Explore and apply key lesson-planning topics – like backwards design, learning objectives, assessment, and more – in this one-part online workshop designed for grad students and postdocs who have had some teaching or TAing experience. Participants will discuss concepts from Universal Design for Learning and emphasize the use of frequent formative feedback as an equitable way to promote learning. An explicit goal of this workshop is to help future faculty feel more empowered and confident in their own pedagogical decision-making. By the end of this workshop, participants will be prepared to:

• Identify several “big ideas” in their disciplines (core concepts/skills).
• Align learning objectives, assessments, and learning activities for a single class session based on the big idea they selected.

Instructors

Chas Brua, Pennsylvania State University
John Elia, Pennsylvania State University

Workshop Schedule

This one-session workshop meets online in Zoom on Wednesday, September 17 at 8-9:30pm Gulf / 12-1:30pm Eastern / 11am-12:30pm Central / 9-10:30am Pacific/Arizona.

Audience

This workshop is designed for grad students and postdocs who have had some teaching or TAing experience.

Registration and Enrollment

**Closed for registration as of Wednesday, September 3rd**

Cap: 25. Registration opens on Tuesday, September 2nd at 10am CT and closes once capacity is reached. Registration will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and registrants from CIRTL member institutions or alumni of CIRTL member institutions will receive priority. Once registration closes, all registrants will be notified of their enrollment status.

Accessibility

If you have access needs, please let us know what they are. Contact Zoe Zuleger (zmzuleger@wisc.edu), who is supporting this workshop, to let us know how we can help you have a successful experience. In addition to meeting individualized needs, we will also take measures throughout the workshop to support accessibility for all our students:

• Using alt-text on images in reading materials
• Sending pre-session reminders with upcoming assignments to all students
• Sharing materials for synchronous sessions with students (slides, activity instructions, etc.)
• Enabling live captioning in synchronous sessions
• Incorporating multiple modes of interaction into synchronous sessions

About CIRTL Programming

CIRTL Network programming is designed to develop future faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices to create undergraduate educational experiences that are accessible to all learners. Participants can explore our programming in any order, and to whatever extent supports your own teaching development needs and interests. To help participants understand what they can expect across all our programming, all CIRTL programming aligns with four broad learning goals; within those goals, programming might provide participants with an introductory, intermediate, or advanced learning experience.

This course supports the following CIRTL learning goals at an introductory level:

• Goal 1: Develop evidence-based teaching knowledge. See more Goal 1 programming.