Courses

Faculty Development Courses

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) provides course offerings that are designed to inspire and support educators. These courses provide practical application using research-based best practices. In addition to our course offerings, CTE also provides faculty members with Instructional Coaching and is committed to cultivating teaching excellence through measuring teaching effectiveness. For more information on classes and faculty development provided through the Center for Teaching Excellence, please examine the course schedule below.

2023-2024 Faculty Development Course Schedule  

 

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INST540 Instructional Coaching (3 weeks)
2023 2024
Runs annually: enrollment by invitation

Instructional Coaching is a three-week course with approximately 15 hours of participant engagement. In this course, participants are certified as Franklin University Instructional Coaches (ICs) who work with coaching recipients (CRs) through an instructional protocol that seeks to support CRs in providing a high-quality learning experience to students. 

Course Outcomes:

  1. Compare different approaches to instructional coaching in the broader coaching context.
  2. Situate instructional coaching and coaching opportunities within the faculty life cycle.
  3. Implement the Instructional Coaching protocol.
  4. Construct an individualized coaching profile.

 

 

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INST601 Cultivating Effective Online Instruction to Maximize Student Learning*
2023 2024
9/4 (please register by 8/5) 5/20 please register by 4/20)

Cultivating Effective Online Instruction to Maximize Student Learning is a three-week course with approximately 15 hours of participant engagement. This course serves as an opportunity to explore the nature of learning, the culture and contexts of the learner, the role of the instructor within these contexts, and how to best construct a learning environment based on these principles.  This course is meant to give instructors who may already have content expertise the fluency in and application of best-practices research around student learning. Additionally, this course will apply best practices and pedagogy to the online environment.  

Course Outcomes:

  1. Describe the foundational concepts of student-centered learning and the situated context of the learner.
  2. Define the instructor's role in the context of student learning.
  3. Construct a student-centered online learning environment.

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INST602 Utilizing Feedback to Foster Student Growth*
2023 2024
9/25(please register by 8/25) 6/10 (please register by 5/10)

Utilizing Feedback to Foster Student Growth is a three-week course with approximately 15 hours of participant engagement. Current research indicates that providing effective feedback to students is a key factor for improving learning and student satisfaction. In this course, participants will examine current research about student feedback and explore and critique multiple methods for providing substantive and actionable feedback. 

Course Outcomes:

  1. Identify research-based best practices for providing quality feedback.
  2. Assess the impact of feedback on student learning.
  3. Analyze a rubric to provide feedback.
  4. Evaluate a variety of feedback methods.
  5. Synthesize key concepts to apply effective feedback.

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INST603 Integrating Educational Technologies to Enhance Student Engagement*
2023 2024
10/16 (please register by 9/16) 7/1 (please register by 6/1)

Integrating Educational Technologies to Enhance Student Engagement is a three-week course with approximately 15 hours of participant engagement. This course supports participants in developing the skills and knowledge necessary to engage students using educational technologies that promote active learning. Participants will practice using technology to promote active learning strategies through student engagement. 

Course Outcomes:

  1. Demonstrate effective use of technology tools to enhance student engagement.
  2. Demonstrate effective use of active learning strategies.
  3. Apply technology tools to enrich instruction.
  4. Create an action plan to incorporate additional technology and active learning.

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INST604 Incorporating Inclusive Pedagogy for a Classroom of Opportunity*
2023 2024
11/6 (please register by 10/6) 7/22 (please register by 6/22)

Incorporating Inclusive Pedagogy for a Classroom of Opportunity is a three-week course with approximately 15 hours of participant engagement. In this course, participants develop the knowledge and skills needed to engage and support students possessing diverse characteristics and behaviors that are embedded within systems of structural inequity. Through authentic self-assessment and reflection, participants will examine and practice behaviors that demonstrate the ability to adapt to the situated context of the learner.  This course includes explorations into research on how structural inequities disproportionately disadvantage students of color, first-generation students, and/or low-income students. Faculty will learn how to incorporate inclusive practices in order to reflect a student-centered learning environment. 

Course Outcomes:

1.    Recognize the ways instructors respond to diverse characteristics and behaviors of learners.
2.    Evaluate cultural competence and inherent biases.
3.    Develop strategies and behaviors to meet diverse learning needs.
4.    Apply inclusive practices to establish an equitable learning environment.

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Adjunct Faculty can be paid to participate in our INST600 series!

Please note that active Franklin adjunct faculty who successfully complete any of the following faculty development courses and also complete the course evaluation will be compensated $50:

  • INST601 Cultivating Effective Online Instruction to Maximize Student Learning
  • INST602 Utilizing Feedback to Foster Student Growth
  • INST603 Integrating Educational Technologies to Enhance Student Engagement
  • INST604 Incorporating Inclusive Pedagogy for the University of Opportunity

In addition, for completing a 60-day follow-up evaluation, participants will receive a digital badge to add to their social media profile.

*Please note: Only active Franklin adjunct faculty are eligible to receive compensation. Adjunct faculty who are onboarding but who have not started teaching are not eligible to receive compensation until after beginning their first teaching assignment.