Backward Design for Better Teaching Certificate Program
Apply via this Qualtrics survey by 9/05/23
Meeting mode: Hybrid (two 90-minute in-person meetings and five 60-minute synchronous Zoom meetings)
Meeting dates:
- In-person in the FCE, PL 4005: F 9/08/23,2:00 to 3:30 pm; F 10/20/23 10:00 to 11:30 am
- Online synchronous Fridays from 2:00 to 3:00 pm: 9/15/23, 9/22/23, 9/29/23, 10/06/23, 10/13/23
Description: In this seven-week professional development program faculty will learn and apply principles of backward design, a process for course development that focuses first on identifying student learning goals and scaffolding assessments and teaching methods around these goals to help students master these activities.
Teaching with Technology Certificate Program
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Meeting mode: None – fully asynchronous course
Meeting dates: None – self-guided; support available by request
Description: In this eight-hour fully asynchronous online certificate program, faculty complete two core modules, Technology Integration Frameworks and Accessible Course Design, and six elective modules on advanced Canvas features and/or apps such as PlayPosit, VoiceThread, GoReact, Qwickly, and publisher content.
Quality Online Teaching Program
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Meeting mode: None – fully asynchronous course
Description: Faculty participants take a 21-day, 20-hour introductory or intermediate online course in best practices in asynchronous online teaching and then, working with an instructional designer, develop their own asynchronous online course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Next Generation Smart Classroom Cosynchronous Teaching Program
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Meeting mode: One hour on-site training (date TBD) and two short Canvas courses.
Description: Faculty participants take one-hour on-site training in best pedagogical practices in our Next Generation Smart Classrooms as well as two self-guided Canvas courses, “Essentials of Teaching in Canvas” (about five to six hours) and “Best Practices in Cosynchronous Teaching” (about two hours).