Center for Teaching Excellence
Winter Workshop
🗓️ Wednesday, January 15
⏰ 9:00 - 1:00
📍 KN 4090
🤖 Change is Hard: The emotional side of adapting to AI; AI Literacy for Adults
Generative AI is creating change in education, and change is sometimes hard or even overwhelming. This can lead to various emotional responses and various adaptation strategies. Join us at Winter Workshop where special guest Mike Kentz will lead us through identifying and processing our emotional responses to AI. Mike will then present some information on what AI is so that we can identify responsible and effective ways to use it, should we choose to do so.
Breakfast pastry, coffee, and lunch will be provided. Attendees will earn 10 CTE Knights Points.
New Location
The Center has moved downstairs to room 4559 in the Knight Campus Library. This sunny space is right in the middle of the CTE Book Collection, and still has coffee and tea! Stop by to check it out and get a cuppa!
Resources
Check out all the new books that CTE has added to the library collection in the past two years.
Rachel's Recommended Reading
"Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning" by José Antonio
Bowen and C. Edward Watson is a brand new book that you can check out from the CCRI
Library (ebook), or get a free copy of if you are an instructor!
We'll have Book Discussion events on the first Friday of each month for the rest of the semester. Register here to get a calendar invite with the zoom link.
Fall Groups
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) | you help pick the time! | 6 meetings | 15 CTE Knights Points
- Inclusive STEM Teaching Project | Thursdays 8:30-10:00 | 6 meetings | 15 CTE Knights Points and *3 Graduate Credits*
- Walk and Talk | Thursdays 3:45-4:30 | all semester | 3 CTE Knights Points each | email [email protected]
Knights Points
Don't forget, you can fill out an Implementation Plan if you want to use anything you learn from any professional development in your classes for 4 CTE Knights points. Close the gap to a CTE Knights Certificate before Spring Symposium!
Disaggregated Data Requests
In February 2022, I (Rachel) was able to see my course data for General Psychology (a course I have taught many times here at CCRI) disaggregated by race and ethnicity. The results were surprising and difficult for me to face. Despite that, I’m very glad that I did it, and I’m looking forward to trying some new strategies in my courses to try to close the equity gaps I found.
If you’d like to check out your own course data, request a meeting here to get started.
This is a confidential process and is for your professional development only. Results are not shared with chairs, deans, or the VPAA.
The Center for Teaching Excellence is a collaborative, faculty-led community that supports continuous development and champions high-impact, equitable teaching and learning practices for our diverse student body.
We Listen and Learn
We Respond and Lead
We Recognize and Reward