Engineering Teaching Day 2023
The second annual Cornell Engineering Teaching Day (ETD’23) is presented by MTEI, the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute in the Cornell University College of Engineering.
August 10, 2023, 9 am – 4 pm
Upson Hall
This is an in-person event that will not be broadcast over Zoom.
This annual event celebrates the teaching mission of Cornell Engineering. Join us to share your passion for teaching, workshop ideas with fellow faculty, and —most importantly— improve the learning experience you offer to students in the coming year.
Register for free by filling out this form [now closed] by August 8. You are welcome to attend as many or as few sessions as you like. Snacks and beverages will be provided throughout the day.
For more information, contact Michael Clarkson (mrc26).
Program
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Upson 222 | Continental breakfast available |
| 9:00 am – 9:50 am | Upson 222 | Mentoring as Teaching Beyond the Classroom |
| 10:00 am – 11:50 am | Upson 222 | Active Learning: Basics. For faculty who are new to active learning. The two active learning sessions will be held in parallel. |
| Upson 206 | Active Learning: Beyond Think-Pair-Share. For faculty who have experience with active learning. The two active learning sessions will be held in parallel. | |
| 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm | Upson 116 (Lounge) | Joint luncheon with new engineering faculty |
| 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm | Upson 206 | Course Planning for Student Success |
| 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm | Upson 206 | Facilitating Accommodations in Your Course |
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Upson 116 (Lounge) | Ice cream social |
Sessions
Mentoring as Teaching Beyond the Classroom
Laura A. Schoenle (ELI)
Lois Pollack (AEP and Assoc. Dean for Research)
Many of the best practices in the classroom translate to the research lab. Establishing clear expectations for students and creating a space where students feel a sense of belonging enhances learning in both the class and research setting. In this workshop, we will discuss evidence-based strategies for setting clear expectations to intentionally build a culture of inclusion, strong mentorship, and research excellence within your research team. You will leave with the tools to align core values and expectations among a diverse research team, including undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and research associates.
Active Learning: Basics
Shivaun Archer (BME)
Hadas Ritz (MAE)
Do you want to increase student engagement and enhance your students’ acquisition of knowledge? Applying active learning strategies in your course helps to promote higher level thinking and engages students in deep rather than surface learning. Active learning uses methods where students think, discuss, investigate, and create. In this workshop we will introduce basic active learning strategies and you will have an opportunity to reflect on how they can be used as an effective means to help students learn. You will develop and get feedback on active learning activities that you can incorporate directly into your own class.
Active Learning: Beyond Think-Pair-Share
Kathy Dimiduk (MTEI)
Kyle Harms (IS)
Are you already using active learning in your classrooms? Are you looking to incorporate more active learning beyond clicker questions or think pair share? In this session, we’ll explore additional active learning strategies and how to increase active learning within your courses. Particular focus will be on activities that guide students in learning to troubleshoot in the context of your course and their major. To help attendees increase active learning in their courses, we will share tips and highlight common implementation pitfalls. During the workshop, attendees will develop an active learning plan and receive feedback from other attendees about their plan.
Course Planning for Student Success
Michael Clarkson (CS)
Hadas Ritz (MAE)
Whether you’re teaching a course for the first time or the fifteenth time, stepping back and taking a careful look at your comprehensive plans for instruction and assessment will benefit you, your TAs, and your students. This session will cover how to make plans about what you teach, and how to create a course calendar that sets everyone up for success. We’ll share research-based tips about how to improve your students’ learning, and how to streamline your own effort. We’ll also share some common “failure modes” to avoid. You’ll have opportunities to begin some concrete planning for the coming semester, and to get feedback from other participants.
Facilitating Accommodations in Your Courses
Kyle Harms (IS)
Beth Parrott (Student Disability Services)
Roughly a quarter of Cornell undergraduate students have disclosed a disability. Student Disability Services (SDS) works with these students to identify reasonable accommodations to provide equitable classroom access. While disability accommodations are probably the most common type of accommodation that instructors facilitate, Cornell also provides accommodations for religious-observance, Title IX, varsity athletics, health-related, and military service. In this workshop, we’ll help you plan disability accommodations in your courses and explore how to implement the other types of accommodations.