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    • Demystifying the EdTech Landscape at WashU

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Did you know WashU has subscriptions to over a dozen educational technology tools you can use for free? Learn how to navigate WashU’s educational technology ecosystem with confidence. In this practical 30-minute session designed for instructors and staff,, you’ll discover the institutionally-supported tools available to you, learn the most efficient […]

    Crafting Effective AI Use Policies

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    The more transparently you communicate your AI use expectations upfront, the more likely students are to follow them… and the less you'll have to navigate ambiguous cases later on! This session will provide practical language and strategies for communicating AI expectations transparently in both syllabi and on individual assignments. Participants […]

    Teaching Triangles Fall 2026 Application Deadline

    • - Special Event
    Online
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    The Teaching Triangles program is a high-impact, but low commitment, peer classroom observation initiative to help faculty think through their teaching practices in a supportive environment. In Teaching Triangles, faculty observe and are observed by two colleagues at least once over the course of the semester. Participants engage in non-judgmental, […]

    Learning Student Names and How to Pronounce Them: Tips and Canvas Features

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Learning student names is one of the most effective ways to create an inclusive and effective classroom environment, but for many of us learning names and getting the pronunciation correct is hard. In this session, we'll introduce a new Canvas feature where students can share their name pronunciation. Then drawing […]

    Introduction to Panopto

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Online
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join the CTL for a practical, 30-minute tech training designed to get you up and running with Panopto, WashU's new video platform. This session will focus on the most essential instructor workflows within Canvas. We’ll demonstrate how to locate your content, set up the Zoom-to-Panopto integration, use Smart Search to […]

    GSPD Informational Session

    • Informational Session
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Are you interested in pursuing a teaching-focused career or wanting to learn a bit more information on how our Center can support your professional goals? Well, you are invited to attend an informational session. Please join us as we will share more information on how you can engage in our […]

    • The Principles and Practices of AI-aware Teaching: A Faculty Learning Community with Derek Bruff

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Join the CTL this fall, along with noted author and experienced faculty developer Derek Bruff, for a semester-long faculty learning community on AI-aware teaching. The community will be facilitated by Bruff to discuss and apply the lessons of his newly published book The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching.  Bruff is […]

    GSPD Informational Session

    • Informational Session
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Are you interested in pursuing a teaching-focused career or wanting to learn a bit more information on how our Center can support your professional goals? Well, you are invited to attend an informational session. Please join us as we will share more information on how you can engage in our […]

    Asset-Based Approaches for Inclusive Teaching

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    • - STEM (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Undergraduate students have much to learn, but they also come to college with valuable previous experiences and knowledge. Asset-based approaches invite us to lean into student potential, and they can also enrich our classes by inviting fuller student participation. In this workshop, we'll discuss examples of asset-based approaches and, importantly, […]

    GSPD Reading Community Fall 2026

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Eads Hall 204
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed was written over 50 years ago but continues to be frequently cited across many teaching and learning contexts. The five-chapter book focuses on equitable teaching and lays out many ideas that are now considered central to good teaching: acknowledging student agency, seeding student investment, […]

    Fall 2026 Faculty Reading Community

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    The featured book for the Fall 2026 Faculty Reading Community is How to Learn to Think like a Skilled Engineer or Scientist and How to Teach It by Carl Wieman. Advanced registration required: see the form at the bottom of this page. Wieman, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in […]

    8th Annual Language Teaching Fair

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    • - Special Event
    Danforth University Center 248
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    The Center for Teaching & Learning and Coalition for Language Teaching and Learning invite you to participate in the 8th Annual WashU Language Teaching Fair. Kindly use the registration form below to let us know you're coming - it'll help us with planning!  Time: Friday, September 18th, 2:15pm-4:30pm Location: Danforth University […]

    Build-a-Bot

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Simon Hall 017
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Interested in building a custom chatbot but not sure where to start? Join us for this hands-on workshop where you will learn to design, build, and deploy your own custom AI chatbot! Beyond course assistants, we’ll discuss how to create role-play conversation partners, scenario simulators, and tutoring agents. Participants should […]

    Exploring the Art of Improv in Our Teaching Practices

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Hillman Hall 200
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Back by popular demand! How can the art of improv support your teaching activities and bring more joy into the classroom? Traditional approaches to teaching in the college classroom can often be stilted and scripted. Yet, in order to respond to our students’ needs and draw them into the learning […]

    Classroom Assessment Techniques: Assess Student Learning and Reflect on Your Teaching

    • - Foundations in Teaching (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Don’t wait until the end of the semester to understand how students are doing in your classroom. Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are informal activities that can highlight student understanding of the content you are teaching and can help you reflect on your effectiveness in teaching your subject’s content. CATs allow […]

    From Vulnerable to Vetted: Redesigning an Assignment for AI

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    DUC 234
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Not sure if your favorite assignment still holds up in the age of AI? This hands-on workshop will help you take an assignment you suspect may be vulnerable to AI misuse and redesign it to ensure your original learning goals are still met. Our time will be dedicated to hands-on […]

    GenAI, Teaching, and Learning: A Faculty Journal Club

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Danforth University Center (DUC) 239 and Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Much ink has been spilled about genAI and learning, but the research is still very much in flux. Each month, the journal club* on AI in education will discuss 1-2 research articles on genAI as it connects to teaching and learning. You are welcome to join whenever you can - […]

    Chatbot Test Kitchen: Taste-Testing Prototypes with Peers

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Hillman Hall 120
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Your chatbot's been simmering and now it's time to see if it's ready to serve! Bring your chatbot prototype to this hands-on session, where faculty will “taste-test” each other's creations and offer feedback before classroom deployment. Please note: this is a test kitchen, not a cooking class: please come with […]

    Classroom Assessment Techniques: Assess Student Learning and Reflect on Your Teaching

    • - Foundations in Teaching (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Don’t wait until the end of the semester to understand how students are doing in your classroom. Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are informal activities that can highlight student understanding of the content you are teaching and can help you reflect on your effectiveness in teaching your subject’s content. CATs allow […]

    AI Curriculum Corps Showcase

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    This past summer, over 80 faculty members participated in the AI Curriculum Corps, a program that equips faculty with resources and support to redesign or create new modules, assignments, and courses that thoughtfully integrate or critically examine AI. Faculty led the design process supported by expert curriculum developers from the Center for Teaching […]

    Keynote Speaker José Bowen on “Preserving Critical Thinking”

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    Hillman Hall, Danforth Campus MO
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    WashU welcomes José Bowen, a leading AI Innovator, scholar, and consultant. AI is already changing human work, perspectives, thinking, creativity and the limits of customization. It might also be the fastest change to writing and the greatest challenge to critical thinking in human history. AI is changing average, creativity and labor: […]

    Classroom Assessment Techniques: Assess Student Learning and Reflect on Your Teaching

    • - Foundations in Teaching (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Don’t wait until the end of the semester to understand how students are doing in your classroom. Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are informal activities that can highlight student understanding of the content you are teaching and can help you reflect on your effectiveness in teaching your subject’s content. CATs allow […]

    Jose Bowen Faculty Workshop: Working with AI

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    AI Literacy begins with knowing which AI tool to use but then requires asking better questions and evaluating responses: extensions of the critical writing and thinking skills we already teach and value. AI prompts need human context, but AI also has new capabilities: AI can search for ideas and expand […]