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Teaching Shapes: What, Why, and How to Start One on Your Campus

Instructors are often isolated and left to meet the challenges of teaching alone. Teaching Shapes is a peer-to-peer, formative teaching observation program that encourages community building, idea sharing, and self-reflection. In this interactive session, the facilitators will share experiences from Penn State Scranton and Penn State Behrend, and provide you with a resource kit for establishing a Teaching Shapes program on your own campus.

Leveraging Peer Support for Learning

Effective facilitation in education requires a focus on student engagement and finding diverse ways to enhance learning experiences. One such approach is leveraging peer support, where students collaborate on assignments and engage their peers.

Exploring Best Practices for Assignment Creation and Effective Assessment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Join this session to explore how two instructors address assignment design in light of artificial intelligence. Learn how one instructor is meeting ChatGPT head-on using a collaborative assignment. Another instructor will explain the best practices that promote academic integrity and effective assessments regardless of whether artificial intelligence is available for student use or not.

Bolster Engagement and Motivation Through Real World Cases

Case studies exploring complex challenges recently faced in the real world provided the opportunity for peer-to-peer teaching and the strengthening of problem-solving skills. In the communication and biology classrooms, students applied their learning to develop a range of solutions to real-world problems.

Strategies for Student-Centered Engagement & Support

Meeting the needs of each student is essential for retention of students in courses and programs. Applying a student-centered perspective and approach can strengthen an instructor’s ability to meet the needs of all students.

Optimizing Online Teaching: Strategies and Insights

This session will be focused on online teaching. The faculty presenters will share the teaching strategies they recommend for successfully teaching online. They will also recommend professional development opportunities they have participated in that have enhanced their teaching practices.

Active Learning Strategies

There are many ways to engage students with active learning. Join us as Lori and Hannah describe activities that have proven to be quite effective at getting students involved and producing deeper learning as a result, and active learning also moves the accountability for learning more explicitly into the students’ hands.

Rethinking the Curriculum to Strengthen Learning, Inclusion, and Belonging

Integrating a global learning perspective into the curriculum expands students’ horizons and promotes inclusion and belonging. This approach creates avenues for students to delve into various worldviews, engage in cross-cultural communication, and address global challenges.

Strategies for Formative and Genuine Assessment

This session provides intriguing practical strategies and evidence-based approaches to foster a supportive learning environment and deeper student engagement