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Jump-Start to Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement Peer Writing Program Fall 2023

  • Job Market Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

If you are applying for an academic position, it is increasingly likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Yet, setting aside the time to write your statement and obtaining feedback from colleagues can be challenging with a busy schedule. The Jump-Start […]

Jump-Start to Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement Peer Writing Program Fall 2023

  • Job Market Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

If you are applying for an academic position, it is increasingly likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Yet, setting aside the time to write your statement and obtaining feedback from colleagues can be challenging with a busy schedule. The Jump-Start […]

Building and Maintaining Student Trust

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Developing student trust is a key component in building an effective and equitable learning environment. Learn how competence, integrity, and beneficence combine to build student trust in a variety of classes. For questions about this Virtual Conversation, contact Dr. Eric Fournier, Director of Educational Development.   Registration

Constructing Effective Collaborative Learning Opportunities

  • Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
via 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 advanced-level workshop, participants will examine the potential benefits of collaborative learning as well as common pitfalls in an effort to better understand what makes group work really […]

How’s it Really Going?: Making Use of Mid-Semester Opportunities for Student Feedback

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

As instructors, we have a sense of how our courses are going for us, but it’s more challenging to gain an accurate sense of how the course is going from our students’ perspectives. In this virtual conversation, we’ll discuss how to make the most out of the upcoming student midterm […]

Creating a Teaching Portfolio

  • Job Market Workshop
via 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 […]

Teaching a Laboratory Class

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Laboratory classes provide students with first-hand experience with course concepts and with the opportunity to explore methods used by scientists in their discipline, presenting challenges and opportunities that differ from those in a standard classroom environment. This workshop is designed to help assistants to instruction plan for and successfully teach […]

Engaging Presentations and Polls with Padlet

  • Tech Training
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Need a PowerPoint alternative? Have students giving quick presentations showing multimedia? Looking for a place to run/show class polls? Padlet's new presentation and polling features provide an engaging way to connect with an audience, built on top of the colorful boards and posts. Learn how these new features could fuel […]

Teaching a Laboratory Class

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Laboratory classes provide students with first-hand experience with course concepts and with the opportunity to explore methods used by scientists in their discipline, presenting challenges and opportunities that differ from those in a standard classroom environment. This workshop is designed to help assistants to instruction plan for and successfully teach […]

Teaching a Laboratory Class

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Laboratory classes provide students with first-hand experience with course concepts and with the opportunity to explore methods used by scientists in their discipline, presenting challenges and opportunities that differ from those in a standard classroom environment. This workshop is designed to help assistants to instruction plan for and successfully teach […]

Collaborative Learning in STEM

  • STEM Pedagogies Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Education research suggests that students acquire and retain knowledge most effectively by engaging in collaborative learning groups with peers. In this workshop, we will discuss the structure and philosophy behind a number of formal evidence-based, collaborative group structures such as POGIL (Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning), TBL (Team-Based Learning), and PBL (Problem-Based […]

Teambuilding in the Classroom: Approaches to Designing Effective Group Activities

  • Panel Discussion
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Please join members of the CTL’s Graduate Student Advisory Council (https://ctl.wustl.edu/programs/graduate-student-advisory-council/) for a virtual panel discussion on approaches to designing group activities in the classroom. In this panel, we will hear from four instructors about how they implement team-based learning approaches to explore complex content. Participants will leave this conversation […]

Addressing Diversity and Inclusion in Job Market Materials

  • Job Market Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Increasingly candidates for academic positions are asked to prepare materials related to demonstrating their commitment to inclusion and diversity in the classroom. This Job Market series workshop will explore different ways to reflect on, document, and communicate a commitment to diversity and inclusion in job market materials. Participants will examine […]

Addressing Diversity and Inclusion in Job Market Materials

  • Job Market Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Increasingly candidates for academic positions are asked to prepare materials related to demonstrating their commitment to inclusion and diversity in the classroom. This Job Market series workshop will explore different ways to reflect on, document, and communicate a commitment to diversity and inclusion in job market materials. Participants will examine […]

Teaching with Discussions

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

What can AIs do to facilitate discussions that promote student learning and engagement? This interactive workshop is designed to help new graduate-student AIs learn how to effectively lead discussions. Topics include preparing for and structuring each discussion, fostering full student participation, and composing and asking questions that generate discussion and […]

Pedagogy 102: Applying What We Know About Learning

  • Foundations in Teaching
TBD
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

It is important for every instructor to have a clear knowledge of pedagogical fundamentals in order to create engaging and constructive learning environments that serve students of various backgrounds and disciplines. Continuing on from Pedagogy 101, this workshop will provide participants an opportunity to develop an understanding of how to […]

Pedagogy 102: Applying What We Know About Learning

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

It is important for every instructor to have a clear knowledge of pedagogical fundamentals in order to create engaging and constructive learning environments that serve students of various backgrounds and disciplines. Continuing on from Pedagogy 101, this workshop will provide participants an opportunity to develop an understanding of how to […]

Motivating Student Learners

  • Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Students who are motivated learn more and learn better than those whose interests, attention, and self-esteem lag during the semester. Participants in this advanced-level workshop will examine the various factors which in recent research on social belonging and affect have been found to shape student motivation in the classroom. They […]

Teaching in Office Hours and Review Sessions

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Participants in this workshop will learn how to anticipate and address the unique challenges that can arise when teaching in review sessions and office hours presents unique challenges. Topics include designing an effective structure for review sessions and office hours, helping students learn to think and to work independently, and […]

Grad Students of the CTL

  • Panel Discussion
Hybrid (Danforth Campus + Zoom)
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

The Graduate Student Advisory Council invites you to learn more about how and why to take advantage of the resources and programming provided to graduate students by the Center for Teaching and Learning. Panelists include recent and not-so-recent graduates of WashU who have participated in CTL professional development in teaching […]

Applying Principles of Learning Sciences to Your Teaching

  • STEM Pedagogies Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Understanding how students learn is an important part of being an effective instructor. In this workshop, participants will examine how to translate three principles from learning sciences to their teaching: 1) testing effect —deliberately retrieving information from memory, 2) conceptual change — identifying and reconstructing one’s conceptions, and 3) scaffolding […]

Effective Student Evaluations and Question Personalization

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Instructors have the opportunity to add up to three custom questions to their student course evaluations during the question personalization period. In this session, we'll discuss how to write effective questions, increase student response rates, and generally make the most out of the student course evaluation process. For questions about […]

Teaching What You Don’t Know

  • Foundations in Teaching
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

Oftentimes, in our AI teaching responsibilities or early teaching careers, we may be called upon to teach content outside of our area of expertise. Maybe you are an ecologist assisting a microbiology course for the first time. Or a you are a literature scholar teaching writing for the first time. […]

Introduction to Pedagogical Scholarship

  • Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
  • STEM Pedagogies Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

So, you may have heard the terms scholarly teaching, SoTL, TAR, and DBER, but what do they mean? How are they related? In this workshop for graduate students and postdocs, we will define various modes of pedagogical research and discuss similarities and differences between them. Participants will also learn about […]