Accessible Pedagogy: Captioning & Transcription Basics
Explore auto-captioning options available through Panopto and Zoom, learn how to manually add or edit captions, and determine when to include captions versus a transcript.Â
Teaching as an Early Career Professor: A GSE Alumni Panel
What is it like to transition from teaching as a graduate student to having your own course load as an early career professor? What is it like teaching a different student population than we have gotten to work with at Penn? This session will cover these questions and more, as addressed by a panel of […]
Accessible Pedagogy: PowerPoint Presentations
Learn strategies for creating accessible PowerPoints, and use Microsoft’s built-in accessibility checker to easily review and remediate existing slide decks. Â
Effective Proctoring Practices
In this session, participants will consider scenarios that feature common proctoring problems (all of which have occurred at Penn over the last semester) and use those to develop a set of strategies and considerations to use as they prepare for and administer exams. Â Faculty are encouraged to bring head TAs, TAs, and LAs, who may […]
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Meeting the Needs of Students with Varying Professional & Educational Experiences
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the School of Nursing, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. This will be a hybrid workshop. Zoom links will be sent to those wishing to join virtually. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Accessible Pedagogy: Digital Documents
Learn strategies for creating accessible digital documents in word processors like MS Word or Google Docs, and learn strategies for reviewing and remediating existing documents.Â
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From Mentee to Mentor: Making the Most of Mentorship at any Stage
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the School of Nursing, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. This will be a hybrid workshop. Zoom links will be sent to those wishing to join virtually. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Save Time with Canvas Gradebook
Learn how to set up and use the built-in Canvas Gradebook to streamline tasks such as calculating assignment grades, communicating with students, and submitting final course grades.Â
CANCELED: Engaging Students on the First Day of Class
What you do on the first day of class shapes the rest of the semester, allowing you to give students a glimpse of your teaching style and communicate your expectations. In this session, participants will discuss how to establish your classroom as an inclusive, welcoming space and generate excitement for the semester ahead. This session […]
Getting Students to Interact with Course Materials Using Perusall
Perusall is an annotation tool that integrates with Canvas and allows students to collaboratively comment on and discuss class materials. In this session, participants will learn how to use features within Perusall to help students deepen their engagement with assigned material and foster productive interactions between students.Â
Reading in the Age of AI
Students are using AI as a way to complete assigned reading by creating summaries and analyses using the tools. This session will be an opportunity to discuss how to motivate students to value the process of reading and how to think about reading as part of a class.
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Teaching as a Pathway: Navigating the Application and Transition to an Academic Professor Role
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. This will be a hybrid event and can be attended either in-person or via Zoom. Please register for Zoom link. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
Teaching in the Aftermath of THIS Election
This extraordinarily contentious election has left many of our students – and many of us – struggling. In this discussion we will consider what this election may mean for us in our teaching. This could mean talking about specific topics such as: how we talk with upset students in the wake of the event; how […]