CIE to offer fall seminars, course on college teaching

Purdue instructors and graduate students can enhance their teaching skills, exchange ideas with colleagues, and get practical hints on their craft from some of the campus's award-winning professors in seminars offered by the Center for Instructional Excellence. Staff members also will find the information and insight into classroom instruction helpful.

Beginning Sept. 6, the College Teaching Workshop 1 (CTW 1) series will be offered on the basics of teaching at Purdue at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays in Hicks Undergraduate Library, Room B853. Topics include how to build rapport with students, learning outcomes and objectives, encourage active and experiential learning, give effective instructional presentations, design assessments, provide feedback and grade, foster academic integrity, and construct a course plan and syllabus that support an effective learning environment. A two-hour micro-teaching session begins at 9 a.m. Oct. 18. Participants may register for single workshops or for the series (of 10) as a whole.

For graduate students, participation in the workshops counts toward the Graduate Teacher Certificate program sponsored by the Purdue Teaching Academy, which CIE administers. Graduate students interested in completing a certificate should click on the "Enroll" link on the website to receive details.

Graduate students interested in earning one course credit may register for EDCI 589: College Teaching Workshops, which begins Aug. 30. Graduate students who enroll in the course, attend at least nine of the 10 CTW 1 sessions, and complete assignments related to the workshop content may earn credit as a pass/fail grade. Students can register for the EDCI 589 course online through Purdue's course enrollment website. Interested graduate students who have questions should email ebonem@purdue.edu.

For more information and registration for each of the CTW 1 sessions, details can be found at www.purdue.edu/cie/workshops/workshops1.html.