Accessible Online Teaching
Please fill out this Google Form upon registration to indicate access needs and any questions in advance of the workshop.Please note that this workshop will be recorded, and will offer live captioning.ASL interpretation is available on request. Please request ASL interpretation on or before December 28th, 2020.This workshop is designed to offer suggestions and an […]
Organizing Your Class on Canvas
Creating a Canvas site that is organized in intuitive ways can save instructor's time and help students focus on learning. This session will outline different ways of organizing your materials, considering pages, modules, the calendar and the syllabus tool. We hope to show different ways of organizing so that instructors can create sites where students […]
Canvas Grading Tools to Help You Use Time Efficiently and Effectively
In this session, CETLI staff and members of the Canvas team will demonstrate some of the functionality of Canvas to assign students grades efficiently and effectively including using Speedgrader and autograded quizzes to save time. The session will also cover effective use of Canvas Gradebook.
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.
Tools for Synchronous Engagement
Synchronous classes can help students learn material, practice thinking and problem solving, and connect to each other. This session will demonstrate how you can use conferencing tools like Zoom to run live class sessions focused on helping students get what they should from class, including ways to use breakout rooms for small group work, as […]
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 […]
Organizing Your Class on Canvas
Creating a Canvas site that is organized in intuitive ways can save instructor's time and help students focus on learning. This session will outline different ways of organizing your materials, considering pages, modules, the calendar and the syllabus tool. We hope to show different ways of organizing so that instructors can create sites where students […]
What Is Gradescope? and How Can I Use it to Make Grading More Efficient (and Give Students Better Feedback)?
This session will introduce Gradescope, a tool currently being used as part of a pilot at Penn, which is designed to streamline the process of grading assignments. Instructors can have students upload pen-and-paper problem sets, handwritten essay exams, typed exams, bubble sheets, PDFs or other types of assignments. It has an interface that automatically differentiates […]
Dealing with Academic Dishonesty
Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Political Science department and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Registration required.
Ethnography and the Ancient World in Undergraduate Teaching
Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Classical Studies department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.
Language Pedagogy in the Online Classroom
What is the future of second-language acquisition in the online learning environment? How can educators leverage pre-existing technologies to duplicate and improve upon tried and true strategies of second language development pedagogy? What new technologies have been most helpful in this transition to online second-language teaching? What kinds of tools does the Penn Language Center […]
No Need for Speed: Rethinking Pace and Slowness in the Classroom
Neoliberal capitalist demands for speed and productivity permeate the halls of academia (e.g. the aphorism “publish or perish”; back-to-back class schedules). This need for speed and output creates a disabling and ableist educational environment for both instructors and students. Turning to the tempo of the classroom discussion and the rhythm of the semester as places […]
Lessons Learned from the Fall Semester
Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Classical Studies department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.
Tools for Recording Lectures
This technology spotlight will focus on tools that allow instructors to create engaging lectures and to get students involved in creating content as well. The session will explore the integration between Zoom, Canvas and Panopto and also cover other tools for recording and uploading material. We will discuss how these tools can integrate screen sharing […]
Designing Anti-Racist Syllabi
Zoom (register for link) This workshop focuses on anti-racist approaches to designing syllabi and assignments for courses in English and interdisciplinary courses in the humanities and social sciences. We will discuss how to design syllabi and assignments that focus on multiple approaches to analyzing racialized relationships to power, and which support students' capacity to read […]
Leading Discussions on Race
Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Sociology department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.
Canvas Grading Tools to Help You Use Time Efficiently and Effectively
In this session, CETLI staff and members of the Canvas team will demonstrate some of the functionality of Canvas to assign students grades efficiently and effectively including using Speedgrader and autograded quizzes to save time. The session will also cover effective use of Canvas Gradebook.
Building Courses for Non-Experts
This workshop counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This workshop grows out of questions in the physics department so might be of most interest to students in related fields.
Online Course Design
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Communications department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Balancing Teaching & Research
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Communications department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Merging Teaching with Research
Teaching and research are two inseparable parts of the education in science and engineering. Passion in teaching is enhanced by the joy of discovery in scientific research, and reciprocally teaching a subject can provide a new mindset in conducting research in that subject. In this workshop, I will discuss the mutual interaction between teaching and […]
Assessing Students Without Proctored Exams
The shift to online instruction has encouraged faculty to reconsider how they assess student learning. In this conversation, Sharon Irving of Nursing and Rob Ghrist of Math will explore how they have found alternatives for assessing students outside proctored exams. This includes considering how to incorporate more frequent low-stakes quizzes, different types of in- and […]
Teaching History While Living History
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.Registration required.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
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.
Diversity & Inclusivity in Teaching
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.
Bringing an Anti-Oppressive Lens to Your Syllabus
This interactive workshop will provide participants with space to critically interrogate the politics of syllabus design. Particular attention will be paid to analyzing representations of race, gender, sexual orientation and disability, as well as thinking through how to incorporate these issues in ways that resist tokenization. Participants are encouraged to bring a relevant syllabus from […]
Trauma-Informed Teaching: The Challenges of Learning Right Now and How Our Teaching can Respond
In our current time, many of our students are contending with COVID-19, police brutality, racism, social, political and economic instability, uncertainty, and other trauma-inducing experiences. In the midst of this, how can we teach in ways that are sensitive to students’ experiences of these realities? In this presentation, neuroscientist Mays Imad, who writes and consults […]
Encouraging Community in Our Classes
Helping students feel connected to each other, to faculty, to course material and to Penn is one of the big challenges many of us have been very aware of this fall. In this discussion, Dennis Flores of Nursing, Sandra Ryeom of Cancer Biology and Lisa Servon of City and Regional Planning will explore ways they […]
Creating effective questions for open-book exams
Open-book exams can assess what students have learned, allow students to show higher-order thinking and, as we are teaching online, help ensure students adhere to standards of academic honesty. But writing effective open-book questions is challenging. In this discussion, Alain Plante of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lori Spindler of Biology, will reflect on how […]
The Anti-Racist Survey Course
Zoom (register for link) This workshop focuses on anti-racist approaches to designing syllabi and assignments for both temporal and thematic survey courses. Graduate students, contingent faculty, and junior faculty are regularly asked to teach courses with titles like "U.S. Literature Since 1865," "English Poetry Before 1700," and "Contemporary Global Anglophone Literature." This workshop will address […]