Past Events

HBCTL Week Zero Series — January 2022

The HBCTL Week Zero Series provides NYUAD faculty and instructors a selection of teaching-related support sessions from colleagues across the institution. This WeekZero will focus on building communities during remote instruction, and potential hybrid circumstances in Spring 2022. All sessions are via Zoom. RSVP to receive the respective link.

Monday, January 17, 2022 | 3:30-4:30pm GST

Remote instruction “Back to basics” refresher session. Do you want to review what quality remote instruction involves? Join this session for a refresher on building community online, designing synchronous and asynchronous activities, and ensuring that your design is inclusive for all your diverse student learners. We will review how to write and send out pre-course surveys, how to use Brightspace for effective communication, and key methods for interactive online learning.

Speaker:
Dr. Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, January 17, 2022, 5:30-6:30pm

Brightspace is NYUAD’s Learning Management System and it is full of useful tools for teaching students and engaging them during remote instruction, and during hybrid modalities. Brightspace is more than a means to deliver materials to students. Join this session to learn about the messaging capabilities for staying in touch, the Discussion Forum, and the assessment feedback features. We will also share options for course organization that will help provide transparency to students about the course structure, as well as provide ease for your students to engage online.

Speakers from our Academic Technology and the Hilary Ballon Center

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 1-2pm

Our students are experiencing trauma. The challenges brought forth by global disruptions, covid-19 included, but also natural disasters and civil conflict, mean that our multicultural student body is experiencing a unique combination of trauma at this time. This trauma is different from regular stress because it persists. In this session we will discuss how to foster trustworthiness through communication to help students address the uncertainty of these times. The session will cover how to design and facilitate peer-to-peer activities that foster peer support in the classroom. We will review the importance of building connections and fostering purpose.

Speaker:

Dr. Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 3-4pm

Discussions are an excellent way to exercise learning objectives and engage students with the course material. Online discussions come with their own set of challenges but they can be as meaningful as face-to-face, especially with the tools available in Zoom. In this session we will cover planning and facilitation strategies to help you foster effective online discussions and engage your students. We will look at both synchronous and asynchronous modes and help you decide which one is more suitable for your courses.

Speaker:
Dr. Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 12:30-1:30pm

The American Psychological Association explains that an inclusive syllabus is one that, “incorporates specific language and strategies that are designed to foster a classroom environment that is welcoming and inclusive.” Join this session to think through how to design your learning community as a place where differences can be acknowledged, and create a climate that fosters belonging for all learners. We will ask ourselves questions, such as: Do the policies take into account the different challenges students may encounter, especially during a pandemic? Do students have the opportunity to demonstrate their learning in more than one way? And Does the content provide diverse perspectives, including those that are often marginalized? We will also review NYU’s Faculty Toolkit on Digital Inclusion, which synthesizes key research in the fields of inclusive teaching, online teaching, and teaching and learning in order to provide faculty with concrete strategies they can incorporate into their teaching practice and syllabi. Do come and join this important conversation.

Speaker:
To be confirmed

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 5-6pm

Making connections with students and building trust are key to successful student engagement and inclusive learning. Establishing communication channels early on, and designing synchronous lessons that build community are just two examples of what will be covered during this session. Join Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language, Laila Familiar, as she shares insights and best practices in getting to know your learners in week zero and week one to set up your learning community to empower each other through their strengths. Dr. Familiar will provide practical next steps to help your students learn best, and actions you can take for a range of learning experiences. Join us to build communication for optimum student engagement and learning in our upcoming semester.

Speaker:
To be confirmed

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.

TeachTalks Abu Dhabi - Fall 2021

September 21, 2021 | 4-5:15pm GST

Rubrics are assessment tools that help communicate faculty expectations for a given assignment to students, while also helping the faculty member assess work fairly. We will discuss how to use rubrics for improving instruction and learning by designing assessments to match learning outcomes. Join this workshop to develop your own rubric for consistent evaluation, clarity of expectations, and alignment with your course learning goals.

Speaker:
Nancy Gleason, Director HBCTL, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
October 5, 2021 | 5-6:15pm GST

Azza Abouzied, Associate Professor of Computer Science, will share her innovative living textbook developed during COVID-19 induced remote instruction. Learn how she structured her course as going through weekly chapters of a “home made” online textbook, and how she integrated weekly low-stakes assessments to give students regular feedback and motivate their engagement. Join this session to gain inspiration for your own innovations, and learn how a colleague made database systems and operating systems into new courses for more student engagement.

Speaker:
Azza Abouzied, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
October 26, 2021 | 5-6:15pm GST

Part of the TeachTalks AD Series
Hosted by the Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning

Join this interactive session to explore four essential paradigm shifts in education and how these might translate into course designs that empower students to tackle the complex social challenges of our time. Which new forms of partnerships are at the core of such an approach? How can we integrate course narratives with communities, discourses, and developments that form our respective "glocal" ecologies? Finally, how can we align learning outcomes, instructional activities, and assessments to grow complexity resilience?

Facilitators
Zaid Hassan (10-in-10, Complexity University)
Linn Friedrichs (Assistant Director and Faculty, NYU Berlin)erlin

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
November 15, 2021 | 5-6:15pm GST

Faith and spirituality are important in both belief and practice for many in the NYU Abu Dhabi learning community. As educators, our inclusive practices include recognizing the role a faith tradition or spirituality may play in how an individual student makes meaning in the classroom. Recognizing the diversity of spiritual, secular, and religious beliefs of our students (and ourselves) helps foster positive and meaningful learning environments that enable belonging and an appreciation of other traditions. Join this session to learn more about the religious and spiritual context of NYU Abu Dhabi and hear practical guidance on how to build a welcoming community for all beliefs in your classroom.

Speaker:
Saman Hussain, Assistant Director of Spiritual Life and Intercultural Education

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
November 22, 2021 | 12-1:15pm GST

Knowledge development is at the center of the artistic process and can help us understand the ways in which bodies of knowledge are not fixed. Art and artists allow us to place students directly in touch with elements of the course content so that they can reflect upon their own prior experiences relative to the work. Students develop inquiry, analysis, evaluation, and growth through these unexpected pathways of learning. The Arts Center at NYUAD is committed to artists that open up the creative process for faculty and students to engage not just in arts practice but research and methodologies that cut across programs and genres. Join this session to learn about active learning approaches that embed the artists in your course. Examples and resources will be shared, as well as new ideas for engaging your students with your course material and concepts.

Speaker:
Linsey Boswick, Director of Artistic Planning at The Arts Center NYUAD
Linsey Bostwick is the Director of Artistic Planning at The Arts Center at New York University Abu Dhabi. Bostwick spent many years producing works in New York City and internationally prior to her position at NYU Abu Dhabi. From 2010-2016 she worked on the producing team of Pomegranate Arts with artists such as Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach) and Taylor Mac. She had been a long time creative/producing collaborator with Big Art Group and worked with Cynthia Hopkins, Susan Marshall, Nina Winthrop among others artists. Bostwick has been published in the Yale Theatre Journal and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. In Spring 2020 Bostwick guest edited the Electra Street journal dedicated to the relationship of art and research. Bostwick is leadership fellow with the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Bostwick holds two Bachelor’s degrees from University of Washington, Seattle and a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College in Interactive Performance and Media Arts.

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.

HBCTL Week Zero Series - August 23-25, 2021

The HBCTL Week Zero Series provided NYUAD faculty and Instructors a selection of teaching-related support sessions from colleagues across the institution. Topics included running effective discussions online, writing learning objectives, belonging and microaggressions, and much more.

August 23, 2021 | 9:30-10:45am GST

Join this session to learn how classrooms have been reconfigured for social distancing and what technology you can expect to see in the classroom. Re-entering the face-to-face teaching environment will require some adjustments compared to pre-covid-19 practices. The Academic Technology team has prepared for our return to in-person learning and teaching. This session will provide information on what to expect in our learning spaces.

Speaker:
Ron Berry, Senior Director of the NYUAD Library

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, August 23, 2021, 2-3:15pm GST

Join this session to learn from Dipesh Chaudhury, Assistant Professor of Biology, about how to organize engaging science labs. The laboratory setting enables representation of science as a process that includes analysis, collaboration, communication, and experimentation. But getting all that done is challenging while teaching the basics of inquiry and knowledge simultaneously and inclusively. Bringing his research interests in behavioral and integrative neuroscience, Dipesh will share practical ways in which experimental laboratory activities can lead students to more expert-like scientific thinking. From understanding the nature of science to developing investigative skills, tune into this session to enhance student learning in your own laboratory, or laboratory-like classroom context.

Speaker:
Dipesh Chaudhury, Assistant Professor of Biology, NYU Abu Dhabi

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, August 23, 2021, 4-5:15pm GST

Designing effective syllabi and courses for NYUAD means understanding the distinctive context of the diversity of the students. This session will share details about the makeup of our student body, and what course design and teaching method practices can be best deployed to foster belonging in your classrooms, whether they are online, hybrid, or fully remote. Join in to hear about how to leverage diversity in the classroom for deeper and more inclusive learning.

Speaker:
Keziah Johnson and Nancy Gleason, HBCTL

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 2-3:15pm GST

Through Community-based Learning Programs in the UAE and abroad, January Term, and the Engineers for Social Impact Program, NYU Abu Dhabi guides students in reading and engaging with the dynamic text of the real world. This is a different kind of literacy that requires disciplined observation, recognition of a variety of experts within and beyond academia, deep listening, spirited inquiry, collaboration with the local community with humility and respect, and bringing critical reflection to direct experience. Join Carol Brandt for this special session to gain inspiration for community-based learning in your own class. Learn about examples from NYUAD, and get inspired to bring Abu Dhabi, or other parts of the world into your practices of teaching and inquiry.

Speaker:
Carol Brandt, Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor, Global Education and Outreach

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 4-5:15pm GST

As we return to our campuses under new covid-19 regulations and social distancing requirements, there are new beginnings to consider. In this session we will reflect on what we have learned in the past 18 months and what can stay from our remote classroom contexts. We will ask what we can and should change about the way we teach. We will reflect on how we have changed as teachers, and we will consider how the NYUAD students have evolved throughout the pandemic. Join this session to work in groups and think about how we can best support our students through another year with different uncertainties with compassion and empathy as we reintegrate into the face-to-face classroom. This session will be led by Hoda Mustafa, a renowned faculty development expert and the director of the center for teaching and learning at the American University of Cairo.

Speaker:
Hoda Mostafa, Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching at The American University in Cairo

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 11am-12:15pm GST

Making connections with students and building trust are key to successful student engagement and inclusive learning. Establishing communication channels early on, and designing synchronous lessons that build community are just two examples of what will be covered during this session. Join Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language, Laila Familiar, as she shares insights and best practices in getting to know your learners in week zero and week one to set up your learning community to empower each other through their strengths. Dr. Familiar will provide practical next steps to help your students learn best, and actions you can take for a range of learning experiences. Join us to build communication for optimum student engagement and learning in our upcoming semester.

Speaker:
Laila Familiar, PhD, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language, Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 2-3pm GST

Join this session to learn how Professor Alberto Gandolfi and his students deployed technology to help with learning needs during remote instructions. This presentation is about the outcome of a month-long exploration, done together with other colleagues, of suitable tools to keep students engaged and still be effective in communicating during online teaching. There was specific emphasis on technical areas in which presentations are usually done at the board in the f2f classroom. To address these needs we used GoodNotes on a Tablet. Learn from Alberto about how and why to use GoodNotes -- and other softwares like it. The case study reveals how some technologies can enable student interaction during an online class, and emphasize student engagement, in spite of challenges communicating via Zoom. Students from this class will also share from their perspective on the intervention and how it helped them learn. Join this session to hear about an exciting intervention that could enhance your course organization and teaching context.

Speaker:
Alberto Gandolfi, Professor of Practice of Mathematics, Division of Science, NYU Abu Dhabi

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.

TeachTalks Abu Dhabi

Spring 2021

Monday, January 25, 2021, 5-6:15pm

Primary resources are an exciting way to engage students in authentic learning. Sources may include personal papers, correspondence, speeches, interviews, photographs and photo albums, moving images, maps, government documents, gray literature, travelogues, institutional records, court cases. When applied through thoughtful pedagogy, primary sources can be a catalyst for creativity and help contextualize a specific time period, region, or topic for our diverse student body. Engaging with primary sources also helps students grow their research and information literacy skills. Join NYUAD archivists Lauren Kata and Brad Bauer for an interactive session on the array of primary resources and archival collections available to you at NYUAD. This workshop-style session is an opportunity to gain some practical advice and connect with other colleagues on ideas for integrating primary sources to help you meet your course learning objectives.

Speakers:
Lauren Kata, Assistant Academic Librarian for Archives and Special Collections, Archives and Special Collections, NYUAD;
Brad Bauer, Librarian for Archives and Special Collections, Archives and Special Collections, NYUAD

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, February 8, 2021, 12-1:15pm

Join Director of the Writing Program at NYUAD, Dr. Marion Wrenn, and Writing Instructors Nkem Chukwumerije, Neelam Hanif, & Kimberly Specht for a special session on how to teach your students the art of academic writing. This session will cover a range of teaching strategies with both practice activities for developing writing abilities as well as guidelines and tools for assessment tasks and critical feedback best practices. The session will consider several genres of writing, from academic essays to reflective journaling to research projects and reports across the disciplines. Join this session to enhance your students’ writing skills, and develop your feedback strategies to help move them forward.

Speakers:
Marion Wrenn, Director of Writing Program at NYUAD
Nkem Chukwumerije, Neelam Hanif, & Kimberly Specht

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, February 15, 2021, 5-6:15pm

This session will address how to implement a mid-term course evaluation and how to reflect on and respond to the outcome responses. Mid-term course evaluations help students feel more engaged and committed to the course while giving you enough time to make teaching adjustments specific to their needs. They offer ample space for personalization and foster a culture of completion at the end of the semester. Giving students an opportunity to respond to the course in an anonymous format will encourage them to communicate responses that they may not feel comfortable providing in-person – including positive comments. We will discuss how to share the results and take-aways with your students after reviewing the feedback and how to use such a conversation to further illuminate your teaching goals and expectations for students.

Speakers:
Nancy Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, March 1, 2021, 5-6:15pm

Students experience deeper learning and recall from being actively involved in faculty research and inquiry-based learning. Authentic learning can happen when students learn research processes and methodologies, as well as explore timely and exciting findings. Join colleagues to learn how they have brought their disciplinary and methodological expertise to their teaching and to their students’ learning. They will share examples from their work in bioengineering, music, and gender studies, for both research-led learning, and research-oriented learning.

Speakers:
Vijayavenkataraman Sanjairaj (Vijay) Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering;
Gwyneth Bravo, Assistant Professor of Music (Musicology),
May AlDabbagh, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

Registration

This event is for NYUAD faculty and NYU educators across the global network.
Monday, April 12, 2021, 2-3:15pm

Speaker: Kiruthika Ragupathi, Associate Director of the Center for Development in Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore.

She co-leads professional development programmes and oversees the centralized teaching quality instruments at NUS — student feedback and peer review. Her research work focuses on assessment, student living-learning experiences, academic development, and technology-enhanced learning.

Registration

This event is for NYUAD faculty and NYU educators across the global network.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 12-1:15pm

Join Senior Lecturer Sabyn Javeri Jillani for a workshop and discussion on how to diversify your course content for a more inclusive learning experience. Jillani specializes in postcolonial feminism, South Asian literature, and creative writing. She will share insights on how to envision more cultures and knowledge systems in the curriculum with regards to what is being taught, and how it frames the world for our learners. Come join the conversation and take away practical advice for your own course.

Speakers:
Sabyn Javeri Jillani, Senior Lecturer, Writing Program Arts and Humanities, New York University Abu Dhabi

Registration

This event is for NYUAD faculty and NYU educators across the global network.
Monday, May 24, 2021, 5-6:15pm

Part of the Spring TechTalk AD Series

Reflecting on our teaching is an important element to enhancing our teaching, and making visible the work we do in preparing our courses and delivering them. It means reflecting on the outcomes regularly, innovating, and improving. End of semester course evaluations are subjected to a variety of factors, which makes them a noisy instrument to measure teacher’s effectiveness. Despite this, they can shed light on areas for potential revision and can ultimately lead to positive improvements. In order to identify and distill representative feedback, we will review how to consider course evaluations in context and read them through the appropriate lens to extract useful feedback. Join this session to receive support in classify comments and identify main themes for reflection.

Speakers:
Nancy Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning

Registration

This event is for NYUAD faculty and NYU educators across the global network.

HBCTL Week Zero Series January 11-13, 2021

The HBCTL Week Zero Series provided NYUAD faculty and Instructors a selection of teaching-related support sessions from colleagues across the institution. Topics included running effective discussions online, writing learning objectives, belonging and microaggressions, and much more.

Wednesday, January 13, 2020, 2-3pm

Come learn about the NYU Abu Dhabi Core Curriculum and what elements make for the best timely and timeless courses interdisciplinary. This session will both discuss the ethos of the Core at NYU Abu Dhabi, and practical next steps for designing your own interdisciplinary course that embraces global challenges, and provides competencies and concepts with which students can grapple. Learn about syllabi templates, program learning outcomes, and how to move your ideas forward.

Speaker:
Bryan Waterman, Associate Professor of Literature, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Development

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 10-11am

Join this session to learn about how students are experiencing NYUAD — what are their challenges and how can we improve their experiences by being more inclusive in our classrooms and curriculum. Issues that have emerged for our students' challenges will be detailed and addressed. We will discuss how policy and practice within our course and curriculum can foster inclusion and belonging, and enable equitable learning opportunities for marginalized social identity groups. We will discuss microaggressions in the classroom and provide tools for interpreting microaggressions and how best to address them between students, and when inflicted upon you as the faculty member. Join this session to learn about inclusive practices, and apply that knowledge to the distinctive context of our NYUAD learners and your course.

Speakers:
Sara Amjad, Assistant Director, Student Activities and First Year Experience, and
Nancy Gleason, Director, HBCTL and Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 12pm

In response to COVID-19, many colleges and universities around the world rapidly transitioned into online learning. Despite this increased headway into online learning, research on faculty and student readiness for online learning shows that there is an urgent need to understand more how to effectively design, develop, and deliver high quality instruction online. Join this session with Khalifa University Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Dr. Asli Hassan, to learn more about course design principles and processes using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies. You will also get to explore elements of course design for any situation and discuss best practices that enable courses to be equitable across student needs and differences.

Speaker:
Asli Hassan, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning; Assistant Professor, Department of English, Khalifa University

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 10-11am

Join this session with NYUAD Wellness Counselor, Vedrana Mladina, to learn about student wellness and how you can support sustained active learning. This session will provide important NYUAD specific context for practical tips on keeping students engaged and motivated. Advice on how to challenge students academically while respecting and meeting the diverse individual needs and personal circumstances. The session will cover how to teach remotely in a compassionate, engaging and encouraging way. Mladina will address how to recognize that a student is struggling and how to differentiate between providing them directly with support vs. referring them to student support services such as counseling. These are just some of the issues this session will address with practical next steps and key takeaways provided.

Speaker:
Vedrana Mladina, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Wellness Counselor II, Counseling Team Leader, The Health Center, NYU Abu Dhabi

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, January 11, 2021, 5-6:15pm

Making connections with students and building trust are key to successful student engagement and inclusive learning. Establishing communication channels early on, and designing synchronous lessons that build community are just two examples of what will be covered during this session. Join Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language, Laila Familiar, as she shares insights and best practices in getting to know your learners in week zero and week one to set up your learning community to empower each other through their strengths. Dr. Familiar will provide practical next steps to help your students learn best, and actions you can take for a range of learning experiences. Join us to build communication for optimum student engagement and learning in our upcoming remote+ semester.

Speaker:
Laila Familiar, PhD Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language, Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, January 11, 2021, 2-3pm

Join this session to tackle updating or preparing new learning objectives for your course. Learning objectives help to clarify, organize, and prioritize learning activities for you and your students. Oftentimes the construction of and use of LOs can be viewed as burdensome, however this session is developed to demonstrate how LOs can help you reach your teaching and learning goals in a meaningful way. This session will first address how to write effective learning objectives that align to respective program learning outcomes and your disciplinary goals. The session will then provide practical next steps for linking assessments to learning goals in a way that will appropriately challenge our students and inspire their curiosity for deeper learning.

Speaker:
Nancy Gleason, Director HBCTL, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.
Monday, January 11, 2021, 10-11am

Discussions are an excellent way to exercise learning objectives and engage students with the course material. Online discussions come with their own set of challenges but they can be as meaningful as face-to-face. In this session we will cover planning and facilitation strategies to help you foster effective online discussions. We will look at both synchronous and asynchronous modes and help you decide which one is more suitable for your courses.

Speaker:
Alexandra Urbanikova, Research Fellow, HBCTL

Registration

Please note, the registration is only open to NYUAD Faculty and Academic Support Staff.

TeachTalks Abu Dhabi

Fall 2020

Monday, December 7, 2020, 5-6:15pm

Grading process is a challenging aspect of being an educator. Whether teaching in-person or online, assessment should enable students to demonstrate capacities relative to the learning objectives. Approaching student work with rigor, compassion, and consistency makes for impactful learning. In this session, we will cover best practices when it comes to assessment and grading, starting with alignment of tasks and learning objectives, writing clear and specific prompts, and using rubrics to stay consistent on expectations. We will also discuss specific challenges of online assessment and possible solutions.

Speakers:
Speakers:
Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
Monday, November 9, 2020, 5-6:15pm

Join this session to hear from two NYUAD colleagues on adjusting their practices during remote instruction. Professor Joanna Settle from the Theatre program will provide details of her efforts to meet the students where they are by breaking the live sessions into action blocks, developing active listening exercises, and managing expectations. Professor Mohamad Eid from the Engineering Program will share advice on how to develop a user-friendly course through effective communication and how to help students become better online learners by giving them opportunities to teach each other in team-based projects.

Speakers:
Joanna Settle, Theater Program Head, and Associate Arts Professor of Theater
Mohamad Eid, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Monday, October 26, 2020, 5-6:15pm

Effective feedback helps enrich student's experience and move their learning forward. In an online environment, it is also a way to keep your learners engaged and on track. Join this session to learn more about the differences between formative and summative feedback, the elements of effective feedback, and evidence-based best practices to deliver it. We will also discuss strategies to make writing feedback more time-efficient.

Speakers:
Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
Monday, October 19, 2020, 5-6:15pm

Teaching statements are important data points that help you evidence your impactful teaching. This session will guide you on articulating your teaching philosophy as well as strategies to evidence its enactment in course design, pedagogy, and teaching methods. We will reflect together on our teaching practices and how they evolved over semesters. What innovations have we made in our courses? To what extent have we embraced experiential learning? How did we incorporate our research into teaching? The focus will be on providing evidence of the many ways in which you have reached your learners. We will go over a suggested list of topics to include in your statement and help you tailor it to the needs of your respective committee chairs.

Speakers:
Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
Monday, October 5, 2020, 5-6:15pm

This session will address how to implement a mid-term course evaluation and how to reflect on and respond to the outcome responses. Mid-term course evaluations help students feel more engaged and committed to the course while giving you enough time to make teaching adjustments specific to their needs. They offer ample space for personalization and foster a culture of completion at the end of the semester. Giving students an opportunity to respond to the course in an anonymous format will encourage them to communicate responses that they may not feel comfortable providing in person – including positive comments. We will discuss how to share the results and take-aways with your students after reviewing the feedback and how to use such a conversation to further illuminate your teaching goals and expectations for students.

Speaker:
Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 5-6:15pm

Whether remote, hybrid, and in-person, there are many teaching strategies faculty can implement to create an inclusive and equitable learning environment for all students. In this TeachTalk_Abu Dhabi session, faculty will learn about key inclusive and anti-racist teaching strategies that support learners' diverse needs and abilities and that take into account the remarkably unusual environment in which students and faculty find themselves during a global pandemic and time of heightened awareness about global social injustices. This conversation will contribute to the ongoing effort to reflect, learn, and act with intentional efforts to enable belonging in our classrooms.

Speaker:
Karen Jackson-Weaver, PhD, Associate Vice President, Global Faculty Engagement and Innovation Advancement, NYU New York
Chandani Patel, PhD, Director, Global Diversity Education and Training, NYU New York
Sara Amjad, Assistant Director, First Year Experience, Campus Life, NYU Abu Dhabi
Monday, September 14, 2020, 5-6pm

Adjusting to the reality of remote learning includes re-imagining how we address sensitive topics and content. Developing inclusive and enriching learning environments while teaching online is distinctively challenging for those who address topics that students may not feel comfortable discussing outside of the classroom, or off-campus. Faculty and instructors who purposefully teach sensitive content can plan ahead for the unexpected and model the openness that aids transformative discussions. Join this discussion led by NYUAD faculty colleague Ken Nielsen, Director of the Writing Center, for a conversation about how best to support our students learning during remote instruction.

Speaker:
Ken Nielsen, Ph.D., Director of the Writing Center, Associate Director of the Writing Program, Senior Lecturer of Writing and Literature & Creative Writing, Editor-in-Chief, Nordic Theatre Studies

Teaching and Learning Sessions

Summer 2020 and Spring 2020

Part of the TeachTalks AD Series

Student wellness is central to impactful teaching. NYU Abu Dhabi students, staff, and faculty are learning in the context of dislocation, trauma, and apprehension. Covid-19 has imposed additional anxieties on our students, and on us as faculty members. And even before the added dislocations of covid-19, the mental health pressures on people age 18-24 were well document. As faculty members, we are often the first to witness signs of distress, be they mood changes, performance deterioration and the like. We will share strategies for how to signal your confidence in the potential of each student and how to be explicit about expectations and strategies for success in order to reduce learner anxieties. The session will include a list of relevant resources at NYUAD for both students and faculty to support wellness in our living and learning environment.

Speakers:

Tina Wadhwa, Associate Director, Health Promotion Office

Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
Part of the TeachTalks AD Series

As we prepare to teach our Fall semester courses via remote instruction a key element of successful learning will be building trust with students in the online environment to ensure they comfortable sharing their ideas. Join this session with NYUAD students and the Hilary Ballon Center, to learn more about what concerns they have. We will discuss effective ways to be mindful of how are diverse communities are impacted and how students from different identify groups may be responding to a given set of world events, course materials, and class discussions. You will gain deeper insights and practical tips for establishing your online presences to build connections with and amongst your students online.

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Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
Part of the TeachTalks AD Series

You can develop creative and authentic learning activities for your NYUAD students by applying media-based projects. Project-based learning (PBL) examples include infographics, video clips, podcast interviews, and video analysis. PBL enables your students to get at higher order thinking with your course material while applying their diverse sets of prior knowledge. The authenticity of the assignments drives student motivation and can be delivered with a mix of synchronous and asynchronous engagements in the remote instruction context. Join this session to workshop your ideas for aligning your learning objectives to the activities and assignments in your Fall remote instruction course. Learn how to provide structure for students to enhance their learning and to aid in the mastery of the task, both technically and conceptually. This is an inclusive teaching strategy as well as an engaging one because it enables students to build on their experiences and knowledge as they are learning new skills. You will gain an understanding about the time, scope, and structure, and assessment options of your project-based assignment. Join this workshop session to apply your learning objectives to project-based learning and assessment.

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Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
We are pleased to announce a bespoke course designed for NYU Abu Dhabi faculty and our distinctive teaching context. As we embark on a full semester of remote instruction, our commitment to foster curiosity, creativity, and critical reflection remains strong. At NYUAD, students extend themselves and the frontiers of knowledge because our faculty teach them how to do so. The online environment does not change that, but it may alter how we do that. This course is to support NYUAD faculty in their trajectories of teaching excellence during COVID-19 induced remote instruction.

Indeed, we are actively embedded in NYU’s global network. I thank our colleagues at the Teaching Learning and Technology in New York for bringing their expertise to our task ahead as we continue to push frontiers of knowledge in our classrooms

Course Description

DOC 101_AD is a special three-module course developed to support the design and enhancement of your upcoming NYUAD online course. Each module of this cohort-based course will include an interactive workshop facilitated by TLT, as well as guidelines and resources to help you meet your course design milestones.

Participating faculty will have access to resources, templates, and guides that will be shared via an NYU Classes course site in which they will be enrolled. These resources offer guidance on teaching possibilities and provide you with a decision-making framework as you either design your new course or revamp your existing one for the online environment.

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Outcomes

Faculty will start the build of their NYU Classes Course Site during the course, they will gain insights on evidenced-based best practice for online course design, and make progress towards curricular alignment between the learning objective, course activities, and assignments. Each faculty will submit a detailed lesson plan for one week of their course for review and feedback at the end of the course.

Timing

The course runs over 9 days in July and includes three synchronous meetings: July 7th, July 13th, and July 15th. Each session will be . The rest of the course is asynchronous and self-paced over the 9 days. There is space for 50 faculty members in this cohort, and sign up is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please only sign up if you are committed to participating fully in the course.

The course runs over 9 days in July and includes three synchronous meetings: July 7th, July 13th, and July 15th. Each session runs from 4:00pm to 5:30pm AD (8:00am - 9:30am NY). The rest of the course is asynchronous and self-paced over the 9 days. There is space for 50 faculty members in this cohort, and sign up is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please sign up only if you are committed to attending all 3 synchronous sessions and completing the requirements of the course.
Part of the TeachTalks AD Series

Asynchronous learning occurs when students engage with the course material on their own time.

It involves coursework that is delivered by learning management system engagement, email, and message boards (such as NYU Classes Forum or GoogleGroups) that are posted online. Impactful learning does not have to occur in the same place and at the same time. Covid-19 induced remote instruction means we have the opportunity to guide students in self-paced learning with a mix of synchronous and asynchronous learning. Join this session to gain an idea of best practice across the disciplines. Practical exercises will be shared by your NYUAD colleagues, and some technological tools that can support this learning will be discussed as well.

Speakers:

Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi
Mid-term course evaluations can help students feel more engaged and committed to the course while giving you enough time to make teaching adjustments specific to their needs. This workshop session will provide hands-on support for setting up your mid-term course evaluation. We will devise interpretation strategies tailored to your course context, and help you read student evaluations through a productive lens. We will share best practice options for how to consolidate ideas and suggestions gathered and come up with an action plan following the exercise. Hosted by the Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

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Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi

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