Events for Faculty and Instructional Staff
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Spring 2025 Teaching Workshops
CATLOE's teaching workshops and benchwork sessions are highly interactive. They replicate active learning so you can experience what it might be like to use evidence-based strategies, methods, or techniques in your own classrooms. All of our events provide guided support for implementing what you’ve learned in your teaching.
Instructional Leadership Academy: Course Design to Foster Student Success
Opening workshop May 30, 10:00 – 12:00 noon
Design workshops June 2 - 6, 10:00 – 11:30 am
All sessions will be offered virtually through Zoom.
Application Deadline: May 26, 2025. There are a limited number of seats for this Academy.
As an instructor, you want a course that challenges your students, helps them navigate and manage their learning, and is easy for you to facilitate. Can you have it all? Yes, you can! Whether you're teaching in person, online, or something in between, a well-designed course is the key to your students' success and engagement--and your sanity! This Academy guides you through the steps of backward course design with support and feedback from colleagues. You will engage in a series of short, interactive workshops leading you through the process of designing or re-designing a course that invites your students into the thinking (and the excitement!) of your discipline. Before each workshop, you will complete a short homework assignment that allows you to make concrete progress on your course design. By the end of the Academy, you will have built the foundation for a course that engages students with rigorous, authentic work and provides a path to their success! After the Academy, you will have ongoing support from an instructional consultant as you implement your new design.
In order to ensure that all participants have the best possible experience, we ask that you commit to attending all six meetings of the Course Design Academy and completing homework assignments each day.
Register for Course Design to Foster Student Success
Teaching with Technology Workshops
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Online Teaching Workshops
Note that these are not webinars about how to use Brightspace but instead are interactive workshops focused on effective practices for teaching online. Please come prepared to participate and work with colleagues!
Three Key Practices to Foster Interaction in your Online Course
Tuesday, April 15, 10:00 – 11:15 am, Zoom
Helping students feel connected to an online course is essential to their success. What kinds of interactions foster this sense of connection? This session will focus on three tried and true practices to make your course a dynamic, interactive experience for your students. You will leave with a plan for implementing one or more of these practices in your own upcoming course.
Register for Foster Interaction in Your Online Course
Three Key Practices to Humanize your Online Course
Wednesday, April 16, 1:15 – 2:30 pm, Zoom
Students are much more likely to succeed in courses where they believe their teacher cares about their learning and development. Fostering this kind of environment online feels challenging, but it can be done! This session will focus on three tried and true practices to make your students feel supported, respected, and prepared for success right away. You will leave with a plan for implementing one or more of these practices in your own upcoming course.
Register for Humanize your Online Course
Three Key Practices to Get Students Engaged in Online Discussions
Thursday, April 17, 3:00 – 4:15 pm, Zoom
Discussions are a staple of asynchronous online courses, but they do not always produce the kind of engagement we want to see. This session will focus on three tried and true practices to help you get the kind of thinking and interaction you want to see in your online discussions. You will leave with a plan for implementing a practice in your own upcoming course.
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Brightspace Training Webinars
We don't have any webinars scheduled at this time. Please visit our collection of Brightspace Training Videos or contact us for help!
Workshops for Graduate Students
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Spring 2025 Workshops for Graduate Students - Preparing for Academic Job Interview
The academic job market is more competitive than ever, and a key part of the search process is preparing for screening and on-campus interviews (also called "extended" interviews when conducted remotely). In this three-part series, you will learn how to prepare for interviews, how to prepare a teaching demonstration, and how to prepare your “job talk” (the overview of your research required for most searches). This series of short, high-impact workshops will prepare you for the new reality of the academic job market. Graduate students in all stages are encouraged to participate; however, these workshops are most effective when taken in advance of the job search process, ideally at least a year before entering the academic job market. Register for all three or choose those you need most.
Secrets of an Excellent Job Talk
Thursday, March 6, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
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Whether you are interviewing for a position that focuses on teaching or research, you are likely going to be asked to give the “job talk,” where you share your research with the search committee and other attendees. But what are you really being asked to do when you give the job talk? If you don’t know the secrets of the job talk, you risk confusing or boring your audience during this crucial part of the on-campus or extended interview. In this interactive workshop you’ll learn how to create a job talk that impresses the audience and communicates more than just your research. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the job talk and be invited to work further on the job talk with a CATLOE consultant.