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 through the facilitation 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 as well as 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.
Teaching Colloquium Agenda
- 8:30-9:15 a.m. | LSC Ballroom A | Welcome and Keynote Address by Dr. Dan Beachy-Quick, University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Department of English
- 9:15-9:45 p.m. | LSC Ballroom A | Faculty and Student Panel Discussion: Teaching Effectiveness and Student Success
- Panelists include:
- Dr. Dan Beachy-Quick – Professor, English
- Emily Hogsett – Undergraduate student, Family and Consumer Sciences
- Dr. Jain Kwon – Assistant Professor, Design and Merchandising
- Brock Rigsby – Applied Developmental Science doctoral student, Human Development and Family Studies
- Panelists include:
- 9:45-10 a.m. | Break
- 10-10:30 a.m. | LSC Ballroom A | 2024 Teaching Fellows Presentations, Ashley Harvey and Leann Kaiser
- 10:30-11:40 a.m. | LSC Ballrooms B-C | Teaching Innovation Stations Session
- 11:40-11:45 a.m. | LSC Ballrooms B-C | Closing Remarks
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.
Get to know this year’s Teaching Innovation Station presenters!
Request for Proposals
What is a Teaching Innovation Station?
Innovation Stations offer an engaging, interactive alternative to traditional poster sessions or lecture presentations. These stations focus on a single innovative teaching strategy that instructors have successfully integrated into their courses. Topics include novel course designs, instructional technology, active learning techniques, creative assignments, assessment models, facilitating difficult conversations, effective communication strategies, and other methods that have improved student learning. Unlike traditional presentations, Innovation Stations are meant to be informal and applied ways for people to share what they do in the classroom. Stations can include the use of props, samples, stories, and other illustrative tools to share your educational innovations.
Submission Deadline
Proposal submissions for the 2024 Teaching Colloquium are now closed. Please return fall 2025 for information about the 2025 Teaching Colloquium.
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.