Faculty Professional Development

Summer Series on Effective Teaching Practices

The Center for Teaching and Learning invites faculty to share their knowledge and experience as part of our Summer Series on Effective Teaching Practices on Tuesday, Aug. 18 (the week before classes begin)

This series is designed to highlight the many effective teaching approaches already happening across SRU and to provide opportunities for faculty to learn directly from colleagues. Faculty frequently tell us that some of the most valuable professional development comes from hearing how peers have implemented instructional strategies in their own courses.

We are seeking proposals for two types of sessions:

Burst Sessions (30 minutes)
Short, focused sessions that share a practical teaching strategy, classroom activity, or assignment that colleagues could quickly adapt in their own courses.

Workshops (75 minutes)
Interactive sessions where participants explore a teaching approach in greater depth and engage in hands-on activities.

Sessions may address a wide range of teaching practices connected to our Engaged Teaching and Learning Framework, including:

Collaborative and Community-Based Learning
Experiential and Applied Learning
Inquiry and Knowledge Creation
Integrative and Reflective Learning

Examples might include designing collaborative assignments, facilitating structured discussions, incorporating undergraduate research, creating authentic course projects, integrating service learning, or lessons learned from implementing a High-Impact Practice.

Sessions do not need to be formal presentations. Many of the most valuable sessions simply share a strategy that worked well in a course and the insights gained from implementing it. Faculty are also welcome to co-present with colleagues.

If you have an idea you would like to share, we encourage you to submit a proposal.

Submit a Proposal:

The proposal form should take approximately 5–7 minutes to complete.

https://sru.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4IzWtWb8Bg5H9SC

Proposal Deadline: March 31

We hope you will consider contributing to this series and helping to foster a culture of shared teaching practice across the SRU community

Faculty Learning Communities

At Slippery Rock, a Faculty Learning Communities are small, cross-disciplinary groups comprised of both faculty and staff, working collaboratively to develop 21st century approaches to teaching and learning in higher education and engage in the scholarship of teaching.

For an overview of Faculty Learning Communities, click here to download (PDF)

The Center for Teaching and Learning assists with the formation, the coordination, and the funding of University FLC's. For more information on FLCs, or how to join or create one of your own, please contact the CTL at 724.738.2473.

Teaching on Tap

The Center for Teaching and Learning organizes and hosts a monthly, cross-disciplinary event which provides an informal venue for the discussion of evidence-based practices for teaching and learning. The format of these events involves a short presentation on pedagogy followed by an open discussion among colleagues. What makes these Teaching and Learning Conversations unique is the potential rich faculty-faculty and faculty-student interaction on the theory and practice of teaching and learning; students learn about new instructional strategies and why they are effective, and faculty members have the opportunity to learn the student perspective on those strategies.

Applying the Quality Matters Rubric

The Applying the Quality Matters Rubric workshop at SRU is a face-to-face workshop that introduces faculty members to the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric, the QM peer review process, and provides the opportunity to collaborate with others on applying the QM Rubric to sample online courses. Ultimately, faculty will leave this workshop being able to make decisions on whether or not online and blended courses meet national standards for quality. After completing this workshop, faculty will also:

Receive a certification of completion from QM
Be eligible to join the internal SRU Peer Review Team
Be eligible to register for the QM Peer Review Certificate Program

Effective Teaching Practices Course

Course Description: The Effective Teaching Practices course at SRU is an online course that prepares faculty to apply innovative and evidence-based instructional practices to their teaching, across all modalities, with the goal of maximizing student achievement. The design and development of this course was informed by adult learning theory, instructional design best-practices, and input from expert teachers at SRU. The course will move participants through a five-phase model (Dick & Carey, 1996) for systematic instructional course design across all modalities. As participants explore each phase of this design model, they will have the opportunity learn, apply and reflect on each of those 5 phases in relation to their own teaching. The course also explores evidence-based Instructional strategies in both online and in-person settings.

Logistics:

All new fauclty are enrolled in the course after completing New Faculty Orientation.
They have the full academic year to complete the course.
Course completers currently receive $1000.00 in progressional development funds.
The course is taught by the Faculty Development Fellow
The requirement for taking and completing the course is managed through the Dean's Office.

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