CETLI Events Calendar

Feeling a little behind on understanding AI? In this beginner-friendly workshop, we’ll discuss the basics of how AI works, explore Penn's AI tools and policies, and examine the ways AI impacts teaching beyond just academic integrity. You will leave this workshop with more AI literacy to help you make informed decisions about its role in […]

By creating classes that get students into neighborhoods in Philly, instructors can help students learn in a more connected and real-world way. In this conversation, Kent Bream of Family Medicine and Community Health and Domenic Vitiello of City and Regional Planning will begin by considering how to create classes that use local places to help […]

Instructors in Engineering are invited to join Daniel Hammer of Bioengineering and Aleksandra Vojvodic of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in discussing approaches to mentoring students in research. We’ll consider ideas for building teams that are positive, supportive, and productive.

Finding ways to get students to be more active and engaged in lectures can improve students’ understanding and retention as well as improve their ability to apply material. Marylyse Baptista of Linguistics and David Christianson of Chemistry will start this conversation by sharing concrete strategies they use to help students work with content as they […]

Concerns about students not doing their reading is growing. Reyhan Durmaz of Religious Studies and Patti Griffith of Biobehavioral Health Sciences will start the conversation by talking about their strategies for getting students to see the value of the assigned reading and motivating students to complete it. 

Students in clinics often need didactic information, but in the rush of a busy clinic, instructors may struggle to present the material effectively.  In this session, clinical professors Flint Wang (PSOM) and Leslie Stone Hirsh (Dental) will talk about how they present information in ways that support student learning and patient care.  This conversation will […]

Careful organization and mentoring can help TAs and LAs to support our instruction effectively. Phil Gressman of Math and Silvia Porello of Chemistry will start this conversation by considering how they guide their instructional teams for large enrollment classes.

Creating courses that introduce graduate students to ways of thinking and professional practice in the discipline can be challenging. Karen Redrobe of Cinema and Media Studies and Abby Reisman of Teaching, Learning, and Literacies will begin this conversation by describing how they create courses to introduce students to their disciplines. 

Gradescope is a Canvas tool that enables you to more efficiently grade and provide feedback on exams, including multiple-choice tests, short-answer questions, and worked problems. In this session, we will explore how to set up and use Gradescope, and ways to structure exams to help you make the most of the tool’s features.

This conversation is part of CETLI’s ongoing series of sessions for instructors who teach ethics in the professional schools.  In this session, Julie Wollman of GSE and Brit Shields of SEAS will talk about their sense of the role of a facilitator in ethics discussions and how their roles, in turn, have shaped how their […]

The syllabus is a familiar document and often neglected by students. In this session, participants will explore essential syllabus components— particularly thinking about how to organize the course around key questions and ideas that will engage students, as well as the policies, assignments and grade breakdown students are searching for —and will further consider how […]

Participants will discuss how to motivate students to read for class on their own by setting clear expectations for how students should be reading as well as accountability (by using quizzes or online tools like Perusall) so that students value the process of reading as part of learning. 

Participants will consider how to design in-class activities that use generative AI in productive ways. The group will explore ideas for AI-based activities that expose students to new material, promote critical thinking, and provide timely feedback on their learning.

Finding ways to allow students to be honest about what they think, their experiences, and thoughts, as well as the challenges they face, is part of welcoming students to class as whole people.  In this conversation, Brian Kim of REES and Rand Quinn of GSE, will talk about how they support students in their first-year […]

Professors LoriAnn Winner of Nursing and Swapneel Sheth of Computer and Information Science will kick off the conversation by discussing their approaches to preparing students throughout the semester, review sessions that foster deeper understanding, and how they alleviate student stress and anxiety around exams.   

In this conversation, participants will explore strategies for collecting feedback from students that can be translated into better teaching and improved student learning. Professors Tobias Baumgart of Chemistry and Travis McGaha of Computer and Information Science will start the conversation by sharing their approaches to gathering feedback to refine their teaching. 

Writing allows students to clarify their own thinking and deepen their understanding of course material. To start the conversation, Professors Elly Truitt of History and Sociology of Science and Henry Towsner of Math will explain how and why they integrate writing into their classes to foster students’ intellectual growth.