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Interactive Workshops to Support Teaching
The TLC offers 90-minute to two-hour workshops for instructional groups across campus (e.g., department meetings for faculty, graduate student instructors, and TA cohorts). All workshops are interactive, applicable to any discipline, and draw on the teaching experience and expertise of participants.
Workshop Focus Areas
Planning Your Workshop
- We’ll meet with a representative from your group to learn about your audience and goals, and to tailor the session.
- Please contact us in the academic quarter before you’d like to host the workshop.
- We request at least one month’s notice to plan and customize appropriately.
- If your proposed timing isn’t feasible, we’ll work with you to find an alternative.
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Foster Supportive & Responsive Classrooms
Addressing Critical Current Events in the Classroom
Practice responding to local and global events that evoke fear, uncertainty, and harm. Through classroom scenarios, we will discuss strategies for facilitating inclusive learning and recalibrating the classroom towards critical dialogue by applying trauma-informed and justice-oriented pedagogical frameworks. This workshop builds on TLC’s guide for addressing critical current events in the classroom.
Setting & Maintaining Supportive Boundaries in the Classroom
Explore strategies for setting clear expectations, maintaining healthy boundaries, and fostering transparency and trust with students. Topics include examining the role of identity and social positionality in shaping perceptions and negotiations regarding instructor boundaries. This workshop was co-developed with the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Education.
Syllabus Review: The Syllabus as an Equity Tool
Examine how the tone, messaging, and policies in syllabi impact student learning, help-seeking behaviors, and motivation. Investigate how syllabus language and design influence student outcomes, particularly for historically marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation students, and students with disabilities. Review sample syllabi to implement strategies that promote accessibility and equity.
Design for Integrity & Learning in the Age of AI
Maintaining Academic Integrity in Online Courses
Learn how assessments can be redesigned and reinforced to maintain academic integrity in online courses. Explore technical and non-technical approaches to generative-AI resilience. Identify the right methods for administering exams online.
Menus, Lanes, or Traffic Lights? Critical Approaches to GenAI, Academic Integrity, and Assessment Design
Learn how to integrate academic integrity support and assessment security into your course design. Identify and implement strategies that communicate to students how to practice integrity and ethically use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Whether you actively create opportunities to engage with this technology or aim to minimize its presence in your course(s), we will collaborate to write or revise syllabus statements about GenAI, tailored to each instructor’s unique teaching context(s). This workshop was co-developed in partnership with the Academic Integrity Office (AIO).
So (Maybe) They Cheated, Now What? Addressing Suspected Academic Misconduct in Justice-Oriented, Educational Ways (Coming Soon)
Gain confidence and develop strategies for addressing academic misconduct. Learn how to effectively communicate with students about suspected cheating, emphasizing standards of evidence and mutual care. Topics also include differentiating between academic and administrative measures, evaluating thresholds for reporting, and understanding the administrative misconduct process once a report is filed. Lastly, explore strategies for adjusting course policies and assignment guidelines to minimize potential misconduct in the future. This workshop builds on TLC’s guides on academic integrity, which can be found in our Resource Library.
Enhance Learning with Technology
Developing a Department-Level Strategy for Online Learning
Learn how online courses can support your department’s curriculum. Investigate the possibilities and practicalities of online learning while discussing how online strategies can align with your department’s goals and needs. Analyze real-life examples of online courses across campus to identify and evaluate their strengths.
Topics in Educational Technology
Request a tailored session on the educational technologies used at UC Santa Cruz. Topics include Canvas, Hypothesis, Ed Discussions, and other educational technologies that foster accessibility, encourage student engagement, support evaluation, and promote peer learning. This workshop will address specific department needs and interests as communicated with the TLC.
Build Your Mentoring Skills
Mentoring Graduate Students (Paused)
This workshop (currently paused for curriculum updates) supports faculty and departments in exploring evidence-based skills and strategies for the effective mentoring of graduate students. We will work together to uncover implicit expectations for graduate student skill development and identify tools for practicing equitable mentorship that specifically supports graduate students from historically marginalized backgrounds. Please refer to our resource pages on mentoring in our Resource Library for approaches and practices.
Strengthen Your Teaching Teams
Developing Effective Teaching Teams (For Faculty and Graduate Students)
Cultivating a cohesive teaching team in courses that utilize teaching assistants (TAs) is essential for creating equitable and meaningful learning environments for students. In this workshop, faculty and graduate TAs collaborate to reflect on and clarify their roles within a teaching team and share strategies for improving communication and engagement among all members.
Document & Showcase Your Teaching
Documenting Teaching for the Academic Personnel Review Process (For Faculty)
Learn how to showcase evidence of your teaching excellence by creating a comprehensive and representative portrayal of yourself as an educator for personal review processes and reflective practices. Learn how to supplement Student Experience of Teaching Surveys (SETS) data with alternative methods and evidence to document your teaching practices and their impact on student learning.
Explore Equity Data Dashboards
Tailored Workshops on the IRAPS Data Dashboards
The institutional data dashboards, created by IRAPS, offer a wealth of data that you can use to identify any equity issues that may be present in courses, majors, or departments. The TLC offers tailored workshops to help you learn how to navigate these dashboards, examine equity data relevant to your areas of interest, and strategize actions to shrink equity gaps.