WORKSHOPS
Basic Info
Workshops allow participants time to engage deeply with Critical Teaching Behaviors concepts through a variety of activities and guided discusssions. We can align workshops with institutional priorities to help your group move toward a particular teaching goal. To allow adequate time for engagement, we recommend at least 90 minutes for workshops.
Keynotes can be adapted into workshops. Workshops are most effective when conducted in person, but we can offer them virtually.
Below are a few workshops we’re most frequently asked to give. If you have something else in mind, we can work with you to adapt or custom design a workshop to meet your needs.
Who Tells Your Story?
Reflection and Agency in Documenting Teaching Effectiveness
When it comes to teaching effectiveness, who tells your story? Often, documentation of teaching privileges student or colleague voices or simply lets materials speak for themselves. Using the Critical Teaching Behaviors (CTB) framework, we discuss a documentation method that promotes instructor agency in shaping teaching narratives while fostering reflective habits that improve teaching. The framework provides guidance to instructors crafting their first teaching narrative and presents more experienced teachers with a new lens to think about their teaching. Participants will begin framing a persuasive, coherent teaching narrative using the CTB and evidence from instructional artifacts easily available to them.
Foundations for Success
Defining Critical Teaching Behaviors for Student Learning
As teachers, student learning is our goal. Research on teaching and learning offers insight into what we can do to support student success; however, staying current on this research is time-consuming and can be overwhelming for instructors delving into a new field. Critical Teaching Behaviors (CTBs) prepare instructors to foster student success by providing foundational knowledge of effective teaching practices. In this session, participants will use the CTB framework to reflect on their current instructional practices and pedagogical areas of interest to identify strategies they can implement to promote student learning while reinvigorating their teaching.
Observing Critical Teaching Behaviors
What Does Good Teaching Look Like?
As campuses look for options to reduce bias in student-feedback-based evaluations of teaching, many institutions are turning to peer observations of teaching. Research tells us that effective peer observations can enhance reflection, boost confidence, and build community related to teaching. Furthermore, peer observations can promote equity in the evaluation of teaching by introducing the objective perspective of a peer. Poorly designed and executed peer observations, however, can have the opposite impact. This workshop introduces the Critical Teaching Behavior (CTB) observation tools and offers training for faculty conducting peer observations to help them maximize the benefits associated with effective practice.
Teaching Tune-Up
Improving the Learning Experience with Midterm Feedback Insights
Too many faculty have had the experience of reading their student evaluations and thinking, “If only I had known students felt this way, I could have…, but it’s too late now.” The Critical Teaching Behaviors Midterm Feedback Instrument (CTB-MFI) can help faculty avoid this situation by letting them hear from students when they can still make changes that positively impact the learning experience. CTB-MFI reports tag student feedback with CTB categories (align, include, engage, assess, integrate technology) to make it easier to get a big picture perspective on teaching. By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready to gather valuable student feedback and make impactful and timely changes to their teaching.
Contact Us
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Email
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