Welcome to the Fall 2025 Professional Development Week (PDW)!
Theme: Level Up Your Teaching: Building Foundations
We’re excited for you to join us for professional development week! This event is CETL’s pre-semester conference where you can gain the professional development you need for the upcoming semester. PDW focuses on teaching techniques and tips that you can try this semester, technological trainings to help you gain the skills needed to utilize software and apps that support teaching, and networking to connect our campus community.
As you prepare your schedule, focus on the workshops that best suit your professional development goals and schedule. A wide range of offerings is provided, so pick the ones that will benefit you the most.
The Promoting Advancement and Growth for Educators (PAGE) program supports part-time instructor professional development. Learn more about this program during this info session.
At the request of faculty, the eLearning team will be available to provide tips and tricks to help you prepare to teach a pooled Colorado Online class. We will walk you through finding your required course materials, investigating what teaching resources are available, building your course shell, and answering questions - this is a hands on opportunity to get assistance and build your actual course! - NOTE: I talked to Katie about this a few months ago. We planned two, two-hour sessions on Wednesday - one during the day in person, and one in the evening on Zoom.
Ever question if an accommodation is reasonable? or if it can be provided in your course? Balancing student access with maintaining essential academic standards and requirements can sometimes feel like walking a tightrope. This engaging and interactive workshop will help faculty and staff feel confident in navigating the complexities of the ADA, accommodation requests, and Fundamental Alterations process without sacrificing the core requirements of courses. Ready to master the tightrope walk? Join us!
Get a sneak peek of Simple Syllabus, a new tool coming to D2L in 2025! This tool provides a centralized, online syllabus template for your courses and automatically brings in information from the Institutional Syllabus and Master Course Syllabi. Simple Syllabus also allows you to share your syllabus with students before the semester starts.
