CETLI Events Calendar

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore strategies for fostering a learning environment that supports their students’ wellbeing as well as their own. 

This interactive session will allow new lecturers to talk together about how to teach their classes effectively.  In addition, it will cover Penn policies that lecturers need to know, as well as resources that new lecturers can use to support their students.

Join Swapneel Sheth (CIS) and Brit Shields (BE) in discussing issues related to academic honesty in the engineering classroom.  We will consider strategies for building trust with students, communicating expectations clearly, and designing assignments that discourage cheating or plagiarism.

Advancements in generative AI have led to concerns about the effectiveness of written assignments. This discussion will encourage faculty to share the assignments and modifications they have used to encourage students to do the types of thinking that written assignments demand. 

Creating a sense of community helps students learn and take risks. It also opens class to more vigorous discussion.  Sara Jacoby of Family and Community Health and Rachida Ng of Architecture will start this conversation by discussing how they create and maintain a classroom community that is trusting and lively. 

Undergraduate students gain immense benefits from conducting research and from having faculty as mentors. In this conversation, Melissa Wilde of Sociology and Karen Goldberg of Chemistry will start discussion explaining how they get undergraduates interested in research and how they engage and mentor them through a project. 

Sid Deliwala (ESE) and Cindy Sung (MEAM) will share their approaches to designing and supervising course-based team projects. We will explore ideas for scaffolding project tasks, navigating group dynamics, and giving timely feedback to set students up for success.

The most interesting material in a subject can also be the most difficult to convey. Brendan O’Leary and Evelyn Thomson kick off this conversation by considering how to create an engaging lecture on topics that are challenging to understand. 

Oral exams allow students to show what they know and what they can do in ways that can feel more authentic.  Robin Pemantle of Math and Karen Tani of History and Law will kick off this conversation with a discussion of why they’ve chosen to give oral exams and how they administer them. 

In this open conversation, we will talk about how to prepare yourself and your class for the stress-filled time before the election, the day after the election, and whatever happens after.  Participants will consider what they intend to say and why and will discuss ways to help your students maintain community despite political and ideological […]

Clinical education is often intense and can be alienating for students. In this conversation, two clinical educators, Debbie Becker of Nursing and Everlyn Galban of Vet, will talk about how they welcome students into their clinical education experiences and support students’ sense of belonging.

This extraordinarily contentious election has left many of our students – and many of us – struggling. In this discussion we will consider what this election may mean for us in our teaching. This could mean talking about specific topics such as: how we talk with upset students in the wake of the event; how […]

This extraordinarily contentious election has left many of our students – and many of us – struggling. In this discussion we will consider what this election may mean for us in our teaching. This could mean talking about specific topics such as: how we talk with upset students in the wake of the event; how […]

This extraordinarily contentious election has left many of our students – and many of us – struggling. In this discussion we will consider what this election may mean for us in our teaching. This could mean talking about specific topics such as: how we talk with upset students in the wake of the event; how […]

Mentoring graduate students in the lab involves providing enough guidance to get students started on the right track while knowing when to encourage students to work more independently. To start this conversation Arjun Yodh of Physics and Corlett Wood of Biology will discuss how they think about giving students agency while at the same time […]

Holding discussions in class can often feel risky or even impossible.  In this session, Roxanne Euben of Political Science and Sophia Rosenfeld of History will talk about strategies they use to turn these seemingly risky discussions into meaningful experiences for students’ learning.

In this conversation, Christopher Pupik Dean of Education, and Lauren Starr of Biobehvioral Health will discuss how they structure their ethics classes to help students consider the roles that the students' identities and emotions play in making ethical judgments.  Participants will discuss what roles identity and emotions can play in their ethics classes and ways […]

Students are using AI as a way to complete assigned reading by creating summaries and analyses using the tools.  This session will be an opportunity to discuss how to motivate students to value the process of reading and how to think about reading as part of a class.

Perusall is an annotation tool that integrates with Canvas and allows students to collaboratively comment on and discuss class materials. In this session, participants will learn how to use features within Perusall to help students deepen their engagement with assigned material and foster productive interactions between students. 

What you do on the first day of class shapes the rest of the semester, allowing you to give students a glimpse of your teaching style and communicate your expectations. In this session, participants will discuss how to establish your classroom as an inclusive, welcoming space and generate excitement for the semester ahead.  This session […]

Learn how to set up and use the built-in Canvas Gradebook to streamline tasks such as calculating assignment grades, communicating with students, and submitting final course grades.