The Enhancing Teaching & Learning Conference is a Kansas City Professional Development Council (KCPDC) professional development event that provides an opportunity for educators to share their successes inside and outside of the classroom.
Through concurrent 45-minute in-person sessions, presenters are encouraged to be creative to appeal to a broad audience.
Proposals for the concurrent sessions should focus on one of the four tracks listed below:
Learner-Centered/Active Learning Strategies
How do you create opportunities for active learning and student engagement? How have you empowered students to apply their academic skills and knowledge in real-world contexts, fostering a deeper understanding and meaningful impact? Share your strategies for engaging students in activities such as peer tutoring, presentations, and reflective exercises that connect classroom learning with practical applications.
Assessment of Learning/Competency Outcomes
As the paradigm of assessment in higher education shifts, identify how you have adapted (i.e. Share formative practices that have made an impact). How has your assessment – class, program, institution – been impacted over the last two years, and what are you discovering as possible solutions? This track is cross-disciplinary, formative, summative, etc.
Teaching with Emerging Technologies
With generative artificial intelligence(GenAI) disrupting higher education, how have you embraced such emerging technologies in your courses to enhance student learning and engagement? What policies have been implemented to include GAI and other educational technologies across modalities?
What successes and failures have you seen because of the implementation of these tools? What advice would you give to those interested in exploring emerging technologies?
Faculty Leadership
How do you lead right where you are? How have you used your passion or your communication skills? When were you proactive, resilient, adaptable, or knew when to take risks? Share your academic leadership successes with other faculty to motivate them to become leaders right where they are!
