Pre-conference sessions will be offered as hybrid events in Fall 2021. Take a look at all the amazing topics that are included!
No separate registration fee will be required for registered #POD21 attendees.
If you have registered for a session and are unable to attend, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. Please include the name of the session you won’t be attending in the email.
This interactive workshop orients new educational developers to the field. Participants will consider educational development research, foundational frameworks, and will identify priorities for their contexts.
Includes Thursday morning breakfast and a published book
This interactive workshop synthesizes 60+ years of research on learning from the cognitive, motivational, developmental, and DEI perspectives into eight integrated principles.
In this workshop, participants will:
In this session, we will invite participants to engage in envisioning models that center humanity in our educational development curriculum, facilitate faculty in developing their own models of thriving, and cultivate personal mechanisms for self thriving necessary for effective educational development.
In this workshop, you will play the game, learn how to run it at your campus, and demonstrate how will introduce your new faculty to important campus personnel, teach them basic procedures of faculty governance, and show them how to see the university from a perspective outside their own.
For leaders seeking to enhance your Center for Teaching and Learning’s (CTL’s) resilience and agility, this half-day workshop empowers you with theory-based strategies to advance priorities, support staff’s wellbeing, and prepare for further higher education changes.
This session offers colleagues in their early years as educational developers with time and space for consultation, reflection, and relationship-building.
This session highlights Racial Equity Advocates, that provides support for faculty to actively interrupt inequities using the Courageous Conversations about Race Protocol (Singleton, 2021), role play, and mindful inquiry to address a problem of practice within their own context.
Participants will be guided to use this time individually and in community to explore strategies for defining faculty learning outcomes and matched assessments, aligning faculty learning with institutional initiatives and structures, and adapting programming to local environments.
This interactive pre-conference workshop will discuss the root causes of the instructional challenges faced by Generation Z learners as well as provide a space for generating solutions.
In this interactive pre-conference workshop, the presenters—two white cisgender female educational developers—will share an emergent framework to help you discover how JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusivity) can be woven into the fabric of your center’s offerings.
In this interactive workshop, participants will