CTLE Half-day Professional Development Event
Reflective Teaching: Practices and Tools
Join us for a half-day professional development event focused on enhancing teaching through reflection. Participants will be exposed to various strategies and practices of reflective teaching as well as digital tools which can enhance the process.
Programme Rundown
9:30 – 9:35 Opening remarks by Prof. Michael Hui (Vice Rector for Academic Affairs)
9:35 – 11:05 Teaching Purposefully through Reflection by Dr. Julie McGurk (Director of Teaching Development and Initiatives at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University) *presenting via Microsoft Teams
11:05 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 11:50 Faculty Sharing: Reflective Teaching @UM by Prof. Glenn McCartney (FBA) and Prof. Katy Ho Weatherly (FED), moderated by Prof. Katrine Wong (DCTLE)
11:50 – 12:20 Two Digital Tools for Reflective Teaching: Transforming Practice Through Student Feedback by Dr. Christopher Fulton (CTLE)
Teaching Purposefully through Reflection (90-minutes)
Continual reflection is an important part of effective teaching. It helps us to consider why we are teaching what we are teaching and how our teaching practices support student learning. It also helps us to adapt to an ever-changing world and to each new group of students who we are teaching. In this interactive session, we will first identify our goals and values, and then investigate various tools and methods that can help us to align our teaching priorities with our teaching practices. These reflection strategies can help us to make purposeful teaching choices effectively and efficiently, as well as to better communicate our teaching approach to our students and others.
Faculty Sharing: Reflective Teaching @UM (40-minutes)
Discover diverse ways of reflective teaching practised by UM faculty members in this 40-minute sharing led by DCTLE: keeping a journal, joining discussions of FLC (faculty learning communities), gathering feedback from students and colleagues, recording a class.
Two Digital Tools for Reflective Teaching: Transforming Practice Through Student Feedback (30-minutes)
This hands-on session explores how two digital tools can enhance one’s reflective teaching practices through student feedback collection and review. Using UDL principles and generative AI, participants will create an exit ticket that leverages Microsoft Forms or Moodle’s feedback activity. In this session, participants will briefly look at how to export and review results and data collected through surveys and Moodle. Anonymous feedback channels and trace data in Moodle can support reflective teaching practices by providing insights into student learning and engagement patterns.
Bio of Speaker:
Dr. Julie McGurk is the Director of Teaching Development and Initiatives at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, in the United States. Julie earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and her B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh. She held a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Rita Balice-Gordon at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the PennPORT IRACDA program. For nine years, she worked at the UPenn’s Center for Teaching and Learning as an Associate Director. Her teaching experience includes online and in-person classes at the UPenn, from a large introductory science class, Intro to Brain and Behavior, to a small active learning class, Developmental Neurobiology. In 2013, students in the UPenn Biological Basis of Behavior Program honored her with the “Teacher of the Year” award. Julie was recently featured with Dr. Jamiella Brooks on Columbia University’s Dead Ideas podcast, discussing their work on rigor and equity.