10+10 sessions are held at 10 am each Tuesday during the 2025 Spring quarter, starting during Week 2. The presentation recording, session slides, and resources can be found on the 10+10 Pop-ups Series Bruin Learn site.
Spring 2025 workshop schedule
Week 2:
April 8, 2025
Increasing Access in Reading Assignments
Students read on screens all the time, but due to constraints in digital reading tools, they may not be engaging deeply with the new ideas, worlds, and people available at their fingertips. This session introduces several ways to support digital reading, particularly when reading with PDFs, so that students can engage more deeply with reading assignments in your classes.
Presenters
Sally Wu, Director of Instructional Design and Media Production
Week 3:
April 15, 2025
Navigating Unexpected Conversations in Office Hours: Breaking it Down
Join us for a preview of one of our most popular professional development workshops–Navigating Unexpected Conversations in Office Hours! Get a taste of the strategies you can use to approach conversations that arise in office hours around complex student concerns.
Presenters
Elyse Gueidon, Associate Director for Graduate Student Professional Development with Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement
Week 4:
April 22, 2025
Motivating Students with Growth Mindset Feedback
Join GSPSE to learn about techniques for delivering feedback that stimulates students’ growth mindset and supports their persistence in the face of academic challenges. We’ll discuss strategies for courses of any size, from seminars and discussion sections to large lectures. All TAs, postdocs, instructors, and staff are welcome.
Presenters
Ava Arndt and Beth Goodhue, Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement
Week 5:
April 29, 2025
How to Create Community Agreements
In this session, instructors will learn concrete strategies for creating and using community agreements, one of the simplest but most powerful tools available for shaping the learning environment, establishing classroom norms, and supporting student learning.
Presenters
Derisa Grant, Director of Educational Development Programs
Week 6:
May 6, 2025
How to Use Student Experience of Teaching (SET) Data to Inform Your Teaching
This workshop offers practical strategies for leveraging Student Experiences of Teaching (SET) data to inform teaching. Join us to turn SET insights into actionable, formative improvements.
Presenters
Casey Shapiro, Interim Director of Assessment of Student and Instructor Experience
Week 7:
May 13, 2025
Explore the AI Toolkit for the Humanities Classroom
Humanities Technology (HumTech)–HumTech is developing an AI Toolkit in collaboration with their graduate student RITC’s, Research and Instructional Technology Consultants who provide both instructional and research support. Join this session to learn about the various resources developed so far, including, AI best practices in the classroom, AI-based activities, lesson plans, and assessments– materials designed to be applicable across the disciplines.
Presenters
HumTech RITCs
Week 8:
May 20, 2025
How to Compare and Evaluate AI Tools
Choosing the right AI tool can be a real challenge. This short presentation provides a practical framework, using the Diffusion of Innovation model, to help you choose the best tools. We will explore the five key attributes, which are relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, trialability, and observability. The discussion will support you to confidently select GenAI solutions that enhance teaching and learning.
Presenters
Sirui Wang, Senior Instructional Designer with Instructional Design and Media Production
