Tuesday, August 12 – Thursday, August 14, 2025
9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Hosted Remotely via Zoom & Brightspace
Summer 2025
To help launch your teaching career at URI, new full-time instructors are invited to meet virtually during this coordinated program. The purpose of these sessions will be to implement strategies to encourage student motivation, increase belonging in your courses, and help you get acquainted with the tech that supports teaching at URI. Most importantly, you will have the opportunity to begin forming relationships with your new colleagues—connections we hope will last throughout your career. Strategies & Tools is a part of the New Faculty Teaching Pathway.
Program Outcomes
- Finish preparing courses for the fall by incorporating evidence-based practices for teaching and learning.
- Develop relationships that will enable success in the classroom at URI.
- Build upon your strengths as a teacher and plan for professional growth.
Strategies & Tools for New Faculty Overview
| Date | August 12th, 2025 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM | August 13th, 2025 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM | August 14th, 2025 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | Day 1: Why do I teach? | Day 2: How do I teach? | Day 3: Who do I teach? |
| Goal | Explore your ‘why’ and use that to develop student-centered teaching strategies. | Develop concrete strategies to put your ‘why’ into practice. | Develop strategies to get to know students better, and the navigational capital to offer adequate support. |
Key Topics | Where do my assumptions about good teaching come from? How does URI define excellence in teaching? How can we articulate learning outcomes for our courses–especially with regard to soft skills? What are the daily activities you can use to reinforce your intended learning outcomes? | What do I want students to remember 5 years after my class is finished? What are acceptable measures of student learning outcomes? What can I do day-to-day to reinforce my outcomes in in-person, online, or blended courses? | How can I learn about my students? How do accommodation requests work? How can universal design help me preempt common accommodation requests? How can the Academic Testing Center partner with me to increase access in my assessments? |
Featured Guests | David Hayes, Academic Enhancement Center | Joannah Portman-Daley, Online Education and Instructional Design (URI Online) | Paige Ramsdell, Office of Diversity Access and Inclusion Lisa Macaruso, Academic Testing Center |
To Register…
Visit our registration page to submit your information to participate in this experience.
Questions
For questions about this opportunity please contact Dr. Todd Dresser, Associate Director of Faculty Professional Development in the ATL, at todd_dresser@uri.edu.