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Have you ever wondered why we grade the way we do in higher education? In this interactive workshop, you will explore emerging alternatives to conventional grading schema. Discover why practices such as specification (spec) grading have emerged as increasingly popular alternatives during and after the pandemic.

This is a closed event customized for the requesting department. If you are interested in a Custom Workshop for your area, contact us at site@psu.edu.

In this interactive workshop, participants will discuss how to make feedback an integral part of the teaching and learning process. We will explore the use of classroom assessment techniques and critical incident reflections and discuss ways we can offer effective and targeted feedback to our students.

Registration will close one hour before the workshop starts.

All Commonwealth Campus faculty are welcome in this group, but it is especially for faculty (of any rank or title) who are either new to Penn State or new to teaching in general. We will hold monthly Zoom discussions facilitated by the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. Participants who attend at least four of the Zoom discussions in academic year 2021-22 will qualify for a small grant to be used for teaching materials.

Register at https://tinyurl.com/CCnewfaculty2021

Registration will close one hour before the workshop starts.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 1/2 hour before the workshop starts.  

Have you ever wondered why we grade the way we do in higher education? In this interactive workshop, you will explore emerging alternatives to conventional grading schema. Discover why practices such as specification (spec) grading have emerged as increasingly popular alternatives during and after the pandemic.

This is a closed event customized for the requesting department. If you are interested in a Custom Workshop for your area, contact us at site@psu.edu.

Interested in making your teaching practice more visible? You might consider opportunities for peer-reviewed publication in teaching and learning scholarship. In our interactive workshop, you'll learn more about this lively scholarly field, with an emphasis on planning a research project based on your experiences in the classroom.

Registration will close one hour before the workshop starts.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 1/2 hour before the workshop starts.  

Search committees for faculty positions often ask applicants to provide a statement describing their contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In this interactive workshop, participants will reflect on their own role and their contributions to advancing DEI, and we’ll explore useful frameworks for conceptualizing and writing DEI statements.

Registration will close one hour before the workshop starts.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 1/2 hour before the workshop starts.

Debriefing and finding ways to process experiences from our learning environments is critical to student learning, refining one’s teaching strategies, and to determining what kind of external support or alliances might benefit our own development and wellbeing. In this session, we will discuss strategies and resources that can play a critical role in processing teaching and learning experiences.

In this interactive workshop, you will learn best practices in conducting survey based research in teaching and learning. Discover hundreds of surveys that could be used as the basis for doing research on your teaching practice and providing you with deeper insight into what, how, and why your students learn.

This is a closed event customized for the requesting department. If you are interested in a Custom Workshop for your area, contact us at site@psu.edu.

Transparency is a subtle idea: What happens when we make more of an effort to clarify our expectations, demystify the steps of an assignment, or discuss with our students what makes good work good, OK work OK, etc.? In this workshop, we'll consider what transparency is, what it looks like, and what difference it might make in your classes and assignments. Participants are encouraged to bring a draft assignment to discuss.

Registration will close one hour before the workshop starts.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 1/2 hour before the workshop starts.  

In this interactive workshop, we'll discuss how a course syllabus can function as a tool for communication. In addition, we'll consider the basics of course design by exploring how to create good learning objectives and aligning our teaching and assessment strategies with those objectives.

This is a closed event customized for the requesting department. If you are interested in a Custom Workshop for your area, contact us at site@psu.edu.

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore strategies for writing a teaching philosophy statement that effectively communicates their goals, practices, and evidence of effectiveness. We will also analyze the strengths and weaknesses of some actual teaching philosophy statements.

Registration will close one hour before the workshop starts.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 1/2 hour before the workshop starts.  

“Hot moments” can occur for various reasons and often arise in response to sensitive, challenging, or unfamiliar topics. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss strategies that we can use as instructors to manage ourselves in these moments as well as strategies we can use to respond to the hot moment itself and maintain the integrity of our learning environment.

Registration will close one hour before the workshop starts.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 1/2 hour before the workshop starts.