TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

8:30am CDT

Achieving Balance as a Grad TA Through Small, Consistent Steps

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

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

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

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