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Pre-conference Workshop (PC13)
| 7:30 am – 5:00 pm on July 26, 2025 Attendees Will Be Required to Bring Their Own Laptops |
Brief Description
Following the success of the first AAEA Teaching Academy in 2024, we are continuing with the 2025 AAEA Teaching Academy as a Pre-conference workshop on July 26 in Denver at the AAEA Annual Meeting along with year-round engagement with participants in additional online sessions and mentoring activities. The goal is to provide consistent efforts across our discipline to offer dedicated teacher training and mentoring of teacher development for all members of our profession, including graduate students, early career professionals, faculty, and others. This year, we focus on universal course design, management in dynamic classes, and innovation in the classroom through the scholarship of teaching and learning. An active effort is being put forward in engaging diverse audiences from minority serving and primary teaching institutions, to elevate diversity, equity, and inclusion in our classrooms and expand participation at AAEA from these groups.
The academy is designed to meet three goals: (1) Support graduate student and early career professional development of teaching effectiveness and Scholarship of Teaching Learning (SoTL) through creation of teaching and mentorship resources, activities, and programming; (2) Engage in diverse and inclusive outreach and service to academics in minority serving and primary teaching institutions; and (3) extend forums for AAEA members to participate in teaching and learning communities throughout the year. Our specific objectives for the 2025 academy are to strengthen and enhance course design, classroom management, and SoTL.
Intended Audience: Graduate students, early career professionals and faculty, including faculty at various career stages who are looking for advancing teaching skills and practices. We will actively recruit graduate students and early career professionals from multicultural institutions, primary teaching institutions, and institutions that do not traditionally attend the AAEA meetings.
Expectations and time commitment:
- All participants are expected to attend the one-day workshop on July 26 at Denver in person, engaging with hands-on training and activities guided by speakers, facilitators and mentors on universal course design, classroom management, and SoTL.
- In addition, the Academy cohort will be invited to activities outside of the academy during the next academic year, including webinars, teaching discussions, training, and mentoring activities. We will also pair participants with a teaching mentor in the profession for continuing mentor opportunities during the 2025/2026 academic year.
- All participants are expected to be responsive to requests from the Steering Committee, (e.g. evaluations, mentor matching, etc.). We appreciate all your input to improve the Academy.
Costs: The cost of attending the Academy is $30 for graduate students and $55 for all other faculty and professionals. Meals (continental breakfast and lunch) are provided.
Travel Grants: Thanks to the AAEA Trust, we will be offering 15 Travel Grants. The grant will help cover travel to the AAEA meetings, AAEA registration, and hotel costs for up to $1000 per participant. Travel grant recipients must stay at the Sheraton Denver downtown hotel and reserve guest room through the AAEA room block booking link. https://book.passkey.com/e/50926533 Guest room must be reserved by June 2nd. All grant recipients will receive a waiver for the costs of attending the workshop. In addition, all scholarship recipients are expected to attend the full day workshop, the AAEA meetings, and participate in other academy activities during the 2025/2026 academic year. Priority for scholarships will be provided to graduate students and early career professionals who commit to advancing their teaching development, show need, and did not receive the travel grant for the 2024 Teaching Academy. The application deadline is April 1, 2025. Notifications for those receiving the scholarship will be made by April 21, 2025.
Please feel free to contact Na Zuo (nazuo@arizona.edu), Jason Bergtold (bergtold@ksu.edu), or Hannah Shear (hshear@okstate.edu) if you have any questions or inquiries.
