Workshops & Coaching
If you are interested in individual coaching or group workshops, please contact me directly.
Workshop or coaching topics can be tailored for the institutional or individual level, including:
Values + teaching: developing mission-driven approaches to pedagogy and curriculum at the individual or institutional level
Student engagement and educational effectiveness: Culture, Curriculum & Classroom
Practical tools for instructors: interacting with students and shaping the classroom dynamic
Mission, context, and moving institutional initiatives from ideation to implementation
Change agents as (in)formal leaders and storytellers
Workshop or coaching topics that span K-12 and undergraduate education include:
Sciencing as Science Education Pedagogy
Self-Evaluation: A Paradigm for Promoting Autonomous Evaluation
Mathemaction, Problem Problems, and other Activities for Gifted Education
Teaching for Thinking: The Activities and Interactions Model of Student-Centered Learning
Ready to take the next step?
My book, Beyond the Lecture: Interacting with Students and Shaping the Classroom Dynamic offers elaboration of these topics and many more, with self-diagnoses and concrete “things to try” in the classroom. Alternatively, contact me for information about coaching sessions and workshops.
Upcoming Conferences
WSCUC ARC 2024 - I aim to be presenting at the Accreditation Resource Community Conference of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Recent Publications, Workshops, and Conferences
Sheskin M., Bogucki M., Perry T. & McAllister K. “Educational Implications of Conviction Narrative Theory.” Behavioural Brain Science. 2023 May 8; 46:e106. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22002631
Telling the Story: Developing Effective Institutional Narratives - WSCUC ARC 2023 pre-conference workshop co-led by David Chase, Tal Lazar, Katie McAllister, and Christopher Oberg.
Katie McAllister (2022). Student Success and Educational Effectiveness: it starts with engagement. Workshop offered via the WSCUC
McAllister, K.A.L & Villa, V. S. (2022). Culture, Curriculum and Classroom: Fostering and Measuring Multifaceted Student Engagement to Promote Diversity, Equity, Belonging and Learning Outcomes. WSCUC ARC
L. Buckley, R. Carter, W. Conwell, Katie McAllister and L. Varlotta (2022). Equity and the Institution: People, Practices, and Perspectives. WSCUC ARC preconference workshop
Portugal, A. & McAllister, K.A.L (2022). Enabling Student Success by Fostering and Assessing Knowledge Transfer in the College Curriculum and Classroom. AAC&U Annual Meeting January 2022
Interviewed in, Student Input Key to Making Online Courses Effective (2022) GovTech.com
McAllister, K.A.L. (2021). Beyond the Lecture: Interacting with Students and Shaping the Classroom Dynamic. Rowman & Littlefield.
McAllister, K.A.L. (2021). A Teacher’s Guide: How to Use Data to Measure Student Engagement. Minerva Project.
Doan, L. & McAllister, K.A.L. (2021). Factors that Influence Students’ Anxiety in Online Active Learning Classrooms. X-DBER. March 1-3, 2021.
Martins de Bastos, P. & McAllister, K.A.L. (2021). Investigating Instructor Tone and Its Effect On Student Engagement Using Machine Learning. X-DBER. March 1-3, 2021.
McAllister, K.A.L., Gahl, M., Gardner, K. A., Ukolovaite, K., El Oirghi, H. & Tran Duong, H., Fostering Student Engagement by Inviting Student Contributions in the Classroom. AAC&U Annual Meeting: Higher Education After Covid-19. January 20-23, 2021.
Ahuja, A., Mathur, N., McAllister, K.A.L. & Watson, P. (2021) Reliable Assessing Online: Going Beyond the Grading Scale. 2021 Massachusetts PKAL Network Winter Meeting Workshop. January 7, 2021.