Goal and Purpose of Colloquium
The CHHS Teaching Colloquium aims to celebrate and cultivate teaching excellence while equipping educators with the tools to enhance pedagogical effectiveness and promote student achievement. As such, the Teaching Colloquium functions as a dedicated platform designed to formally recognize exemplary teaching practices, nurture an environment that prioritizes scholarly engagement in teaching, and offer avenues for professional development to elevate teaching proficiency in CHHS.
The CHHS Teaching Colloquium serves as an interactive venue where faculty members, staff, and students can actively participate in substantive dialogues, exchange insights into evidence-based practices, and collectively collaborate on enriching student success facilitating of effective teaching strategies. The Teaching Colloquium’s overarching objective is to support the cultivation of a CHHS educational culture marked by teaching excellence and the steadfast support of student achievement.
The CHHS Teaching Colloquium aligns with TILT’s Teaching Effectiveness Initiative Program. This voluntary program incentivizes instructors to implement and reflect upon the use of evidence-based practices of the Teaching Effectiveness Framework. Participants can earn Certificates of Completion, Letters of Commendation, and upon earning all seven TEF domains, the Teaching Effectiveness Fellow Award. TEI program artifacts can also be used as evidence of teaching effectiveness in annual reviews and promotion/tenure applications. Innovation Station presenters and attendees leverage their experience at the CHHS Teaching Colloquium to demonstrate progress and changes in classrooms using the TEI Post Implementation Reflection Form.
2025 Teaching Colloquium
- Date and Time: Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 9 a.m. – noon
- Location: Lory Student Center Ballroom
Colloquium Themes
The 2025-2026 Colloquium focuses on three high-impact themes at the forefront of teaching and learning and grounded in TILT’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework:
- AI and Technology – Integrating emerging tools and platforms to enhance learning, personalize instruction, and improve access.
- Feedback and Assessment – Designing meaningful, efficient, and growth-oriented ways to support student learning through feedback and evaluation.
- Community Building and Classroom Climate – Fostering inclusive, connected, and motivated learning environments where all students can thrive.
Teaching Innovation Stations
One of the key highlights of the Colloquium was the “Teaching Innovation Stations”— a dynamic, interactive platform where faculty, staff, and graduate students shared their compelling and unique teaching methodologies that enhance student learning.
Submit Your Innovation Station Proposal
Get to know our 2024 Teaching Innovation Station presenters!
Request for Proposals
What is a Teaching Innovation Station?
Innovation Stations are a hands-on alternative to traditional poster sessions. They are interactive and informal, using props, visuals, handouts, sample student work, or stories to help attendees understand and apply the teaching strategy in their own classrooms. Stations will be featured simultaneously during a dedicated session in the Lory Student Center Ballroom. Each presenter will share one clearly defined teaching strategy they have successfully implemented. These can include:
- Instructional methods that resonate with your discipline
- In-Class Activities and Lessons
- Techniques to motivate learners or build community
- Canvas course design and navigation
- Approaches for aligning course materials with degree learning outcomes
Innovation Station Proposal Requirements
Proposals must include the following:
- Title of Teaching Strategy or Practice – Provide a clear, descriptive title for the content you plan to share.
- Theme Selection and Alignment – Identify which of the three themes your strategy reflects.
- Description of Teaching Strategy – A concise explanation of your teaching practice, its purpose, how it connects to the chosen theme, and how it works in your course or with students.
- Impact on Student Learning – Describe how this practice has improved student learning, motivation, engagement, or equity. Share feedback or evidence if available.
- Materials and Interactive Elements – Indicate what you plan to use to engage attendees, such as proposals, pictures, examples, Canvas modules or screens, handouts, student work, etc.
Selection and Support
A committee will review proposals for clarity, quality, applicability, and impact. Selected proposals will ensure a diverse set of stations in alignment with the 2025 Teaching Colloquium themes.
Selected presenters will receive:
- Logistical support for setup in the LSC Ballroom.
- Design help from the Dean’s Office to create a digital handout, accessible via QR code at your station and on the Colloquium website.
- Recognition in event materials and online.
- Collegial kudos and the chance to be part of a vibrant learning community.
Submission Deadline
Submit Your Innovation Station Proposal
Deadline: 5 p.m. on Monday, August 18, 2025.
Questions?
For questions, please contact Dr. Jen Aberle, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, at jennifer.aberle@colostate.edu.
Scenes from the 2024 CHHS Teaching Colloquium
View more photos from the event on the College of Health and Human Sciences Flickr.