T4L | Thomas Cunningham | Adapting Traditional In Person Professional Learning Activities...
Channel: Empower Teaching
Date: 2021-03-04

Adapting Traditional In-Person Professional Learning Activities to Effectively Lead a Great Online Teaching Seminar During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thomas H. Cunningham PhD
Great Basin College

For over 50 years, Great Teachers Movement (GTM) practitioners have been coordinating face-to-face retreats/seminars around the world, bringing faculty from different educational institutions and disciplines together, cross-pollinating ideas to improve teaching and learning. However, due to COVID-19, most Great Teaching events were cancelled in 2020. The presenter will share the GTM model and examples of professional learning activities he adapted for a Great Online Teaching Seminar in October 2020. Even when teachers’ interactions are limited to Zoom video and Canvas discussion posts, they still learn best from one another because “the most influential person to any teacher is another teacher.”

Presentation type: Interactive Round Table (50 minutes)
Session type: Practical Teaching Strategies
Session track: Faculty Development