CETL Workshops
Building a Learning Community Where Everyone Belongs
Date & Time: September 11, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Location: 3310 Torgersen Hall
Building community and fostering a sense of belonging in the classroom has been proven to enhance students' engagement, improve persistence, and build capacity for creative risk-taking and relationship-building. This session presents guidelines for building a community of learners with shared goals and aspirations, beginning with the initial class meeting and sustained throughout the semester through practices and interventions that cultivate trust, accountability, and collaboration.
Strategies for Class Preparation, Organization, and Management
Date &Time: September 16, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Providing a meaningful learning experience for students involves an intentional process, including course design, facilitating class time, and assessing student learning. This workshop will focus on using class time to maximize student learning and will share a variety of strategies for preparation, organization, and management of class time. Ultimately, the purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with strategies for using and managing class time that will be immediately useful in their teaching. Note, this workshop will focus on foundational teaching knowledge and skills.
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How to Use S**T Results to Improve Teaching and How to Improve SPOT Scores
Date & Time: September 17, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Location: 3310 Torgersen Hall
In this workshop, we will examine results from the Student Perceptions of Teaching (SPOT) evaluation. In this examination, we will discuss how to interpret and use the results from the survey to improve teaching and learning. We will also discuss strategies to improve SPOT results by improving the teaching and learning in our courses. Join us in learning more about everyone’s favorite form of evaluating instructors.
Developing Grading and Feedback Strategies to Promote Learning
Date & Time: September 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Providing regular and meaningful feedback for and evaluations of students' work is essential to the teaching and learning process. Doing so, however, can be a challenge, particularly in relation to assignment type, class size, and grading resources (e.g., instructor's time). During this workshop, participants will learn about ways to provide feedback through both formative and summative assessments and explore best practices in grading strategies. Participants will also have time and support to design or redesign current or future assessments. Note, this workshop will focus on foundational teaching knowledge and skills.
Making the Most of Groups and Teams for Learning
Date & Time: October 2, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
As instructors, we often incorporate groups and teams into our courses to promote student learning and to foster transferrable skills with benefits beyond the classroom. In addition to these positive outcomes, however, group- and team-based learning experiences can also present challenges – for both instructors and students. This session will focus on strategies for engaging groups and teams to facilitate learning while maximizing the benefits and addressing the challenges of working with others.
Topics addressed in this workshop will include:
- the learning benefits of working in groups and teams
- common ways in which groups and teams are incorporated into learning contexts
- strategies for effectively developing and implementing group- and team-based learning experiences (e.g., activity/assignment design and assessment, group/team formation, supporting positive and productive groups/teams in learning)
By the end of the session, participants will be introduced to a variety of strategies for effectively integrating groups and teams in the courses they are currently teaching and/or designing or redesigning for the future. Note, this workshop will focus on foundational teaching knowledge and skills.
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Facilitating Productive Dialogue
Date & Time: October 9, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Location: 3310 Torgersen Hall
We want our students to grapple with challenging content, but are we prepared to facilitate dialogue when the content evokes strong opinions and emotional response—or—no response at all? This session presents participants with proactive strategies for prompting and navigating discussion-based engagement. Participants will practice using tools that promote participation, reduce tension, and leverage productive dialogue.
Rebuilding Student Reading Skills in the Attention Economy
Date & Time: October 16, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Location: 3310 Torgersen Hall
In this practical session, we'll explore how the attention economy is affecting our students' reading abilities and their analytical comprehension. We will walk through how these trends have evolved, what's driving them, and share battle-tested strategies to get our students to engage with academic texts again. You'll leave with practical approaches you can adapt tomorrow to help students in any discipline build stronger reading comprehension, sharpen their critical analysis, develop better focus, and help them transform from reluctant readers into more confident academic readers.
Registration coming soon!