Upcoming Events
Upcoming Workshops & Events
The Center for Teaching and Learning is offering AI-related and other workshops throughout this year. Individuals who participate in 4 AI workshops (at least 3 different one-hour sessions) and submit reflections will be eligible to earn special recognition for their commitment to learning about AI. Click here to learn more about the AI-Ready Educator Recognition. Works that can count towards the AI-Ready Educator Recognition are identified as such. You can find the list of AI-related workshops by clicking on this page.
Simple Syllabus Training
If you haven’t learned about Simple Syllabus, Kent State’s digital platform for compliance with the SB-1 public syllabus mandate, there are many opportunities to learn. Please consider joining us for one of these sessions. You should also consider checking out the Sharepoint resource site, which includes FAQs , workshop recordings, and more!
Finding the WhY in JoY
The pace of change in our classrooms has accelerated; are your students and classroom tasks feeling unrecognizable? Have you felt changes in yourself as well? It may be time to rediscover the reasons you found yourself in a teaching career. Join us to explore our aspirations, the value we are uniquely qualified to bring to the classroom, and how to protect our joy in teaching.
Friday September 11th, 9:15 - 10:30 am (Teams)
The Why & How of Supporting Student Reading
It’s hard to miss alarmist headlines asking, “Is this the end of reading?” While perceptions that students don't’/can’t read aren’t new, challenges like AI-generated summaries are new. In this session, we’ll consider what research says about our perceptions of student reading, and we’ll think about student reading through the lens of motivation research/theories. Finally, we’ll offer strategies for supporting students’ reading for understanding (and not just for completion).
Friday September 25th, 2:00 - 3:30 pm (Teams)
Play with Purpose: Designing Joyful Learning Experiences
Emotion can affect whether a student tunes in or out, learns or doesn’t. By designing with the science of emotion in mind, we can influence students’ learning experiences. In this interactive hybrid workshop, you’ll discover how experiencing positive emotions in learning can increase student engagement, encourage collaboration, and support deeper learning without sacrificing rigor. These strategies will range from those requiring minimal planning to those that center around more extensive design that you can use in face-to-face or online courses. We will also offer guidance for lightening the design load, including use of GenAI.
Tuesday, October 6th, 12:00 - 1:00 pm (Hybrid - Teams & Kent Campus)
Collaboration by Design: Helping Students Work Better Together
Students bring diverse experiences, expectations and comfort levels to collaborative learning. While teamwork remains one of the most sought-after skills by employers, effective collaboration doesn’t happen automatically. We can help our students to identify their own and others’ strengths and to work together productively. In this workshop, we will discuss practical approaches for preparing students for productive teamwork, creating structures that support collaboration.
Thursday, October 22nd, 1:00 - 2:30 pm (Teams)
Reclaiming Joy: Teaching in the Age of GenAI
Hate thinking about students offloading their learning to GenAI? We’ll explore ways to shift students’ focus away from grades and products by creating learning experiences that emphasize process, reflection, and authentic engagement. We will discuss the susceptibility of your assignments to GenAI use and provide suggestions for assignment design with and without incorporating GenAI into the assignment.
Friday, November 13, 11:00 - 12:00 pm (Teams)
