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2020-2021 Newsletters
- Faculty Success:How do you design a class that gives students a variety of ways to participate and succeed?
- What do your students say we should keep in the fall?
- Presenting on teaching.
- Demystifying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
- What do your students say worked for them in their fully remote courses?
- What are some ways to conclude your semester and leave students with a lasting and positive impression?
- Now is the time for Forward FOCUS.
- Many Instructors Have Found It Challenging to Engage (Understandably) Distracted Students During Remote Learning.
- Faculty Success: How Does One Create Videos the Students Want to Watch?
- Perhaps You've Asked Yourself: Should I Ask My Students to Turn Their Cameras Off?
- Mini-grants for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) studies.
- Helping students reduce textbook costs.
- Faculty Success: How can instructors reduce student textbook costs AND make a curriculum more inclusive at the same time?
- Forward FOCUS.
- Flex Grant funds are running out!
- Faculty Success: How can we make the most of synchronous and asynchronous class activities to enhance student learning?
- How do you keep students showing up and engaging?
- Don't forget the Flex Grants!
- Many Instructors Have Found It Challenging to Engage (Understandably) Distracted Students During Remote Learning.
- Faculty Success: How Does One Create Videos the Students Want to Watch?
- Perhaps You've Asked Yourself: Should I Ask My Students to Turn Their Cameras Off?
- Mini-grants for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) studies.
- What Teaching Strategy Are All the “Cool” Instructors Using?
- Share Teaching Ideas with Your Peers!
- Faculty Success: How Do You Keep Students Motivated and Engaged in Large Online Classes?
- Mini-grants for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) studies.
- Check Us Out.
- Want to Start the Semester Strong?
- Faculty Success: Looking for a Novel Way to Build Community During the First Weeks of
- Class?
- Call for Proposals: “Where Do We Go from Here? Teaching and Learning After the Pandemic.”
- Don’t Forget the Flex Grants!
- Check Us Out.
Want to Start the Semester Strong?
Want to Start the Semester Strong?
- Welcome to the New Year.
- Faculty Success: Captioning Presentations
- Check Us Out.
- Apply Now for the TIDE (Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity, & Equity) Ambassadors Fellowship!
- Call for Proposals: “Where Do We Go from Here?
- Don’t Forget the Flex Grants!
- Take a Breather, and By the Way, You’re Breathtaking.
- Our Students Need Us.
- Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching – Call for Nominations Open.
- Don’t Forget the Flex Grants!
- Planning for the Spring?
- Looking for Classroom Space?
- Want to Connect with Other Instructors about the
- Election?
- And How Can You Support Your Students?
- Highlighting Faculty Success.
- Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching – Call
- for Nominations Open.
- Forward FOCUS.
- Wrapping Up Your Semester by Revisiting
- Your Learning Objectives.
- Highlighting Faculty Success.
- Forward FOCUS.
- It’s Not Too Soon to Think About Spring Courses.
- Free Teaching Conference for UMass Amherst Faculty!
- Highlighting faculty success.
- The benefits of reaching out.
- Interested in other ways to connect with your students?
- Free Teaching Conference for UMass Amherst Faculty!
- Looking for practical, concrete strategies for engaging your students?
- Connectedness and, why not, pets.
- Forward FOCUS.
- Looking for practical, concrete strategies for teaching online?
- Welcome to the fall semester, colleagues.
- Looking for practical, concrete strategies for teaching online?
- Need help?
