The Daily Bulletin

The SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD) announces a new online course, "Critically Reflective Teaching Practices." This online asynchronous course will run October 12 through November 20 and will be taught through the Blackboard learning management system by Keith Landa, director of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center at SUNY Purchase College.

Critical reflection allows us to examine our experiences as instructors, to evaluate our strengths and opportunities for improvement. This course will review models of critical reflection, allow participants to identify sources of information and resources to support critical reflection on their teaching, and provide a framework for participants to map out a personalized project to explore a teaching and learning topic of interest in their professional development.

By the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to

• identify and evaluate sources of evidence concerning their current strengths and challenges as an instructor;
• determine potential directions for professional development to enhance their teaching practices and foster student engagement and learning, based on principles of good practice and personal philosophies of teaching and learning;
• map out a plan to execute a specific, individual project that critically examines a teaching and learning topic;
• begin development of a teaching portfolio and other tools to support critical reflection about teaching and learning and assist with the teaching and learning project.

Course Topics

1. Autobiography of teaching and learning
2. Student evaluations of teaching, their strengths and weaknesses
3. Peer review and mentoring, and the role of teaching and learning centers (and what to do if you don’t have one)
4. Frameworks of good practice and critical review of the literature
5. Workshop topic proposals for the advanced certificate
6. The teaching portfolio and other tools

The cost for Buffalo State faculty is $250. CPD points may be available. Please contact Melaine Kenyon, director of instructional technology, for more information.

Please register for the course online.