As one of the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence’s Instructional Consultants, I help faculty members, teaching assistants, and members of the learning design community to improve their instructional methods.
Let’s work together to design engaging and effective teaching and learning experiences by exploring one or more of the topics below.
- Accessible and inclusive teaching techniques
- Classroom & course assessment techniques
- Student engagement techniques
- Outcomes-based course design & curriculum development
- Universal Design for Learning
In addition to providing individual and group consultations and facilitating custom workshops, I alternate with my colleagues to co-facilitate one or more of the following short courses, workshops, and seminars for the Schreyer Institute.
- Course in College Teaching
- Course Design Academy
- OL 3600: Universal Design for Learning
- Teach to Reach with Universal Design for Learning
Currently, I serve on Penn State’s Accessibility Learning Path Team, Student Engagement Network’s Assessment Work Group, and Universal Design for Learning Team. I’ve presented on the UDL Team’s efforts at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education Conference, the Modern Language Association Convention, and the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Learn more about my efforts to foster UDL at Penn State in this ThinkUDL podcast.
Examples of my pedagogical scholarship appear in CMA Today Educator’s Forum and Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice (McFarland, 2012). Much of my research focuses on 19th-century British literature, particularly the works of Charles Dickens. My work on his life, his writings, and his culture appears in Critical Insights: Great Expectations (Salem Press, 2009) and The Dickensian (Vol. 98.2).
I’ve presented on Dickensian topics at the Dickens Society Symposium, the International Dickens Fellowship Conference and branch meetings, the #Dickens150 virtual conference, the Modern Language Association Convention, and the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Visit my personal web site to learn more about me and to read my curriculum vitae and statement of professional philosophy.
Schedule a consultation with me at my Bookings page or with an email message to matobin@psu.edu.