Spring Workshops and Events

CTLT’s spring workshops and events are free and open to all faculty and to AP, civil service, and graduate students on campus. Please note that non-faculty may be put on a wait list for some workshops until 1 business day before the event. Events are at CTLT’s facility at 301 S. Main Street unless otherwise noted.

Need help finding the right events? Most workshops are tagged with one or more of CTLT's Keys to Enhanced Teaching.

If you have questions, please email CTLT@ilstu.edu. If you need a special accommodation to fully participate in an event, please call the CTLT main desk at (309) 438-2542.

Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion
eLearning à la Carte
Spring Institute • March 11-14
Make Peer Learning Work
Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD
Design and Implement a Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program
The Fulbright Awards Experience
Applying the Quality Matters™ Rubric Online Workshop
Technology Short Courses
Learning Communities and Development Circles
Midterm Chats and Consultations

CTLT’s Foundations of Diversity 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. Attend as many or a few as you can. Participants who complete all sessions receive a certificate of recognition.

Implicit Bias

Friday, February 15 • Noon to 1:30 p.m.

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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. Participants are welcome to bring a lunch to this discussion. Registration is required.

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

Microaggressions

Friday, March 1 • Noon to 1:30 p.m.

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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. Participants are welcome to bring a lunch to this discussion. Registration is required.

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

Privilege and Power

Friday, April 5 • Noon to 1:30 p.m.

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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. Participants are welcome to bring a lunch to this discussion. Registration is required.

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

Learn to design and teach high quality online, blended, or web-enhanced courses. eLearning à la Carte features six, one-hour web conferencing workshops that are attended fully online. Register for as many or as few of these lunchtime sessions as fit your interest and schedule. This series is hands-on and interactive, so each eLearning à la Carte workshop is limited to 20 faculty members. Please register by 5 p.m. on the Monday preceding the workshop.

These interactive sessions will use Zoom, a browser-based conferencing platform. You do not need to create an account to participate. However, as these are interactive sessions, you will need:

a laptop or personal computer
a headset with microphone
a reliable, high-speed internet connection

March 11-14

Spring Institute 2019 features a variety of half- and full day workshops to enhance all aspects of your teaching, including how you design and use assessments in your courses. Click on a link below for details on each workshop.

Please note: Due to budget considerations, stipends are not available for this year's Spring Institute.

Spring Institute 2019 Schedule
Monday, 3/11	Tuesday, 3/12	Wednesday, 3/13
Applying the Quality Matters™ Rubric 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Room 103B	Instructional Skills Workshop 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. DeGarmo 20A
Who Needs Exams, Anyway? 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Resource Commons	How to Build a Class Community Online 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Online	Teaching with OneNote 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Room 103B
ReggieNet: Active Online Discussions that Work 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Room 108		Teaching and Assessing for Critical Thinking 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Resource Commons
ReggieNet: Optimize Course Organization for Student Engagement 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Room 108

As teachers, we face difficult decisions about how to structure peer interactions and how to assess it. CTLT’s Make Peer Learning Work series lets you experience this important process firsthand and discover how to incorporate these practices into your teaching. Sessions build upon on one, but they are also designed to stand alone. Register for as many as your needs and schedule allow.

Facilitate Effective Student Collaboration

Monday, February 11 • 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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Facilitator:
Dana Karraker, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Discuss creating a collaborative learning environment and prepare students for working in groups. Topics will include creating expectations, strategies for working together, and engaging in productive conversations. Registration is required.

Manage the Collaborative Learning Process

Monday, February 25 • 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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Facilitator:
Dana Karraker, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Explore strategies for managing the interactions of students, particularly when the groups are not working well together. We will also discuss strategies for assessing collaborative learning. Registration is required.

Friday, March 22 • 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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Facilitators:
Larry Brown, Student Access and Accommodation Services
Zach McDowell, Student Access and Accommodation Services

Since 2015, Illinois State University has seen a 44% increase in students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a 31% increase in students with learning disabilities. In this session, you’ll gain the perspectives of campus stakeholders who work with these students and develop an understanding of these conditions. Learn how to recognize students that may need extra support but have yet to seek accommodation or formal support services. You’ll leave this interactive session with practical take-aways and a better understanding of how to serve these students using universal design. Registration is required.

Look for this workshop series to return in the summer of 2019.

Fulbright Scholar 101

Wednesday, February 6 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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Facilitator:
Erin Mikulec, School of Teaching and Learning

Get an introduction to the Fulbright Scholar program. Learn about the different types of awards available and their requirements. You’ll learn how to search for the best award for your work and begin to identify an award for future application. Participants will also understand the timeline of the Fulbright application process. This workshop is for faculty and administrative professional staff only. Registration is required.

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

Developing Your Fulbright Application

Wednesday, April 3 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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Facilitator:
Erin Mikulec, School of Teaching and Learning

Learn how to negotiate the Embark online form to apply for the Fulbright award you have identified. Explore how to gather the necessary letters of invitation and recommendation needed for the application, in addition to developing the project narrative. This workshop is appropriate for those interested in applying for the 2019 deadline or in the future. A Fulbright Ambassador may be on-site to answer additional questions and provide more insight into the Fulbright experience. This workshop is for faculty and administrative professional staff only. Registration is required.

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

Begins Tuesday, February 19

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Facilitator:
Steve Travers, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Linda Summers, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Learn about the Quality Matters™ Higher Education Rubric and how to use it to review an online course. This internationally recognized workshop includes hands-on activities designed to help you discover how to continuously improve an online course so that it meets research-based standards of high quality.

This version of the workshop is offered a two-week, fully online workshop. It begins Tuesday, February 19 and ends Tuesday, March 5.

Normally, this workshop costs $300. As a service to University instructors, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology will offer this workshop free of charge to tenure track faculty, NTT faculty, and administrators. Those who successfully complete the workshop will receive a Quality Matters™ certificate of completion. Registration is required.

Technology Short Courses are just that-- one to three hour workshops to that focus on specific technologies, mainly software and web-based applications. These are hands-on training sessions, so registration is required and seating may be limited. They are open to all faculty, staff, and graduate students. Popular topics include:

For times, details, and to register for a session, select a link above.

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. Topics are based on chapters from Teaching What You Don’t Know by Therese Huston. Participants will receive a copy of the book and an executive summary of each chapter. 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. Although the topic of each meeting will be based on chapters in the award-winning book, What the Best College Teachers Do (Harvard UP, 2004), there are no “required” readings.

Teaching-Learning Communities

Teaching-Learning Communities (TLCs) 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. Each group establishes its own meeting schedule, and CTLT provides space (as requested) and limited funding for books or other relevant materials. To join, please contact one of the group’s facilitators.

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.