Welcome to Spring 2025 Professional Development Week (PDW)!
Theme: Embracing Resilient Educators
Focus on the workshops that best suit your professional development goals and schedule. A wide range of offerings is provided, so pick the ones that will benefit you the most.
Teachers often believe lecturing is a required part of college courses because they are expected by students, peers, and supervisors to transmit information to their students. But what if there was another way to keep students engaged and participative? This presentation will explore topics from the Active Learning Institute on traditional lecturing alternatives such as discussion, modeling, storytelling, and dynamic lectures in order to keep students awake, engaged, and critically thinking about class topics.