Past Events

How do I create a community in which all students feel a sense of belonging? How can I partner with my students to co-create the learning environment? If you are looking for strategies to be more inclusive in your course, this session is for you! In this session, you will address these questions by reflecting on your teaching practices and considering five principles of inclusive teaching. You will have an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, share ideas, and leave with…

Join us in exploring how to create community, support student engagement, and assess student learning using CourseWorks, Columbia’s learning management system. This workshop will give you an overview of the CourseWorks interface and highlight a toolset that will allow you to set up a course with clear expectations for students, create opportunities for a variety of assignment engagements, and nurture an environment that encourages a culture of inclusive communication. By the end of the session, participants should be able to: …

How do I engage and build community with students in my large course? How can I promote academic integrity when I have so many students? How can I work with my TAs effectively? In this session, you will have an opportunity to address these questions and reflect on strategies that are scalable for varying sizes of large courses. Join us in discussing ways to promote classroom community, active learning, and academic integrity to make large courses more manageable and rewarding…

Are you seeking a way to gauge what your students are thinking and learning in the classroom in real-time? Want to immediately display and use the results from students through in-class polling?  Experience a short demonstration of Poll Everywhere, an in-class polling and quizzing tool that allows you to pose various types of questions to better understand what students are learning and collect their feedback. This will be followed by opportunities to ask questions and to reflect on how you might…

How can I plan my lectures to better help my students learn? How can I promote student engagement with course material in addition to listening to my lectures? Come address these questions with us! We will discuss findings from the science of learning—activating prior knowledge, practicing retrieval, and reflecting—and simple ways you can incorporate them so students can further engage with course material. You will also have an opportunity to draft a plan for an upcoming class session and hear…

This session will provide strategies and supports to ensure teaching is equitable, accessible, and inclusive for ALL students, including (but not limited to) multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and first-generation students. The session will begin by providing the objectives and principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), how UDL contributes to anti-racist and anti-ableist practices, and end with examples of equitable, accessible, and inclusive course delivery methods and assignments. Columbia is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty…

How do I get students to engage with each other in class discussions? How can I keep the conversation going between class sessions? How can I create a space in which my students feel comfortable sharing? This session addresses these questions by exploring a four-step planning process to help ensure that students engage in and learn from discussions, and that they leave with clear takeaways. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their current practices around discussion preparation and…

Would you like a discussion space that encourages student-initiated discussion and fosters classroom community? Do you need a space where students can annotate each other’s images? Want an online platform where you can easily organize large numbers of posts, such as megathreads with resolvable comments? Experience a short demonstration of Ed Discussion, an online discussion platform that is integrated into CourseWorks and can be used for asynchronous discussions or synchronously such as a backchannel for live in-person classes. This will be…