This workshop explores strategies for centering equity and belonging in course design, and helps instructors develop skills to recognize and interrupt bias when articulating learning objectives, selecting and delivering course content, planning and implementing in-class activities, and designing assessments. After completing guided activities during the session, participants will leave with a toolkit of self-paced resources for revising their own courses to enhance equity and belonging.

Through hands-on activities and small group discussion, this workshop helps attendees uncover best practices for creating community remotely. Learn more about available tools, investigate a variety of strategies, and think through how you might implement strategies in your classroom and life. This workshop is facilitated by CAT’s TA Training Program and CEILS/CIRTL. View the workshop recording and resources here.

CAT and CEILS have collaborated to create a workshop for faculty and TAs centered around what TAs wish faculty knew about their experience teaching during 2020. The session centers around questions of disruptions and difficulties that TAs are experiencing, how faculty and TAs can best communicate with each other, how to manage work expectations in this time of disruption, and how to function as a team in order to meet students’ needs. View the workshop recording and resources here.

This hands-on workshop explores strategies for using technology to foster active learning and student engagement in remote courses. Participants learn how to maximize the use of Zoom breakout rooms and gain practical experience with online polling and a variety of digital collaboration tools. Attendees leave the workshop having identified concrete action steps for transitioning activities and assignments they typically use face-to-face for remote environments. The focus of this workshop is engagement during synchronous Zoom class meetings. View the workshop recording and resources here.

This workshop situates equitable teaching practices as the foundation for building a classroom culture of belonging and shared ownership that helps students from all backgrounds and skill levels succeed. Together, we will explore UCLA’s specific teaching context and student population, and practice revising sample syllabi and lesson plans to create a welcoming and inclusive learning environment from the very first day of class. Participants will leave with an action plan for revising their own courses to enhance equity and belonging.

Mid-quarter feedback is a quick way for instructors to gain important insights into how students are feeling about their progress and to learn what is and isn’t working in a class so that you can make adjustments. In this one-hour workshop, participants learn why you should ask your students for mid-quarter feedback, review some best practices for collecting information, and discuss what to do with feedback once you get it. Participants leave the workshop with a toolkit for implementing mid-quarter feedback, including some templates for CCLE and Google Forms.  This workshop is facilitated by CAT’s TA Training Program and CEILS/CIRTL.  View the workshop recording and resources here.

This workshop explores how various forms of bias impact class dynamics and discussions, and helps instructors develop knowledge and skills for interrupting bias and managing hot moments in the classroom. Participants practice recognizing intent versus impact, as well as a variety of concrete tools for troubleshooting friction in the classroom–and walk away with a deeper understanding of how bias affects students and instructors.  NOTE: We strongly recommend attending CAT’s Foundations for Equitable & Inclusive Teaching before participating in this workshop. Instructors who are new to anti-bias work may also find it helpful to explore UCLA BruinX’s Implicit Bias website and Harvard University’s free Project Implicit – Social Attitudes portal prior to attending this session. View workshop resources here.

In this hands-on workshop, CAT staff and members of the UCLA Library’s Writing Instruction & Research Education team (WI+RE) introduce participants to digital strategies for supporting remote research and writing instruction. After reflecting on common and hidden challenges that student researchers and writers face, participants learn how to use WI+RE tutorials to help students brainstorm and narrow paper topics, identify and cite sources, and craft compelling arguments. To make the most of this hands-on session, we encourage participants to explore the Tutorials page of the WI+RE website in advance to learn more about how WI+RE helps demystify the research and writing process for students. View the workshop recording and resources here.

During this panel discussion, instructors and librarians share insights about using  the UCLA Library’s Writing Instruction & Research Education digital toolkit (WI+RE) to design effective projects for courses of all sizes, from large lectures to small seminars. Panelists discuss strategies for supporting students with varying skill levels, designing micro-lessons for lecture/section and homework, breaking down large assignments–and more! This workshop was held on February 16, 2023 and was co-sponsored by UCLA’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and the UCLA Library. View workshop recordings and resources here.

During this panel discussion, faculty and graduate student instructors from a variety of disciplines share best practices for designing, scaffolding, and assessing multimedia assignments and multimodal composition projects. Following short lightning talks, participants dive more deeply into tips and tricks for engaging students through podcasting, video production, video games–and more! View the panel recording and resources here.

During this panel discussion, faculty from humanities, social sciences, and psychology/psychiatry share their experiences integrating individual and team research projects into undergraduate courses. This discussion emphasizes strategies for engaging students in research and project-based learning in both remote and face-to-face learning environments. The workshop was held on February 8, 2021 and was co-sponsored by UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. View the panel recording and resources here.

This panel discussion, moderated by CAT, features faculty who taught large lecture courses remotely during Spring 2020. Learn about strategies for delivering and recording lectures, fostering student engagement, and assessing student learning in large courses–including very large classes of 300-400+ students. View the panel recording and resources here.

In this panel discussion, faculty from History, the Digital Humanities, and the Labor Center share their experiences with integrating collaborative research projects into their undergraduate courses, while highlighting the advantages and feasibility of student-driven, public-facing scholarship. These projects ask students to employ digital methods to visualize and disseminate data as a means for achieving their goals, from influencing public policy to fighting for social justice. Panelists also share how they scaffold and assess this type of work, as well as how they manage group dynamics. The panel was held on November 3, 2021 and was co-sponsored by UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. View the panel recording and resources here.

This panel discussion features conversations between UCLA faculty and staff from the Hammer Museum and UCLA Library Special Collections who have collaborated to develop undergraduate courses. The discussion emphasizes strategies for facilitating course-based collaboration with archives and museums in both remote and face-to-face learning environments. The workshop was held on May 4, 2021 and was co-sponsored by UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. View the panel recording and resources here.