Spring Semester Prep Day: Jan 5
Emory's Teaching Toolkit is sponsoring a Spring Semester Prep Day to help you get ready for your Spring 2023 classes! All sessions will be held over Zoom. They will be recorded but not posted on the website, so if there is a session that interests you, sign up!
Sessions
Morning
9:00 am - 10:00 am: Class Engagement 101
Description:
Back by popular demand, this session will provide a quick overview of how engagement with students through a variety of activities helps increase attention, connection, and performance. We’ll discuss basic strategies to help increase student participation and demo some simple tools that will allow you to interact with students in a class of any size (such as polling, using collaborative workspaces like shared whiteboards or documents, etc.).
Presenter:
Alicia Lane, CFDE
10:15 am - 11:15 am: Flexibility in the Classroom & Beyond
Description:
How can instructors navigate flexibility, caring, and accountability during the continued challenges of living through a pandemic and national and global political tumult? In this session, we provide strategies to help instructors navigate issues they may encounter during the spring semester with special attention to covid safety as students travel back to campus. Strategies center around cultivating awareness, empathy, and trust in the classroom space, recognizing our students as humans with full lives.
Presenters:
Donna Troka, CFDE, & Kelly Duquette, CFDE
Session 3 - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Retrieval for Learning
Description:
In the book Make It Stick, researchers discuss research-based strategies that help improve students’ long-term ability to recall information, often referred to as “retrieval”. This session will discuss several strategies that you can incorporate into your course in class activities, assignments and advice to students. We’ll discuss it from the pedagogy, technology, and class implantation perspectives.
Presenters:
Holly Gooding, School of Medicine, Jen Spicer, School of Medicine, Matthew Aron, TLT, Alicia Lane, CFDE
Afternoon
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm: Poll Everywhere: Retrieval and Assessment with Polling
Description:
Learn the many ways that Poll Everywhere can be used to engage students, check for understanding, take attendance, gather ideas and opinion from students, track learning progress across a semester or even compare outcomes from prior semesters.
Presenters:
John Willingham, TLT, Alicia Lane, CFDE
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm: Universal Design for Learning Using Canvas
Description:
Universal Design for Learning (or UDL) is a framework for inclusive pedagogy that addresses the needs of students of varying abilities, backgrounds, and identities. Implementing UDL strategies into your Canvas course can help simplify your design process and improve outcomes for all students, especially from an accessibility standpoint. This session will give an overview of the three principles of UDL and how they can be applied to make teaching and learning in Canvas an overall better experience.
Presenters:
Jenn Sutcliffe, TLT