Teaching Centre

New Faculty Teaching Development Program

The New Faculty Teaching Development (NFTD) program is intended to provide new faculty with the professional skills, understanding, competencies, and confidence to demonstrate excellence in teaching and to provide exemplary learning opportunities for students.

Offerings in this program have included:

Before your First Class - Teaching at the UofL

Hanging on My Every Word - Preparing a Lecture/Lesson

Kick-Start Your Courses - Planning for Next Semester

Wielding the Power of the Red Pen - Effective Assessment Strategies

You Told me to What? - Dealing with Difficult Students

Mapping the Big Ideas - Powerful Course Design

Online Instructional Community of Practice (Moodle)

New faculty will have access to a “long term” Moodle course site which will serve as the vehicle for an informal community of practice focused on the professional development of teaching skills and expertise. This online “course” will provide a site for access to teaching resources and guides, and will provide a venue for online discussion forums related to commonly identified issues around teaching and learning.

Professional Development Workshops and Tutorials

The objective of these workshop and tutorial sessions is to provide all faculty with quality collegial and collaborative professional development opportunities focused on understanding and praxis concomitant with exemplary teaching and learning. Topics that will be addressed include: principles of course design; effective lesson planning and delivery; assessment, grading, and evaluation; establishing a productive learning environment; teaching strategies dealing with students; classroom management; teaching and learning styles; and other topics of importance to instructors. 

ISW (Instructional Skills Workshop)

Faculty members are invited to attend the four-day Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW). Check our events calendar to determine when workshop offerings will be held offered. Each ISW cohort generally consists of 4-8 participants and two workshop facilitators. Multiple sessions will be offered as necessary to accommodate new faculty.

The ISW session will include topics that focus on:

• Questioning and engaging with your students
• Providing constructive feedback
• Understanding different teaching and learning styles
• Understanding of assessment and assessment techniques
• Understanding the learning environment in which you teach

Download this PDF to learn about the ISW from those who have experienced it.