Calendar & Events
Fall 2018 Events
Highlighted Events
New Faculty Orientation
The purpose of this New Faculty Orientation is to introduce you to the UVU culture, orient you to UVU services and classroom technologies, and prepare those new to teaching.
August 13 | 8am-4:30pm | FL Lakeview Room
Adjunct Faculty Orientation
The Office of Teaching and Learning will be hosting a brief orientation for UVU's new adjunct instructors.
August 16 | 5-7pm | CB 510
August 18 | 9-11am | CB 510
Fall Conference
UVU Faculty are invited to attend Office of Teaching and Learning's Fall Conference. Breakout sessions will include teaching and learning topics.
September 15 | 9am -2pm | FL Lakeview Room
Academic Integrity Day
In partnership with UVU's Ethics Week.
This year’s Academic Integrity Day features Dr. Dorothea Herreiner from Loyola Marymount University. She will be presenting a workshop on Cultivating Academic Honesty. This session will be held twice at 11:00am – 12:15 and 1:00pm – 2:15pm. Lunch will be served to both session attendees at 12:30pm.
September 24
11am-12:15pm or 1pm-2:15pm
Great Teachers Summit
UVU Faculty come together to discuss teaching practices and ideas. Please contact Ursula Sorensen at sorensur@uvu.edu for more information.
October 18-20 | Wasatch Campus
International Teaching Forum
Shanghai Normal University and Utah Valley University are pleased to announce the 3rd annual International Teaching Forum at Utah Valley University. Please visit the International Teaching Forum web page for more information.
November 7-9
All Aboard Series
A series of sessions for new UVU faculty to learn more about campus resources.
Session 1: September 12| 3-4:14pm | FL 516
or September 13 | 2-3:15pm | FL 516
Session 2: October 10 | 3-4:15pm | FL 516
or October 11 | 2-3:15pm | FL 516
Session 3: November 14 | 3-4:15pm | FL 516
or November 15 | 2-3:15pm | FL 516
Session 4: December 5 | 3-4:15pm | FL 516
or December 6 | 2-3:15pm | FL 516
Workshops
Developing Effective Writing Assignments
Pathway 6
This first of three writing pedagogy workshops focuses on ways to develop writing assignments that emphasize your purpose for the writing task and its desired outcomes, write assignment descriptions that clearly communicate your expectations to students, and develop a rubric that guides students toward effective completion of the writing task.
August 30 | 12-2pm | FL 502
Teaching In-Class Processes and Strategies
Pathway 6
This second writing pedagogy workshop covers ways of effectively teaching writing in the classroom. It covers different strategies you could teach throughout the multiple stages of the writing process, making decisions about what instruction to prioritize, modeling, and effectively utilizing campus tutoring resources.
September 13 | 12-2pm | FL 502
September 19 | 2-4pm | FL 516
Responding to and Grading Student Writing
Pathway 6
This final writing pedagogy workshop covers the differences between responding and grading as well as strategies for efficiently completing each task. It will cover ways of responding to students in the middle of their process without overcommenting, the kinds of responses that would lead to more effective revision from students, and how to speed up grading by focusing only on rubric requirements.
Get Flipped
Pathway 2
This workshop introduces the flipped classroom model of education. Participants will examine the benefits of using this model and determine when its use can be most effective. They will also have the opportunity to explore the wide variety of resources available to assist in “flipping.”
September 27 | 2:30-4pm | FL 516
Cultural Identity in the Classroom
Pathway 4
This workshop touches on how to evaluate how one’s own cultural rules and biases and compare and contrast them with those from different cultures. Recognize how one’s own cultural identity and biases manifest themselves in teaching, and explore the importance of being aware of these in order to be more effective in the classroom.
September 26 | 10am-12pm | FL 502
Enhancing Accessibility in Course Design
Pathway 2
Does the thought of Accessibility make your mind explode!?! Come learn how you can use simple resources and strategies to make your Canvas course accessible.
POET Kick-Off
Pathway 6
This event is for all participants to understand the Peer Observation for Enhancement of Teaching (POET) program and be oriented to the program, and become familiar with the POET Pyramids Manual. Please contact Ursula Sorensen at sorensur@uvu.edu for more information.
October 4 | 2-3:30pm | FL 516
Design Thinking
Pathway 6
Equity Pedagogy
Pathway 4
This workshop allows you to explore how to interrelate respectfully with individuals representing cultures and perspectives other than one’s own. Analyze the basic curricular, pedagogical and personal components of multicultural education.
Lab Trainings
Introducing Canvas
Pathway 1
Become familiar in how to import content, create, organize, and leverage materials
to enhance your classroom’s experience using desktop and mobile devices.
August 28 | 12-1pm | FL 515
August 29 | 12-1pm | FL 515
Remote Teaching
Pathway 1
Bring remote resources to your students pocket with synchronous technology.
September 5 | 12-1pm | FL 515
Presentation Tools for the Classroom
Pathway 1
Be able to identify digital presentation tools to creatively enhance teaching content
and student learning experiences.
September 11 | 12-1pm | FL 515
Introducing Canvas Commons
Pathway 1
Canvas Commons is a new learning object repository that enables educators to share,
find, and import resources.
September 13 | 12-1pm | FL 515
Beautifying Canvas Content
Pathway 1
Online Content is beautiful and sometimes all that we’ve made just needs a brush up instead of a rewrite.
September 18 | 12-1pm | FL 515
Introducing OneNote Classroom Notebook
Pathway 1
Become familiar in how to import content, create, organize, and leverage materials
to enhance your classroom’s experience using desktop and mobile devices.
September 19 | 12-1pm | FL 515
Plagiarism Checking Tools
Pathway 1
Come and learn how to establish assignments, Grade, & Give feedback with the Plagiarism
Checking tools at UVU.
Introducing Kaltura
Pathway 1
An Introduction to Kaltura Video and how it enables video quizzes & lecture capture
options that are built into your canvas class.
Grading Simplified
Pathway 1
Simplify your grading and feedback. Gain insights from frequently asked questions.
Introducing 360/VR Class Engagements
Pathway 1
Hands on opportunity to explore technology and create 360 photographs & VR content for your course. Bring your creativity.
Introducing Digication
Pathway 1
Digication e-Portfolios help students showcase and reflect on their work. e-Portfolios can also help departments with assessment.
Self-Paced Workshops
Faculty JumpStart Orientation
This course is for new full-time and adjunct faculty. It includes information on employee email, parking permits, UTA passes, UVID cards, and payroll. It also includes information about policies related to teaching, myUVU, media enhanced classrooms, testing services, and library services for faculty. It takes about 1.5 hours to complete. Click below to self-enroll in the Canvas course.
Assessment and Feedback for Learning and Success
Pathway 1
This course will provide you with an opportunity to practice backwards design approach to helping your students achieve learning outcomes. You will develop a summative assessment with rubric to measure student achievement. You will develop two formative assessments to support student learning.
Fundamentals of Teaching in Higher Education
Pathway 1
This course will provide you with an opportunity to learn about principles of undergraduate education to support student learning. You will create learning objectives based on Bloom’s taxonomy and align the learning outcomes with learning activities and assessments. You will evaluate your syllabus using a learner-centered rubric.
OTL Newsletter
Teaching Excellence Program Pathways
Pathway 1: Master of Fundamental Practices
An ideal starting point for new faculty within their first year at UVU. This pathway includes UVU’s All Aboard series, which is the primary orientation to UVU campus services and teaching expectations. Several of these workshops will soon be available as self-paced Canvas courses for your convenience:
Assessment and Feedback for Learning and Success
Fundamentals of Teaching in Higher Education
Teaching for Student Success
Pathway 2: Course Design and Curriculum Development
This pathway includes the popular FlexStudio workshop that is required for those faculty developing online and hybrid courses under a formal course development agreement. Check out the Accessibility course for practical help in ensuring your course files and Canvas content are ADA-compliant. The new e-portfolio tool Digication is showcased in this pathway.
Pathway 3: Teaching Across Flexible Modes
This pathway is designed to advance online and hybrid pedagogy including ways to develop instructor presence, peer-to-peer interaction, and meaningful and secure online assessments. The Quality Enhancement workshop features a tour of the new OSCQR quality rubric.
Pathway 4: Global, Intercultural, and Inclusive Approaches
This pathway is sponsored by the Office of Engaged Learning’s Center for Global/Intercultural Engagement and provides the required six workshops for G/I certification. This pathway helps instructors develop a G/I classroom and understand inclusive pedagogy.
Pathway 5: Academic Service Learning
This pathway is sponsored by the Academic Service Learning Department and provides the six requirements of the Service Learning certification.
Pathway 6: Advanced Teaching Practice
This pathway provides recognition for a variety of higher-level teaching practices including peer observation, use of the SCOTs program, scholarship related to teaching and learning, and mentorship.
