Fall Workshops and Events

CTLT’s Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion seminars tackle tough questions involving culture, identity, and responsive teaching in a friendly, non-threatening environment. This seminar series can give faculty and staff an essential start in understanding issues that aren’t always easy to talk about.

Implicit Bias

Location: Milner Library 213C

Friday, September 20 • Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Facilitator:
Mayuko Nakamura, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Implicit bias is our unconscious tendency to judge people based on past experiences. Even when we’re mindful of diversity and inclusion, it is hard for us to notice our implicit bias until we encounter the situations where it is activated. In this workshop, explore the nature of implicit bias and discover strategies to minimize bias in the classroom and in the workplace. Registration is required.

This workshop falls under the AAC&U High-Impact Educational Practice of Diversity/Global Learning.

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Microaggressions

Location: Milner Library 213C

Friday, October 11 • Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Facilitators:
Dakesa Pina, Student Counseling Service
Mayuko Nakamura, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Microaggressions are small acts with potentially big effects—little behaviors that communicate hostile or derogatory slights towards a person or a group of people. These acts may be intentional or unintentional. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to identify microaggressions and explore the role they play on our campus. You’ll leave this seminar with a better understanding of the psychological impact these types of communications can have on others and how best to respond when a microaggression occurs. Registration is required.

This workshop falls under the AAC&U High-Impact Educational Practice of Diversity/Global Learning.

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Privilege and Power

Location: Milner Library 213C

Friday, November 1 • Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Facilitators:
David Adams, Student Counseling Service
Mayuko Nakamura, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

How do privilege and power function through society, and how does it affect you, personally? By reflecting on this, you can identify strategies to become more inclusive in your teaching and in the workplace. This seminar will help you better understand your own multiple identities and the presence and absence of privileges based on your identities. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to analyze how privilege and power exist and function in U.S. culture and how they impact your view of the world. Registration is required.

This workshop falls under the AAC&U High-Impact Educational Practice of Diversity/Global Learning.

International Students at Illinois State

Location: Milner Library 213C

Friday, September 27 • 10 a.m. to noon

Facilitators:
Wouter Van Alebeek, INTO Illinois State University
Mayuko Nakamura, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Learn about Illinois State’s international student body and what challenges they may face as they enter U.S. higher education system. This interactive session will introduce you to INTO Illinois State, a program to increase international student enrollment by 10 percent over 10 years. You’ll learn about the types of international students you may see in your classroom and hear from a special panel of students’ about their experiences. Share your on insights on working with international students, and discover how faculty and staff can make these students’ experiences richer and more rewarding. Registration is required.

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Help International Students Thrive

Location: Milner Library 213C

Friday, October 4 • 10 a.m. to noon

Facilitators:
Mayuko Nakamura, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Kasia Stadnik, School of Teaching and Learning

Sometimes as teachers, we know an international student needs special attention to truly succeed in our classroom. But exactly how can we help? Where do we begin? Through this workshop, explore the issues that many international students face in U.S. higher education. Learn how to incorporate the perspectives of students in your teaching, and discover how to help international students acquire the skills they need to thrive. Registration is required.

Part 1: Create Documents Accessible to All Students

Location: SFHB 022E

Wednesday, September 4 • 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Facilitators:
Jen Bethmann, Administrative Technologies
Sarah Metivier, Student Access and Accommodation Services

Take a step-by-step approach to the creation of digital documents and other accessible content. You will leave this workshop with tips and tricks for creating emails, documents, and media that are universally designed for all students. Learn about basic formatting, images, color contrast, and the best way save PDFs files using Acrobat Pro. Bring your own documents for the question and answer session. Participants should complete this workshop before taking Part 2. Registration is required.

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Part 2: Accessibility Beyond the Basics

Location: SFHB 022E

Wednesday, September 11 • 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Facilitators:
Jen Bethmann, Administrative Technologies
Sarah Metivier, Student Access and Accommodation Services

In this second session, explore more advanced methods to help support students with disabilities in higher education. You’ll move beyond the basics when formatting and modifying digital content, including work with simple data tables, columns, and adding navigation tags through Acrobat Pro. Bring your own documents for the question and answer session. Participants should have completed Part 1 taking this workshop. Registration is required.

Reclaiming Conversation

Location: Hovey Hall 102

Begins:
Monday, September 9 • 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Continues:
Monday, October 7 • 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday, November 4 • 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday, December 2 • 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Facilitator:
Claire Lamonica, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Join CTLT Director Claire Lamonica in reading and discussing Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkel. Turkel’s central argument is that we live in an age that enables, perhaps actively encourages, us to move our conversations into digital spaces, avoiding face-to-face conversations in personal, professional, and public spheres. We even, she suggests, lose the impetus to engage in internal conversations, our private reflections, as we spend more and more time focused on our ubiquitous devices. Rather than advising us to remove ourselves from digital spaces completely, however, Turkel offers a clear, moderate, even hopeful path forward.  In other words, this book offers plenty of food for thought and conversation! A copy of the book will be provided. Seating is limited. Registration is required.

Early Career Development Circle

CTLT's Early-Career Faculty Circles offer faculty in their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year of service at ISU a combination of professional development and peer support. Join us for a series of lively conversations about surviving and thriving in the academy. Come to either the Wednesday or Thursday session.

Future Professors Development Circle

Explore pedagogical issues, effective and disruptive teaching strategies, and gain confidence in your ability to teach at the college level. This professional development circle helps graduate students to teach in the academy, whether they are currently teaching, working as a teaching assistant, or considering teaching as a career path. Share teaching tips, tricks, and get support from other future professors.

Learning Communities are small groups of faculty and staff (5-12 members) who meet regularly each semester to discuss specific topics of shared interest or to meet the needs of specific groups. Topics this semester include:

• Civic Engagement
• Diversity
• the eLiterate Professor
• Global Teaching and Learning
• Multicultural Alliance at Work
• Small Change, Big Impact
• Wise Women

Browse the descriptions and contact a learning community facilitator to learn about meeting times.

CTLT's staff is working with partners from across campus to finalize Technology Short Courses for Fall 2019. New workshops will be added as they are scheduled.

Browse the current list of available workshops on the Short Courses page.

CTLT offers a number of consultation services to help you identify what’s working... and what needs further work... in your approaches to teaching. Not sure what type of consultation will help you find what you’re looking for? Email CTLT@ilstu.edu to set up a time to speak one-on-one with a CTLT coordinator. You can follow the links below fore more details on specific kinds of consultations.

Accessibility Consultations

Work with a member of the CTLT staff to assess your course content in terms of its accessibility for those with special needs. Accessibility Consultations identify ways you can improve the accessibility of your course materials, especially those communicated through web-based or other electronic channels.

Midterm Chats

Midterm Chats, also referred to as “Small Group Instructional Diagnoses,” allow you to see your course through the eyes of your students—at midterm, while there’s still time to make adjustments and improve student learning.

Video (Ad)Vantage

Watch yourself teach. With Video (Ad)Vantage, we’ll videotape your class and guide you through an informed viewing of the result.

Classroom Observations

See your classroom through the eyes of a professional observer or invite a colleague to observe your teaching. Find out more about Classroom Observations.

Online/Blended Course Review

Through our Online/Blended Course Review, you’ll be able to see your blended or online course through the eyes of a professional consultant.

Instructional Strategy Consultations

Our Instructional Strategy Consultations let you sit down with a member of the CTLT staff to begin a systematic approach to dealing with a teaching/learning issue in your classroom.