TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

2:45pm CDT

The Metacognitive Feedback Loop

Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm CDT

Student success tends to be measured through assessment and grades. In this interactive presentation, we'll focus on how we can promote student success by providing students with metacognitive feedback. Metacognition plays a key part for learning and growth urging us to consider how our feedback can help both us and our students think about their learning process and success in the course. During our time together, you will learn about the value of encouraging metacognitive reflection for students, explore strategies and strengths of various feedback practices, and reflect on how your feedback impacts student learning. We will also practice composing metacognitive feedback and discuss practical ways of implementing it in your own classrooms.

Speakers

Jennifer Torres

Graduate student, University of Illinois Chicago

Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm CDT
Big Ten Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Graduate Instructor Track

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

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

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