Training and Events
Training Events
Make 2025 the year you make all of your new documents, PowerPoints, and PDFs accessible! According to the Department of Justice, everything that we put online (either on Blackboard, the ESF website, or any other online space you might use) must be accessible. Accessibility is everyone’s responsibility. Come learn how to do your part with Mona Maharjan (OCM) and Erika Blair (Open Academy) on the third Tuesday of each month from 11-11:30 in Baker 309.
February 18, 2025 | Microsoft Word: More Powerful Than You Think
March 18, 2025 | Accessible PowerPoints
April 15, 2025 | Accessible PDFs
Introducing AI in Bb training series. Join us on the last Thursday of each month from 12:30-1:30 in Gateway 240 as we explore a new AI feature that you can access in Blackboard Ultra.
January 30, 2025 | Use the AI generator in Blackboard Ultra to quickly create question
banks!
February 20, 2025 | AI Powered Assignment Prompts
March 27, 2025 | AI Powered Rubric Creation
April 24, 2025 | AI Conversations
Signature Events
2024 Graduate Assistant Colloquium on Teaching and Learning
August 20, 2024 | Syracuse Campus
This Colloquium addresses the culture and expectations of ESF; outlines instructional strategies and specific teaching-related skills necessary to function effectively as a Graduate Assistant (GA); highlights some of the people and units who provide leadership and support to GA efforts; and introduces professional skills and resources that will endure beyond the ESF graduate assistant experience.
2025 Hardy L. Shirley Faculty Mentoring Colloquium
Wednesday |January 8 | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Gateway
Doors will open at 8:30 am
The Colloquium aims to facilitate faculty networking within and across departments, share best practices and innovative techniques in teaching, research, and service, and support the advancement of the academic enterprise at ESF. We are excited to present three engaging sessions:
- Teaching: Join our award-winning faculty for a panel discussion on best practices for various classes and student populations. Our esteemed panelists include Dr. Kim Schultz, Dr. Paul Hirsch, Dr. Paul Crovella, and Dr. Steve Shaw.
- Research: The Office of Research Programs (ORP) and the Library will deliver three mini-presentations on topics such as Building a Better Budget, Leveraging Your ORCID ID, and Strengthening Research and Collaboration. Following these presentations, we will break into discussion groups to address budget and ORCID questions and provide time for faculty clusters to brainstorm and collaborate.
- Outreach: Discover opportunities to engage with the Syracuse community
President Mahoney will conclude the event, followed by lunch. Throughout and after lunch, please visit our Resource Tables for additional support from:
- Human Resources
- Office of Research Programs
- Moon Library
- Business Office
- The Open Academy
We highly encourage you to bring your computer or device.
Light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided.
Fall semester | EFB 797 and FOR 797 (1 credit)
Purpose: To enhance the teaching practice of graduate students planning a university career. Course content and methods also apply to graduate students planning a professional career and intending to teach college courses part time, as well as to those who plan to work in non-traditional and informal educational contexts.
Course Description: A one-semester one-credit seminar for graduate students who are
currently teaching or who anticipate teaching full or part time in a college or university.
This seminar will examine processes and strategies designed to enhance the teaching
and learning process.
Seminar on College Teaching will introduce you to learning and instructional theory
as well as to selected concepts and strategies of instructional planning, delivery,
management, and evaluation. Some emphasis will be placed on instructional delivery
strategies.
Content and examples will focus on higher education. Nevertheless, this seminar is pertinent for those who may have to identify instructional and training needs, plan or acquire training programs or materials, and evaluate training effectiveness as part of their managerial or professional duties in a variety of non-profit, government, or private business contexts.
The seminar recognizes the increasing interest and need within the academy to develop the teaching skills of the future professoriate in addition to research and service abilities.
Required Materials
Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide. Felder and Brent. 2016. CA: Jossey-Bass.
Any additional readings will be provided in course.