Helping Students Who Need to Miss Class
Students have always needed to miss class occasionally, but in the pandemic more students than usual may be out of class, and those students may need to miss a week or more. This workshop will discuss ways to make sure students can stay up to date with content for lecture-based classes, and will also explore […]
Teaching and the Job Market
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the History & Sociology of Science department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Refining Your Syllabus Over Time
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Religious Studies department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Bringing the Climate Emergency into Your Classroom: Using Essays from the Penn Climate Week Book All We Can Save in Any Course
Faculty at Penn often wonder how to bring their mounting sense of urgency about the climate crisis into the classroom across a wide variety of fields. This year CETLI will contribute to Climate Week at Penn by facilitating an interdisciplinary conversation on how to address low rates of climate literacy across campus and how to […]
Technology Tools: Using New Quizzes for Exams and Tests
Note that this event has been rescheduled from 9/2/2021 due to the weather-related suspension of University operations.Instructors at Penn now have access to a new quizzing and testing tool in Canvas called New Quizzes. New Quizzes will be the default quizzing tool starting in January 2023 but instructors should begin to consider using New Quizzes […]
Technology Tools: Poll Everywhere for In-class Engagement
Poll Everywhere is a useful tool available to all Penn instructors that can encourage student participation, questions, and real-time feedback in the classroom. For faculty who found chat and polling useful for teaching online, Poll Everywhere can help bring this type of engagement into the face-to-face classroom. In this tools-focused session, CETLI staff will review […]
Creating a Course that Encourages Academic Integrity
Teaching online over the past year left many faculty deeply concerned about widespread cheating. The return to in-person teaching may lessen some of those concerns, but it will not eliminate them. In this session, participants will discuss ways to send messages to students that academic integrity matters and will consider ways to design assignments -- […]
Developing a Canvas Site that Saves You and Your Students Time
Creating an organized and thoughtful Canvas site can help you set expectations for your students, support students as they do the work and can save you time during the semester. In this session participants will discuss how Canvas’s organizational features (like modules and pages) and Canvas’s grading tools (including automated quiz grading and rubrics) can […]
Fostering Active Learning and Engagement In-person
In online classes, many of us found value in engaging with students and in asking them to engage actively with course materials during synchronous meetings. In this session, faculty will consider ways to continue that active learning in their in-person classes. For instance: how might we deploy student groups in a lecture room, instead of […]
Technology Tools for… Exams and Quizzes: Gradescope and Canvas New Quizzes
In the coming academic year, Penn instructors will have access to two tools that can streamline the process of administering, grading and providing feedback on quizzes and exams. Canvas offers a new online quizzing tool called New Quizzes, which features new question types and grading functionality, better supporting scientific, mathematical or technical content. In addition, […]
Building Community in Class
While many of us were concerned about building community in online classes, intentional community building also matters when everyone is in person. In this session, participants will begin by considering what worked in online classes and what practices and tools helped get students to engage with the instructor and fellow students. Then we will discuss […]
Stress, Trauma and Daily Demands: Designing a Course that Deals with the Complexity of Your Students’ Lives
Penn will return to in-person teaching this fall, but that does not mean the anxieties and challenges of the pandemic and social upheaval are over. This session will focus on ways to create a course that accounts for the experiences and concerns students have lived and are living so that students can learn and reach […]
What Your Students Learned in the Pandemic — and What It Means for Your Class
With the pandemic, online schooling and social upheavals over the last year, our students may enter our classes with very different kinds of preparation than has been typical. This session will focus on strategies to help you find out what your students know and don’t know entering your class -- and how you can adjust […]
Teaching & Feedback
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Chemistry department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
What We’ll Carry With Us: Preparing to Teach in the “Afterlives of COVID-19”
As the university now expects to return to in-person teaching for the Fall 2021 semester, we must tend to the pedagogical concerns, feelings, and reorientations that this transition will bring. In this workshop, we will collectively reflect upon how this year of remote learning has radically shifted our teaching philosophies and approaches, and consider the […]
Managing Remote Teaching & Research
This workshop is targeted mostly for 1st years in STEM field. Remote teaching can be challenging, especially when you start to do research in the lab. How to succeed as a teacher, manage your remote office hours and still find time to impress your PI. This workshop brings you a panel of experienced TAs who […]
Doctorly Prepared Nurse Educators in Practice
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Nursing department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Teaching as a Mentor
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Annenberg School for Communication and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Helping Undergraduates with Online Resources
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Classical Studies department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
What We Will Take from Our Teaching This Year: Practices to Carry Forward
This conversation will bring faculty together to consider ways teaching online for the past year may inform how we teach in person when we are back on campus. This is an opportunity to think about the lessons and practices we want to take forward by reflecting on our experiences teaching online and learning from colleagues’ […]
Giving an Effective Lecture
Whether on zoom or in person, the task of delivering engaging and informative lectures remains a serious challenge. Please join us for a CETLI teaching workshop on designing (and carrying out) effective lectures.All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the History and Sociology of Science department and so may be […]
Activism Beyond the Classroom: Community Organizing as Pedagogical Method
In this workshop, Dr. Krystal Strong will talk through lessons learned from her experimental course, Activism Beyond the Classroom, which is a scholar-activist community, course, and digital archive project co-designed with Penn students and Philadelphia community activists. Informed by Dr. Strong’s experiences in community organizing over the past fifteen years, Activism Beyond the Classroom asks […]
Recommendations of the AIP TEAM-UP report for diversity, equity and inclusion—how can we incorporate them into teaching?
Registration required.All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Physics & Astronomy department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Technology Tools for… Exams and Quizzes in the Future: Finding the Best Online Tool for You and Your Students
n the coming academic year Penn instructors will have access to three online tools for administering exams, tests and quizzes. Canvas will support both its existing quizzing tool (known as Classic Quizzes) and another quizzing tool called New Quizzes, which features new question types and grading functionality. In addition, Penn has extended the pilot supporting […]
Bringing Ancient Primary Source Texts to the Undergraduate Classroom
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Classical Studies department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
What We Will Take from Our Teaching This Year: Practices to Carry Forward
This conversation will bring faculty together to consider ways teaching online for the past year may inform how we teach in person when we are back on campus. This is an opportunity to think about the lessons and practices we want to take forward by reflecting on our experiences teaching online and learning from colleagues’ […]
Teaching Lab Remotely & How to Spot a Struggling Student
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Chemistry department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Observational Astronomy: an example for hands-on student engagement
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Physics and Astronomy department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Hard Lessons: Navigating Difficult Material and Difficult Moments in the Classroom
In this workshop we will explore what possibilities are made available when we radically reconsider the classroom as a productive setting for the navigation of “hard feelings” and “hard moments.” Turning to the issues of teaching difficult material and of facilitating difficult responses/ conversations, we will consider some of the following questions: how does difficulty […]
Teaching Outside Your Area of Expertise
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Nursing department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.