Summer Institute
IDEAS and CETL Workshop Experience
Centered around High-Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS), each session included instruction and information on a HITS topic and an interactive session where participants were encouraged to implement what they learned.
Topics we explored:
- Explicit Teaching
- Worked Examples
- Metacognitive Strategies
- Collaborative Learning
- Multiple Exposures & Formats
- Feedback
Recordings of the Summer Institute sessions are available on the Summer Institute playlist on Panopto.

Collaborative Learning
Summer Institute Day 2 Session 2: Collaborative Learning Research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning. In this second day of workshops for Summer Institute 2022, participants had...

Metacognitive Strategies
Summer Institute Session 3: Metacognitive Strategies To become self-directed learners, students must learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan their approach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed....

Worked Examples
Summer Institute Session 2: Worked Examples "A worked example is a step-by-step demonstration of how to perform a task or how to solve a problem" (Clark, Nguyen, Sweller, 2006, p. 190). In the second session of the inaugural day for Summer Institute 2022,...

Multiple Exposures
Summer Institute Day 3 Session 1: Multiple Exposures "Forgetting is a feature, not a bug." - Popov, Marevic, Rummel, & Reder, 2019 3 Strategies for Helping Students Remember What They Learn We often think of forgetting as a failure in memory, but in truth, the...

Feedback
Summer Institute Day 3 Session 2: Feedback "Feedback is the formal and explicit comments that someone, usually a teacher, provides to students about their academic work." David Nicol (2021) The Feedback session for Summer Institute 2022, focused on the ways students...

Explicit Teaching
Summer Institute Session 1: Explicit Teaching Explicit Teaching is "Instruction that does not leave anything to chance and does not make assumptions about skills and knowledge that children will acquire on their own." -Torgesen, 2004 In the kick-off session for Summer...