CETLI Events Calendar

This workshop will focus on how to address individual, institutional, national, and global stress as it regularly shapes students’ academic lives. We will discuss how courses across the disciplines can make room for students to share their experience of stressful situations – privately and in class, as they wish to – and how we can […]

This workshop will focus on how to address individual, institutional, national, and global stress as it regularly shapes students’ academic lives. We will discuss how courses across the disciplines can make room for students to share their experience of stressful situations – privately and in class, as they wish to – and how we can […]

In this workshop, we will look at ways to dismantle and overcome long-standing traditions of how literature should be taught according to denotive or “this means that” pedagogy. In order to undo this linear method of teaching texts and other forms of media, we will discuss what it means to embrace the “noise” of both […]

Difficulties, losses, grief, and frustrations have been collectively experienced in the past several months; As such effects of the pandemic and quarantine continue on into the fall semester, we must consider the ways in which this moment demands that we constantly welcome malleability into our teaching and into our classZooms. In this workshop we will […]

Student feedback can help you reflect on and improve your teaching. When—and how—should you solicit feedback from students? What do you do with this feedback once you get it? How can you productively engage with student feedback? How can you incorporate it into your teaching? In this workshop, we will discuss these questions as we […]

The shift to online learning brings new challenges not only to the delivery of in-class content, but also to how faculty and teaching assistants hold their office hours. TAs seeking to effectively use their office hours need to consider how to organize/structure their online meetings and also be familiar with varied online tools. In this […]

How do we engage students with issues and audiences outside the academy? Sociology Assistant Professors Daniel Aldana Cohen and Pilar Gonalons-Pons will share their experiences incorporating public sociology into their teaching and assignments. This includes engaging students in the worlds in which they live, addressing the role of advocacy, and facilitating connections between abstract concepts […]

For online courses, the time students spend learning and working outside of live meetings is essential for facilitating student engagement with course concepts and thinking, student-to-student interaction, and the formation of a class community. In this discussion, participants will learn about various platforms as well as general strategies to develop student learning and engagement asynchronously. […]

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. Graduate […]

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the History & Sociology of Science department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Communicating effectively and efficiently with your students is difficult even in the best of times. In our current educational climate, where remote learning leaves students and teachers at a physical remove with fewer opportunities for quick and easy follow-up, concise and clear communication takes on even more of a critical role in the functioning of […]

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Physics department and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

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.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the Classical Studies departmen and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Registration required.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate. This event grows out of concerns in the School of Nursing and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Registration required.

This workshop focuses on promoting teaching in literature and writing classes that is explicit about manifestations of anti-Black racism, and which affirms Black life through syllabus and assignment design and the development of classroom community. We will focus on approaches to classroom facilitation and mentoring that affirm Black students, and we will also focus on […]

This interactive workshop will draw upon participants’ experiences and perspectives as well as case studies to examine the challenges faced by prospective college and university faculty from marginalized backgrounds. Race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, first generation faculty issues, and generational change will be highlighted through whole group conversations, breakout sessions, and a brief presentation, generating […]

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.

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 […]

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.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.

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 […]

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 […]

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.Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.

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 […]

Do you have a teaching question or want to brainstorm some ideas? Register to get the link, then drop in at any point to discuss any aspect of your fall teaching.

Do you have a teaching question or want to brainstorm some ideas? Register to get the link, then drop in at any point to discuss any aspect of your fall teaching.