2025 University Teaching & Learning Symposium
Save the date! The next University Teaching and Learning Symposium is Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at the Bone Student Center.
Call for Proposals
The Center for Integrated Professional Development invites you to submit a proposal for the upcoming University-Wide Teaching and Learning Symposium. While all proposals related to scholarly approaches to teaching and learning are welcome, we especially encourage proposals that address the symposium theme, Teaching in Turbulent Times: Creating Community with Care and Empathy.
The theme will focus on ways to create learning spaces that support students, and those who work with them, as we as a campus community navigate turbulent times. The current social and political climate along with rapid technological changes present challenges and opportunities for higher education. Our goal is to discuss ways to engage local, national, and global contexts in our classes and to foster inclusive and empathetic learning environments that address the unique needs of our students while also attending to our well-being as faculty and staff.
Scholarly Teaching and Learning
Scholarly teaching is an intellectual, rather than an instinctual act, with evidence-informed practices that support student learning at the heart of all course design and delivery efforts. Scholarly approaches to teaching can be used in developing course learning outcomes content, applying high-impact practices to a learning context, designing equitable or innovative pedagogies, creating assessments that capture student learning, or communicating effectively with students.
As you frame a proposal for this year’s Symposium, you might consider:
- Sharing ways in which you have applied research or other evidence in your teaching or learning context
- Describe your own scholarship of teaching and learning projects
Successful proposals will describe scholarly approaches to any aspect of teaching and learning (e.g., course content, student engagement, equity/diversity/inclusion) and align with the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence (FITE), the signature pedagogy for Illinois State University.
Everyone with teaching responsibilities at Illinois State University (full and part time faculty, teaching assistants, and administrative/professional staff), as well as those who support student learning in co-curricular contexts, are invited to develop a Symposium proposal in one of the following formats:
- A 20-minute presentation (maximum 2 presenters)
- A 50-minute presentation (minimum 3 presenters; more than 5 not recommended)
- A poster (posters will be produced by the Center at no charge, using your design)
Submission Deadline – October 13, 2024
Proposals must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2024. Detailed selection criteria and example submissions are also available online.
Note: Proposed session descriptions must be no more than 200 words in length. We suggest you create your proposal text in a document ahead of time and paste it into the proposal form. If you have co-presenters, you will be asked to include their names and contact information, including their email addresses, too.
Questions?
Contact Dr. Dana Karraker at dmkarra@ilstu.edu or (309) 438-5110.
References
Huston, T. A., & DiPietro, M. (2007). In the eye of the storm: Students' perceptions of helpful faculty actions following a collective tragedy. To Improve the Academy, 25(1), 207-224.