As teacher educators, the way we design our own courses sends a powerful message to our students, who are future teachers themselves, about what equitable, engaging, and caring instruction looks like in practice. At the same time, professional development works best when it feels less like a presentation and more like a conversation. This workshop seeks to honor both of these ideas by creating a collaborative, low-stakes environment where participants can take an honest look at their own online courses and explore humanizing strategies grounded in research. By the end of the session, participants will have retooled a course artifact ready to use in their online course. More importantly, they will leave thinking differently about what it means to design online learning experiences that are equitable, inclusive, and worthy of the diverse students they serve.The purpose of this workshop is to share common problems of practice and solutions developed to address such problems. The two main problems discussed are surface-level reflections in candidates’ work, and limited practice interacting with parents over difficult topics. After exploring candidates’ work before and after the use of an AI chatbot, participants will be coached to develop their own chatbot prompt to push their own candidates’ thinking or experiences in the college classroom.
MATERIALS PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING A Wi-Fi enabled laptop or tablet. A sample artifact from a current or future online course, such as a syllabus, a weekly module introduction, a major assignment description, or a discussion board prompt. Access to their institution's Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas or Blackboard, if participants wish to build their redesigned elements directly into their course.
