Adjunct faculty members are critical in higher education and deserve focused professional development. If you are an adjunct faculty member interested in learning more about effective teaching and learning practices, please consider joining us for our Adjunct Super Saturday Faculty Forum on Teaching and Learning. Super Saturday is a professional development opportunity for new and experienced adjunct faculty. Programming runs from 10:30am until 2:00pm and encompasses several components related to teaching at Marshall.
Fall 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025 | 10:30 am – 2:00 pm | Virtual (live, remote via Teams)*
Strategies for Student Engagement – The ubiquity and ease of fast, fun and addicting technology means that competing for student attention is more important than ever. In this first segment, we’ll look at a diverse array of strategies to get and keep students engaged across different disciplines, even in the material originally appears less than engaging to some of them.
Threshold Concepts – Every discipline has some foundational concepts that are really important to understand but difficult to teach. Understanding these tricky “threshold” concepts often marks the point where students move from not really getting how concepts and ideas fit together to seeing the discipline from a more complete perspective. We’ll talk about what these concepts might be in your discipline and how you can help student navigate their way through them.
AI and Cognitive Offloading – This final segment is designed to lay out some of the AI options students have at their fingertips and what that could mean for your teaching. We’ll take a peek into the cool, somewhat terrifying tech behind chatbots and the pros and cons of student use. We’ll also look at some of the ways educators are reorganizing their syllabi, rethinking their assignments, and reconsidering what knowledge and skills they want their students to know in the face of this very powerful, quickly evolving technology.
For questions, email ctl@marshall.edu.