Professional Development Efforts

To develop my teaching, I attended several workshops and made efforts to apply the new teaching techniques into my class.

The main workshops are listed below:

- Instructional Leadership Academy on Team-based Learning (May 18 & 20, 2015)

- QM online Workshop: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (July 24-August 7, 2018)

- Teaching and Learning Institute (Pedagogy Course)  (Fall 2018)

- Book Club for the book "Dynamic Lecturing" (Spring 2019)

- Annual Instructional Excellence Conference 2019: Day 1 -Understanding How Students Learn: A Focus on Cognitive Load and Mindset; Day2 -Dynamic Lecturing: Tips to Enhance Student Learning, Including Easy Ways to Infusing Active Learning Strategies (May 7 & 8, 2019)

- Annual Instructional Excellence Virtual Conference 2020 (May 5 & 6 2020)

- Teaching and Learning Summer Cohorts- Hybrid Course Design and Delivery (June 2020)

-“Teaching Online Without All the Frustration” A Harvard Approach to Live Lecturing That Increases Student Engagement (December 2020)

- Annual Instructional Excellence Virtual Conference 2021 (May 5 & 6 2021)

Other mini-workshops for one hour or less:

- Canvas using tips: (January 2021)

• How to create video quiz 

• How to take attendance using Roll Call, Zoom and Kaltura

- Open Educational Resources: (May 2020)

• Introduction to Open Educational Resources

• How to find Open and Affordable Course Materials

- Online Teaching and Zoom: 

• Strategies and Tools to Engage Students in Online Classes (May 2020)

• Students Assessment in Online Classes (May 2020)

• Dynamic Online Lectures: Interactive Strategies (July 2020)

• Using Zoom Breakout Rooms: Increase Student Engagement (July 2020)

• What’s New in Zoom (December 2020)

• Google Slides as an Engaged Breakout Room Activity! (December 2020)

- Kaltura Workshop Series: (July 28-31, 2020)

• Kaltura Virtual Classroom; 

• Kaltura Video Quizzing, Hot Spots, and Editor; 

• Kaltura Essentials: A Student Experience 

- Cengage Mindtap (July 2020)

• Courseware 101 (Exploration of course set-up, resources, and functionalities of MindTap)

• Personalization (How to customize, organize, and modify your course)

• Cengage Master Class - MindTap Gradebook with Customer Success

Professional Development Efforts with Awards:

- Course Redesign Program and QM Certification for SOCW 5223  (Theories of Aging and Development): I converted the face-to-face course to the Hybrid format. I have taught the course in hybrid format twice and incorporated the changes into the course materials based upon student's feedback. I submitted it for a formal QM review and got the certification of QM for the course (with the award of $2000).(Certification confirmation email was attached below)

- Affordable Course Materials Initiative (ACMI): To decrease the costs for students, I submitted a proposal to be a part of the 2022-2023 Cohort of the UTC Library’s Affordable Course Materials Initiative (ACMI) for BSW course SCOW 4760 and rejoin the 2023-2024 Cohort for the MSW course SOCW 5350. I worked with UTC Library faculty on the inclusion of no- or low-cost materials as required or supplemental course texts (with the award of $500 as an incentive). (Award letters were attached below)

- Faculty Fellows in Teaching Innovation: Transparency in Learning and Teaching Model (TILT)

To improve my design of the courses, I joined a faculty fellow workgroup on applying the Transparency in Learning and Teaching Model (TILT) into the courses that I was teaching on Fall 2023. For this workgroup, we meet monthly, discuss the TILT model and revise several course assignments (with the award of stipend of $1000).  

- Accessibility in UTC Learn Contest: To increase the accessibility of my course materials, I participated in the second annual "Accessibility in UTC Learn contest" and won the first-place award ($50).