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Effective Teaching Practice Certificate Program

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Core Modules
  • First Day of Class Fundamentals
  • Presentation Objectives
  • Organizing a Course
  • Presentation Clarity
  • Motivating Students to Learn
  • Essay Question Development



Potential Elective Options
  • Difficult Teaching Situations
  • Teaching Large Classes
  • Multiple Choice and Other Question Construction
  • Attributes of Outstanding Teachers
  • Facilitating Teaching Cases
  • How to Facilitate Internships/Externships/Co-operative Learning
  • Critical Thinking with Active Learning
  • Student Evaluation of Teaching
  • Micro-Teach (sophisticated bad teaching) with Feedback
  • Integrating Ethics and Values in Teaching


Initial Module Schedule

Topic:  The Crucial First Day of Class and How to Maximize It

Description:  Important practices to include in your first day of class to set tone, expectations, and ensure a good start that will influence the rest of the term.  Emphasis will be on techniques to comfortably obtain helpful information about your students, rapport-building techniques, how to start establishing you teaching presence and present course policies so they will be positively received.

September 25, 2012; 8:30-9:50 am (first offering), September 28, 2012; 1:00-2:30 pm (repeat offering)

Topic:  Essentials of Creating Good Course Objectives

Description:  The ABCD Method of writing course learning objectives, selection of appropriate terms and outcomes, and linking your objectives to professional behavior will be explored.  Bring your syllabus.

October 9, 2012; 8:30-9:50 am (first offering), October 19, 2012; 1:00-2:30 pm (repeat offering)

Topic:  Enhancing Course Organization

Description:  Course organization is typically considered by students to be the most important aspect when evaluating a course.  This session will include discussion of techniques to enhance you course organization.  Participants are encouraged to bring syllabi for courses that they would like to discuss with regard to improving organizational aspects (design, execution, communication and assessment).

November 6, 2012; 8:30-9:50 am (first offering), November 16, 2012; 1:00-2:30 pm (repeat offering)

*Spring Topic Dates/Times to be published in November