These individual and confidential consultations offer a valuable opportunity to address any concerns or challenges related to teaching and learning. The main goal of these consultations is to identify your specific needs and provide relevant guidance and resources.
Some common topics include:
- Enhancing students' engagement during class and with homework assignments.
- Aligning teaching strategies with your course learning objectives.
- Redesigning assignments to address AI-related concerns.
- Incorporating experiential learning elements into your courses.
- Creating effective assessments and rubrics to measure student learning and provide feedback.
- Utilizing educational technology in a way that complements your teaching style.
- Exploring your unique teaching identity.
We are committed to identifying and supporting your individual needs.
Inviting a pedagogy expert to observe your class is an effective way to address challenges and receive valuable feedback through data-driven observations of students’ learning experiences.
The classroom observation process consists of three simple steps:
- Arrange a 30-minute meeting with a CTL consultant to discuss your class and specific areas you'd like to focus on during the observation. Book a consultation now!
- The CTL consultant will attentively observe your suggested classes, collecting relevant data on your students' learning process.
- Following the observation, schedule a 60-minute follow-up meeting with your CTL consultant to discuss the findings, the collected data, and explore innovative strategies to implement in your teaching.
Be assured that any information shared during our discussions will remain entirely confidential and not be disclosed to anyone outside of CTL unless you request otherwise.
Early course feedback from your students is a great way to reflect on your students’ learning experiences and make timely adjustments. Early course feedback is especially useful when you have introduced changes into the course or have been teaching the course for less than three semesters. There are two effective methods to obtain early course feedback:
- Focus Groups through Classroom Dialogue: A CTL consultant will have a conversation with you to understand your perspectives and interests. Subsequently, they will visit your class and conduct a 20-25 minute directed conversation with your students to gather their valuable feedback and perspectives on learning in the class. Your consultant will then discuss the feedback with you, provide a written record of the collected data, and help you determine the most appropriate responses to your students' feedback.
- Student Surveys: Distribute a survey to your students (preferably during the initial 15 minutes of class) to gather written feedback. Our CTL consultants can assist you in designing the survey, incorporating open-ended questions about perceived learning, reviewing and summarizing the survey data, and helping you identify effective ways to address your students' feedback.
If you require guidance on integrating technologies into your teaching, the CTL & RITS are available to assist you. We can recommend and help you incorporate relevant technologies to boost student-centered learning and enhance your students' engagement in class and with homework assignments.
To get started, please send your requisition to ctl.shanghai@nyu.edu.
The Center for Teaching and Learning is very enthusiastic to support individual needs of specific Program and Departments at NYU Shanghai. Please review the list of services that other departments have already used:
We provide various survey designs, such as pre-course surveys, course-specific mid-semester surveys, and student learning experience surveys. These surveys enable instructors to gather valuable feedback from students, helping them to make informed improvements to their courses and teaching methods.
The CTL is happy to collaborate with Program and Departments to tailor workshops and learning communities to specific needs of the faculty within this area. These initiatives foster collaboration and the exchange of best practices among faculty, contributing to the overall growth of the department's teaching community.
We assist in designing observation forms that are used during classroom observations. These forms help gather structured and relevant data, aiding faculty in receiving constructive feedback on their teaching practices.
Please send your request to shanghai.ctl@nyu.edu
AI in the Classroom: Lunch & Learn Series 2023
AI in the Classroom: Lunch & Learn Series is a collaborative platform exploring the impact of Generative AI technologies in higher education. This series aims to bring together NYU Shanghai’s faculty to discuss and reflect on the evolving challenges of Generative AI in the classroom as well as to share practical solutions.
Session 1 | Sept 27, 2023: Assignment Redesign and Integration
- Case 1: Redesigning Assignments to Reduce AI Reliance, resented by Emilie Takayama, Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Business (IMB)
- Case 2: Integrating Generative AI into Assignments, presented by Brad Weslake, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Session 2 | Oct 17, 2023: NYUSH Students' Voices on GenAI
- Introduction: Key Insights from NYUSH Students’ Use of GenAI Survey 2023, presented by Evgeniya Efremova, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
- Case 1: Using Multimedia GenAI in the Classroom: Student Perspectives, presented by Bogna Konior, Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts
- Case 2: Personalization for Learning and Creativity with Generative AI, presented by Hongyi Wen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Session 3 | Nov 27, 2023: GenAI & Industry
More information coming soon
Experiential Learning Curriculum Design Fellowship
Are you interested in integrating experiential learning into your teaching? This workshop series is designed to support faculty explore curricular advancements in “learning by doing.”
The application for the Fall'2023 cohort is now closed. You are welcome to attend the sessions below.
Fellowship Program
Session 1: Experiential Learning 101: Methodology & Mindset (Friday, Sept. 22, 3:00-4:30pm)
In this session, we will explore the key frameworks and methodologies of experiential learning, as well as cultivating the experimental mindset such as adaptability and embracing failure, that foster successful experiential learning.
Session 2: Tinkering with Experience Design: Ideation for Your Course (Friday, Oct 20, 3:00 - 4:30pm)
In this session we will delve into the fundamentals of experience design, exploring innovative methodologies to transform traditional course structures into dynamic, hands-on learning environments. We will focus on ideating and implementing experiential learning components that align with your course objectives. This session is an ideal opportunity for educators to reimagine their courses and create impactful, memorable learning experiences for their students.
Session 3: Broader Impacts: Partnering for Community-based Projects
Presented by Diane Geng, Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs & Steve Iams, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
Friday, November 3 @ 3:00-4:30pm | E405
This workshop will discuss key elements behind developing partnerships with community-based organizations and individuals to co-create social impact projects in your course. Hear examples of successful NYUSH course-community partnerships, discuss how to initiate and manage partnerships, and get to know resources that can assist you in developing or enhancing partnerships.
Session 4: Fun to Fruitful: How to Deepen Field Trip Experiences
Presented by Emily Tsiang, Associate Arts Professor of IMB
Friday, November 10 @ 3:00-4:30pm | E405
This workshop will explore strategies for integrating experiential learning into field trips, share examples from faculty and design curricular ways to effectively guide students to connect field trips to course content.
Session 5: Passive to Interactive: How to Transform Course Activities
Presented by Emily Tsiang, Associate Arts Professor of IMB
Friday, Nov 17 @ 3:00-4:30pm | E405
This workshop will explore opportunities to take course content typically delivered in a passive lecture format toward more engaging and interactive teaching methods to enhance student engagement, comprehension, and retention.
Session 6: The Reflective Practitioner (Friday, December 8 @ 3:00-4:30pm)
In this session, we will be reviewing the previous workshops and engage in a number of on-site reflective exercises (including reflective writing, peer feedback, collective reflection games) guided by the reflective cycle frameworks.
TeachTalks is a series of faculty-led conversations centered around teaching at NYU Shanghai. In these sessions, participants actively engage in discussions about the present factors that impact student learning, and they exchange innovative pedagogical ideas from diverse disciplines. The sessions are often interactive, incorporating brief presentations, group explorations, and whole-group discussions.
If you have a topic or a speaker in mind that you would like to suggest for TeachTalks, we encourage you to reach out to Evgeniya.Efremova@nyu.edu.
Review the schedule for upcoming TeachTalks here.