Now in its fourth year, CTLT's Summer Institute for the 21st Century Educator offers a variety of opportunities designed to strengthen your teaching, update your knowledge, hone your professional skills, and broaden your thinking as a scholar.
As it has in the past, the Summer Institute will include a wide variety of workshops lasting anywhere from one to four days as well as several circles which will meet throughout the summer on dates determined by the participants. We will also be offering a full range of software short courses. In fact, this will be our largest Summer Institute program ever, with 60 full days of workshops scheduled. Most workshops offered early in summer are replicated later, and our entire set of Blackboard workshops will be offered three times to maximize availability.
New to the Summer Institute this year is a set of four Blackboard workshops on “advanced” topics and an extended “Design Your Course” workshop for early-career faculty. (Those in their first three years of teaching at Illinois State University.)
We should also note that our focus on the future of good teaching means that our Summer Institute workshops frequently incorporate instructional technologies. However, these technologies are always a means to an end, and that end is good teaching that leads to enduring learning. You’ll also find a good selection of low-tech workshops, so there’s something for everyone!
Finally, please be aware that:
Taste of the Summer Institute: A Day of Renewal
Join CTLT as we celebrate the start of summer with our “Taste of the Summer Institute 2009!” You
can relax and re-energize with a free massage provided by the Midwest College
of Cosmetology. We will also be offering mini-workshops on nutrition, stress management, and
yoga throughout the day. And don't miss either the Second Annual Tasting Contest to choose the “Official
Cookie of the 2009 Summer Institute” or the first-ever CTLT Pizza-Tasting.
In addition to food, relaxation, and renewal, you'll be able to learn more about of our Summer Institute offerings, browse the Resource Commons to select a little summer reading, visit with CTLT staff and colleagues from across campus, and plan ahead to make this summer a season of renewal and professional growth. Take a well-deserved break and spend part of your “first day of summer” with us at CTLT.
Blackboard Workshops
Whether you’re planning to teach an online course or a face-to-face course with online
components, the Blackboard course management system can be a useful tool. These workshops offer
support for both new and experienced users. We offer five separate Blackboard workshops on a
variety of fundamental topics. Each will be offered three times this summer. Please plan to take
the introduction workshop first; then the others can be taken in any order. Additionally, new
to this year are a set of four advanced Blackboard workshops. These workshops are designed for
those who have basic understanding of various Blackboard tools.
Instructional Strategies Workshops
Our full menu of instructional strategy workshops offers a wide range of teaching-related topics
in one- or two-day formats. Take a look and see which ones would be most beneficial to you.
Topics include online/blended course design, communication strategies, student writing, plagiarism
and copyright, teaching in large classrooms, and civic engagement.
Teaching with Primary Sources
Did you know that more than 10.5 million primary sources from the Library of Congress are available
to you and your students in digital formats? Join us for Teaching with Primary Sources, a
federally-funded program facilitated by Milner Library. The goal of this full-day workshop
is to learn how to access and utilize primary sources to enhance teaching and learning.
Teaching with Emergent Technology
Thinking about integrating a new technology into your course? Just want to see what’s out
there? Join us for one or more of these interactive, informative, and intriguing sessions and
experience what new educational technology tools can offer.
Re-Invent Your Course: An Extended Experience
Most of us likely revise our courses every semester, tinkering with details here and there to
fix problems and make the experience just a bit better. But there also comes a time when incremental,
piecemeal changes are not enough for our courses to reach their potential. Make this the summer
that you totally overhaul that problem course.
Future Professors
Graduate students who hope to teach at the college or university level, either as part of an
assistantship or as a future career, are invited to join us for this four-day “introduction
to college teaching.”
Design Your Course
This workshop is designed for faculty in their first, second, or third year of teaching at Illinois
State University. By the conclusion of the 7-session series, each participant will have designed
a course that s/he will be teaching for the first time during the Fall 2009 or Spring 2010
semester. The workshop will guide participants through a course design process that draws
on the work of Dee Fink (Creating Significant Learning Experiences) and Ken Bain
(What the Best College Teachers Do).
Reading Circles
Led by CTLT Coordinator Cyndy Ruszkowski, summer reading circles form around books related to
university teaching and meet bi-weekly, beginning May 20. Books will be provided.
Portfolio Circles
Don’t succumb to the “procrastination bug”! If you’ve been nominated
for a teaching award (or would like to be), summer is the time to start working on your portfolio.
These bi-weekly circle meetings can provide guidance, support, and much-needed deadlines, allowing
you to start the fall semester with your portfolio well on its way to completion.
Summer 2009 Schedule
Update your computer skills with our hands-on software courses. You will learn techniques to
streamline your work and help you become more efficient and productive at your job. The schedule
will be available early April.
| Taste of Summer Day of Renewal Circle Series |
No registration required but click on the links above for more information. |
| Blackboard Instructional Strategies Teaching with Primary Sources Teaching with Emergent Technology Design Your Course |
Click here to register |
| Re-invent Your Course | Workshop Full |
| Future Professors | Click here to register |
| Software Short Courses | Click here to register |
