Faculty Development Opportunities
For upcoming instructional support and training opportunities, please see the Instructional Support & Training Series page.
For workshop descriptions and registration, go to our new registration page: https://eiu.libcal.com/calendar/fdic
Spring 2024 Programming
Council on Faculty Research Grant Workshop and Q&A – Thursday January 11, 2024, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Facilitator: Robert Chesnut, Interim Dean, Graduate School and Director of Research and Sponsored Programs
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/97943122149
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
Unleashing Creativity in the Classroom with Adobe Creative Cloud – Thursday January 25, 2024, 12:30pm – 1:15pm
Facilitator: Michael Gillespie, Director of Faculty Development and Innovation
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth)
Adobe Creative Cloud Discovery Session – Wednesday January 31, 2024, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Facilitator: Faculty Development and Innovation Center Staff
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth)
Creating a Digital Exhibit – Tuesday February 6, 2024, 12:30pm – 1:15pm
Facilitator: Todd Bruns, Head of Scholarly Communication, Booth Library
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/98687678907
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
Spring Roundtable – Back to Basics: Retention, Advising, and Persistence – Wednesday February 7, 2024, 3:00pm-4:00pm
Participants: Danny Gourley Fischer, Director of Academic Advising, Tania Ward, Academic Advisor, and Ly’Jerrick Ward, Academic Advisor
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/83475966513
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
Mindfulness and Stress Management for Faculty – Wednesday February 21, 2024, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Facilitator: Misty Rhoads, Professor of Public Health
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth)
Communication Across the Curriculum, Part 1: Evidence-Based Grading - Scaffolding Writing Evaluation across the Semester and/or Major – February 22, 2024, 3:00pm to 3:45pm
Facilitator: Terri Fredrick, Professor of English and Director of the EIU Writing Center
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/98649170093
This session will discuss strategies that help students apply the written feedback they receive on one assignment to future assignments in the same course or even in later courses in the major. Building scaffolded structures for evaluating assignments may seem daunting at first, but doing so can take the pressure of individual assignments (and instructors!) to measure everything that goes into making a piece of writing successful.
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
Director’s Brown Bag: Playing Small Ball – Wednesday March 6, 2023, 12:30pm
Facilitator: Michael Gillespie, Director of Faculty Development and Innovation
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/94177838477
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
Tell the Story of Your Department: Academic Collections in The Keep – Thursday March 7, 2024, 3:30pm to 4:15 pm
Facilitator: Todd Bruns, Head of Scholarly Communication, Booth Library
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/99343997749
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
Communication Across the Curriculum, Part 2: Evidence-Based Grading - Managing Biases in Subjective Grading - March 27, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:15pm
Facilitator: Nora Heist, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism and Director of the Basic Course in Communication
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/99652731594
This session will outline a strategy I term “evidence-based feedback” to help instructors fairly assess subjective student work, such as speaking presentations. Using student performance and rubric criteria, this strategy draws on the work of John Hattie and Helen Timperley to help instructors answer three feedback questions: 1) where am I going? 2) how am I going; and 3) where to next? This session will introduce instructors to a model of feedback that helps reduce biases in grading and will help them think about how to apply it to subjective assignments in their own courses.
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
Goodbye SelectedWorks, Hello Research Portal: Managing Your Faculty Profile – April 3, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:15pm
Facilitator: Todd Bruns, Head of Scholarly Communication, Booth Library
Location: Center for Student Innovation (1220 Booth) and Synchronous Online Session (Zoom): https://eiu.zoom.us/j/98592798826
This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.
