Description: Teaching portfolios act as a means of productively preparing for the job market and a successful academic career by…
Workshops We Can Offer
A list of workshops we can offer with links to resources and handouts where available. An academic unit may request these sessions or custom workshops.
The workshops listed may occasionally appear as part of our workshop series found in the Events section.
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Multiple choice tests are to easy to administer, but good and effective questions can be a challenge to develop. Here you can access strategies, resources, and practices for designing questions that are fair, unambiguous, and appropriate, including how to draft both lower- and higher-order multiple choice questions relevant to your discipline.
Rubrics make grading criteria clearer to faculty and students, allow students to turn in better work, and lead to feedback that is more objective and consistent. This workshop focuses on how to develop and use rubrics with both low- and high-stakes assessments.
Description: In this workshop we will describe the various reports available for CIF Results and discuss how this information can…
Description: Using case studies, this workshop explores the topic of race in the classroom; more specifically, how each of these…
Exploring the opportunities and challenges that emerge in courses with an oral communication focus, this workshop highlights strategies for designing oral assignments and tools for assessing oral communication skills. Instructors who are currently teaching or considering teaching a College Seminar (CSEM) course are especially encouraged to attend.
Description: There will be 4 panelists and each will have 10 minutes to talk. They will be asked to answer…
Description: In this interactive workshop, we will share resilience-based strategies and skills to call on during times of challenge and…
A four-part series focused on the theory and practice of designing courses to enhance student learning. Session 2 is devoted to assessment and exam design.
Classroom discussion can make or break a course. Done well, it’s the linchpin for meaningful classroom engagement; done poorly, even the best-planned course material can fall flat. In this workshop, participants are introduced to strategies for sparking effective discussions and generating inclusive student interactions as well as ways to assess engagement. A recording of the workshop is also available.