• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
University of Central Arkansas Logo

CETAL

UCA

Main navigation

  • About Us
    • Mission & Values
    • Staff
    • Blog
    • Social Media
  • Services
    • Instructional Consultations
    • Faculty Development Grants
    • Faculty Media Library
    • Instructional Planners
    • Recognition of Achievement
      • Past Recipients
  • Events
    • Learning Communities
    • Instructional Workshops
    • Conferences & Orientations
    • Event Registration
  • Teaching & Learning
    • Faculty for Successful Students
    • Pedagogy
    • Assessment and Feedback
    • Student Support
  • Technology
    • Accessibility and Compliance
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Instructional Technology
      • Top Hat
    • Online Course Design
    • Resources for Online Classes
  • Guidelines

Instructional Workshops

Bear Bites Logo for CETAL WorkshopsThe Center for Excellence in Teaching and Academic Leadership offers structured instructional workshops that bring faculty together with the goal of engaging around focused topics on a variety of teaching practices.Workshops offer a low-commitment, high-impact opportunity to gain new knowledge and expand your teaching toolkit while also developing and/or strengthening professional relationships with colleagues across campus who share similar interests. Some of our workshops may be at various times and locations around campus, however most of them are considered Bear Bites luncheon events! These typically happen around the lunch hour (meal provided) and are held in the Executive Dining Room of the Christian Cafeteria (entrance through the black awning at the south-east corner). You will see this fun logo to designate each Bear Bites event!


Bear Bites Logo for CETAL WorkshopsMeaningful Feedback That Makes a Difference

Date: September 18, 2025
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: Executive Dining Room
Facilitators: Jenny Brewer and Faculty Panel
Program: Supporting the Faculty for Successful Students Campaign

Join us for a practical, faculty-led conversation on what makes feedback truly meaningful for students—and manageable for instructors. This session will highlight strategies that promote student engagement, save time, and support learning across disciplines. Faculty panelists will share real-world examples of how they provide written, audio, and video feedback, how they balance formative and summative feedback, and how they use tools and techniques that work.

Whether you’re teaching online, in person, or somewhere in between, come away with ideas you can use right away to make your feedback more effective and impactful.

Lunch provided. All faculty welcome!
REGISTER

 

Bear Bites Logo for CETAL Workshops

Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About: Designing Purposeful Presentation Assignments

Date: September 23, 2025
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: Executive Dining Room
Facilitator: Katherine Bray

Ditch the deer-in-headlights look and awkward silences! This lunch program reveals the secret sauce for creating presentation assignments that actually work—no fluff, no stress, just results. Discover how to seamlessly weave presentations into your curriculum while keeping your content goals front and center. We’ll share battle-tested strategies from professors across disciplines who’ve cracked the code on making presentations both meaningful and manageable.

Lunch provided. All faculty welcome!
REGISTER

 

Bear Bites Logo for CETAL Workshops

Expanding Worldviews Through our Curricula: Experiences with and Ideas for Intercultural Instruction

Date: September 30, 2025
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: Executive Dining Room
Facilitator: Christina Jeffrey

Intentionally including varied worldviews in curricula and academic culture is crucial in decreasing senses of isolation and stigma in students, creating a sense of group identity and inclusion in the classroom, and increasing congruence amongst students and instructors. While these benefits are clear, there is no consensus on the precise means of how such perspectives are introduced or interwoven in the classroom. As a result, faculty may struggle with a sense of role ambiguity in how to discuss intercultural perspectives in class due to a lack of clear guidance in such instruction. Drawing upon results from a series of faculty focus groups, this presentation offers further insight into if, what, how, and when global perspectives are introduced in professors’ past higher education, their personal feelings of preparedness in incorporating diverse worldviews into their own curricula, and ideas for strengthening such integration in courses and institutions.

Lunch provided. All faculty welcome!
REGISTER

 

Bear Bites Logo for CETAL Workshops

Supporting Students – Without Losing Your Sanity

Date: October 14, 2025
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: Executive Dining Room
Facilitators: Jenny Brewer and Faculty Panel
Program: Supporting the Faculty for Successful Students Campaign

Low-lift, high-impact ways to personalize student support and connect them to resources. 

Finding meaningful ways to support students can sometimes feel overwhelming—especially when you’re managing multiple classes, grading, meetings, and life outside of work. This session focuses on small but powerful strategies faculty can use to offer individualized support to students—without burning out. Learn how to personalize your approach, build student connection, and point students to the right resources—while protecting your own time, energy, and boundaries.

We’ll also hear from UCA faculty who are doing this well—offering encouragement, structure, and support without overextending themselves. Join us and leave with realistic ideas you can start using right away.

Lunch provided. All faculty welcome!
REGISTER

 

Global Education Workshop

Date: TBD
Time: 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Location: TBD
Facilitator: Allison Freed

Join us for an engaging discussion and interactive workshop focused on effective strategies for incorporating global goals into your existing coursework and scholarship while aligning your work with institutional and academic goals and objectives. More to come soon!
REGISTER


Previous CETAL Events

Copyright © 2025 · University of Central Arkansas · 201 Donaghey Ave. Conway, AR 72035