higher education environments.

Speakers

Brian Klaas

Instructor, Johns Hopkins University

Brian Klaas is the Assistant Director for Technology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Teaching and Learning. He also has a faculty appointment in the School's R3 Center for Innovation in Science Education. He teaches graduate level courses on communications... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Northwestern Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Student Success and Assessment

10:45am CDT

Software Instruction to Support Digital Fluency in General Chemistry

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Arch Room

Fluency in software is often assumed before students enter a course, but when students are challenged to perform concrete tasks, they struggle to work independently. In general chemistry lab courses we prioritize learning Microsoft Excel for data analysis and visualization early in the first quarter. While many students report prior experience with Excel, they struggle to execute the tasks required in a science lab course. To better support all students, we have integrated an in-class "data analysis" lab that allows them to gain fluency in the software with the support of their peers and teaching assistants. This requires some class time is devoted to active learning of the software; it also requires adequate training of the TAs. In this presentation, we will detail how we prioritize what tasks are done in class and what is expected to be independent work. While our example is in the teaching of Microsoft Excel, we aim to discuss objectives more generally to help participants assess their own relationship to the software of their choice. Bring your laptop!

Speakers

Veronica Berns

Associate Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University

Veronica Berns (she/her) earned her BA in Chemistry at Northwestern University in 2009 before her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2014. Her doctoral thesis focused on the way atoms pack together in solids, specifically in compounds with multiple... Read More →

Katherine Gesmundo

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Arch Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

10:45am CDT

Celebrating Pedagogical Innovation: Insights from Award-Winning Educators

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Lake Room

Join us for an insightful and multi-disciplinary panel discussion featuring winners of Northwestern’s University Teaching Awards, who exemplify excellence in undergraduate classroom teaching. Following Bowen’s keynote, we will delve further into the student-instructor connection. Panelists will describe their commitment to fostering student belonging and success. We will explore how these educators are leveraging innovative technologies, creating immersive learning experiences, and honing students’ critical thinking to grapple with wicked problems. Additionally, the panel will discuss effective strategies for driving meaningful assessment and student success. We will close the conversation with reflections on the importance of safeguarding instructor vitality and questions from the audience. Hosted by the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching and moderated by Senior Director, Jennifer Keys.

Moderators

Jennifer Keys

Senior Director, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching

Speakers

Mei-Ling Hopgood

William F. Thomas Professor, Northwestern University

Mei-Ling Hopgood is a freelance journalist and author of Lucky Girl and How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm. She has been a recipient of the National Headliner Best in Show, ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and several other investigative and enterprise... Read More →

Barbara Butts

Associate Professor of Instruction, Theatre, Northwestern University

Ilya Mikhelson

Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Associate Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University

Michael Beltran

Director of 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping Lab Senior Lecturer Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Lecturer, Northwestern University

Lilah Shapiro

Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Lake Room

Panel Discussion

Subject Student Success and Assessment

10:45am CDT

Using Data-Driven Teaching to Drive Assessment Design and Student Success

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Big Ten Room

Reflective, data-driven teaching practices help instructors answer the question, "How do I know if what I'm doing in the classroom is working?" Importantly, engaging in reflective cycles of teaching, collecting data, and making changes based upon data (see Brookfield, 2017) can inform assessment design and strategies for student success.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence's Action Research Scholars program at the University of Illinois Chicago builds capacity for instructors to systematically investigate the efficacy of their teaching. The program uses a scaffolded approach grounded in an ethos of care for instructor well-being by providing training, connections to campus experts, and space for dialogue and community with peers across disciplines. The program culminates in an IRB approved research plan, data collection, and dissemination of findings.

During the session, participants will hear from instructors who have completed the program. Moderators will ask panelists about their research questions, study design, and findings; issues of power and marginalization that they navigated; challenges they faced; and the impact of their study on their assessments and students' learning experience. Moderators will lead participants through a reflective teaching exercise in which participants will brainstorm with colleagues about strategies to implement data-driven teaching in their contexts.

Moderators

Crystal Tse

Associate Director for Faculty Engagement in Action Research, University of Illinois Chicago

Speakers

Trischa Duke

Senior Lecturer, University of Illinois Chicago

Tara Driscoll

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago

April Andry Rahman

Assistant Director of Education Research / Adjunct Instructor, University of Illinois Chicago / Chicago State University

I'm an educational developer in the University of Illinois Chicago's Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence and adjunct faculty in the Nontraditional Degree Programs at Chicago State University. I bridge teaching and research with Black feminist homeplace pedagogies that... Read More →

Laura Thorp

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Big Ten Room

Panel Discussion

Subject Student Success and Assessment

10:45am CDT

What is “Good” Writing?: Perspectives from The Writing Place

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Wildcat Room

The Writing Place is Northwestern's peer-to-peer writing center. This presentation will synthesize the research and experience of Writing Place tutors and administrators to explore the question, "What is 'good' writing?" The first 10 minutes of the session will introduce existing scholarly conversations on the teaching of writing and writing assessment as presented through the lens of writing center studies. Writing centers operate within interstitial spaces of the university, providing one-on-one feedback on student writing at a remove from the hierarchies of the classroom. Students trained to work at the Writing Place sometimes experience a disconnect between the theoretical tutoring philosophies that they learn during their tutor instruction and the real-life expectations of faculty. Our 25-minute moderated panel discussion will dig into topics such as linguistic diversity, the pressures of writing assessment on the student writing experience, and assumed conventions of "good" writing from the perspective of the writing center tutors and administrators. In the last 10 minutes, panelists will lead small break-out group conversations with the audience.

Moderators

Meaghan Fritz

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Meaghan Fritz received her PhD in English in 2018 from Northwestern University, where she specialized in nineteenth-century American women’s literature. She teaches College Seminars, First-Year Writing Seminars, Practical Rhetoric, and Writing and Speaking in Business in the Weinberg... Read More →

Speakers

Elizabeth Lenaghan

Professor of Instruction, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Amelia Hurley

Student and Undergraduate Writing Consultant at the Main Library Writing Place, School of Education and Social Policy

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Wildcat Room

Panel Discussion

Subject Student Success and Assessment

11:00am CDT

Emerging Technologies Lab

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT

Armadillo Room

Speakers

Kat Caribeaux

Doctoral Student, Northwestern University

Zoran Ilic

Senior Academic Systems Engineer, Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation

Vince LaGrassa

Developer, Northwestern University

Orzu Tursnova

Full-Stack Software Developer, Northwestern University

Craig Stevens

PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Northwestern University

Rodolfo Vieira

Developer Lead, Northwestern University

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Armadillo Room

Hands-on Lab

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

11:45am CDT

Teaching the Essential Skills of Tomorrow: Building Cloud and GenAI Literacy through AWS Sandboxes

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:45am - 11:52pm CDT

Louis Room

This session introduces educators to AWS teaching resources, specifically AWS Academy and AWS Innovation Sandboxes, designed to enhance classroom instruction in cloud computing and generative AI. We'll demonstrate how these tools can be integrated into your curriculum to provide hands-on experience with industry-leading technologies. Learn practical strategies for teaching students to effectively and responsibly use generative AI tools while developing crucial technical skills demanded by employers. This workshop introduces instructors to resources needed to prepare students for the evolving technological workplace.

Speakers

Carolyn Przybylinski

AWS Account Manager, AWS Worldwide Public Sector

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:45am - 11:52pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

11:53am CDT

Unraveling Dualities: Finding Peace in Paradox

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:53am - 12:00pm CDT

Louis Room

There is a burnout related to having to navigate seemingly contradictory emotions and behaviors in life. Learning to unravel the paradoxes can help us thrive. "Unraveling Dualities: Finding Peace in Paradox, is a book that I wrote and recently published. After having a conversation about some of the topics that I consult on and teach at Kellogg, I had an epiphany. I was able to bring together most of the ideas that I have taught for decades under a clear umbrella. I was excited to share my perspective with others in the hope that it would help people to navigate challenges and difficulties that they face, sometimes on a daily basis, with more clarity and confidence.

Dualities, what seem to be contradictions, are everywhere. For example, people walk the tightrope of emotion vs. rational thinking almost every single day. The ideas in the book do not rely on a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership skills and actions but, rather, provide a framework and activities for developing greater self-awareness, and navigating and personalizing your thought process and behaviors. The most successful people are versatile â€” they pivot, listen, and adapt their methods appropriately in any given situation.

I hope that the talk will help participants to learn how to make choices that enable them to behave and deliver outcomes aligned with values to become better people.

Speakers

Gail Berger

Clinical Professor, Management and Organizations; Deputy Director of Kellogg Center for Executive Women, Kellogg School of Management

Gail Berger is a Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School of Management, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the School of Communication, and the Deputy Director of the Center for Executive Women at Kellogg. She is also an experienced executive... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:53am - 12:00pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

12:01pm CDT

KISS (Keep It Short and Simple) and AWE (Accessible with Examples)

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:01pm - 12:08pm CDT

Louis Room

It's easier than you might think to create an accessible Northwestern Canvas course with links to free, high-quality course materials. The secrets: KISS (Keep It Short and Simple). And use tools like SensusAccess to make sure your site is AWE (Accessible With Examples).

By the end of this session, participants will know how to use SensusAccess to make PDF's of magazine articles and book pages so they're easier for visually impaired students to read. They will also know how to streamline their syllabi and link to "Mission Accessible"-certified course materials hidden on "pages." They will understand why underlining is a no-no because it looks like a hyperlink.

Speakers

Karen Springen

Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

Karen Springen directs Medill's Journalism Residency program, leads the graduate journalism Magazine Specialization, and teaches undergraduate and graduate reporting and writing classes. She advises several student groups, including the student-run North by Northwestern magazine.Springen... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:01pm - 12:08pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Accessibility and UDL

12:08pm CDT

Constructing a Syllabus to Help with Burnout (Instructor and Student!)

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:08pm - 12:15pm CDT

Louis Room

Teaching through COVID-19 and recent political and world events has been challenging, overwhelming, and even exhausting for students and faculty. Many lessons and strategies I implemented during COVID-19 have become a standard part of my courses and syllabi to help ease the stress of students and teaching staff. The point of this lightening talk session would be to discuss some of the tangible changes I've made in recent years to encourage less stress and self-care (including the structure of discussion boards, increased use of technology/Canvas, late policies, collaborative assignment options, clarity in syllabus statements, etc.). While the unexpected has definitely happened in recent years where course pivots needed to happen quickly, this session will focus on syllabus creation and policies to help anticipate potential areas of flexibility and self-care for instructors and students.

Speakers

Karrie Snyder

Associate Professor of Instruction - Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:08pm - 12:15pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

12:15pm CDT

Canvas Hall of Fame Ceremony, Sponsored by Instructure

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm CDT

Louis Room

Come celebrate the end of TEACHx by helping us honor the instructors who went above and beyond to create engaging experiences for their students using Canvas.

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm CDT
Louis Room

12:30pm CDT

Closing Remarks and Refreshments

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm CDT

Louis Room

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm CDT
Louis Room

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