Developing a SoTL Project

Event Date & Time

Event Description

Have you or the course instructor tried a new teaching technique (or want to) but remain unsure of whether it was effective? Are you curious about the effect of some practices in your course? Would you like to learn more about your students and their learning?

This workshop will help you design a research project to evaluate quality of teaching and learning in your course. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is the systematic inquiry into teaching and learning processes and their effectiveness, made public. In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of SoTL in terms of approaches, ethical considerations, and first steps. You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of SoTL practices, as well as a blueprint for your very first SoTL project. 

You invest a lot in improving your teaching – this workshop will help you evaluate whether you achieve your goals, using a research lens.

Facilitators: Kristi Carey and Ido Roll

Register and attend this workshop in order to help complete the following themes:

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

TA Institute

The TA Institute is open to any Graduate Student who is interested in teaching or TAing, and includes sessions on Teaching and Learning Theory, Scholarship, Classroom Strategies, Campus Climate, and Lesson Design. If you have interest in becoming a better TA, or get a head start preparing for teaching in your career, sign up for one or more of these 2 hour, interactive workshops.

This year, workshops in the TA institute are organized into 5 themes, and if you complete all the workshops in a theme, and do the related pre & post institute online module, you are eligible for a letter of completion you can include in your Teaching Portfolio and C.V., as well as a copy of that letter posted on Linkedin (as a recommendation). These letters will include a brief description of any themes that you completed, and how the work you did in those themes supports your development as a teacher.

The themes are:

• Designing for Effective Teaching 
• Integrating Teaching and Learning Theory 
• Classroom Teaching Approaches
• Campus Climate 
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning