Beyond the Term Paper: Thinking Creatively About Assignments
The academic essay has been a popular or, arguably, pro forma assignment choice for many instructors. However, as the pandemic drastically shifted our modes of teaching, course assignments subsequently demanded to be reimagined as well. In this session we will consider the limitations and difficulties of the term paper for both students and instructors, and […]
RESCHEDULED: Creating a Syllabus
While the idea of teaching a particular course can be thrilling, the work of sitting down to actually construct the syllabus can be overwhelming. This workshop will discuss techniques for moving from course design to syllabus construction. Topics to be covered will include turning course goals into actionable items, selecting applicable readings, properly spacing out […]
Reflecting on Radical Pedagogy: From Philly to Portland, a Conversation about Education, Art and Activism
Radical pedagogy invites us to view teaching as a collective experience that transcends space and disciplinary boundaries. Reflecting on their collaborative teaching experience engaging Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s Syllabus for Peace, during the 2020 Fringe Arts Living Installments, 4 artists and educators come together to discuss highlights of engaging Philadelphia and Portland community members during and […]
Diversity and Teaching When Disciplines Burn
Description: From anthropogenic climate change to the resurgence of xenophobic authoritarian politics to a world still in the throes of a pandemic that has magnified long-existing social inequalities—academic disciplines are confronting a world that is often literally on fire. What’s more, in this moment in history, many disciplines are reckoning with the ways in which […]
Opportunities and Challenges Associated with Teaching Your First Solo Course
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.
Integrating Teaching and Research: Stories from Probability, Statistics, and Combinatorial Geometry
We will discuss how research problems can be integrated into undergraduate teaching and homework design. In particular, Prof. Bhattacharya will talk about his experiences with the celebrated birthday paradox from undergraduate probability which asks: What is the chance that among a group of friends, there are two friends who have the same birthday? This problem, […]
Teaching with Real [Big] Data: using 2 Billion Stars to Illuminate Graduate Physics Concepts
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.
Teaching Close Reading to Undergraduates
This workshop will examine methods as well as reasons for teaching one of the core analytical tools of the humanities: close reading. The workshop will explore various methods for getting your undergraduate classroom to engage with a text on its own terms, as well as how to get students to extract and extrapolate on pertinent […]
Using Projects to Teach and Assess Students Through the Semester
Student projects can challenge students to explore their interests while teaching and assessing students’ thinking in the field and academic skills. In online courses, such projects may be even more relevant – if challenging – as faculty look for authentic forms of assessment to replace proctored exams. In this session, Ameena Gaffar-Kucher of Education and […]
Missing the Classroom: Addressing Frustrations of Teaching in this Year
A year into the pandemic, many of us may feel exhausted and stressed – including by our teaching. How do we teach effectively under these conditions? In this discussion faculty will consider what we’ve lost in our classes and what we’re struggling with this semester, so we can explore approaches to teaching that can help […]
Alternatives to High-Stakes Exams: Using Low-Stakes Quizzes and Assignments through the Semester
Regular, low-stakes assessment of student learning may increase the amount students learn, while reducing some student stress and – of particular importance in this online moment – the temptation to cheat spurred by high stakes exams. In this session Anne Duchene of Economics and Bruce Kothmann of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics will discuss how […]
The Entrepreneurial Classroom: How to Keep Your Material Fresh
Registration required.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Management department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.
Inclusive Teaching: Supporting All Students in the Classroom
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.
How Your Research Can Improve the Quality of Your Teaching
Registration required.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Racial Equity Course Review
This discussion will invite participants to revisit the content and intellectual substance of their courses, to consider ways their classes may help their fields contribute racial equity. Building on CETLI’s Racial Equity Course Review guide, faculty will have the chance to reflect on ways their course materials address or might address relevant matters of race, […]
Care and Critique
Critique is deeply enmeshed in the academic experience (e.g. grading; feedback; “crits”; peer review), and is often a site of anxiety and stress for both students and instructors. In this workshop we will explore the reorientations to critique that are made possible when we consider it as inextricable from “care.” We will consider some of […]
Teaching Your Own Course
“Will you be teaching your first course? Or do you want to? Join us for a panel discussion with members of then Sociology Department who have taught their own courses - Marcus Wright, Liz Jacobs, and Tyler Baldor. Learn their tips and tricks - everything from proposing and preparing a course to being in the […]
Experiences in Online Learning: a Community Conversation between Faculty and Undergraduate Students
This conversation will bring undergraduate students and instructors together to talk about their experiences and perspectives on teaching and learning over the past year. Together, students and faculty will discuss what they have found effective in the online space, what they have found does not work, ongoing challenges of online learning, and possible ways to […]
Effective Class Discussions in Zoom
In this conversation, Karen Detlefsen of Philosophy and Morgan Hoke of Anthropology will talk about how they have attempted to re-create the power of students sitting around a seminar table in their online classes. Participants will consider how to create a sense of community and common purpose for students in discussion and how to encourage […]
Grading Longer Essays
This workshop hopes to furnish a collaborative discussion focused on how we as instructors may give better, more substantial feed-back on longer written work. Yes, a grade is part of that process of feedback--and we may discuss student anxiety about these pesky letters and numbers and how to abate such affect--but more central to our […]
Move the Crowd: Meeting the Challenges of Large Lecture Courses
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the School of Communication and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Adding Flexibility to Your Class
The transition to online teaching and concomitant uncertainty of the past year have highlighted the importance of flexibility in designing and teaching classes. In this workshop, we will examine the ways that instructors and TAs can be accommodating in planning and administering classes without compromising rigor, limiting student success or significantly increasing our own workloads. […]
Teaching with Distraction
This workshop is designed to introduce methods for engaging students in conversation about focus and distraction. We will discuss how language about attention and participation can appear in course syllabi and in conversations early in the semester, and we will address the particular challenges of sustaining student attention in the remote classroom. We will talk […]
Designing for Collaborative Experiential Learning
We know that students learn from action and reflection. Why is it, then, that so many classrooms treat students as passive recipients rather than active agents? When a teacher presents a lecture to a class full of students, things are predictable, manageable, and orderly. However, when students are positioned as active players in their learning […]
Time Management in Teaching
Lectures, recitations, office hours, and even grading have a limited time. Even with a good plan, there might be contingencies that prevent one from delivering the job with a given time constraint. In this workshop, we articulate some of these situations and discuss either actions to handle these situations or strategies to avoid them from […]
Surviving (or Thriving) When Teaching Online
We will hold a candid conversation about the challenges that online teaching presents us and how we can overcome them. We will begin by discussing some techniques for managing student expectations and setting personal boundaries, and then we will move on to discuss time management in the online classroom and ways of keeping students engaged […]
Responding to Frustrated Students
Please join us for a CETLI-teaching workshop and discussion on "Responding to frustrated students" led by Meggie Crnic, Andy Johnson, and Projit Mukharji on Tuesday 2/16 at 9:30 a.m. Our students come from a wide range of backgrounds and confront a variety of different challenges in and around the classroom. In this session, we will […]
Making Your Online Large Class More Interactive
Creating interaction among students in large classes is crucial to encourage learning and help students engage with the course. It is also challenging, perhaps all the more so in online classes. In this conversation, Geoff Goodwin of Psychology and John Wagner of Biology will discuss how they have rethought their large courses in the current […]
Teaching on Queer Topics in Jewish Studies
Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Comparative Literature department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.