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The 2024 Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference (UPTLC) will be hosted by Bay College in Escanaba, Michigan, May 13-14, 2024. This year’s theme is Embracing Change: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners. This theme captures the ongoing challenges wrought by the pandemic, the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and increased awareness of the diverse academic and mental health needs of today’s learners. This conference will create a community of educators invested in honing human and technological skills for successful, sustainable teaching and learning. 

The conference includes pre-conference interactive workshops, optional social activities, and a full conference day of concurrent sessions, poster sessions, and “Birds of a Feather” gathering time. We’re excited to share four timely conference tracks:

  • Teaching techniques for online, hybrid, or virtual learning 

  • Teaching and learning in the age of AI 

  • Engaging modern learners 

  • Self-care for college students and/or college employees

The UPTLC is a regional conference focused on the practice and scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education and K-12 education. The UPTLC creates a space for educators to connect, learn, share, and continue growing skills for teaching and learning. We invite educators and educational staff/administration to submit presentation proposals and/ or attend this conference.

5/7 - Registration is now closed; we can’t wait to see you at UPTLC 2024!

**schedule subject to change**
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Monday, May 13 • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Engaging Students through Disciplinary Threshold Concepts

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This pre-conference workshop will share research on what Meyer and Land call “threshold concepts,” or ways of seeing, thinking, and knowing in the discipline that help student unlock their understanding of increasingly more sophisticated skills and knowledge in a field of study. Drawing from her work in women’s and gender studies (A Guide to Teaching Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies: Socially Engaged Classrooms | SpringerLink, 2021) and writing studies (University Press of Colorado - Reaching All Writers, 2024), the facilitator will offer an interactive conversation inviting participants to explore threshold concepts in their field and how they can be a foundation for engaging pedagogies in their discipline.
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Dr. Holly Hassel

Professor and Director of Composition, Michigan Technological University

Monday May 13, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
JHUC 952AB
  Preconference, Engaging modern learners

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