Faculty Development
To encourage informal, cross-disciplinary conversations about pedagogy, John Crosland Jr. Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers professional development.
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Past Faculty Development Topics
- Engaged Scholars Series: Objects to Inspire Learning, Getting Started with Digital Projects, Inclusive Digital Pedagogy (Jade Davis, Columbia University Libraries), From Proposal to Bookshelf (Beth Bouloukos, Lever Press), What is LACOL?
- Creating Class Spaces for Difficult Discussions
- Discover "Hypothes.is," an open source annotation tool
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Literary Translation: Translating Roman Comedy for a Modern Audience with Dr. Amy Richlin, Professor of Classics at UCLA
- Using Role-Playing in Teaching Complex Societies with Dr. Amy Richlin
- 2-day faculty and staff workshop on Open Access, Digital Dexterity and Inclusive Pedagogy
- The Davidson Collaboratory: First year takeaways
- MicroaggressionsÂ
- Understanding fair use of copyrighted material
- Cultural Biases in Rhetorical Evaluation
- Learning about LACOL (Liberal Arts Consortium for Online Learning)
- Learning in the Open: Teaching with Social Media (and avoiding disaster) with Dr. Bonnie Stewart, Director, Edactive Technologies, Inc.
- Textbook Alternatives/Library Resources
- Specifications Grading
- Inclusive Pedagogy
- Teaching About Racism: A Few Sociocultural Instructional Strategies with Dr. Phia Salter, Texas A&M University
- Redesigning Research Assignments (Workshop)
- Digesting Fake News
- Implicit Biases and their Implications with Dr. Luis Rivera, Rutgers University
- Evaluating Group Presentations
- Policy Memo Assignments
- How to Maximize Student Engagement in Classes Greater than 25 Students
- Discussion in the Classroom
- Teaching Strategies to Improve Performance of Women and Minority Students
- Environmental Cues that Signal Inclusion vs. Exclusion of Women and Minorities in the Classroom
- Teaching Cases
- Fostering a Culture of Risk-Taking and Honesty in the Classroom
- Balancing Depth and Breath in College Teaching
- Approaches to and Experiences Related to Teaching in Studio D