How Graduate Students Teach: Pedagogies, Learning, and Leading
Call for Proposals
UNM Spring Teaching Conference 2023
March 22, 2023
Hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning
How Graduate Students Teach: Pedagogies, Learning, and Leading
Invitation
The Center for Teaching and Learning invites members of the UNM community to submit proposals for panels or individual presentations for UNM’s Annual Spring Teaching Conference. This year’s conference is titled, How Graduate Students Teach: Pedagogies, Learning, and Leading. Through your participation and support, we aim to create a space where graduate students can find teaching mentors, share effective teaching strategies, and learn how teaching can advance their professional goals.
For the sessions, we are offering in-person and remote options depending on the needs and affordances of the panel. Our goal is to align modalities with the activities taking place and provide wide access to graduate students on-campus and off-campus. We welcome proposals from graduate students, faculty, and staff.
Please see “Session Types” for more details.
Possible Topics
- Connecting your research to your teaching
- Framing your pedagogy as research
- Developing reflective teaching practice
- Teaching in our difference—positioning instructional diversity as an asset
- How graduate teaching assistants contribute to UNM Gen Ed Culture
- Universal Design for Learning: Creating accessible courses
- Facilitating difficult conversations in the classroom
- Introduction to assessment: How do we know if our students have learned?
- Working with student feedback to improve instruction
- Mentoring and other affective labor in teaching
- Lessons from the pandemic: What practices do we want to keep from pandemic teaching?
- How to make teaching less stressful
- Overcoming teaching obstacles and classroom challenges
- Building resilience as a new instructor
- Teaching philosophies and teaching dossiers
- Balancing teaching with graduate student life
- Theories, frameworks, or methodologies specific to graduate teaching
- Media and teaching: Adopting/adapting media resources for language learning
- Note: Other topics relevant to graduate teaching assistants are welcome
Session Types
- Poster Presentations: These presentations are in-person during the afternoon session (1 to 4 p.m.).
- Individual Presentations: These presentations are 15 minutes long and will be paired with similarly themed presentations. Please indicate in your proposal whether you’d prefer an in-person or online session.
- Organized Panels: These panels are scheduled for 60-minute slots. The panel convener should identify three to four participants to address the proposed topic. Please indicate in your proposal whether you would prefer an in-person or online session.
- Affinity Groups: These sessions are 60-minute facilitated conversations intended to provide an opportunity for colleagues with a shared identity to connect, support one another, and share wisdom about navigating their teaching as member of systematically marginalized groups. Please indicate in your proposal whether you would prefer an in-person or online session and/or whether or not you’d like assistance in planning the facilitation for this session.
- Individual or Group Workshops: These are 60-minute interactive learning sessions that can be facilitated either by an individual or group of facilitators. Please indicate in your proposal whether you would prefer an in-person or online session.
All morning sessions, 9 a.m. to noon, will be held online, via Zoom. The lunch keynote will be livestreamed, with facilitated chat function. The afternoon sessions, 1 to 4 p.m., will be held in-person. Sessions will be recorded at the discretion of the presenters; this information will be shared in the program.
All sessions will include a facilitator to introduce presenters and moderate the question-and-answer period. If you are proposing an individual presentation, plan to allot at least 5 minutes of your time for audience questions and discussion. If you are proposing an organized panel, please plan to allot at least 15 minutes for audience questions and discussion.
*Sign language interpretation will be available upon request for concurrent sessions.
Queries and Support
We welcome both seasoned conference contributors and first-timers. Teaching Support and Graduate Support @ the Center for Teaching and Learning are here to offer support, from the pre-submission stage to conference preparation and practice. Prospective participants can reach out via email to Teaching Support and Graduate Support.
Please visit the weblink below to find the submission form. Among the details we will be requesting are: session title, session description, outcomes, session outline, and presenter/panelist names.
