Fundamentals

Spring 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.

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 session will be facilitated in person or virtually.

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.


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Introductory Workshop:

Motivating & Elevating Our Students Through Inclusive Teaching

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.


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

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Culturally Responsive/Inclusive Teaching or Elective

Wednesday, January 25, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., via Zoom
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Advanced Workshop:

Beyond the Basics: Applying empathy and humility as an approach to inclusive teaching

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.


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

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Culturally Responsive/Inclusive Teaching or Elective

Thursday, January 26, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom
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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.


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

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

Thursday, February 9, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., via Zoom
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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.


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

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Assessing Student Learning or Elective

Wednesday, February 22, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom
Thursday, February 23, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., via Zoom

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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.


Facilitated by Ileana Hernandez, Assistant Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Fulfills Certificate Requirement: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective

Wednesday, March 15, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., via Zoom
Thursday, March 16, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., via Zoom