Events
The Trefny Center offers a range of programming around topics in teaching and learning. Please see below for a list of our upcoming workshops, learning communities, and other gatherings!
UPCOMING EVENTS
* While we encourage participation in the entire event, you are welcome to drop in when you are available!
College Teaching Certificate: End of the Year Showcase
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM* | Student Center Ballroom A
We invite all Mines faculty, staff, and prospective graduate students to join us for our College Teaching Certificate (CTC) End of the Year Showcase, where CTC participants and Graduate Teaching Fellows will showcase their work in the program! Throughout the year, these graduate student and postdoc leaders have been developing their own original syllabi, engaging in peer observations, and exploring topics in teaching and learning. We’ll have multimodal presentations, gallery walks, and our Graduate Teaching Fellows will present on their professional development projects on topics including general chemistry lab, game-based learning, geoscience fieldwork, and more! Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be provided!
Participants will be asked to complete pre-work prior to the first session, as well as one brief reading and one brief task in preparation for each day’s session. Coffee/tea and lunch will be provided. We will offer plenty of breaks and opportunities for individual and group work time throughout the sessions.
Teaching and Learning Lab, Human-Centered AI
Wednesday, May 28 and Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM | Marquez 108
Interested in utilizing generative AI to enhance your teaching in ways that center human relationships, ethics, creativity, and critical thinking? Join us for our Trefny Teaching and Learning Lab: Human-Centered AI, a two-day immersive learning intensive designed to help you thoughtfully and intentionally integrate AI into your teaching. Through experiential learning activities, structured experimentation, and dedicated work time, this intensive will equip you with strategies for streamlining your course design process, adding variety to your lesson plans, and boosting student engagement in ways that center human connection and critical inquiry. You’ll also have the opportunity to talk with Mines students about their experiences and perspectives on learning with AI. Participants will leave the intensive with a newly-refreshed, learner-centered course design, ready-to-use AI-powered activities, and a co-created AI Lab Manual packed with tips, prompts, activity ideas, and more. Come explore, build, and shape the future of teaching at Mines this summer …and meet some fellow humans!
Participants will receive $1000 in PD funds for their completion of the intensive.
Past Event Recordings
Student Panel: What Mines Students Think of Generative AI and their Learning
Event Description: How are Mines students thinking about and using generative AI in the classroom? How do they see it impacting their learning? Join us for this virtual webinar to hear perspectives from a panel of Mines undergraduates and graduate students. You’ll have a chance to ask our student panelists questions during the live Q&A!
Student Panel: Accessibility on Campus from the Student Perspective
Event Description: What accessibility challenges have students faced in their courses and on campus? What strategies can faculty incorporate to make their courses more accessible to all students? A panel of students who have a disability will share their experiences and ways that faculty can support their learning. You’ll have a chance to hear from all panelists, as well as ask more specific questions during breakout groups.
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