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Teaching with Discussions

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

What can Assistants in Instruction (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 […]

Teaching with Discussions

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

What can Assistants in Instruction (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 […]

Teaching with Discussions

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

What can Assistants in Instruction (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 […]

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 […]

Backward Design

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

Backward design is a key tool for designing effective learning experiences, and it's commonly used across many educational contexts to ensure your day-to-day teaching aligns with your goals. The approach moves from desired outcomes to assignments and activities, which makes it a powerful framework for centering the key learning you […]

Pedagogy Picnic

  • Teaching with Joy
See event description
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is an opportunity to get to know your colleagues and connect over a shared interest in teaching. Come chat, ask questions, laugh, or vent – we're here for all of it! The Center for Teaching and Learning will provide lemonade and tasty […]

Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL)

  • STEM Pedagogies Workshop
TBD
Event For:
  • Grad Students, Postdocs

In Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL), students learn core concepts and problem-solving skills by working in groups. Participants will discuss the role of the instructor and practical aspects of implementing POGIL-style learning in a course. For questions about this workshop, contact Lisa Kuehne. Registration

Elevate Learning with Annoto Quizzes and Assessments

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

Discover how Annoto’s in-video quizzes and assessment criteria transform the way you engage students and measure their progress. In this session, you’ll learn how to seamlessly embed quizzes into your videos to check understanding in real-time, automatically sync grades with your LMS, and gather detailed insights into student performance. We’ll […]

Exploring the Art of Improv in Our Teaching Practices

  • Teaching with Joy
Eads Hall 115
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

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 process deeply we need […]

Pedagogy Picnic

  • Teaching with Joy
See event description
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is an opportunity to get to know your colleagues and connect over a shared interest in teaching. Come chat, ask questions, laugh, or vent – we're here for all of it! The Center for Teaching and Learning will provide lemonade and tasty […]

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 […]

Unlocking Insights with Annoto: Analyzing Engagement and Performance

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

Discover the power of data-driven teaching with Annoto’s Analytics and Insights. In this session, we'll explore the Annoto dashboard, which provides you with real-time data on student engagement with your videos. Learn how to track participation, identify knowledge gaps, and make informed decisions to improve learning outcomes. You’ll gain the […]

Introduction to Pedagogical Scholarship

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

So, you’ve 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 qualitative and […]

Pedagogy Picnic

  • Teaching with Joy
See event description
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is an opportunity to get to know your colleagues and connect over a shared interest in teaching. Come chat, ask questions, laugh, or vent – we're here for all of it! The Center for Teaching and Learning will provide lemonade and tasty […]

The Power of Reflection: Finding Joy in Your Teaching Practice

  • Teaching with Joy
DUC 233
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

In this interactive session participants will explore techniques for developing a sustained practice of reflection on their teaching. Reflection involves considering past or present experiences, learning from those experiences, and thinking about how to approach similar situations in the future. This session will focus on the formative powers of reflection to […]

Pedagogy Picnic

  • Teaching with Joy
See event description
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is an opportunity to get to know your colleagues and connect over a shared interest in teaching. Come chat, ask questions, laugh, or vent – we're here for all of it! The Center for Teaching and Learning will provide lemonade and tasty […]

Course Design Institute: January 6th – January 10th

  • Institute
Via Canvas Course and Synchronous Zoom Sessions
Event For:
  • Faculty, Postdocs

Redesigning a course over winter break? Tackling a new-to-you course or a brand new course in the spring? New to WashU and/or new to designing your own course? The CTL’s Course Design Institute (CDI) is for you! This week-long intensive course design institute will guide you in planning and preparing […]

Building Community in the First Weeks of Class

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

Creating a sense of community in the classroom has been shown to positively influence student motivation and help students succeed in your course. But how does one actually go about doing it? In this session, we'll discuss strategies to build a sense of community in your course during the first […]

Incorporating Student Feedback Into Your Course

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

Have you ever wanted to gather student feedback over the course of the semester in order to adjust your teaching? In this virtual conversation, we'll discuss a variety of ways to solicit student input and formative feedback that can lead to actionable insights about your course. Got questions about this […]

Poll Everywhere New Feature Training: Course Management

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

Join us on Zoom to learn more about Poll Everywhere's new Course Management feature, which streamlines course administration and simplifies class management. In this session, we’ll cover Poll Everywhere's new workflow for creating and scoring assignments that are fully integrated with the Canvas gradebook. Got questions about this session? Contact […]

Writing Effective Learning Goals

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

Writing course learning goals can be challenging. In this virtual conversation, we will share advice for composing effective and and meaningful course goals that provide guidance for students and clarity for instructors. Got questions about this session? Please contact Eric Fournier to learn more!   Registration

Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can

  • Virtual Conversation
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty, 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 is hard. Drawing on insights from a recently published book by cognitive scientist and educational developer Michelle Miller, A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names, […]

Introduction to Padlet

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

Learn how to revitalize your class discussions with Padlet! Padlet is a virtual pinboard-based tool that makes it easy to facilitate student interaction both inside and outside of class. During this session, we'll go over getting started with Padlet, creating multimedia Padlet boards, and using Padlet's new Sandbox tool. Got […]

AI Tools: NotebookLM

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

This workshop has reached capacity, but another session has been added on Feb. 7th from 12:00-1:00 PM.  Join us for a Zoom workshop series designed to help instructors explore the possible uses of AI tools beyond ChatGPT. Each hour-long workshop will provide an overview of a specific AI tool and […]

A Mindful Approach to Teaching with Joy

  • Teaching with Joy
McDonnell 362
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

In this interactive session, Lorien Carter (Brown School) will provide a set of mindfulness techniques designed to reduce stress and enhance emotional resilience and joy. We'll also explore barriers to and opportunities for integrating mindfulness into our teaching, with the goal of leaving with concrete ideas for creating mindful learning […]