CATL

 Course Development

CATL is here to help whether you're preparing to teach your first course ever, your first course at UWGB, in a new modality, a new course, or one that's tried and true. As you engage in course development and continuous improvement, explore the curated sections of resources below and consider setting up a one-on-one consultation to explore further.

Planning a Course

A journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step, but just what does that step look like? CATL has a collection of resources is designed to help instructors get off the ground designing or revising a course.

Developing Course Materials

So you feel confident in your course objectives and overall plan—now how do you make it? From Open Educational Resources to technology integrations and from creating pages in Canvas to creating video lectures, CATL has you covered.

Teaching a Course

How will students engage with your course? Whether you're looking for low-bandwidth tips to improve lectures or a full active learning revamp, CATL can provide strategies and techniques you can put to use in your instruction.

Assessing Your Courses

Even if it's old hat, designing and teaching a course is just the beginning. With an eye towards continuous improvement, CATL is also here as you reflect on your courses, make use of student feedback or peer review, and make revisions.

 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) & Inclusive Excellence (IE)

While CATL's primary interface is with instructors, it is in service to our number-one priority of the student experience. Because of this, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and inclusive excellence (IE) are integral to all we do. 

EDI Philosophy & Principles

Not sure where to begin with EDI or IE? In short EDI and IE principles ensure fair treatment and opportunity for every student.

Equity Strategies in Design & Instruction

When you work with CATL to design your course, we'll take a close look at ways to build equity and inclusion into it. Key techniques include teaching with transparency, multiple means of engagement, learner-centered language, and a growth mindset.

Technology Considerations

Technology plays a critical role in making sure all students can engage with your courses to be successful. In doing so, though, it can also create additional challenges. CATL is here to help you weigh the options and create the best possible learning experience.
 

Professional Development & Programs

Because it is so important, EDI is built into all we do. That said, CATL and their partners regularly offer professional development around these topics. Stay tuned to Center communications for up to date information.

 Your Journey as an Instructor

Regardless of where you are as an instructor, CATL is here to help. Whether you're just starting out, learning the ropes of a new modality, or are an experienced instructor interested in continuous improvement, we've got something for you.

New & Early Career

This collection of resources is designed to get you off the ground by orienting you to Canvas, setting the foundations for course design, and thinking about your trajectory as an instructor.

Wrapping Up your First Semester

You made it! The experience of your first course or few courses will provide you some valuable information about UWGB, your program, your students, and yourself as a teacher. Work with CATL and refer to their asynchronous resources to identify growth areas and begin refining your courses.

Professional Development for Continuous Improvement

Course and assignment design are never really done. Engage with CATL as you continue to refine your courses and develop as an instructor. Revise previous practices or try new ones. CATL offers a wide variety of workshops, trainings, courses, and conferences with an eye toward continuous improvement.

Assessing Your Teaching

CATL is here to help guide or facilitate a variety of techniques for assessing your teaching including self-reflection, collaborating with colleagues to do peer review, trying to make the most out of student feedback, building a teaching portfolio, looking to assess student learning, and more.

 Your Role at UWGB

Teaching takes a village. Whether your support of the student experience is in instruction directly, as an administrator, in support of instructional programs or student programming, CATL is here to guide you in your teaching and learning considerations.

Faculty & Instructors

We encourage instructors to explore the Teaching Toolbox for asynchronous resources or schedule a consultation to meet with someone in CATL as they work through their teaching- and learning- related questions. We'd love to work with you as you think through teaching and learning at all scales, as an instructor, in your course, through your assignment, and in your course materials.

Chairs & Deans

Looking for something at the department or program level? CATL is here to help facilitate. From small sparkshops for department meetings, to mid-ranged projects like programmatic learning outcomes, professional development programming, or integrating OER at the program level, to larger projects like the Distance Education Grant, CATL is happy to help you work towards your area's teaching and learning development goals. Email CATL@uwgb.edu to collaborate.

Support Staff

Many hands make light work. CATL is happy to support those who support our instructors and our courses! CATL works closely with those in student success, first-year experience, HIPs, the library, student accessibility services, the Learning Center, the assessment office, and more. We also lend technical support to department associates and office managers responsible for instruction-related management such as outcomes reporting in Canvas. Reach out to CATL@uwgb.edu to learn more.

Teaching Assistants

The Center partners with the Office of Graduate Studies to offer training, resources, and orientation to teaching assistants. Teaching assistants receive communication regarding these opportunities directly from graduate studies and from CATL. Graduate student mentors who'd like to get involved should contact CATL at CATL@uwgb.edu or Graduate Studies at gradstu@uwgb.edu. 

 Explore Topics

Use the search feature below to explore some of the specialized topics CATL staff are especially interested in. Use the "Consultation Request" button if you'd like to meet about any of these topics (or if you're interested in knowing more about a teaching and learning topic not listed here). Click "Explore Resources" to search for the topic you've entered on The Cowbell (the home for news and resources from the Center).

• Active Learning

  Active learning is a philosophy of instructional strategies which involve students in the learning process through the discovery, processing, and applicaiton of information. Examples include role-playing and simulations, case studies, discusisons, group projects, debate, peer teaching, and so on.

• Assessment

  How effective is your course? Are students learning what you want them to? Request Sparkshop

• Assignments

  Building from the ground up, assessing, and revising. Are your assignments doing what you want them to? Transparent assignment design. Grappling with formative and summative assessments. Writing good quiz and exam questions. Ideas to best align assessments with course objectives.

• Authoring Tools

  Composing written lecture materials, a course pack, or an Open Educational Resource.

• Course Design

  CATL is here to help with the entire course design process, from writing objectives, to delivering the course, to assessment and revision.

• Disposition-Based Peer Observation

  This concept (and its sparkshop) are for those who are interested in kindling a departmental culture of peer support and collaboration. It will introduce the idea of developing teaching “dispositions” as a means to connect the head (content knowledge), the hands (pedagogical skill), and the heart (affective ability) to promote fully embodied teaching. Request Sparkshop

• "Domain of One's Own"

  Hosted web space for students, faculty, and staff.

• Diagramatics, Illustrations, and Presentations

  Articulating information in diagrams for instruction. What's the best way to draw this on the board? Best practices and presentation techniques for lecture and instruction.

• Dynamic Lecturing

  Effectively weaving "lecture" into overall instruction, student engagement, and overall learning.

• ePortfolios

  Collections of evidence (usually student work) in an electronic format showcasing learning over time.

• Game Design and Game-Based Learning

  The building and use of "serious games," game-based learning, and simulations in instruction. The use of game-like principles to make your courses more engaging, more equitable, and more effective. Request Sparkshop

• Instructional Aesthetics

  The use of visual elements and design principles to effectively capture attention, increases comprehension, and enhance the usability of course materials.

• Light Board / Learning Glass

  Create engaging instructional videos by facing your students and visually constructing a topic or working through examples. Email CATL for examples or to set up a time to make a recording.

• Learning Management System

  The learning management system for UW-Green bay is Canvas. CATL can help you make the most of it and use it effectively.

• Multi-modal Presentations

  There's more than one way to present information—and those multiple means can often be used together to great effect.

• Open Educational Resources

  Freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets for teaching and learning. Freely available textbooks. Request Sparkshop

• Podcasting

  Episodic audio series.

• Peer Review of Teaching

  Colleagues make great "critical friends." CATL is here to facilitate peer review for anyone interested in improving their teaching in this way.

• Research Consultations

  Have a research question (or even just a vague idea for a project)? CATL would love to advise and maybe even collaborate to further explore a wide variety of teaching and learning topics. We've also got a variety of SoTL resources to get you started.

• "Rich Media" Instruction

  Integrating audio, video, images, text, and other elements in instruction to increase engagement and learning.

• SoTL

  The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

• Specialized Document Formatting

  Formatting for the specialialized communication of ideas (e.g OER, Theses, etc.) See Authoring Tools, Open Educational Resources, and Instructional Aesthetics.

• Student Engagement Techniques

  Be it dynamic lecturing, gamification, or classroom response, CATL can help you to effectively integrate a variety of engagement techniques into your teaching.

• Universal Design

  Curb cuts benefit all pedestrians, not just those in wheelchairs. So too does universal design promote access to all students. CATL can help you add multiple ways to represent concepts, assess learning, and engage student interest. Request Sparkshop