This certificate provides a series of workshops aimed at empowering educators with effective strategies to create an engaging learning environment for our PFW students. By completing this certificate, educators will acquire the knowledge and skills needed to implement learning-centered approaches and promote active participation in the classroom. Faculty who have recently completed the Student-Engaged Pedagogy certificate will not be eligible for the Learning Centered Pedagogy certificate.

*For additional information about this teaching certificate, please visit Brightspace for full details and resources.

WORKSHOPS FOR THIS CERTIFICATE:

FALL 2026

The Instructor as the Learning Architect 

• Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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Power, Purpose, and Motivation 

• Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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Engaging Silent Learners 

• Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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Achieving Academic Rigor Through Effective Student Support 

• Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2026
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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SPRING 2027

Who is a Mastodon

• Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2027
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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The Instructor as the Learning Architect 

• Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2027
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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Power, Purpose, and Motivation 

• Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2027
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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Engaging Silent Learners

• Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2027
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy 

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Achieving Academic Rigor Through Effective Student Support 

• Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2027
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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This certificate program focuses on helping instructors enhance student engagement using university-supported educational technology tools. Participants will explore practical strategies for integrating tools such as video creation tools, polling tools (e.g., Poll Everywhere), and selected Brightspace features into their courses. Through hands-on activities and examples, faculty will design learning experiences that promote active participation, timely feedback, and meaningful interaction in both online and in-person environments.

This certificate includes a required introductory workshop, two elective workshops focused on specific educational technology tools and teaching strategies, and two culminating activities that help participants apply their learning to their own courses.

*For additional information about this teaching certificate, please visit Brightspace for full details and resources.

WORKSHOPS FOR THIS CERTIFICATE:

FALL 2026

Speed Dating with PFW Ed Tech Tools 

• Date: Friday, September 4, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Use Poll Everywhere to Check Students' Understanding 

• Date: Friday, September 11, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools

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Creating Effective Instructional Videos 

• Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Using Kaltura Quiz to Engage Students through Videos 

• Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Use Brightspace Intelligent Agents to Monitor Student Progress 

• Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
• Time:  9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Use Poll Everywhere for Attendance and Engagement Tracking

• Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Use Brightspace Awards to Motivate Your Students 

• Date: Friday, October 23, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Build Engaging Content with Brightspace Creator+ 

• Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Get Started with GoReact 

• Date: Friday, November 6, 2026
• Time:  9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Using GoReact for Peer Review and Simulations 

• Date: Friday, November 20, 2026
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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SPRING 2027

Use Brightspace Intelligent Agents to Monitor Student Progress 

• Date: Friday, January 22, 2027
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools 

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Use Brightspace Awards to Motivate Your Students 

• Date: Friday, February 5, 2027
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools

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Build Engaging Content with Brightspace Creator+

• Date: Friday, February 26, 2027
• Time: 9:00AM-9:50AM
• Certificate: Engaging Students with Ed Tech Tools

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This Certificate will equip instructors with evidence-based approaches and techniques to systematically measure and promote student learning. A series of interactive and practical workshops will explore various aspects of assessment. Workshops lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding and application of assessment practices, with options that aligns directly with participants’ teaching needs, interests, and/or contexts.

*For additional information about this teaching certificate, please visit Brightspace for full details and resources.

WORKSHOPS FOR THIS CERTIFICATE:

Foundations for Effectively Measuring Student Learning 

• Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
• Time: 10:00AM-11:15AM
• Certificate: Effectively Measuring Student Learning

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Exam Design: A Comprehensive Approach for Student Success 

• Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
• Time: 10:00AM-11:15AM
• Certificate: Effectively Measuring Student Learning

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Assignment Design: An Alignment Driven Approach for Student Success 

• Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
• Time: 10:00AM-11:15AM
• Certificate: Effectively Measuring Student Learning 

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Feedback and Grading Tools: Enhancing Evaluation for Student Success 

• Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
• Time: 10:00AM-11:15AM
• Certificate: Effectively Measuring Student Learning 

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Classroom Assessment Techniques: Progress Checks for Student Success

• Date: This workshop is asynchronous online
• Time: In order to access this workshop, you should first enroll yourself in the CELT Certificate Workshop and FLC Programs AY 26-27 course. Then, join the group for Effectively Measuring Student Learning. You do not have to pursue the Certificate; this process just gives you access to the workshop. 
• Certificate: Effectively Measuring Student Learning

NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY

This certificate helps international faculty translate their teaching expertise into the U.S. higher education context while building lasting professional community at PFW. The program combines a six-part workshop series (covering U.S. academic culture and expectations, building belonging, cross-cultural classroom communication, teaching across cultures, understanding today's Gen Z students, and mentoring for long-term success) with ongoing drop-in consultations for one-on-one support. Faculty leave with practical classroom strategies, stronger relationships with students and colleagues, and a network of support that carries them through their careers at PFW.

*For additional information about this teaching certificate, please visit Brightspace for full details and resources.

WORKSHOPS FOR THIS CERTIFICATE:

FALL 2026

Building Belonging as an International Faculty Member (Workshop 1 Session 1) 

• Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Building Belonging as an International Faculty Member (Workshop 1 Session 2) 

• Date: Friday, September 18, 2026
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Understanding Today’s Students: Teaching Generation Z in the US Higher Education Context (Workshop 2 Session 1) 

• Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Understanding Today’s Students: Teaching Generation Z in the US Higher Education Context (Workshop 2 Session 2) 

• Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Cultural Awareness and Communication in the Classroom (Workshop 3 Session 1) 

• Date: Thursday, November 12, 2026
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Cultural Awareness and Communication in the Classroom (Workshop 3 Session 2) 

• Date: Friday, November 13, 2026
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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SPRING 2027

Faculty Perspectives on Teaching Across Cultures (Workshop 4 Session 1) 

• Date: Thursday, February 25, 2027
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Faculty Perspectives on Teaching Across Cultures (Workshop 4 Session 2) 

• Date: Friday, February 26, 2027
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Mentoring, Feedback, and Long-Term Success (Workshop 5 Session 1) 

• Date: Thursday, March 18, 2027 
• Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM
• Certificate: International Faculty Development & Success

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Mentoring, Feedback, and Long-Term Success (Workshop 5 Session 2) 

• Date: Friday, March 19, 2027
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate:  International Faculty Development & Success

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This self-paced, asynchronous certificate aims to help instructors navigate the opportunities and challenges
associated with teaching in an AI-powered Age. Through engaging workshops, participants will identify the
potential impacts of AI tools on student learning and assessment design, develop effective prompting strategies
for different teaching and learning related tasks, enhance activity and course design to support student learning
and assessment through AI tools, identify the potential benefits of AI for instructors’ efficiency, and develop AI
usage policy by considering the legal and ethical dimensions of AI in education.

*For additional information about this teaching certificate, please visit Brightspace for full details and resources.

This self-paced, asynchronous certificate helps you build your Brightspace toolbox to support your teaching and learning needs in Brightspace, our campus Learning Management System. Working in an asynchronous
Brightspace course, you can complete this certificate for broad insights into Brightspace and gain a strong
utility of the most common Brightspace tools, solutions, and recommended practices. You will build and manage your courses in “better and brighter” ways.

DATE: August 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027   
TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)

Enrollment Instructions

*Please note, enrolling in a certificate grants access, it does not require you to complete it.*

Ready to take your Brightspace skills to the next level? This is a self-paced program that walks you through
advanced features and how to implement them in your courses. Content will include Optimizing Quizzes,
Intelligent Agents, Advanced Gradebook Solutions, Rubrics, Awards & Release Conditions, and Creator+.

DATE: August 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027   
TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)

Enrollment Instructions

*Please note, enrolling in a certificate grants access, it does not require you to complete it.*

Rates of depression and anxiety among college-age students have risen sharply, and educators are caught between competing instincts: do students need more support, or have we protected them too much from difficulty? Psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh proposes a framework she calls “compassionate challenge”: create environments of genuine support first, then guide students into productive difficulty. Students are far more capable of facing hard things when they feel genuinely supported. This FLC will be a practical reframe, connecting teaching philosophy, classroom climate, and course design to student wellbeing in concrete ways. The book is a reflective, research-informed conversation about what it means to both support and stretch the students in front of us.

*For additional information about this teaching certificate, please visit Brightspace for full details and resources.

CELT’s Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA certificate is specifically designed to support and develop graduate students with an interest in developing teaching skills. Workshop topics focus on pedagogical development, rapport development, and graduate students' overall well-being. Workshops will blend instruction, self-assessment, and peer-to-peer sharing. Veteran faculty members will facilitate the workshops.

*For additional information about this teaching certificate, please visit Brightspace for full details and resources.

WORKSHOPS FOR THIS CERTIFICATE:

Beyond the Content: Teaching to Enhance Learning (GTAs Only)

• Date: Monday, August 17, 2026
• Time: 11:30AM-12:30PM
• Certificate: Relational Pedagogy

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Knowing Your Students to Enhance Learning (GTAs Only)

• Date: Monday, August 31, 2026
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA Certificate 

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Building Rapport to Enhance Learning (GTAs Only)

• Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA Certificate

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Grad Students Unplugged: Surviving the GTA Experience (GTAs Only)

• Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA Certificate

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Building a Teaching Identity to Enhance Learning (GTAs Only) 

• Date: Monday, November 16, 2026
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA Certificate

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Teaching Complex Topics to Enhance Learning (GTAs Only) 

• Date: Monday, January 27, 2027
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA Certificate

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Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning (GTAs ONLY)

• Date: Monday, February 22, 2027
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA Certificate

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Reflecting on Our Instruction to Enhance Learning (GTAs Only)

• Date: Monday, March 22, 2027
• Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
• Certificate: Foundations of Collegiate Teaching: A GTA Certificate

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