CTL Custom Workshop Offerings

The CTL can present any of the following workshops to a department or group of (6 or more) faculty in a department.  We will tailor the examples used in the workshop to the department’s content areas and adjust the time frame to your needs.  We can either offer workshops for one to two hour time slots, or focus on specific issues for 15 or 30 minute mini-workshops. 

Assessment | Curriculum and Teaching | Learning Technologies

Assessment

1. Developing Learning Outcomes at the Program/Department Level (Angeles Eames)

Describes practical approaches to developing departmental/program goals and learning outcomes, and how mission, learning goals, objectives and outcomes are integrated.

2. Painless Data Collection (Angeles Eames)

Looks at direct and indirect methods of assessment, embedded approaches to data collection, software, locally developed vs. nationally normed instruments.

3. Designing Effective Surveys (Angeles Eames)

There is more to developing a survey to meet your purpose than just writing questions.  For example, how the question is asked will greatly influence the response.  This workshop will explore the logic used by survey developers in crafting instruments that provide useful data and information.

4. The Departmental/Program Assessment Plan (Angeles Eames)

Key features (and a model) of a good departmental/program assessment plan, and procedural issues in working with faculty and staff in developing/refining a plan.

5. Developing Learning Outcomes at the Course Level (Edmund Hansen)

Demonstrates different categories and characteristics of effective learning outcomes.

6. Developing Effective Rubrics (Edmund Hansen)

Describes the key components of a good rubric, how rubrics facilitate assessment and improve teaching and student learning, as well as common misunderstandings and misuses of rubrics.

7. Proper Procedures for Peer-Review of Teaching (Edmund Hansen)

Tips for conducting pre- and post-visit conferences and for structuring the actual classroom observation session/s.

8. Electronic Delivery of Student Evaluations of Teaching (Edmund Hansen)

The pros and cons of new systems that allow student evaluations to be done online with almost instant data analysis and availability of student feedback.

9. Good Practices in Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness (Edmund Hansen & Angeles Eames)

Procedures for evaluating effective teaching include student evaluations, peer evaluations, peer review of course materials, and self-assessments in teaching portfolios.  The workshop describes procedures for each and what makes for an overall valid system of faculty evaluation.  (A good preparation for the development of the new DACs).

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Curriculum and Teaching

10. Designing Writing Assignments … That Won’t Kill You (Kate Hahn)

A how-to workshop on designing a variety of writing assignments to meet certain objectives related to course content and improving writing skills. Includes exploration of design, implementation, and response tips.

11. Issues in Teaching Non-Native English Speakers (Kate Hahn)

An exploration of issues related to teaching non-native English speakers. The workshop includes practical pedagogical tools for dealing with these issues.

12. Responding to Writing of Non-Native English Speakers (Kate Hahn)

A workshop on the response to and treatment of the writing of non-native English speakers. Includes discussion on writing problems particular to non-native English speakers.

13. Responding to Student Writing (Kate Hahn)

A hands-on workshop devoted to responding to and evaluating student writing. Includes some discussion of how the design of assignments impacts responses.

14. Assignments to Facilitate Student Reading (Kate Hahn)

An exploration of a variety of assignments and activities designed to facilitate student reading and increase reading comprehension skills.

15. Research on Student Development and its Implications for the Classroom (Edmund Hansen)

William Perry’s identification of different phases of intellectual & ethical development in the college years started a line of research that is gradually having an impact on college teaching, especially with regard to increasing students’ critical thinking skills.

16. Teaching Critical Thinking (Edmund Hansen)

Explores five student engagement elements and three course structure elements of critical thinking.

17. Interactive Strategies for Teaching and Formative Assessment (Edmund Hansen)

Shows how good teaching and ongoing assessment of student learning are interrelated, and provides a host of strategies for both.

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Learning Technologies

18. Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning (Tony Piña)

Demonstrates what is involved in creating hybrid (partially online) and fully online courses, as well as how online technologies can enhance face-to-face courses.

19. My Experiences as an Online Student (Paul Heydenburg)

Paul will share his experiences as a recent student in an online learning certificate program and contrast them with his unique perspective as instructor, instructional developer, and system administrator.  Topics include successes, problems encountered, potential solutions, and the impact on student learning.

20. Online Communications and Interaction (Tony Piña)

Using e-mail, listservs, discussion forums, chat, instant messaging, wikis, and blogs to enhance face-to-face and online courses.

21. Developing Online Instruction (Tony Piña)

An exploration of best practices in online instruction.

22. Multimedia for the Web (Tony Piña)

Add spice to a course with the use of digital images, graphics, animation, audio, video, virtual reality programs, multimedia objects within Blackboard, etc.

23. Preparing Images for Presentations or Web (Tony Piña)

An introduction to digital imaging that shows how to optimize graphics with a scanner or with MS Office.

24. Teaching with PowerPoint (Tony Piña)

Creating sophisticated multimedia presentations and online instruction using PowerPoint.

25. Teaching with PowerPoint: Creating Games (Tony Piña)

Creating games (following popular formats such as Jeopardy) with PowerPoint.

26. Using Technology to Manage Writing Assignments (Tony Piña)

How to use tools such as Blackboard to post assignments, have students turn in assignments electronically, etc

27. Using Technology to Respond to Writing (Tony Piña)

How to use the mark up function in Word, how to insert comments, how to utilize footnotes or endnotes for comments, etc.

28. Using Learning Objects as a Course Supplement (Jane Peller)

Learning Objects are self-contained instructional mini-modules that allow students to acquire a well-defined skill on their own as they interact with a computer program.  The workshop shows examples for your field and how to use them in your course.

29. Creating your Own Learning Object (Jane Peller)

Learning Objects can be created with little technical expertise in short periods of time and made to fit specific needs you may have for your class.

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