Departmental Teaching & Learning Workshops

Besides the large public workshops we conduct, our consultants also develop specific workshops at the request of individual departments. A few of the cases we have helped with are described below:

  1. Facilitating Microteachings: A departmental pedagogy instructor wanted a facilitator from CIC to conduct microteachings (5 minute lessons given to a group of peers). The consultant came to the preceding class and describe what microteachings were and how they would be conducted, and what the students needed to prepare for the assignment. The following week the class split into several groups, with the instructor and several consultants serving as facilitators for the peer review exercise. Students reported it was one of the most useful exercises of the semester.
  2. Learning more about Discussion: A group of faculty from a particular department wanted to learn more about current discussion methods, and invited a CIC consultant to present a workshop during a faculty luncheon. When the consultant presented the workshop, it sparked a lively and useful conversation among the faculty as to their teaching styles.
  3. Using Teaching Evaluations: A group of instructors wanted to learn how to interpret end–of–the–semester student evaluations and how to use them to revise courses for the next semester. A CIC consultant gave a brief overview of the evaluations and discussed the elements in the evaluation that were highly correlated with improved student learning. He then explained how to identify areas of concern and how one could address them.

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