Faculty Workshops

- July

Workshopping your course: preparing for online teaching (CHSS, SPH, and Gen Ed Faculty)
Facilitator: Roza Selimyan

Faculty brown bag discussion:  Sharing online teaching strategies
Presenters: AUA Faculty Members Brent Anders, Hasmik Khalapyan, Vahe Odabashian

- June

Considerations in Online Teaching: Synchronous vs Asynchronous Learning (CBE, CSE Faculty)
Facilitator: Roza Selimyan

- April

- March

Faculty Workshop: Intro to Hypothesis--Annotation Tool in Moodle
Facilitator: Elitza Kotzeva

Faculty Workshop: Using the Bells and Whistles in Zoom
Facilitator: Satenik Mnatsakanyan

- February
Faculty Brown Bag: Making Group Work 'Work'
Handout: Group Work
Handout: Group Work Strategies to Ensure Students Pull Their Weight Faculty Focus
Handout: Group Work: How to Create & Manage Groups Center for Teaching Innovation
Handout: Challenges of Group Work

Faculty Workshop. Providing Positive and Constructive Feedback to Student Writing.
Presenter: Elitza Kotzeva
Presentation: Feedback to Student Writing
Handout: A Brief Guide of Responding to Student Writing
Handout: AFOSP Assessment Criteria
Handout: Deep Reading
Handout: Listening theories
Handout: Rhetorical Listening
Handout: Teach Writing as a Process Not Product
Handout: Tutoring ESL Students

- January 
Faculty Workshop. Student Engagement/ Classroom Management
Presenter: Alen Amirkhanian
New Faculty Orientation
Presentation: Agenda
Presentation: AUA Students
Presentation: Office of Student Affairs
Presentation: Office of Student Affairs: Counseling Services and Disability Support Services
Presentation: Human Resources
Presentation: Moving Forward
Handout: Faculty Senate Bylaws, Faculty Senate Committees
Handout: Few Tips from Registrar

• October
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion.  Principles of Effective College Teaching
  Presenters: Satenik Mnatsakanyan, Norayr Ben Ohanian, and Karena Avedisian
• August
  Faculty Retreat (All-day event, off campus)
  New Faculty Orientation (One and a half-day event, on campus)
• May
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. E-Resources
  Facilitated by Sargis Zeytunyan and Hasmik Galstyan
• April
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. Faculty Research: Nanotechnology: Science of making small stuff do big things.

  Facilitated by Amalya Kostanyan
• March
  Faculty Workshop. Project-Based Learning.
  Presentation
  Handouts are available to members of the AUA community upon request.

• February

  Faculty Workshop. Classroom Assessment Techniques.
  Facilitated by Rubina Gasparyan.
  Presentation
  Handouts

• December
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Project Based Learning: Strategies. Facilitated by Norayr Ben Ohanian.
  Faculty Workshop: Avoiding Plagiarism.  Facilitator by Michael Andrews Bashan.
• November
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. Getting Published.
  Faculty Workshop: Developing Rubrics for Presentation
  Presentation
• October
  Faculty workshop. Providing Feedback
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. Avoiding Plagiarism
• September
  Faculty Workshop: Implementing Creative Formal and Informal Classroom Assessment Tools
• April
  Faculty Workshop: PBL 2.0 Taking Project Based Learning (PBL) to the Next Level
  Presentation
  Hand out

  Faculty Workshop:  Student Engagement: An Active Mindset from Week 1 to Week 15
  Presentation
  Hand out
  Faculty Workshop: PBL 1.0: Fundamentals of Project Based Learning (PBL)
  Presentation
  Hand out

• March
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Using technology in the classroom.
  A look at polleverywhere.com and Kahoot.com
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Innovation in Education: Problems, Solutions and Success Stories.
  Presentation: Innovation in Education
• February
  Faculty Workshop: Developing Rubrics
  Presentation: Developing Rubrics
• January
  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Classroom Management
  Presentation: Building a Learning Culture: Managing a Classroom to Enhance Learning
  New Faculty Orientation
  Agenda
  Presentation: AUA Students
  Presentation: AUA policies. What I need to know
  Presentation: Human Resources
  Presentation: ICTS. Integrated classrooms
  Handout: Tips from the Office of Registrar
  Handout:Library Guide

• November 2017: Faculty Workshop on Aligning Assignments
  Presentation: Aligning Assignments
  Worksheet: Aligning Assignments with Course-Based SLOs and Program SLOs
  Worksheet: Bloom's Taxonomy
• October 2017: Faculty Workshop on Scaffolding Writing Assignments
  Presentation: Scaffolding Assignments
  Handout: Scaffolding Assignments
  Handout: Organizing Brief Article Reviews and Avoiding Plagiarism
• October 2017: Faculty Brown Bag Discussion:  Responding to Student Writing
  Handout: Responding to Student Writing
  Handout: Peer Review Worksheet
  Handout: Your Essay Must Contain
• September 2017: Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Classroom Management
  Presentation: Building a Learning Culture: Managing a Classroom to Enhance Learning
• August 2017: New Faculty Orientation
  Agenda
  Presentation: ICTS
  Presentation: Human Resources
  Presentation: Provost: Where are we going
  Handout: Few Tips From the Office of Registrar
  Handout: Library Guide
• August 2017: Faculty Retreat
  Agenda
  Presentation: Erasmus+ Inclusion Project
  Handout: Faculty Senate Committees

• July 2017: Developing Course-Based Student Learning Outcomes
  Presentation: Developing Course-Based Student Learning Outcomes
  Handout: Bloom's Taxonomy
  Handout: Worksheet

• May 2017: Project Based Learning
  Presentation
  Worksheet
• May 2017: Faculty Brown Bag Discussion:  A recap of Integrating Information Literacy into Your Disciplinary Course, from the recent AMICAL Workshop
• February 2017:  Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. Engaging and Active Learning and Assessment Strategies (including an introduction to www.polleverywhere.com)

• December 2016: Grading Methods (Faculty Discussion) Handout: Multi-section Course Grading - Suggestions Handout: Specification Grading
• December 2016: Engaging Students Handout: Student Engagement Revisited
• August 2016: Setting Up Rubrics in Moodle Handout: Using Moodle Rubrics
• August 2016: Course Syllabus Development Presentation Worksheet: Aligning Assigments Handout: Bloom's Taxonomy
• August 2016: Faculty Retreat Agenda Workshop: Student Engagement Workshop: Managing a Classroom to Enhance Learning Resource: Student Engagement in Campus-Based and Online Education Resource: Student Engagement Literature Review The Higher Education Academy Handout: Five Things to Do on the First Day of Class
• August 2016: New Faculty Orientation Agenda Presentation: Provost: Where are we going Presentation: Human Resources Presentation: Policies: What I need to Know Handout: Library Guide Handout: UMS for Faculty Handout: Center for Student Success
• May 2016: Project-based Learning Presentation Worksheet
• April 2016: Backwards Design Presentation Backwards Design Sample Backwards Design Template
• January 2016: Program Chairs: On Classroom Observations

• December, 2015: Brown Bag: Tips for Final Exams
• November 2015: Developing Student Learning Outcomes and Aligning Assignments Presentation Handout/Worksheet: Aligning Assignments

• November 2015: Brown Bag presentation on Twinning Training on Grading

• August 2015: Faculty Retreat Agenda  Modifying Your Course to Meet Student Learning Needs Adkin Kevin Helping Students Succeed Adkin Brown Palandjian  Policies: A brief overview Handout: 5 Things to do on the First Day of Class Handout: The First Day of Class A Once a Semester Opportunity Handout: Course Syllabus Checklist Handout: Course Syllabus Template

• July 2015: Assessment for Learning, Classroom Assessment, Questioning to Learn Agenda Presentation: Insley Kim Conceptions of Assessment Links Presentation: Pachler Norbert Grade-related Criteria and Their Use in Marking Presentation: Brant Jacek Questioning to Learn Handout Driving Lessons Scenario Handout Examples of Two Teaching Approaches

• December 2014: Aligning Assignments
  Presentation
  Activity

• August 2014: Faculty Retreat
  Agenda
  Center for Student Success Presentation
  Engaging Students: An MPH Case Study Presentation
  What is General Education? Presentation

• June 2014: Developing Student Learning Outcomes
  Presentation
  Handout
  Activities

• June 2014: Engaging Students Using Social Media
  Presentation
  
  
• April 2014: Brown Bag Discussion. Curbing Cheating
  
  
• April 2014:  Interactive Teaching Strategies
  
  
• 2014 January: Classroom Assessment Strategies
  Presentation
  Presentation by Center for Student Services

• 2013 October:  Teaching and Learning with Professor James M. Lang Motivating Assessing Connecting Testing

• 2013 October:  Promoting Strategy Instruction Across the Curriculum Presentation Handout

• 2013 August: Faculty Retreat Presentation

• 2013 June: Developing Student Learning Outcomes Presentation Handouts: Developing SLOs Handout Aligning Assignments to Outcomes Worksheet June 2013 Developing SLOs Handout Bloom's taxonomy Developing SLOs Handout Freshman English 1 Example of Alignment

• 2013 May: Ugrad Program Chairs: Student Learning Assessment Plans: A review of direct and indirect evidence
• 2013 April: Using Technology in the Classroom to Enhance Collaborative Learning Agenda Handout: Resources 
• 2013 March: Undergraduate Course and Syllabus Development Presentation Handouts 
• 2013 February: Introduction to eTexts Agenda Presentation Handout

• 2012 December: Undergraduate Assessment for Deans and Program Chairs

•  2012 June: Syllabus Workshop
  Agenda
  Presentation

• 2011 December: Developing Rubrics
  Agenda
  
• 2011 November: Institutionalizing Assessment of Student Learning
  Agenda
  Presentation