- Coach for new and struggling faculty to succeed
- Consultant on curriculum revision, assessment, and accreditation
- Collaborator on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Director of Course Design Institute
Sample of Workshops I offer
- Active learning in large classes
- Assessing student learning outcomes
- Assessing students using multiple choice questions and rubrics
- Course planning: developing student learning outcomes, developing objectives and syllabi
- Curriculum mapping
- Implementing evidence-based instructional models such as: problem-based learning, team-based learning, and the flipped classroom
- Implementing learning-centered teaching
- Increasing student engagement techniques
Sample workshops Phyllis Blumberg, PhD can offer at your institution
I am an international leader on promoting learning-centered teaching and assessing teaching. I have been fostering effective teaching for over thirty years. Majority of the faculty of the University of the Sciences and at other institutions around the world have benefited from my work with them to improve teaching or conduct assessment for improvement.
Workshop topics that I have offered and can customize for your purposes include
- A practical guide for implementing learning-centered teaching
- A sampling of evidence-based instructional models: Problem-based learning, team-based learning, the flipped classroom
- Active learning in large classes
- Assessing students using multiple choice questions
- Assessing student learning outcomes
- Assessing educational programs for accountability and improvement
- Avoiding the sounds of silence in your class discussions
- Course planning: developing student learning outcomes, developing objectives, and syllabi preparation
- Curriculum mapping: An effective tool for curriculum planning and revision
- Effective grading techniques: Including using competency - mastery grading, rubrics, extra credit, authentic assessments
- Getting started doing the Scholarship of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
- Fostering success for all students
- Improving and assessing teaching effectiveness using evidence-based criteria
- Identification of bottlenecks: Useful assessment tool for the combined purposes of accountability and improvement
- Making student opinions of our teaching matter appropriately
- Maximizing Learning - centered teaching approaches: Using easy to implement practices
- Purposes and process of content: It is much more than just content coverage
- Student engagement techniques, facilitating small group and entire class discussion
- Teaching research methods courses effectively
- Teaching quality should drive assessment of teaching
- Teaching students how to take responsibility for their learning
- Using diffusion of innovations theory to foster evidence-based teaching
- Using powerful concepts from current learning theories in your teaching