Upcoming Workshops
We invite you to sign up for any of the following pedagogy workshops this fall. For more information and to register, click here.
Panel: Writing Effective Letters of Recommendation
This panel discussion will reflect on best practices for writing effective letters of recommendation. Learning this professional skill is important for future academic and alt-ac careers, and may help now as graduate instructors and teaching assistants often receive requests for letters of support from undergraduate students who are applying to study abroad programs, internships, and student jobs. This session will feature Notre Dame instructors from across disciplines who will share experiences, offer practical advice, and answer questions for graduate students learning to write letters of recommendation. This event is open to graduate students and postdocs who are interested in identifying and building letter writing skills and discussing strategies for approaching the inherent challenges of letter writing.
Date: Monday, October 4
Time: 3:00-4:15
Presenter: Dominique Vargas, Postdoctoral Associate, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence
Using Canvas to Implement Instructional Strategies and Enrich Your Course 4: Group Work in Canvas
At the intersection of best practices and technical demos, this workshop series focuses on instructional strategies and how to leverage Canvas accordingly. Workshops are scheduled for 45 minutes, but may end earlier on some occasions.
This workshop will focus on group work in a course and how to manage student groups in Canvas.
Date: Wednesday, October 6
Time: 10:00 a.m.-10:45 p.m.
Presenter: Brianna Stines, Learning Designer, ND Learning | Office of Digital Learning
Public Writing as a Tool for Learning
Public writing assignments can be an effective way to engage students and help them carry their learning beyond the walls of the classroom. But such assignments are also challenging to design, implement, and evaluate. This workshop will draw on the scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as the wisdom and sample assignments of Notre Dame instructors across disciplines, to outline the risks and rewards of incorporating public writing into college courses and introduce best practices for teaching and assessing such writing. Participants will leave the workshop with the beginnings of their own public writing assignment.
Date: Thursday, October 7
Time: 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Presenter: Emily Pitts Donahoe, Postdoctoral Fellow, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence
Facilitating Discussion in Humanities and Social Sciences
Classroom discussion can make or break a course. Done well, it’s the linchpin for meaningful classroom engagement; done poorly, even the best-planned course material can fall flat. In this workshop, participants will explore strategies for sparking effective discussions and generating inclusive student interactions. We will also brainstorm how to turn those strategies into concrete action in social sciences and humanities classrooms by practicing a range of discussion techniques.
Date: Friday, October 8
Time: 2:00-3:15 p.m.
Presenters: Julian Chike and Haley Dutmer, Graduate Associates, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence
Incorporating Active Learning Techniques into Tutorials to Improve Student Learning
While utilizing active learning techniques has been demonstrated to improve students’ understanding and retention of material, determining how to best incorporate these techniques can be difficult. This workshop is designed to help graduate students responsible for conducting tutorials by providing concrete strategies for restructuring class time to make use of active learning techniques. Participants will leave the workshop with strategies for encouraging student problem solving and engagement as well as an understanding of potential pitfalls to avoid when implementing these new strategies.
Date: Monday, October 11
Time: 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Presenters: Kristi Rudenga, Director of Teaching Excellence, and Kathryn Trentadue, Graduate Associate, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence
Transparent Assignment Design
Tuesday, October 12
Faculty Panel: Enhancing Learning with Low Stakes Assessments
Wednesday, October 27
Using CIF Questions as a Tool to Improve Teaching and Learning
Thursday, October 28
Decolonizing Your Curriculum I: Overview of Practice
Monday, November 1
Selecting/Creating Asynchronous Content
Wednesday, November 3
Motivation & Learning
Tuesday, November 9
Improve Your Teaching & Student Learning With Classroom Research
Wednesday, November 17
Decolonizing Your Curriculum II: Syllabus Workshop
Tuesday, November 1
