Schedule

Unless otherwise announced as in-person, all AT Program workshops, book clubs, and office hours will be held in this Zoom meeting: 832 113 7451.

Spring 2025 schedule

Introduction to Teaching Resources (Core)

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 • 1:30 - 3:00 PM, in person

Introduction to Teaching Resources is an introduction to the process of reflecting critically on teaching practice and finding resources to support your teaching; this workshop is offered at the beginning of each semester. If you have not yet attended the Introduction to Teaching Resources workshop, you are still welcome to enroll in other workshops. While a required program component, the introductory session is not a prerequisite for enrollment and participation in other program events. We do, however, recommend that you begin here, if possible.

This workshop is in person; if in-person attendance is not possible for you, please contact us at atprogram@georgetown.edu ASAP to share your circumstances.

Anti-Racist Pedagogy (Elective)

Friday, January 24, 2025 • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM • Attend via Zoom

In this workshop, participants will explore how anti-racism can shape our pedagogy and work in the classroom. After gaining a clearer understanding of anti-racism, we will identify and develop specific strategies for building and applying an anti-racist teaching practice.

AI as TA: Creating GPTs for Students and Instructors (Elective)

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 • 9:30 - 11:00 AM • Attend via Zoom

This workshop will focus on using free tools to create a tutor. Teachers and TAs can create these for their classes or teach the students to create them. Ethical considerations will be involved as well. Note that you CAN take this workshop for credit even if you attended the AI workshop in the AT Program in Fall 2024.

Religious Diversity in the Classroom (Elective)

Thursday, January 30, 2025 • 12:30 - 2:00 PM, in person

Our students hail from a wide variety of cultural, spiritual, and religious/non-religious backgrounds, and an inclusive classroom needs to actively welcome and make a home for that diversity. In this panel, clergy from Campus Ministry at Georgetown—Brahmacharini Chaitanya, Imam Hendi, and Rabbi Zietman—share their wisdom on this topic, rooted in both their relationships with Georgetown students and their own experiences and expertise. Above all, they’ll talk about the ways in which a learning environment can be, depending on the actions of the instructor, alienating or truly inclusive for students of all religious identities. You’ll also get the chance to wrestle with challenging hypothetical scenarios and generate solutions for your own current or future courses.

This workshop is exclusively in person.

Assessment and Grading (Core)

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 • 9:30 - 11:00 AM • Attend via Zoom

In this workshop, participants will explore the theory and practice of assessing student learning, including ways to fairly and effectively grade student work. We’ll be covering a number of related topics: Assessment as caring, taxonomies of learning outcomes, our own goals for our students, the what and how of grading efficiently and fairly (including attention to our pre-existing biases), and issues and solutions in the domain of academic integrity.

SoTL Club: Session #1 of 2 (If you attend both sessions, you get Elective credit)

Friday, February 14, 2025 • 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM • Attend via Zoom

This semester, the SoTL Club will focus on difficult discussions in the classroom.

Reflective Teaching in Practice (Core)

Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 • 1:30 - 3:00 pm, in person

Who are you or will you be as a teacher? What evidence could you muster showing that the way you actually teach matches the values that you espouse? We’ll discuss these issues as well as practices of self-reflection and metacognition you can use to inform the learning you undergo as you continuously develop as a teacher.

This workshop is in person; if in-person attendance is not possible for you, please contact us at atprogram@georgetown.edu ASAP to share your circumstances.

Course Design (Core)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 • 1:30 - 3:00 PM • Attend via Zoom

How does one go about designing a course? This workshop will offer an overview of specific course design approaches from the literature and how to put those approaches into practice. The workshop will be practically oriented, giving participants the opportunity to begin intentionally designing effective learning spaces for their future students. Please come with a specific course in mind that you have not yet—but one day will or would like to—teach.

SoTL Club: Session #2 of 2 (If you attend both sessions, you get Elective credit)

Friday, March 14, 2025 • 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM • Attend via Zoom

This semester, the SoTL Club will focus on difficult discussions in the classroom.

Syllabus Design (Core)

Monday, March 17, 2025 • 9:30 - 11:00 AM • Attend via Zoom

Far more than a merely logistical document, the syllabus is often an instructor’s opening move in their efforts to build a relationship with and shape students’ learning experience. It is also the concrete public artifact that makes an instructor’s course design visible. In this workshop, we will cover the fundamental components and best practices of good syllabus design through discussion and a hands-on opportunity to practice “backwards design.”

Effective Classroom Interaction (Core)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 • 3:30 - 5:00 PM, in person

This workshop covers various types of classroom interaction including lectures, discussions, and other activities that can be used in both small and large classes. Principles and practices of active learning are discussed, with an overall emphasis on techniques for student participation.

This workshop is in person; if in-person attendance is not possible for you, please contact us at atprogram@georgetown.edu ASAP to share your circumstances.

AT Program: Designing Online Courses (Elective)

Asynchronous, always available • Complete via Canvas

How do you design online courses that keep students engaged and support their learning? This fully online course will explore that question and model techniques and approaches that you can apply to your own online course plans.