This Week for Faculty: Get your Fall courses ready with these Summer offerings
The CTL is here to help you get ready for the Fall semester! Explore our Fall 2024 Offerings.
As you get ready for the Fall 2024 semester, the CTL has a line-up of offerings in August for you! Gain strategies for building community and a supportive learning environment in your classroom, refine your syllabi and assignments, plan for discussions and student engagement, explore ways to leverage AI in teaching and learning, and more!
Learn about the Columbia-supported instructional technologies that are available for you to use in your teaching and to support your students’ learning. The CTL offers sessions on Ed Discussion, Poll Everywhere, Gradescope, and annotation tools.
Click the hyperlinked session dates below to register and explore the related on-demand resource.
Set the tone for the semester
Teaching Inclusively From the Start
August 5, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Related resource: Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia
Making Your CourseWorks Site Accessible
August 5, 1:00pm – 1:45pm
Related resource: Four Ways to Make Your CourseWorks Site More Accessible
Clinical Teaching: Applying Inclusive Teaching Principles (for CUIMC faculty)
August 5, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Related resource: Applying Inclusive Teaching Principles to Clinical Education
Designing a Transparent Syllabus
August 6, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Related resource: Designing an Inclusive Syllabus
Building Community in the Classroom: Icebreakers
August 13, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Related resource: Community Building in the Classroom
Preparing for a New Semester of Teaching
August 14, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Preparing for a New Semester of Mentoring
August 14, 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Related resources: Advancing Mentorship Practices: Supporting Mentors of Graduate Students and Postdocs at Columbia
Plan how you will assess student learning
Designing Transparent Assignments
August 6, 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Related resource: Designing Assignments for Learning
Engaging Students with Poll Everywhere
August 7, 2:00pm – 2:30pm
Related resource: Poll Everywhere
Designing STEM Poll Questions that Go Beyond Recall
August 7, 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Related resource: Developing Poll Questions to Engage and Assess Science and Engineering Students
Making Feedback Matter: Strategies That Serve You and Your Students
August 8, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Related resource: Feedback for Learning
Intro to Gradescope: Grading and Feedback for Science & Engineering
August 8, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Related resource: Creating Assignments and Grading Online with Gradescope
Effective Feedback in Clinical Settings (for CUIMC faculty)
August 8, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Related resource: Effective Feedback in Clinical Settings
Engage your students in their learning
Getting Started with Active Learning
August 12, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Related resource: Getting Started with Active Learning
Planning Your Lectures Based on the Science of Learning
August 12, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Related resource: Five Tips for Engaged Lecturing
Engaging Students with Collaborative Annotation Tools
August 13, 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Related resource: Leveraging Annotation Activities and Tools to Promote Collaborative Learning
Explore the possibilities of AI in teaching and learning
Leveraging AI for Learning Activities
August 12, 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Leveraging AI for Teaching and Course Design
August 14, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Related on-demand resource: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI: Considerations, Resources, and Opportunities
Facilitate discussions that support learning
Engaging Students in Discussion
August 15, 10:00am – 11:00am
Related resource: Learning Through Discussion
Engaging Students with EdDiscussion
August 15, 11:30am – 12:00pm
Related resource: Enhance your Course Discussion Boards for Learning: Three Strategies Using Ed Discussion
Navigating HOT Moments: Before, During, & After Class
August 15, 1:00pm – 2:00pm (additional workshop dates include: September 4, and September 12)
Related resource: Navigating Heated, Offensive, and Tense (HOT) Moments in the Classroom
Connect with us! We are available all summer
Office Hours
Join us for office hours via Zoom (or phone) Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm to have your teaching with instructional technology questions answered, or schedule an appointment any time by contacting ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu.
Consultations
Schedule a consultation to discuss any teaching and learning need by emailing ctlfaculty@columbia.edu or email the CTL Learning Designer assigned to your school or department