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.
Many of us are currently experimenting with ways to increase student engagement with learning, support diversity and inclusion in our classrooms, and shift our time and focus from less important tasks to more important strategies. Ungrading--in its various forms--is a powerful strategy for accomplishing these kinds of goals. Do you want to explore ways to free yourself (and your students) from tracking and counting points and instead focus your (and their) efforts on actual learning? This workshop will discuss a few ways to implement the philosophy of ungrading in your classroom.
