• 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 […]

    Talking With Your Students About AI: A Dialogue-Based Approach

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Weil 010
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Generative AI has upended many familiar assumptions about teaching and learning, leaving both instructors and students navigating a great deal of uncertainty. This workshop, co-hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Dialogue Across Difference program, introduces a dialogue-based approach to talking with students about a range of […]

    TILT DIY: A Workshop to Tune Your Assignments

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    • - STEM (PDT)
    Danforth University Center (DUC) 239
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    This is a workshop in its truest sense: you'll come in with an assignment that could use some work, and leave with a revised project that's crystal-clear to students! TILT, Transparency in Teaching and Learning, is an assignment template that has been shown to improve student motivation, promote equitable outcomes--and […]

    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

    • - 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 […]