Exploring Identity: Who Are You in the Classroom?
How do you think of yourself as an teacher? How does your vision of your role compare to what your students and supervisor expect? In this interactive workshop, we will explore how we see ourselves as teachers, how we imagine others see us, and how our identities shape our approaches to teaching and learning. Registration […]
Introduction to Research Mentorship: Mentoring Undergraduate Nursing Students
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.
Writing Challenging and Exciting Assignments in STEM Fields
How do we bridge the gap from the classroom chalkboard to the professional practice of STEM? Homework assignments and projects are often the main arenas in which students have a chance to gain practical experience, consolidate their knowledge, and stretch their capabilities, so they are an important area for instructors to focus on in course […]
Teaching with COVID-19 Data
Join Sociology Assistant Professor Courtney Boen in a discussion of how to incorporate COVID-19 data into teaching. She will particularly focus on how to use this data in teaching health and race inequality, teaching through an anti-racist lens, and broadly incorporating real-world contexts.All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the […]
Using Breakout Rooms Effectively
Breakout rooms can be powerful tools for getting students to interact, learn and connect with one another. But they are not always effective. In this session, Courtney Boen of Sociology and Phil Nelson of Physics will talk about how and why they have used breakout rooms in their classes, opening up a conversation considering how […]
How to Design a Syllabus/Course
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.
Trans-Affirming Pedagogy
This workshop invites conversation about how to support trans and gender non-conforming students, and how to design courses and material to address how racialized gender shapes life chances. We will focus on how to design trans-affirming syllabi and assignments in courses both primarily and secondarily concerned with feminist, queer, and trans studies. We’ll discuss how […]
What Student Surveys from the Fall Tell Us About Teaching Online at Penn
This fall, Penn surveyed thousands of students about what was effective and ineffective in their online courses. In this discussion, CETLI will share some of that survey data to facilitate a conversation about what we can learn from it and how that may or may not help guide our teaching. The full data sets can […]
Facilitating Asynchronous Engagement
In the online environment, the time students spend working on the course outside of live meetings is essential for facilitating student engagement with course concepts and thinking, interaction, and community building. In this discussion, participants will consider ways to create interactive asynchronous components and how to make quizzes and discussion boards and other elements more […]
Fright, Flight or Fight: Navigating Racially Stressful Moments While Teaching
Often while teaching, educators can sometimes find themselves overwhelmed by an unpredictable racial comment, question, or challenge. It is not uncommon for those unprepared for those moments to freeze. This workshop will focus on understanding how one can regain their focus, access their knowledge and memory, and be able to respond more assertively to racial […]
Facilitating Live Sessions with Zoom
This presentation and discussion will focus on ways to use Zoom effectively, both to pursue course learning goals and to foster a sense of community and student engagement. Zoom requires some different approaches than the classroom space to make this happen. This workshop is intended for graduate student instructors who are new to online teaching […]
Facilitating Asynchronous Engagement
In the online environment, the time students spend working on the course outside of live meetings is essential for facilitating student engagement with course concepts and thinking, interaction, and community building. In this discussion, participants will consider ways to create interactive asynchronous components and how to make quizzes and discussion boards and other elements more […]
Facilitating Live Sessions with Zoom
This presentation and discussion will focus on ways to use Zoom effectively, both to pursue course learning goals and to foster a sense of community and student engagement. Zoom requires some different approaches than the classroom space to make this happen. This workshop is intended for graduate student instructors who are new to online teaching […]
Canvas Tools: Quizzes, Assignments and the Gradebook
With the continuation of remote teaching, instructors may be relying on Canvas more than in the past, or looking to use various features for the first time. This session aims to acquaint new TAs, or returning TAs who may not have made much use of Canvas in the past, with the platform's major features for […]
Facilitating Asynchronous Engagement
In the online environment, the time students spend working on the course outside of live meetings is essential for facilitating student engagement with course concepts and thinking, interaction, and community building. In this discussion, participants will consider ways to create interactive asynchronous components and how to make quizzes and discussion boards and other elements more […]
Facilitating Asynchronous Engagement
In the online environment, the time students spend working on the course outside of live meetings is essential for facilitating student engagement with course concepts and thinking, interaction, and community building. In this discussion, participants will consider ways to create interactive asynchronous components and how to make quizzes and discussion boards and other elements more […]
Finding the Right Whiteboard: Platforms and Strategies for Writing and Collaboration
Whiteboards are incredibly useful teaching tools. On Zoom however, instructors and TAs have faced a number of different challenges to using them effectively. In this session, we will explore a few whiteboard platforms and strategies for writing, drawing and collaborating in online classes, and how these tools could be leveraged for your own teaching.This workshop […]
Facilitating Live Sessions with Zoom
This presentation and discussion will focus on ways to use Zoom effectively, both to pursue course learning goals and to foster a sense of community and student engagement. Zoom requires some different approaches than the classroom space to make this happen. This workshop is intended for graduate student instructors who are new to online teaching […]
Facilitating Live Sessions with Zoom
This presentation and discussion will focus on ways to use Zoom effectively, both to pursue course learning goals and to foster a sense of community and student engagement. Zoom requires some different approaches than the classroom space to make this happen. This workshop is intended for graduate student instructors who are new to online teaching […]
Canvas Tools: Quizzes, Assignments and the Gradebook
With the continuation of remote teaching, instructors may be relying on Canvas more than in the past, or looking to use various features for the first time. This session aims to acquaint new TAs, or returning TAs who may not have made much use of Canvas in the past, with the platform's major features for […]
Facilitating Asynchronous Engagement
In the online environment, the time students spend working on the course outside of live meetings is essential for facilitating student engagement with course concepts and thinking, interaction, and community building. In this discussion, participants will consider ways to create interactive asynchronous components and how to make quizzes and discussion boards and other elements more […]
Facilitating Live Sessions with Zoom
This presentation and discussion will focus on ways to use Zoom effectively, both to pursue course learning goals and to foster a sense of community and student engagement. Zoom requires some different approaches than the classroom space to make this happen. This workshop is intended for graduate student instructors who are new to online teaching […]
Canvas Tools: Quizzes, Assignments and the Gradebook
With the continuation of remote teaching, instructors may be relying on Canvas more than in the past, or looking to use various features for the first time. This session aims to acquaint new TAs, or returning TAs who may not have made much use of Canvas in the past, with the platform's major features for […]
Finding the Right Whiteboard: Platforms and Strategies for Writing and Collaboration
Whiteboards are incredibly useful teaching tools. On Zoom however, instructors and TAs have faced a number of different challenges to using them effectively. In this session, we will explore a few whiteboard platforms and strategies for writing, drawing and collaborating in online classes, and how these tools could be leveraged for your own teaching.This workshop […]
Tools for Asynchronous Engagement
In the online environment, what students do outside of traditional class time is a central part of learning, engagement, and community-building of a course. In this session, participants will discuss ways to create interactive, asynchronous components as crucial elements of the course and ways to use those tools and give students feedback in ways that […]
Canvas Tools: Quizzes, Assignments and the Gradebook
With the continuation of remote teaching, instructors may be relying on Canvas more than in the past, or looking to use various features for the first time. This session aims to acquaint new TAs, or returning TAs who may not have made much use of Canvas in the past, with the platform's major features for […]
Choosing Your Best Whiteboard
Whiteboards are incredibly useful teaching tools. On Zoom however, instructors have faced a number of different challenges to using them effectively. In this session, we will explore a few whiteboard platforms and strategies for writing, drawing and collaborating in online classes, and how these tools could be leveraged for your own teaching.
Designing Your Course as an Online Class
This session will introduce faculty to ways of conceptualizing a course for online teaching. How does teaching online change how we design our classes so that we can teach our students effectively? In this interactive discussion, participants will consider what key elements of an online course are, and how to deploy them effectively to contribute […]
Facilitating Asynchronous Engagement
In the online environment, the time students spend working on the course outside of live meetings is essential for facilitating student engagement with course concepts and thinking, interaction, and community building. In this discussion, participants will consider ways to create interactive asynchronous components and how to make quizzes and discussion boards and other elements more […]
Facilitating Live Sessions with Zoom
This presentation and discussion will focus on ways to use Zoom effectively, both to pursue course learning goals and to foster a sense of community and student engagement. Zoom requires some different approaches than the classroom space to make this happen. This workshop is intended for graduate student instructors who are new to online teaching […]