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CREATING TEACHING PORTFOLIOS FOR TT AND NTT FACULTY

Wednesday, February 8th @ 2:30-3:30pm (60 min)

Register Here! -- This workshop will be offered remotely via Zoom.

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The Teaching Portfolio is a documented statement of an instructor’s teaching responsibilities, philosophy, goals, and teaching accomplishments. As part of the reappointment and promotion process, departments must review candidate teaching portfolios in conjunction with other sources of evidence. Join us for a workshop to write or refine your teaching philosophy, consider the evidence you want to share to demonstrate your teaching effectiveness, and be sure your portfolio represents your accomplishments in teaching. Open to all faculty (TT, NTT, PTL) and instructional staff. Facilitated by Chris Drue and Monica Devanas of OTEAR (formerly CTAAR).

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Note: The P3 hosted an earlier workshop on teaching portfolios for graduate students in Fall 2022. That workshop, including a video recording of the session and related resources (including sample portfolios), is available on the SMARTeaching Canvas Page.

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BEYOND COURSE EVALS: GETTING (AND USING) BETTER STUDENT FEEDBACK

Monday, February 13th @ 11:30am-12:50pm (80 min)

Register Here! -- This workshop will be offered remotely via Zoom.

Do you know what your students think about your lectures, discussions, activities, or your carefully crafted assignments? This workshop explores how to take advantage of student feedback while teaching and after the semester is over. We discuss multiple techniques for gathering student feedback, how to develop good questions, and how to employ quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the data you obtain. This session will help you develop the insight you need to understand student concerns, address them with students, and improve your teaching. This workshop was developed and will be facilitated by the OTEAR team. It is also co-sponsored by Rutgers Business School's Teaching Excellence Center.

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Spotlight on Research:

INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS OF PROVIDING STUDENT FEEDBACK: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS*

Monday, March 27th @ 11:30am-12:30pm (60 min)

Presenters: Dr. Kent Harber and Dr. Jamie Gorman (SASN, Psychology)

Register Here! -- This workshop will be offered remotely via Zoom.

This one-hour workshop will explore Dr. Kent Harber and Dr. Jamie Gorman's experimental research on interracial dynamics as they pertain to providing feedback on student work. In their various articles on interracial student-teacher communication - see, for example, "The Conflicted Language of Interracial Feedback" (2019) -- Harber and Gorman have expanded on previous evidence of positive feedback bias when white instructors score and provide written commentary on the work of students of color. Their research describes how the volume and tone of instructional feedback relates to instructor's emotional and psychological needs and they propose ways that educators can re-focus their feedback practices to center student learning. The workshop will also include a discussion of "wise feedback" and other instructional strategies that may serve as correctives to the biases Harber and Gorman explore. Session includes time for participant Q&A; bring your questions and observations to share.

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* This workshop is included in the system-wide Spring 2023 Inclusivity Series.

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KEEPING IT SIMPLE ON CANVAS: EFFECTIVE DESIGN FOR ORGANIZING COURSES AND REACHING STUDENTS

Monday, April 10th @ 11:30am-12:30pm

Presenters: Dr. Mason Ameri and Dr. Terri Kurtzberg (RBS)

Register Here!  -- This workshop will be offered remotely via Zoom.
 

This presentation will focus on using technology to streamline the student experience, starting with optimizing Canvas for simplicity, moving through course materials, and interactive connections with students. We will showcase the single landing page model of using Canvas to provide students with a one-stop shop for the entire course, as well as several innovations for humanizing the transactional relationship between instructors and students. This workshop was developed by Rutgers Business School's Teaching Excellence Center and is co-sponsored by the P3 Collaboratory.

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