The Certificate of Teaching Excellence for Student Success will include workshops on a range of topics, including critical thinking, active lecturing, teaching with AI, effective use of visuals, motivating students, and gamification of learning. These topics were chosen based on faculty members’ responses to the needs assessment that CII conducted between November and March of the 2023-24 academic year. Faculty members will be able to earn a Certificate in Teaching Excellence for Student Success once they have attended six workshops.
Facilitator(s): The Provost Learning Community on the Teaching and Assessment of Critical Thinking - Catherine Jauregui, Brian Armstrong, Ashley Christman, Regina Messer, Rafael Pacheco, Jeane Silva, Patricia Watford
This interactive workshop is designed to equip faculty with practical strategies for fostering critical thinking skills in their classrooms. Developed from the collaborative efforts of our faculty learning community, this workshop explores effective teaching techniques to nurture critical thinking among students. Participants will delve into innovative approaches and activities tailored to promote critical thinking across disciplines, gaining valuable insights through presentations, discussions, and hands-on activities. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have a toolkit of practical strategies and resources to integrate critical thinking into their teaching practices, whether for specific assignments or an entire course revamp.
Facilitator: Arthur Takahashi
More than three decades of research inform us on effective, practical multimedia learning principles that we can apply to our course materials, such as slide presentations, recorded video lectures and graphs. In this session, we will connect research and application to land on what it takes to ensure your visuals are effective teaching tools.
Facilitator(s): Arthur Takahashi, Andrew Everett, Doug Blackburn
Explore the transformative potential of generative AI in education with our hands-on workshop designed for college faculty. This session will provide an overview of AI tools and strategies, fostering discussions on innovative applications in the classroom.
Facilitator(s): Stacy Kluge, Kalpana Ramgopal
We will examine strategies such as fostering intrinsic interest, offering choice,
implementing multimodal reflection and assignments, and creating authentic, participatory
learning experiences to give our students more autonomy and thereby boosting their
engagement.
Facilitator(s): Stacy Kluge, Kalpana Ramgopal
Research shows that when students feel like they belong — in the classroom, in college,
and in our community — and that their voice matters, they are more motivated to
learn and feel better about being in the classroom. In this workshop, we will explore
strategies for developing a sense of community and belonging.
Facilitator(s): Stacy Kluge, Kalpana Ramgopal
A key aspect of motivation is the belief that you can manage the task at hand. We
will examine the role that instructional alignment, low stakes assessments, timely
and
actionable feedback, and metacognitive strategies play in encouraging greater self-efficacy
among our students and helping them feel more confident in their learning.
Facilitator(s): Jeff Mastromonico, Arthur Takahashi, Andrew Everett
Escape from the dean’s wrath: An escape room experience to learn about gamification
You've been summoned to a high-stakes meeting to save MAD University from a crisis. Your dean expects you to gamify MAD 1101 asap to improve its unacceptable DFW rate. The problem? You and the Committee for Things that Matter know nothing about gamification and need help from Chatty, an untrained AI program. To help you, Chatty must access three encrypted files to learn about gamification. But you don’t have the encryption keys! Can you unlock these files in time to save yourselves from the dean’s wrath? In this experience, you will learn gamification principles you can apply to your courses.
