I would like to invite your institution to participate in an exciting, and innovative educational development service that I am offering to faculty, professional advisors and instructional designers. I offer programs on pedagogy and effective teaching, onboarding new faculty, and assessment techniques.

 I can offer workshops on how to map curricula, assess students, student learning outcomes, and educational programs including how to conduct gap analyses between the official stated curriculum and what students actually learn.

These offerings can be modified in length and customized to meet institutional or faculty needs.

Workshop topics are customized to serve the needs of your institution. Given your needs or budget, workshops can range from a standalone of few hours to a series of modules on different topics spread over a day or more. All programs can be given on your campus or remotely. 

When faculty members learn to use effective pedagogy, they help improve student learning outcomes. Participation in  institutes and workshops can be a cost-effective way to offer quality faculty development and can be noted on accreditation self-studies. 

Phyllis is an international leader on promoting learning-centered teaching and assessing teaching. She have been fostering effective teaching for over thirty years. Majority of the faculty of the University of the Sciences and at other institutions around the world have benefited from her work with them to improve teaching or conduct assessment for improvement.

Sample workshops Phyllis Blumberg, PhD can remotely offer to your faculty

Phyllis Blumberg, PhD is an international leader on promoting learning-centered teaching and assessing teaching and learning. She has been fostering effective teaching for over thirty years. The faculty of the University of the Sciences and at other institutions around the world have benefited from her work with them to improve teaching or conduct assessment for improvement. 

For more information, please contact me at Blumbergphyllis@gmail.com  or www.linkedin.com/in/phyllis-blumberg

Phyllis can offer workshops at your institution on: 

Making Learning-Centered Teaching Work 

• A practical guide for implementing learning-centered teaching

• Fostering success for all students 

• Maximizing Learning - centered teaching approaches: Using easy to implement practices 

• Purposes and process of content: It is much more than just content coverage 

• Teaching research methods courses effectively

• Teaching students how to take responsibility for their learning

Evidence-based Pedagogy and Effective Teaching Techniques 

• Active learning in large classes

• Avoiding the sounds of silence in your class discussions

• Course planning: developing student learning outcomes, developing objectives, and syllabi preparation

• Evidence-based instructional models: Problem-based learning, team-based learning, the flipped classroom

• Getting started doing the Scholarship of Teaching, Learning and Assessment

• Student engagement techniques, facilitating small group and entire class discussion 

• Using powerful concepts from current learning theories in your teaching 

Assessing Students

• Assessing students using multiple choice questions

• Effective grading techniques: Including using competency - mastery grading, rubrics, extra credit, authentic assessments 

Assessing Teaching

• Improving and assessing teaching effectiveness using evidence-based criteria 

• Making student opinions of our teaching matter appropriately

• Teaching quality should drive assessment of teaching

Assessing Educational programs 

• Assessing student outcomes 

• Assessing educational programs for accountability and improvement

• Curriculum mapping: An effective tool for curriculum planning and revision

• Identification of bottlenecks: Useful assessment tool for the combined purposes of accountability and improvement

These offerings can be modified in length and customized to meet institutional or faculty needs.

Workshop topics that she has offered and can customize for your purposes include:

• A practical guide for implementing learning-centered teaching

• A sampling of evidence-based instructional models: Problem-based learning, team-based learning, the flipped classroom

• Active learning in large classes

• Assessing students using multiple choice questions and rubrics

• Assessing student learning outcomes 

• Assessing educational programs for accountability and improvement

• Avoiding the sounds of silence in your class discussions 

• Course planning: developing student learning outcomes, developing objectives, and syllabi preparation

• Curriculum mapping: An effective tool for curriculum planning and revision

• Effective grading techniques: Including using competency - mastery grading, rubrics, extra credit, authentic assessments 

• Getting started doing the Scholarship of Teaching, Learning and Assessment

• Helping students acquire information literacy skills

• Helping health professional students use evidence-based decision making
• Fostering success for all students
•  Identification of bottlenecks: Useful assessment tool for the combined purposes of accountability and improvement

• Improving and assessing teaching effectiveness using evidence-based criteria 

• Implementing evidence-based instructional models such as: problem-based learning, team-based learning, and the flipped classroom 

• Implementing learning-centered teaching

• Increasing student engagement techniques 

• Making student opinions of our teaching matter appropriately 

• Maximizing Learning - centered teaching approaches: Using easy to implement practices 

• Purposes and process of content: It is much more than just content coverage 

• Student engagement techniques, facilitating small group and entire class discussion 

• Teaching research methods courses effectively

• Teaching quality should drive assessment of teaching

• Teaching students how to take responsibility for their learning

• Using diffusion of innovations theory to foster evidence-based teaching

• Using powerful concepts from current learning theories in your teaching 

These offerings can be modified in length and specificity to meet institutional or faculty needs.