Skill Development

• Academic Technology Center
  The student technology assistants in the ATC provide support and assistance for faculty who use instructional technology in their courses. The program provides assistance with creating course web sites, Blackboard, and preparing course content for presentations or the web.
• CUL Instruction
  Individual libraries of Cornell University Libraries offer a wide variety of open workshops designed to assist patrons in developing skills in library research, information management, and computer applications. These workshops are free and open to registered Cornell students, faculty, and staff. Faculty can also request library instruction sessions that are custom-designed to meet the special needs of their classes.
• Faculty Development - CLT
  We offer a variety of events and workshops to assist faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants to integrate computer technologies and teaching, assist developing library research, information management, and computer-applications skills. In addition, help is available for International Teaching Assistants to improve their communication skills, explore educational innovations, and collaborate to shape their cultural knowledge into shared learning experiences for their students. If you want to develop your ability to use technology in support of teaching, many opportunities are available through individual consultation, workshops, online training, and self-help resources. Development opportunities that focus mostly on teaching skills are also available.
  
• Faculty Support Services for Teaching with Technology
  Faculty Support Services for Teaching with Technology offers a variety of events and workshops to assist faculty, instructors, and instructional staff to integrate technologies with teaching. Our services also include special events, instructional consultations, and customized training.
• Instructional Development for International Teaching Assistants
  The International Teaching Assistant Development Program offers academic programs and courses with small group instruction and individual consultation to international teaching assistants who want to improve their communication and pedagogical skills in American classrooms.
• Instructional Development for Teaching Assistants
  The Cornell Teaching Assistant Development Program provides workshops and individual support to teaching assistants to help them improve their teaching skills.
• Video for Teaching Library Skills
  The Guide to Library Research at Cornell online tutorial contains several streaming video clips about how to do library research.
• Videotaping classes for professional development
  The Office of Instructional Support provides faculty members and teaching assistants information, consultation, planning, and other services on an individual, course, departmental, college, and university-wide level to support the practice of teaching.
• Webliographies
  Some libraries created web-based bibliographies for classes to support their library instruction. Please contact the library instruction coordinator for the appropriate library for more information.