TLC Bi-Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Good Morning, K-Staters!
We are now in Week 4 of the Spring 2025 semester! The Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) would like to remind you of our commitment to support your efforts in teaching, mentoring, and advising. We are excited to announce the various priorities, events, and resources that are designed to advance teaching and learning at K-State. This video explains what the TLC can do for you.
TLC Programs & Events
Our Professional Development (PD) Series occurs on Wednesdays at 12 noon via Zoom. All events are free, and no registration is required. The schedule is posted on the Upcoming Events page of our website and on our social media: Facebook, and YouTube.
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- On Wednesday, February 12th, JT Laverty will lead an event on ‘Engaging Students as a Catalyst for Improving Courses: The KSU Learning Assistant Program’
- On Wednesday, February 19th, Andie Faber will lead an event on ‘Assessment in the Age of AI’
- On Wednesday, February 26th, Beth Pesnell, Suzanne Porath, & Rick Zajac will lead a panel on ‘Wakonse Fellows Panel’
Also, if you are interested in earning a PD Certificate or becoming a TLC Fellow for this academic year, check out the requirements on our website.
OCDI: The Online Course Design Institute is accepting registrants for the Spring session, which starts Feb 3. Click the link to learn more about this free, asynchronous, online training for K-State online teachers. If you have additional questions, please email the ID Team at idteam@ksu.edu.
Instructional Design Office Hours: Starting Jan 21, 2025, drop-in to get individualized support from instructional designers, including our KSU accessibility expert, who is available every Tuesday. No appointment necessary! Join us on Zoom at https://ksu.zoom.us/my/idteam on Tuesdays from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 2 - 3 p.m. If you need individualized support prior to Jan 21, please email idteam@ksu.edu
Compensated Faculty Development Opportunity
The Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholars Program, housed in the Clemson University Humanities Hub and sponsored by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a compensated cohort-based opportunity (May 2025-May 2026) for faculty to create educational materials to infuse civic and voter education into humanities or humanities-allied courses. Applications should be submitted no later than February 21, 2025. For more information and the application: https://www.clemson.edu/cah/sites/civic-education
The materials created by the first cohort are also available free for anyone to use or adapt for their own classrooms, and are available at the aforementioned link.
Engage the Sage Videos to Support Excellent Teaching
We would like to remind you of several video resources as part of Dr. Don Saucier’s YouTube channel, Engage the Sage, that are particularly relevant for the beginning of the semester:
Thank You
We are grateful for your continued support of your students and colleagues and hope you take advantage of the resources available to you at K-State, including us at the TLC, throughout the upcoming semester. Thank you for all you do for your colleagues and our students. And thank you for advancing K-State’s teaching and learning mission with energy and optimism.
Sincerely,