Potential topics

• Last-day-of-class activities
• Planning/designing the home stretch of a course
• Managing end-of-term stress, fatigue, etc. (your own and students’)
• Strategies for keeping students engaged and interested as summer (or graduation) approaches
• Bringing closure to an unsuccessful course

June 2026: Professional growth (deadline April 30)

Potential topics

• Teaching failures and how to grow from them
• The challenge of unlearning ineffective teaching practices
• Overcoming the expert blind spot
• How to approach student evaluations of teaching
• Your own learning experiences (in school or otherwise) and how these inform your understanding of your students’ learning

July 2026: Grading and feedback (deadline May 29)

Potential topics

• Strategies for managing large volumes of grading
• What recent scholarship has to say about the effectiveness of different grading and feedback practices
• Getting students to focus on feedback rather than the grade
• Providing thoughtful, individualized feedback in large courses
• What to do when you just don’t know what to say about student work

August 2026: Preparing to teach (deadline June 30)

Potential topics

• Crafting an effective syllabus
• Redesigning assignments, assessments, and other components of a course you’ve previously taught
• Building relationships/rapport early in the term
• First-day-of-class activities that set the tone for learning
• Preparing to teach a course that’s new, that’s not your favorite, or that’s outside your comfort zone