Mark your calendars for this year’s Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning Summit on March 28th, 2025! This year’s theme is “Real Talk: Embracing the Challenges of Teaching and Learning”.
We will start the day with Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus’s opening keynote: “Real Talk about Teaching: Normalizing Educators’ Setbacks, Struggles, and Snafus”. Dr. Neuhaus will discuss the myths and misconceptions that contribute to the popular and the scholarly discourse depicting the idea of the perfect professor, and of teaching as something that can ever be perfect. She shows why we urgently need to normalize the ongoing challenges of effective teaching. She argues that one specific, proven way we can normalize mistakes as both individuals as well as institutions is by talking more about teaching.
The event will also include:
- Lightning Talk presentations from educators across campus on the topic of “Real Talk about Student Success: Normalizing setbacks and snafus.”
- Lunch and Foundation of the Discipline Award Ceremony
- A workshop, facilitated by Dr. Neuhaus, on “Normalizing a Growth Mindset to Support Student Success”
- Roundtable discussions led by CTL Student Partners
Registration will open on February 28th.
The Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning Summit is a collaboration between the Center for Teaching Learning, University Foundations, and the eCampus Center.
Call for Lightning Talks is open to all campus educators!