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    • 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 […]

    Jose Bowen Faculty Workshop: Teaching with AI

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    Seigle Hall 306
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    This practical session will start with the implications of how AI is changing average. We will examine how we can design assignments (including writing) that will motivate students to do the hard work only they can do: AI can now customize every assignment to increase the motivation and effort of […]

    Thoughtful Analog Teaching

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Danforth University Center (DUC) 233
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    The goal of this gathering is to provide a space for sharing thoughtful approaches to low-tech or no-tech teaching and learning. The CTL will share some models as well as considerations raised by instructors and scholars elsewhere, but most of our time together will be spent discussing what analog teaching […]

    Collaborative Learning Techniques

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

    Educational research suggests that students acquire and retain knowledge most effectively by engaging in collaborative learning in groups with their peers. In this workshop, participants will examine the structure and philosophy behind a number of collaborative group techniques as well as the potential benefits and common pitfalls in an effort […]

    • Collaborative Learning Techniques

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

    Educational research suggests that students acquire and retain knowledge most effectively by engaging in collaborative learning in groups with their peers. In this workshop, participants will examine the structure and philosophy behind a number of collaborative group techniques as well as the potential benefits and common pitfalls in an effort […]

    Analog Experience Classrooms for More Presence and Engagement

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Hillman Hall 370
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Explore ways to take instruction off the screen for engaged and immersive learning with us! WashU professor Todd Decker will share case-studies from film and music history courses, highlighting how material culture and community immersion can invite students to be truly present in a collective experience. We'll discuss, for example, how […]

    Creating a Teaching Portfolio

    • - Job Market (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    This Job Market series workshop will explore the ways in which graduate students and postdocs can frame their teaching experiences and teaching-related qualifications in a teaching portfolio for the academic job market. Participants will discuss the essential components of a teaching portfolio, potential organizational structures and strategies, the benefits and […]

    Creating a Teaching Portfolio

    • - Job Market (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    This Job Market series workshop will explore the ways in which graduate students and postdocs can frame their teaching experiences and teaching-related qualifications in a teaching portfolio for the academic job market. Participants will discuss the essential components of a teaching portfolio, potential organizational structures and strategies, the benefits and […]

    GenAI, Teaching, and Learning: A Faculty Journal Club

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Medical Campus, Mid Campus Center Room 2057 or via 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 - […]

    Constructing a Sample Syllabus for the Academic Job Market

    • - Job Market (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    For teaching-focused positions, it is common to be asked for a sample syllabus. In this workshop for graduate students and postdocs approaching the academic job market, we will consider key aspects of sample syllabi to include, as well as how to align sample syllabi with the needs of different kinds […]

    Constructing a Sample Syllabus for the Academic Job Market

    • - Job Market (PDT)
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    For teaching-focused positions, it is common to be asked for a sample syllabus. In this workshop for graduate students and postdocs approaching the academic job market, we will consider key aspects of sample syllabi to include, as well as how to align sample syllabi with the needs of different kinds […]

    • Teaching What You Don’t Know

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

    In our AI (Assistant in Instruction) roles or early teaching careers, we are often called upon to teach content outside our area of expertise. Perhaps you are an ecologist assisting with a microbiology course for the first time, or a literature scholar teaching writing for the first time. These teaching […]

    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 - […]

    • GenAI, Teaching, and Learning: A Faculty Journal Club

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Medical Campus, Mid Campus Center Room 2057 or via 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 - […]