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Academic Year 2024-2025 Workshops

♦ SPH Accessibility Workshop: Quick Canvas Fixes (10/10/2024)

  • Mary-Colleen Jenkins, Instruction Accessibility Specialist, Accessible Technology Services (ATS)
  • Link to recording (closed captioning available)
  • Link to PPT

♦ Universal Design for Learning Workshop (9/19/2024)

  • Mary-Colleen Jenkins, Instruction Accessibility Specialist, Accessible Technology Services (ATS)
  • Link to recording (closed captioning available)
  • Link to PPT

♦ SPH Instructor Bootcamp (9/12/2024)

Topic Session Leader(s) Resources
Considerations for the upcoming – potentially highly stressful – academic year Hilary Godwin, Dean of the School of Public Health; Professor, Dept EOHS THE GRADUATE SCHOOL // PUBLIC LECTURES SERIES: Registration now open!

This quarter’s line-up will feature speakers who can help us navigate the Presidential election. Topics include: bridging the political divide; elections and public safety; examining the real threats to U.S. democracy; how AI can be used to affect climate change; and filmmaker Boots Riley will talk on topics ranging from filmmaking to rap, to activism.

WELL-BEING FOR LIFE & LEARNING: A Guidebook for Advancing Student Well-being at the University of Washington. First chapter co-authored by by Anjulie Ganti, Teaching Professor, HSPop and Lauren Lichty, Associate Professor, UWB School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.
Accommodations in the Classroom Chelsea Elkins, Access & Advocacy Coordinator, School of Public Health Accommodations in the Classroom
Student Engagement Simon Sandh, Asst Teaching Professor, Dept Epidemiology 

Rabi Yunusa, Asst Teaching Professor, Dept HSPop and Global Health

 Acing Student Engagement
TA Management Olivia van Brunt, MPH Core Program Manager

Stephanie Farquhar, Professor, Dept HSPop; Director, Community-Oriented Public Health Practice Program (COPHP); Associate Dean for Evaluation and Improvement

 Successfully Working with TAs
Ungrading Jessie Seiler, Teaching Associate, Dept Epidemiology Ungrading!
Canvas

  • Gradebook
  • Feedback Fruit
 Lauren Dunnington, Online Education Manager, Dept HSPop

Chika Willis, Instructional Designer for the Online MPH Program, Dept HSPop

 Feedback Fruits: Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation
Teaching PH Writing Miruna Buta, Assoc Teaching Professor, Dept HSPop; Director of the Online MPH Program Teaching Writing for Public Health
Generative Artificial Intelligence in SPH

  • Survey results
  • AY 23-24 syllabus data
 Carolin Spice, Assoc Teaching Professor, Health Informatics and Health Information Management Program Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom: Reflections on AY 2023-2024​

Academic Year 2023-2024 Workshops

♦ Universal Design for Learning Workshop (5/23/2024)

  • Mary-Colleen Jenkins, Instruction Accessibility Specialist, Accessible Technology Services (ATS)
  • Link to PPT

♦ Accessible Documents Workshop (4/12/2024)

  • Mary-Colleen Jenkins, Instruction Accessibility Specialist, Accessible Technology Services (ATS) and Gaby de Jongh, Document Accessibility Specialist, Accessible Technology Services
  • Link to recording (closed captioning available)
  • Link to transcript
  • Link to PPT

♦ Helping Students Access Counseling and Trauma-Informed Teaching (4/3/2024)

♦ Strategic Assignment Design to Maximize Student Learning and Minimize Grading Labor (3/12/2024)

♦ Making Your Canvas Course Accessible (2/27/2024)

♦ Understanding FERPA with Helen Garrett, UW Registrar (1/9/2024)

♦ AI in the Classroom: Prepping for Winter Quarter (12/14/2023)

♦ AI in the Classroom: Reflections on Autumn Quarter (12/5/2023)

♦ Accessibility and Accommodations (10/11/2023)

♦ SPH Instructor Bootcamp (9/11/2023)

Topic Session Leader/s Resources
Common Classroom Technology

Structuring your Canvas class

Populating the student Calendar

Creating student checklists

Posting Announcements

Recordings

 Cristen Harris: Teaching Professor, Epidemiology and NSP

Emily Hovis: Assistant Teaching Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS)
Accessibility

Landscape of accessibility and accommodations in SPH

Using the Canvas Ally accessibility tool

 Chelsea Elkins: Access & Advocacy Coordinator, School of Public Health

Liz Kirk: Teaching Professor, Epidemiology and NSP; Interim Associate Dean for Education
Working with TAs

Setting expectations

Supporting and mentoring TAs

 India Ornelas: Professor and Interim Chair, Health Systems and Population Health (HSPOP), MPH Core Curriculum Director
Integrated Course Design and Active Learning Anjulie Ganti: Associate Teaching Professor, HSPOP, Associate Director of Experiential Learning, Public Health-Global Health Major

Michelle Averill: Associate Teaching Professor, EOHS and NSP, Interim Director, NSP
Classroom Management and De-escalation Tools Juanita Ricks; Assistant Dean for Students
Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning Carolin Spice; Associate Teaching Professor, HSPOP, Health Informatics and Health Information Management Program (HIHIM)

John Hartgraves; Associate Teaching Professor, HSPOP, HIHIM

 

Academic Year 2022-2023 Workshops

Artificial Intelligence Workshop (8/23/2023)

Workshop included discussions of AI tools and their impacts on all aspects of academic life (teaching, research, admissions, and more)

Elements of Grading – Teaching Support Session (5/26/2023)

Discussion of student responses to grades; how to create environment of support around grading rather than foster adversarial relationships. Supported by faculty teaching in the PH-GH major (Tyler Watson and Kate West) and in Epidemiology (Simon Sandh).

Rethinking How We Teach Writing in Public Health (5/23/2023)

Jennifer Beard, Clinical Associate Professor of Global Health, Director of the Public Health Writing Program at Boston University School of Public Health, and author of Teaching Public Health Writing

TA Management – Teaching Support Session (5/5/2023)

Discussion of TA use and management during a quarter. Concerns raised included expectation setting and addressing poor performance, workload, and continuity across quarters. Supported by MPH Core Curriculum Director and Program Manager (India Ornelas and Olivia van Brunt) and PH-GH Director and Program Manager (Barbara Baquero and Joe Harper-Kowalczyk)

Helping Students Access Counseling and Trauma-Informed Teaching (4/13/2023)

Jen Nguyen, MA, LMHC, Health Sciences Mental Health Liaison & Counselor

Canvas Support – Teaching Support Session (4/7/2023)

Discussion of Canvas “how-tos” – how to adjust exams and quizzes to accommodate extra time, how to change home page, how to add items to modules, and more. Supported by Instructional designers from the Dept. of Global Health (Alex McGee and Liz Scott), and two Nutritional Sciences teaching faculty (Michelle Averill and Cristen Harris)..

Accessible Technology Workshop (3/15 and 3/17/2023)

Chelsea Elkins, MPH, Access and Advocacy Coordinator, SPH, and SPH Instructional TAs, Sarah Romano and Abbey Marye

FERPA (12/8/2023)

Helen Garrett, UW Registrar

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