Commonwealth Campus Teaching Support

Continuing the Conversation: Faculty Communities

by | Aug 5, 2022 | Voices from the Field

Educators have shared a number of strategies and techniques during this event for enhancing the practice of teaching. In this session, Dr. Laura Cruz of the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will discuss the various opportunities for faculty to continue these conversations as part of a small, focused faculty community. Dr. Cruz will explore the myriad approaches that faculty communities might take and address how faculty can incorporate their faculty community experiences into their tenure or promotion materials.

Allow Students to Author Their Own Learning Path

by | Aug 5, 2022 | Course Design & Plannning, Inclusive Teaching, Student Engagement

Giving students a voice in how their learning is structured can make their learning journey more relevant, meaningful and enjoyable. During this session, you’ll hear how student-designed lessons and assessments were successfully implemented in two very different disciplines. Through a series of scaffolded assignments, biology lab students designed their own experiments as the culminating activity in the course. Art students worked in groups to design assignments for classmates and grade peers’ final presentation of the resulting work.