Workshops & Events

The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers teaching workshops and seminars to help interested faculty, teaching assistants and instructors improve their teaching effectiveness and course management skills. These training programs provide opportunities to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, interact, learn about and reflect on a number of topics to enhance teaching and learning.

Our list of programming is constantly growing. Make sure to check out past and future offerings.

Your feedback is very valuable to us. The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching welcomes feedback, suggestions and requests for workshops; email: CELT@uml.edu.

For IT sponsored workshops, please visit the Information Technology (IT) Trainings/Workshops page.

Fall 2024

Register for Multilingual Student Support Workshop Series and Earn Your Certificate

As we continue to foster an inclusive and supportive learning environment at UMass Lowell, CELT is delighted to invite you to sign up for our Fall 2024 workshop series: Teaching for Multilingual Student Success: Practical, Time-Saving Classroom Strategies.

This three-part, in-person series has been designed to provide insights and to develop your skills for effectively teaching multilingual students. The session topics build upon one another, so we strongly encourage you to attend all three workshops to make the most of this learning opportunity.

The series' overarching learning outcomes will help you:

1. Recognize how language and culture affect multilingual students in an academic setting, and identify ways to foster their confidence and sense of belonging.
2. Optimize your teaching materials and instructional approaches to support all learners.
3. Learn culturally responsive strategies for mentoring and providing useful feedback to multilingual writers.

Workshop Details and Registration Links:

1. Part I: Multilingual Students: Who Are They and How Can We Support Their Learning?
   • When: September 13, 10-11:30 a.m.
   • Where: Faculty Success Center, University Crossing
   • Register for Part I: Multilingual Students: Who Are They and How Can We Support Their Learning?
     
     
2. Part II: Academic Writing and Multilingual Students
   • When: October 18, 10-11:30 a.m.,
   • Where: Faculty Success Center, University Crossing
   • Register for Part II: Academic Writing and Multilingual Students
     
     
3. Part III: Effective Writing Feedback for Multilingual Success
   • When: November 15, 10-11:30 a.m.,
   • Where: Faculty Success Center, University Crossing
   • Register for Part III: Effective Writing Feedback for Multilingual Success

These workshops are part of a renewed effort to ensure that UMass Lowell provides support to multilingual students, a necessity to fulfill our mission of inclusivity and excellence in our academic programs, and a singular need noted by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). Your participation in these professional development offerings is key to making changes and improving student learning.

Faculty who participate in all three workshops will earn a certificate distinguishing them as a multilingual student advocate which will be considered in future mini-grant applications related to this project.

Video Recordings

Fall 2024 

• Opening Remarks.
• Keynote: Who's Cheating Who? Reconsidering the Value Proposition of Generative AI, Higher Education & The Way We See Students. Speaker: Lance Eaton.
• 1st Panel: Who Can It Be Now? Confronting the Complexities of Cheating in College. Panelists: Elizabeth Altman, Keith Mitchell, Charles Thomas Wilkes and Students: Adjoa Adjepong and Himani Pareshbhai.
• 2nd Panel: The Impact off AI on Campus Integrity and Academic Success. Panelists: Michael Black, Leslie Farris, Romy Guthier, Karen (Jingrong) Lin, Donna Mellen and Student Nadia Sahila.
• 3rd Panel and Closing Remarks: Managing and Mentoring Academic Integrity at UMass Lowell: A Campus-Wide Approach. Panelists: Stephanie Block, Amit Deokar, Wael Kamal, Shaina Roy.

Summer 2024

• Setting the Stage for Effective Learning
• Designing Project-Based Assignment Learning
• Teaching Students How learning Works: Transform Your Student Learners to Master 5 Effective Learning Strategies
• Assessing Project-Based Learning Assignments
• Gradescope: A Tool for Grading Paper-Based Exams/Assignments & A Scantron Alternative for Multiple Choice (MCQ) Questions 

Winter 2024

• Access Ally Training
• What is a Permalink: Finding & Using Copy-Righted Cleared Materials

Summer 2023

• Facilitating Community in the Classroom
• High-Impact Pedagogies in Practice: Introduction to Service-Learning
• Creating Service Learning Assignments for Any Course Level
• How to Provide Individuated Instruction and SURVIVE
• A 2023 Learner Centered Syllabus
• Providing Meaningful Feedback to Students

Spring 2023

• CELT ChatGPT Conversation
• CELT ChatGPT Follow Up Conversation

Winter 2023

• Designing for Equity in the Classroom
• The Library: Open Access and You
• The Syllabus as an Invitation

Fall 2022

• Pause to Notice: The Role of Contemplation in Critical and Creative Endeavors

Summer 2022

• How Universal Design Supports Learning & Equity
• 8+ Ideas to Incorporate Universal Design into your Classrooms
• Strategies for Teaching the Class of 2026
• Student Roundtable -10 Ways Faculty Can Support Student Success
• Using Metacognitive Learning Strategies in the Classroom
• Navigating Student Identities in the Classroom
• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Every Discipline

Spring 2022

• Neurodiversity in Higher Education (Part 1)
• Embracing Strength and Facing Practical Challenges of Neurodiversity in Higher Education (Part 2)
• Mentoring: Setting Yourself and Your Students Up for Success
• Launch@UML Teaching Efficiency: UML Resources for Effective and Efficient Classrooms

Previous Workshops

Looking for a topic that was discussed in previously? Explore all previous CELT Workshops:

• Winter 2021
• Summer 2021
• Summer 2020