Signature Pedagogies in the Disciplines In-Person
What does your teaching say about your discipline? What’s the teaching and learning DNA of your discipline? Come to these short, high-impact sessions where you will explore the signature pedagogies of the disciplines. Signature pedagogies are the distinctive teaching practices that shape how future professionals think, perform, and engage. How do you expect your students to think and act when they complete your course?
Each session includes a quick dive into one field’s signature pedagogy (e.g. studio critique, Socratic seminars, clinical rounds, case-based learning, lecture, to name a few), followed by a reflective prompt for participants to identify their own teaching patterns, values, and assumptions. Why should you attend?
- Identify what’s implicit in your practice
- Connect deep disciplinary knowledge to everyday teaching
- Learn how other fields approach learning and what you might borrow!
Whether you teach in fine arts, business, the sciences, humanities, or helping professions, this series invites you to reflect, connect, and evolve your teaching practice so that students are well prepared for their professional lives.
- Date:
- Thursday, September 11, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 10:00am
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- CTL-Kaltura
- Campus:
- Online
- Audience:
- Faculty
- Categories:
- Active Learning & Engagement Instructional Skills
As Lee Shulman (2005) explained, signature pedagogies can be identified by three structures:
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- Surface: Observable teaching and learning practices (e.g., lecture, critique)
- Deep: Epistemological underpinnings—what counts as knowledge; what's the best way to develop knowledge?
- Implicit: Professional norms, values, and habits of mind
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The first of the series explains why signature pedagogies matter for intentional quality teaching and learning experiences.
Shulman, L. S. (2005). Signature pedagogies in the professions. Daedalus, 134(3), 52-59. https://doi.org/10.1162/0011526054622015