Teaching and Learning

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This interactive, 90-minute 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]