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A virtual workshop for TWU faculty (Oct 10, 3-4pm)
It’s easy to fall into "the teaching trap" of overpreparing for classes, spending countless hours developing extensive lectures, activities, and materials that consume more time than necessary. This pattern leads to unsustainable workloads where you work nights and weekends just to keep up with basic teaching responsibilities while every other aspect of your work and life else suffers.
In this virtual workshop,* you'll learn about a preparation approach that creates interchangeable class segments (mini-lectures, group activities, videos, freewriting) that function like building blocks, allowing you to prepare an entire week's classes in one afternoon while maintaining engaging variety for students. The workshop covers efficient grading strategies that provide meaningful feedback without overwhelming time investment, including rubrics, audio feedback tools, and selective grading techniques. You'll leave with customizable class templates, time-saving grading systems, and concrete boundaries for course preparation that protect your research time while actually improving your teaching effectiveness and student satisfaction scores.
Register for this workshop here. (Registration is closed.)
This workshop was facilitated by Christine Tulley of Defend, Publish, and Lead. She is the founder and director of the MA in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Findlay and currently directs all faculty writing support, including development of tenure and promotion support materials, faculty writing groups, and individual writing schedules for those who struggle with time management or writer’s block. She is the author of several books on faculty writing including Productivitity, Parenting, and Professionalism (Routledge, 2025) and frequent contributor to Inside Higher Education.
* This workshop is part of a series from Defend Publish Lead brought to you by Nancy Chick. Stay tuned for information about future workshops.
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