Course Design for Early Career Faculty
Asynchronous work window:
May 15 to June 4
Synchronous sessions:
Wednesday, May 14 • 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Face to Face). Lunch provided.
Wednesday, June 4 • 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Zoom)
Friday, June 13, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Face to Face) Lunch provided.
Location:
Learning Lab, WIH 325
Course Design for Early Career Faculty is a course design cohort intended specifically for early career faculty. This five-week program is a deep dive into developing effective learning outcomes, robust assessments aligned to those learning outcomes, and engaging learning activities that will help prepare your students for success. By the end of the program, you will have a full course plan that you could take directly into the classroom for the Fall semester. Throughout the program, you will learn to integrate the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence throughout your course design and teaching to support equity, diversity, inclusion, and access.
This experience will kick off with an all-day orientation session on May 14, followed by asynchronous work time until a half-day meeting on June 4, where we will meet again as an entire cohort via Zoom to check in, share ongoing work, and plan the next steps. For the remainder of the program, there will be additional work time, culminating in a showcase presentation on June 13.
Depending on your experience level, you can expect to spend a few hours each week participating in Course Design for Early Career Faculty. A $500 stipend is available to eligible participants who complete the program. Registration is required.
Eligibility
Course Design for Early Career Faculty is a course design cohort specifically intended for early career faculty. However, any non-student instructional employee interested in designing a course they have not taught before (or haven’t offered in over three years) and plan to teach in the 2025-26 academic year is invited to register. Graduate students are invited to apply for Course Design for Future Faculty, which is an equivalent experience.
Meetings for Course Design for Early Career Faculty and Course Design for Future Faculty will be held at the same time.
Learning Outcomes
- design effective learning outcomes, syllabi, and learning activities.
- align assignments and assessment instruments.
- develop good teaching practices informed by research-based pedagogical inquiry
- integrate the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence into your course design and teaching.
Facilitators
David Giovagnoli, Center for Integrated Professional Development
If you need a special accommodation to fully participate in a Center event, please contact the Center at ProDev@ilstu.edu.