Professional Development Workshops
The workshops described here are active, hands on sessions based on educational research and practical teaching experience. These workshops are available for groups of six to twenty graduate students and/or faculty. Departments, programs or graduate student groups are welcome to contact Dr Crumley to request a single stand-alone session or a workshop series. You can register for any currently scheduled sessions here.
Teaching Portfolios
A portfolios is more than a collection of documents: it is set of claims about your teaching and evidence to support them. In this workshop, participants will examine how claims and evidence can be framed in way that allows you demonstrate your skill (or potential) as a university instructor. Electronic portfolios from previous semesters can be found here.
Web Design for Teaching Portfolios & Course Websites
This series of hands-on workshops includes basic design principles, hand coding HTML, Dreamweaver templates and an introduction to CSS. The purpose of this sequence is to support developing an online teaching portfolio or course website. (Three sessions, 2 hours each) Electronic portfolios from previous semesters can be found here.
Lecture Busters
In many classes, lecture is often seen as the most practical teaching approach. Research suggests that lectures CAN be an effective strategy, if used well. This session will present techniques for presenting short lecture segments, and will present and demonstrate several activities you can use to break up your lectures and keep student attention focused on the course material.
Effective Use of Student Groups
Research supports small group work as a way to increase student motivation and engagement in class. And, as faculty begin to have access to more flexible learning spaces on campus, small group work during a class session may become more practical and desirable. But which group techniques work well in different disciplines, and how do you actually DO them? And how can technology support group work? In this participatory session several techniques will be demonstrated and discussed. (3 hours)
Teaching Triangles: Peer Observation & Feedback
Participants observe each others’ teaching, reflect on the observation experience, and share these reflections with their partners and other participants in the workshop. Participation in this workshop includes guidance in giving and receiving constructive feedback and allows you formulate a plan for enhancing your own teaching based on your observations and reflections and the shared reflections of other participants. (Two sessions, 1.5 hours each)
Avoiding "Death by PowerPoint"
PowerPoint has great potential to support an interactive, engaging presentation and provide useful visual aids. As you may well know, it also has the potential to bore and pacify audiences. In this workshop, we will examine specific suggestions from research on multimedia learning and effective uses of this tool to support student learning. To get the most from this workshop, you should already know how to use the basic functions of PowerPoint and be ready to reexamine how you are using it.
Graphic Display of Information
In this workshop, we look at an overview of graphic design principles, text formatting, the appropriate use of graphs and the range of perceptive tasks we ask our audiences to perform when we use graphics in presentation and in writing. Examples used in this session are drawn from a variety of disciplines and make use of many of the design principles of Edward Tufte.
Blackboard (Bb) for Grad Student Instructors
This workshop is designed for graduate students who have familiarity with Bb from a student perspective and would like to learn more about the features available as an instructor. We will cover user management, communication tools, content management and introduce the assessment tools. The workshop does have a hands-on component (as should all workshops!) so you should register in advance in order to be able to access the workshop Bb site.
Developing a Professional Online Presence
As a student who will be entering a profession after graduation, how do you represent yourself online? In this interactive workshop, we will explore basic design principles, standard conventions and best practices for maintaining a professional web presence.
