Summer Institutes

Center for Teaching Excellence

General Education Instructors' Institute: Summer 2025

 

Creating Cultures of Thinking Using High-Impact Teaching Practices

 

June 2-9, 2025

4 days in person (June 2, 3, 5 and 9) plus online (D2L) interactions

 

Model Mill Meeting room: 6/2, 6/5, and 6/9 (Location for 6/3: Culp a.m., Model Mill p.m.)

[Light breakfast, lunch, snacks provided]

 

Openings available for 16 participants

Stipend: $1250

 

NEW: 4 additional openings available for instructors who do not teach Gen Ed but want to learn HITPs

[No Stipend; see below for adaptations to expectations]

 

Application Deadline: May 9, 2025

 

APPLY

Non-Gen Ed applicants: Please put either N/A or alternative course information in fields that address Gen Ed instruction.

 

Institute Goals

As a scholar in this institute, you will:
  • Learn about & gain mindsets that help create a Culture of Thinking
  • Learn about & experience a diverse array of High-Impact Teaching Practices (HITPs)
  • Plan for the regular and impactful integration of HITPs in Fall 2025/Spring 2026 Gen Ed course(s)
  • Troubleshoot emerging issues as Gen Ed courses are taught
  • Share insights, plans, and outcomes with broader teaching community

 

  • Benefits
    • Greater energy and student engagement in your Gen Ed classes
    • Enhanced student learning of your content
    • Gain a teaching/learning community of support
    • Teaching strategies resource folder
    • Provost and Associate Provost for Faculty recognition
    • Watermark activity for Teaching
    • Stipend of $1250 for Gen Ed instructors
  • Expectations
    • Attend all 4 days of Institute (Model Mill & Culp)
    • Participate actively in online activities during the Institute
    • Significantly revise instructional plans for a Gen Ed course or other course (if non-Gen Ed instructor)

     

    Post-Institute Expectations (Stipend Recipients Only*):

    • Share HITPs insights and plans at Conference for High-Impact Instructional Practices special session, August 6, 2025 (Johnson City)
    • Attend 2 Fall follow-up meetings (dates TBD, based on survey/availability)
    • Share HITPs outcomes for Fall classes with panel at Micro-CHIIPs online conference, week of January 6 (exact date TBD); or if course not yet taught, share planned Spring syllabus

    * Non-stipend participants are most certainly invited and welcome to participate in these events! However, they are not an expectation.

  • Eligibility
    • Teach a course in 2025-2026 that has been approved as a Compass General Education class (on ground or online)

      • OR: Up to 4 individuals who teach at ETSU. Preference to those with some longevity at ETSU
    • Openness to learning and adopting from a range of new instructional techniques for student engagement and learning
    • Full-time instructors at ETSU
    • Up to 2 adjuncts may be accepted
  • Preference Given
    • Number of students reached (e.g., multiple sections or Gen Ed courses)
    • Diversity of subject/department representation in Institute
    • Adjuncts: Anticipated longevity of service/employment

 

APPLY

Non-Gen Ed applicants: Please put either N/A or alternative course information in fields that address Gen Ed instruction.