Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT) Workshops
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.
Fall 2024
Register for Multilingual Student Support Workshop Series & 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:
- Recognize how language and culture affect multilingual students in an academic setting, and identify ways to foster their confidence and sense of belonging.
- Optimize your teaching materials and instructional approaches to support all learners.
- Learn culturally responsive strategies for mentoring and providing useful feedback to multilingual writers.
Workshop Details and Registration Links:
- 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?
- 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
- 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
Winter 2024
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
Winter 2023
Fall 2022
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
Previous Workshops
Looking for a topic that was discussed in previously? Explore all previous CELT Workshops: