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Let's Talk Teaching
Friday, 3/27/2026
This week's Teaching Minute takes a new twist- we're announcing a new podcast series, Let's Talk Teaching featuring UVM faculty and nationally known teaching and learning scholars!
Let’s Talk Teaching podcast episodes touch on topics such as Universal Design for Learning strategies, creative alternative grading techniques, ideas for enhancing student engagement, and emerging equity-minded pedagogies. Each episode brings you into a conversation with a UVM faculty member or special guest.
Let's Talk Teaching Episodes
Current episodes feature UVM faculty Dr. Pablo Bose, Professor of Geography and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Liz Fenton, Professor of English and the Director of the Graduate Writing Center. In these interviews, Drs. Bose and Fenton reflect on their experiences in “Design for Learning,” a CTL-WID semester-long program focusing on developing strategies for removing obstacles to learning and share their strategies for applying Universal Design for Learning and Backward Design principles into course design and teaching.
We also feature Dr. Peter Felten, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and Professor of History, at Ellon University. In this episode, Dr. Felten (who was the 2025 keynote speaker at UVM's annual SoTL Symposium) speaks to “the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as Inquiry.”
Learn more about the 2026 UVM SoTL Symposium here!
Upcoming UDL Workshops
UDL Sparkshop - Action & Expression
Stories that Teach: Using Emotion to Deepen Student Learning
Backward Design Short-Course
Intro to Course Design: Applying the Backward Design Framework
In this self-paced Brightspace course, you will apply the foundational principles of the “backward design” framework to design courses that foster student success. Courses designed with this framework communicate clearly to students what they will learn, how they will learn it, and how they will know if they’ve mastered the material. You learn how to align your course objectives, activities, and feedback to create a clear, cohesive learning experience that supports student progress toward achieving their goals.
Related Resources
- CTL Universal Design for Learning
- CTL & WID's Designing for Learning Program
- CTL Teaching Minutes on Universal Design for Learning
Share Your Strategies
If your teaching is informed by Universal Design for Learning (UDL), we’d love to hear what’s working for you! Send us your favorite UDL strategies or quick tips, and we may highlight them in future Teaching Minutes or share quotes with colleagues so everyone can benefit from your ideas.
Schedule a consultation with us to keep the conversation going!
Happy teaching!
Center for Teaching & Learning
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