Instructor Professional Development

COURSES & SEMINARS BEYOND LSS

Our consultants co-sponsor, co-facilitate, support, and recommend many campus-wide workshops open to faculty. Each opportunity listed below has a different focus, and many require registration and planning to attend.

• Active Teaching Labs in the fall and spring semesters support instructors using technology in teaching, in both standard and more adventurous ways. Attend a lab to learn the basics and see examples of peers using technologies, or to bring questions about creative uses of technology in teaching.
• Blend@UW is typically a 5-day course in which instructors design blended courses that foster deeper, more active learning for students.
• TeachOnline is a faculty learning community, consisting of two semester-long sessions. Session one is entitled “Plan & Design” and gives participants and opportunity to collaboratively explore best practice in online course design while developing a custom design plan. Session two is entitled “Facilitation & Management” and offers the opportunity to develop virtual facilitation techniques, create a plan for connecting with students, consider how to best manage your live online course.
• MTLE is a two-semester program in teaching for early-career faculty.
• Teaching Academy sponsors four major events each year, including the Teaching Academy Summer Institute.
• Discussion Project from the School of Education is a 2.5 day training focused on creating a welcoming, engaging, and rigorous academic environment in your classroom.