What We Offer

We offer various events for our faculty on a monthly basis. View and register for upcoming activities.

ACUE Association of College and University Educators’ Course on Effective Teaching Practices. This course, endorsed by the American Council on Education, offers professional learning for faculty in research-based techniques shown to help students succeed. Cohort model August – May each year. By application only.

This course prepares faculty in the teaching essentials that improve student achievement.

This event is a collaboration between the NAU Teaching Academy, FPDP, Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning Design & Assessment, this annual event brings faculty from across campus together to celebrate teaching at NAU with an invited keynote speaker and workshop on impactful teaching.

Faculty across campus gather to celebrate teaching at NAU.  Join us on January 9, 2020 for the keynote address and workshop with Jose’ Bowen, author of  “Teaching Naked” and “Teaching Naked Techniques, A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes”. 

This program fosters purposeful matches between faculty members. Each faculty member requesting a mentor is paired with an experienced faculty member who shares her/his interests (usually from a different discipline). Purposeful, mutually enriching matches are made between faculty requesting mentoring and their experienced faculty mentors in the beginning of the fall semester or as requested during the year.

Learn more about the mentor program, request a mentor or become a mentor.

The orientation for new faculty will be held on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. The new faculty benefits session will be held on August 17, 2020.

A series for new faculty

This monthly series is designed to assist new faculty throughout the first year at NAU. This series is designed for faculty members new to teaching at NAU. Topics vary by month. This series meets the second Friday of each month from 1:30 – 2:30 pm in Cline Library Room 169, the Teaching Commons and remotely via ZOOM. (https://zoom.us/my/naufacdev) This series is open only to the current new full-time faculty cohort and is by invitation only.

*This series is open only to the 2019/20 new full-time faculty cohort, by invitation only.

Spring 2020 Sessions:

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1/17 – Beyond Student Evaluations: Evidence of Good Teaching

2/14 – Creating Productive Relationships

3/13 – Striving for Work-Life Balance

4/10 – Wrapping Up Your First Year: Looking Forward to Your Second Year

This series is designed specifically for faculty who are dedicated to enhancing their teaching and student learning. In this series, we explore key teaching strategies that are linked to student success. This series is for all faculty members at NAU. This series meets monthly on Wednesday from 2:30 – 3:30 pm in Cline Library Room 169, the Teaching Commons and remotely via ZOOM. (https://zoom.us/my/naufacdev)

Spring 2020 Sessions:

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2/26 – Engaging Today’s Students: The Golden Rules

3/25 – TBD

4/15 – TBD

This series is designed to assist faculty to enhance their teaching and student engagement through the use of technology.  This series is for all faculty members at NAU. Meets monthly on Tuesdays from 10:00 – 11:00 am in Cline Library Room 169, the Teaching Commons and remotely via ZOOM. (https://zoom.us/my/naufacdev)

Spring 2020 Sessions:

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2/11 – Best Practices for Teaching with Power Point

3/10 – TBD

4/14 – TBD

This series is designed for faculty who are dedicated to learning more about teaching and learning in the online modality. We will explore online teaching best practices linked to student success. Meets monthly on Fridays from 9:00 – 10:00 am in Cline Library Room 169, the Teaching Commons and remotely via ZOOM. (https://zoom.us/my/naufacdev)

Spring 2020 Sessions:

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2/14 – Research Based Best Practices for Online Teaching

3/13 – TBD

4/10 – TBD

This series is designed to orient NAU faculty to the students we see in our classrooms.  In collaboration with campus partners, we will explore the ever-evolving characteristics—strengths and challenges—of our students. Meets monthly on Thursdays from 2:30 – 3:30 pm in Cline Library Room 169, the Teaching Commons and remotely via ZOOM. (https://zoom.us/my/naufacdev)

A Focus on Students

Spring 2020 Sessions:

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2/6 – Indigenous Students

3/5 – First Generation Students

4/2 – TBD

This series is designed specifically for Graduate Teaching Assistants who are dedicated to enhancing their teaching and student learning. In this series, we explore key teaching strategies that are linked to student success and can be applied in or adapted for all disciplines. This series is open to all GTAs at NAU. Each session is offered twice each month (Tues morning & Wed afternoon options) in Cline Library Room 169, the Teaching Commons and remotely via ZOOM. (https://zoom.us/my/naufacdev)

January Topic: Responding to Course Evaluations

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1/21

1/29

February Topic: Using Lectures Effectively

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2/4

2/12

March Topic: How Can We Engage Students in the Learning Process?

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3/3

3/11

April Topic: What Do My Students Know?

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4/7

4/8

May Topic: Develop a Teaching Portfolio

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5/5

Additional Graduate Teaching Assistant Resources

Faculty and professional learning communities (FLCs) and communities of practice (COP) help establish interdisciplinary connections for sustained conversations on focused topics.

The goal of our book discussion is to gather a group of faculty members to read a book about students, pedagogy, or other relevant topics then discuss their learning with other faculty across campus. Book discussions are generally 1 hour in length and meet every other week for a semester.

The 20-minute Monday Morning Mentor weekly webinar series is presented by respected academic peers, covers timely and relevant topics and provides practical information. Each webinar is a critical topic that affects the higher education landscape and is effectively and efficiently covered. Topics include assessment and learning goals, classroom management, student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online and others.

Subscribe to have the Monday Morning Mentor delivered to your inbox by FPDP.

Join us weekly on Wednesdays from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm to view and discuss the webinar in Cline 169 or via Zoom (https://zoom.us/my/naufacdev).