This hybrid course guides participants in developing a Teaching Portfolio for improving teaching and enhancing job search potential. The web-based curriculum introduces essential elements of the portfolio, provides tools for gathering necessary documentation, and through individual feedback from the instructor, assists participants in drafting a personal Philosophy of Teaching, upon which the Portfolio is built. 2 class meetings, and weekly online assignments. The asynchronous portion of the class will be conducted via Moodle, where course materials will be posted and online discussions will take place. In this CIRTL Network course, students will learn the basics of effective teaching as well as ideas in the forefront of college education. Students will explore their teaching philosophy, design a course curriculum, learn how to monitor and investigate the effectiveness of the learning environment, and explore what it means to create an inclusive classroom environment that engages all learners. This course will cover topics in leadership, management, decision making, and social science that will help participants understand the dynamics of teams and how process can help ensure better decision making. It is designed especially to help participants who work in multidisciplinary and or multicultural teams. Develop new approaches to effective use of instructional technology in your teaching practice. You will learn how technological choices can affect the learning of today’s diverse student populations. You will complete a research project to study how technology can affect student learning in your discipline.
This course is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields who desire to develop new approaches to the effective use of instructional technology in their teaching practice.The goals of the class are:
* to provide participants with a foundation for choosing appropriate technological tools based on learning needs,
* to give participants hands-on experience, through class sessions and an independent project, in the effective use of learning technologies such as interactive web applications, video/audio lectures, "clickers", and course management tools, and
* to promote the importance and scholarship of the evaluation of instructional technology efficacy.
This CIRTL Network course is designed for those who have an interest in becoming better college instructors, and in advancing diversity issues in their future classroom practice. Participants in this course will explore how we define diversity, and discuss the ways different definitions of diversity might influence what and how we teach our disciplinary topics. The course culminates in creation of a diversity-focused plan of action. This CIRTL Network course is designed for those who have an interest in becoming better college instructors, and in advancing diversity issues in their future classroom practice. Participants in this course will explore how we define diversity, and discuss the ways different definitions of diversity might influence what and how we teach our disciplinary topics. The course culminates in creation of a diversity-focused plan of action.
The Delta Certificate in Research, Teaching, and Learning confers recognition of a student’s achievement including the following: - Experience in teaching, broadly defined to include the college classroom and beyond (i.e. informal educational settings).
- Awareness of how to promote successful learning with diverse participants.
- Knowledge of foundational research and scholarship on teaching and learning.
- Demonstrated application of research skills to the improvement of participant learning.
- Engaged membership in a learning community that is focused on teaching and learning.
- Development of a reflective teaching and learning portfolio.
| Skip Calendar
| Sun |
Mon |
Tue |
Wed |
Thu |
Fri |
Sat |
|---|
| |
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| 6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
| 13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
Today Thursday, 17 May 17 |
18 |
19 |
| 20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
| 27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
| |
|
