Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL)
The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning is dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and assessing teaching effectiveness and student learning. We assist faculty, academic units, and teaching assistants in improving instruction. In addition to the events listed below, we are always available for individual consultations or special activities within a department or college. Most of the workshops count toward CITL certificate program continuing education credit. Please check back often to see what events have been added. Want reminders of what teaching sessions are coming up soon? Join our CITL listserv by sending an e-mail message (must be from your University of Illinois address) to listserv@illinois.edu, and in the body of the message write only the following: subscribe CITL
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Learn how to use backward design to create a good course, and get a head start on learning about Bloom's Taxonomy and learning objectives.
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Learn how to write good learning objectives to get your course design started on the right path.
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Ensure proper course alignment by choosing assessments that match your learning objectives.
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Description: In this workshop, participants will identify the benefits of using a rubric (with an emphasis placed on analytic rubrics). Participants will then create a rubric that determines "the best type of pizza". Finally, participants will plan how to incorporate rubrics into their teaching.
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This two-part series offers tips on what you can do to increase your confidence as a teacher. Part 2 will focus on public speaking skills such as posture, movement, and responding to students' questions. For this workshop you will also present a 1-2 minute lesson in order to practice your newly learned skills.
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Learn ways to engage students in class that align with your course design.
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Come join us as we dissect the types of questions instructors ask their students and learn what’s packed inside that serves to promote or undermine effective teaching strategies.
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Learn to create a syllabus that best reflects your course design while also serving as an introduction to you as a teacher.
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The idea of teaching online can seem very daunting. How can we meaningfully transfer our best face-to-face teaching practices to our online instruction? In this workshop, we demystify this process by looking explicitly at the objectives of our teaching strategies and how we can recreate these elements for our students’ online learning experience.
For more teaching information, visit our main CITL web site. To join our CITL listserv, send an e-mail message (must be from your University of Illinois address) to listserv@illinois.edu, and in the body of the message write only the following: subscribe CITL