Fundamentals

Fall 2023 Fundamentals Workshop Schedule

The Fundamentals Workshop Series focuses on the indispensable skills for effective classroom teaching. In an effort to accommodate your schedules, we offer two identical sessions on different dates for most workshops and on-demand options. 

For anyone in the Certificate in University Teaching & Learning program, we have added the requirement that each workshop would fulfill.

Please note whether the workshop is in person, virtual, or on-demand. 

To register for a workshop, click on the RSVP button below. After you register, you will receive an invitation to add the session(s) to your calendar; the invitation for virtual sessions includes the Zoom link.

The Science of Emotions: Enhancing Student Learning and Motivation

Discover how emotions drive motivation, learning, and long-term retention in the classroom. Join our on-demand workshop to delve into the cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education research around emotions and learning, and gain practical insights into leveraging emotions for enhanced pedagogical impact. Participants will explore innovative classroom practices and activities that turn this research into transformative action.

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

Transparent Assignment Workshop: Time to Implement

Transparent assignments clarify tasks, goals, and expectations for students by offering the why, when, and how of each assignment; can increase student motivation, academic confidence, sense of belonging, and learning; and reduce the need for multiple clarification emails. During this two-hour workshop, participants will review the transparent assignment template, draft an assignment using the template, and receive valuable peer feedback. Participants will also leave with a better understanding of how to align their assignments with the course and module in which they appear.

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

Motivating & Engaging ALL Students Through Inclusive Teaching Practices

Inclusive teaching is a student-centered pedagogical approach that identifies and nurtures students' cultural identities and strengths to promote and sustain student learning. During this interactive, 90-minute workshop participants will explore the concept of culturally responsive teaching and its influence on student learning and achievement, identify practices and strategies for fostering and sustaining culturally responsive teaching and learning environments, and develop strategies for capturing and translating evidence of cultural responsiveness in their own practice.

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Culturally Responsive/Inclusive Teaching or Elective

Beyond the Basics: Applying Empathy & Humility as an Approach to Inclusive Teaching

This 90-minute, interactive workshop will focus on practicing empathy and humility with our students, as an approach to inclusive teaching. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to describe specific teaching strategies that enhance flexibility within a course while still instilling the importance of professionalism. They will also be able to identify useful strategies to prepare for difficult conversations, as well as techniques for addressing missteps.

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

Learning-Centered Teaching: Pedagogical Approaches for Maximizing Student Learning & Success

Learning-centered teaching strategies focus on instructors as facilitators of learning, rather than providers of knowledge. During this interactive 90-minute workshop participants will understand key research findings related to learning processes and their implications for classroom instruction, define active learning, collaborative learning, and inquiry-based learning, and be able to describe classroom learning activities for each pedagogical approach, and apply understanding of learning processes and forms of learning-centered teaching to course design.

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus & Course Design or Elective

Evidence-Based Teaching: Collecting & Using Data from Students to Improve Course Design & Teaching

During this interactive 90-minute workshop participants will understand various types of student data on teaching and methods for collecting them (e.g., measure pre and post), identify a type of student data that might offer useful insight into your teaching and method of data collection, and understand how to transform data into useful feedback that can be used to improve/guide future instructional practices.

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Assessing Student Learning or Elective