Teaching & Learning Innovation - UTK

10/21/2026

📣 We’re hiring! Ready for your next opportunity? Check out the details and apply today: tiny.utk.edu/tli-faculty-consultant.

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10/20/2026

The Work of Wonder: Curiosity as a Leadership Skill

Join us tomorrow afternoon to explore how curiosity strengthens teaching, supervision, and decision-making. Leave with practical question frameworks and reflection habits to help you lead with wonder.

Wednesday, October 21 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Zoom

Learn more and register: teaching.utk.edu/fall-2026-events

10/19/2026

Do You Even Scaffold, Bro?: Exploring and adapting formative assessment practices

In this panel session, join experienced UT faculty as they show how they have adopted innovative assignments for formative purposes, with a panel of respondents. Join us to learn more about how to adopt and adapt new techniques in your field!

Tuesday, October 20 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Zoom

Learn more and register: teaching.utk.edu/fall-2026-events

10/19/2026

🍊 Listen. Learn. Lead. Week is here! Join the UT community October 19–23 for opportunities to explore new perspectives, build relationships, and lead with integrity. Events are open to students, faculty, and staff.

TLI Event:
The Work of Wonder: Curiosity as a Leadership Skill
Wednesday, October 21
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Zoom
Register here: https://teaching.utk.edu/fall-2026-events/

Explore this week’s opportunities: https://studentlife.utk.edu/2026/10/12/fall-2026-listen-learn-lead-week/

Our semi-annual Listen. Learn. Lead. Week provides campus-wide with opportunities for students, faculty, and staff.

10/16/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

What makes us uniquely human in the age of artificial intelligence?

AI can amplify the speed of our cognitive processes, but it cannot replace the value of human presence and connection, both essential to meaningful teaching and learning.

Join us for an interactive talk exploring uniquely human skills and perceptions, and how they can shape our work as teachers, researchers, and colleagues.

Register can be found: https://tiny.utk.edu/utedn-speaker

10/15/2026

📚 The Lifelong Learning Book Club brings UT colleagues together to explore ideas about teaching and learning across careers and environments. With a flexible format and no prior experience required, you can read and participate as your schedule allows.

Session II is on October 22 from 12 pm – 1 pm on Zoom. It is a partnership between the Department of Psychology, Teaching & Learning Innovation, and UT Libraries.

Learn more: https://lib.utk.edu/about/lifelong-learning-book-club

10/14/2026

The Work of Wonder: Curiosity as a Leadership Skill 🔎

Join us during Listen. Learn. Lead. Week to explore how curiosity strengthens teaching, supervision, and decision-making. Leave with practical question frameworks and reflection habits to help you lead with wonder.

Wednesday, October 21 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Zoom

Learn more and register: teaching.utk.edu/fall-2026-events

10/12/2026

What can our students teach us about how they use generative AI, and can we use that information to reduce the temptation to AI? The GenAI Faculty Fellows program surveyed over 7,000 UT students to understand how students viewed and understood generative AI in college classes.

This two-part workshop integrates an analysis of these data with the principles of cognitive load theory to help instructors create more transparent, directed assessments that reduce the impulse to use AI.

Register: https://cirtl.net/event/a-student-centered-approach-to-plagiarism-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/2026-10-13/.

10/11/2026

Connect over Coffee with TLI and Student Disability Services!

Explore practical strategies for working with interpreters and speech-to-text providers to support Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.

📅 October 20 | 8:30 am–9:45 am
📍 Student Union 362C

Light breakfast provided! RSVP by October 12.

Learn more: https://tiny.utk.edu/connect-over-coffee