Participants work on their teaching in small videotaped microteaching sessions. By the end of the workshop, microteaching sessions focus on each participant's newly-designed course, so the two elements of the workshop converge. Faculty members at all stages of their careers are welcome and encouraged to enroll. Teams of several faculty members from a campus are strongly encouraged. There is an emphasis on active-learning strategies.
Participants leave the workshop having made substantial progress in designing or revising a course.
This workshop is designed with special attention to the diversity of contemporary college students in culture, race, ethnicity, gender, age, expectations, abilities, career goals, socioeconomic status, identity groups, learning styles, and preparation. The workshop explores approaches to course design and teaching that maximize the chances of success for all students. This workshop offers a conceptual and practical exploration of multiculturalism in course design and teaching. Faculty members work on courses and teaching approaches that are inclusive of the perspectives of cultural, racial and ethnic groups, of gender and age issues, and of learning styles and global points of view. The focus is on multicultural approaches that serve all students.