This Week for Faculty: Get your Fall courses ready with these Summer offerings

by | Jul 18, 2024

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