SoTL Teams with NTLC
SoTL Teams are comprised of 3 to 5 instructors who identify a common teaching question or classroom challenge associated with student learning that they study in a cross-disciplinary collaborative format. Typically, they come from different disciplines within the same college. They include seasoned and newer colleagues who conduct research using the SoTL research model.
2024-2025 SoTL Projects
Introduction to TILT and TILT Methods
Date: May 14th, 2024
Start Time: 10am
End Time: 12pm
Location: Sorensen Hall, room 205
This highly interactive session introduces participants to transparent instruction and engages them in small groups to apply transparent design principles to sample assignments that will be provided from Transparency in Teaching and Learning (TILT) research projects as well as their own examples.
Participants will leave with:
• an understanding of how TILT works and what it looks like in practice
• tools and strategies to enhance their students’ success and their teaching satisfaction through TILT practices
• draft revisions to a TILTed assignment or student-facing document/protocol of their own that they can use immediately with their students.
Join Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes as she introduces TILT to advance inclusive student success!
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Workshop
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Robert S. Swanson Learning Center, Educational Materials Center (EMC) - 2nd floor
Whether you are looking to start a research agenda, improve your insights into today’s learners, or want to reinvigorate your teaching, this session is for you. Come find out how the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning helps you improve your pedagogical practices and connect with students as you build a research agenda. Current projects will be highlighted as we discuss:
I. Introduction to SoTL and SoTL research
- What is SoTL
- Examples of SoTL
- Advantages of SoTL
II. Developing Your SoTL Questions
III. Next steps
Takeaways from this workshop are not limited to:
- Strategies to address both teaching and research with the same project
- Differentiating SoTL research from discipline-specific and educational research
- Identifying a research question suitable for SoTL projects
- Construct a plan for conducting a SoTL research project
Facilitator: Sylvia Tiala – Director, Nakatani Teaching and Learning Center
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Sharing Community
Date: Friday, March 29, 2024
Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Time:
Location: ONLINE
Please email Sylvia Tiala (tialas@uwstout.edu) with questions or if you are interested in TILT but can't make this introductory meeting time work for you.
Registration closed!
More information is on the way!
Updates coming soon!
2021 - 2022 SoTL Projects
Writing in Math Courses, Justin Nicholes, English and Philosophy, and Tyler Skorczewski, Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science Department pair up to complete a SOTL project related to writing in mathematics courses. The goal of the project is to measure student attitudes about meaningfulness and engagement in mathematics courses that are taken primarily by non-math major students and how writing projects factor into these attitudes. The hope is that by understanding students' attitudes, instructors will be able to design courses with better engagement, classroom environment, and improved learning.
Where They Are: Student Learning Experiences Anne Hoel, Business, Laura Schmidt, Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science Department, and Min Degruson, Packaging will study the learning experiences of students in three STEMM disciplines to inform their teaching strategies and further their development as instructors who engage students "where they are" while leading the move back to campus-based learning. The team is curious about how the move back to campus-based classes unfolds for students, and for themselves. They are interested in determining how the COVID teaching/learning adaptations made in the past year have affected students and instructors, and in determining how they can continue to foster student success during this time of transition.