Spring Teaching Conference

CTL’s annual teaching conference began in 2005 in partnership with colleges across UNM, and was originally titled Success in the Classroom. Past themes included:

• Native Pedagogies
• Teaching and Social Justice
• Teaching Across Difference
• Engaging Undergraduates
• Graduate Students as Teachers
• How Graduate Students Teach: Pedagogies, Learning, and Leading

Each year the conference includes a keynote speaker or speakers and panels and/or workshops featuring UNM instructors (faculty, graduate students, and staff). Notable keynote speakers include: Sylvia Hurtado, Karen Kelsky, Jesse Aleman, and Kelly Hogan.

The goals of the conference are to:

• Showcase the great pedagogical work taking place at UNM.
• Promote and motivate creativity and innovation in teaching.
• Encourage and support reflective practice and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL).
• Invigorate the teaching and learning conversations on campus.
• Facilitate and promote intra- and cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations on teaching and learning.
• Create an environment that motivates the formation of teaching communities of practice within and across departments.