Teaching Fundamentals & Innovations Workshop Series

Spring 2024 Schedule

All are welcome to attend CAT's workshop series which empowers participants to expand their pedagogical knowledge, explore varied teaching strategies, and apply these methods effectively to enhance student learning and success.  

When incorporating new instructional strategies into your teaching, you can collect feedback from students, peers, and engage in self-reflection to assess their impact on learning. This feedback can be part of your annual review and provide additional evidence of your professional growth and dedication to teaching excellence. 

In an effort to accommodate your schedules, we offer identical sessions on different dates for most workshops and on-demand options that can be accessed at any time from anywhere! 

To register for a workshop, click on the "Reserve Your Spot" button below. 

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What is Learning, and How to Facilitate It

Teachers teach students not subjects. If teaching is facilitating learning in unique individuals rather than disseminating knowledge to generalized others, then teachers need a functioning theory of learning. Teachers need to have a concept of what it is they are trying to facilitate. This workshop will explore experiential learning theory and its use in college teaching. The theory provides a clear and pragmatic framework for course design as well as class design. In addition, it provides both students and faculty with a tool for their own self-directed learning. 

Facilitated by Douglas Robertson, Professor, Educational Policy Studies

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

On-Demand Access Available March 1st
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Tools for Transparent Teaching: Designing an Effective Rubric

Do you often feel overwhelmed with grading student work? Do your students seem confused or unaware of key expectations for their assignments? During this interactive workshop, you will learn about best practices in rubric design and tips for creating effective and easily customizable rubric that will benefit you and your students. 

Facilitated by Shenira Perez, Assistant Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

Monday, February 5, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., via Zoom
Thursday, February 8, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom

 

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Adopting a Midsemester Feedback Practice

It's almost midterm... Are you thinking about conducting a midsemester check-in? Doing so can provide you (and your students) with valuable information that you can use to tailor or adjust the remaining weeks of the term. Midsemester check-ins can take many forms. In this session, your facilitators will help you develop survey questions, decide what tools to use, and discuss ways you might respond to the feedback you receive. 

Facilitated by Erica Caton, Director, and Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Elective

Monday, February 19, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., via Zoom
Tuesday, February 20, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., via Zoom

 

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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.

Facilitated by Shenira Perez, Assistant Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Culturally Responsive/Inclusive Teaching or Elective

Wednesday, February 21, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom

 

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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.

Facilitated by Shenira Perez, Assistant Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

Thursday, February 22, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., via Zoom

 

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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.

Facilitated by Shenira Perez, Assistant Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Assessing Student Learning or Elective

Wednesday, March 6, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., via Zoom
Thursday, March 7, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom

 

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Introduction to Feedback Box

Collecting student feedback in your courses can provide useful insights into your teaching practices and be a source of data for teaching evaluation. Feedback Box, a safe and anonymous tool for collecting student feedback within Canvas, can be a great way to get started on this. In this introductory workshop, you will learn more about leveraging Feedback Box to get actionable feedback from your students. We will discuss what Feedback Box is, how it works, and why it matters.

Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills TA Certificate Requirement: Elective 


 

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Teaching with AI Workshop

Tackle the practical application of integrating AI into your courses. Generative AI and Large Language Models have the power to redefine our teaching work in the classroom. In these three half-day workshops, participants will leverage them to enhance their teaching and learning practices. In particular, this workshop will address:

  • Redesigning our lessons using AI,
  • Creating AI-enhanced assignments and assessments,
  • Teaching students how to use AI ethically, and
  • Addressing academic integrity concerns.
Facilitated by Leanne Wells, Senior Director, and Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills TA Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design 

This workshop is currently at capacity and no longer open for registration. We will be offering this workshop again in Summer 2024.
March 26, 28, and April 2, 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., in person (MMC)