Fundamentals

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 workshop participants will explore the concept of inclusive 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.

This 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.

Adopting a Learning-Centered Approach to Teaching

Learning-centered teaching strategies focus on instructors as facilitators of learning, rather than providers of knowledge. During this workshop participants will understand key research findings related to learning processes and their implications for classroom instruction and apply understanding of learning processes and forms of learning-centered teaching to course design.

Evidence-Based Teaching:

Collecting & using data from students to inform our teaching

The Evidence-Based Teaching Workshop will provide faculty with the knowledge and tools they need to collect data from their students on their teaching and learning. Participants will also learn about ways to translate that data into actionable feedback they can use to improve their teaching and course design.

Cultivating Attention in a Brain Hardwired for Distraction

What contributes to our students' difficulties paying attention? How can we create a learning environment that cultivates their attention and, consequently, their learning? In this workshop grounded in new research, you will consider what technology policy may work best for your course, how to effectively communicate the policy to your students, and how to build lesson plans and interact with students in a way that fosters and sustains their attention and impacts their performance.