Hello all!

Over the past year we have expanded the Teaching Breakfast by meeting weekly and creating two opportunities to join in the conversation: Teaching Breakfast on Thursday mornings and Coffee Chat on Wednesday afternoons.  We are continuing with this schedule for the coming semester with one tweak.  Our plan is to alternate between Teaching Breakfast and Coffee Chats each week.  We will still meet both in person and virtually, so if you feel comfortable participating in person, come on down; if you would rather meet via Teams, hop on your computer!  These spaces will continue to be a place to come together to talk about new modalities you might be using to teach and hopefully share and get a few answers. This week we will be holding our Teaching Breakfast:

  *   Teaching Breakfast, Thursday morning, May 5, 8:30-10:00am: Butternut Room, Hunt Union (just past Starbucks) and on the Spring 2022 Teaching Breakfast Teams space<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MzFhYWEzNDctM2EzYS00YjJkLWI4ZDctY2QwNGQ3OTliNDMz%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2c9b1a8-d1ad-4c9f-9172-728a8c08eb65%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22acdbd4c6-8ceb-4ccb-b54d-35c4ab20321f%22%7d>.

Our reading for this week explores the idea of Exam Wrappers to help students prepare for exams.

  1.  Help Students Learn to Take Exams with Exam Wrappers<https://blogs.iu.edu/citl/2022/04/27/exam-wrappers/> - The attached article from Center for Teaching and Learning and Indiana University introduces the idea of exam wrappers as extra activities scheduled around your exam to help your students think about how they prepare for exams and what learning is occurring.  It includes some short tips on questions that you can ask to engage students more in their own learning.

We look forward to talking with you about activities you might embed around your exams to help students focus on how they are taking away from the content.  We hope to see you on Thursday morning for Teaching Breakfast (May 5) or next Wednesday afternoon for Coffee Chat (May 11) if you can make it!

Chilton