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Teaching WITHOUT Technology

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

You don't need to use educational technology to teach well, and sometimes it's better to teach without it. In this session, we'll briefly talk about reasons why you might decide to avoid technology in your classroom and then discuss some practical ideas for effective low-tech class activities to promote student […]

6th Annual Language Teaching Fair

  • Co-Sponsored Event
  • Coalition for Language Teaching & Learning Event
Danforth Campus
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

The Center for Teaching & Learning and Coalition for Language Teaching and Learning invite you to participate in the 6th Annual WashU Language Teaching Fair. Kindly use the registration form below to let us know you're coming - it'll help us with planning! Program at a glance 2:15-2:35pm Welcome from the […]

Padlet as a Google Jamboard Alternative

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

Need a replacement for Google Jamboard after it disappears at the end of the year? Or just looking for a simple, easy-to-use online tool that mimics the kinds of activities often used during in-person classes? In this session, we'll explore Padlet and discuss how it can encourage student interaction and […]

AI in Writing-based Courses

  • Faculty Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty

Generative AI is here to stay, but it poses some profound questions about how to teach writing-based classes. This workshop is intended to be a discussion for instructors who teach courses where students frequently write - whether it's final papers, short reflections, or discussion forum posts. We'll start with a […]

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Teaching

  • Faculty Workshop
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty

This additional session of the workshop has been added due to high demand. Have you meant to look into the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for teaching and learning but just haven't had the chance yet? Wondering if you should change anything in your fall classes because of AI? […]

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 […]

Introduction to Poll Everywhere

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

This session will walk through how to use the polling software Poll Everywhere to increase student engagement and to gauge student learning. We’ll look at the different types of features you can use and show you how to get started with Poll Everywhere for both in-person and online synchronous courses. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Intentionally Teaching with AI: Faculty Learning Community

  • Faculty Reading Community
via Zoom
Event For:
  • Faculty

Join the CTL and noted author and experienced faculty developer Derek Bruff as he leads a semester-long faculty learning community on Intentionally Teaching with AI.  This virtual learning community is designed for WashU faculty interested in thoughtfully designing assignments and activities that explore the use of AI in teaching and learning. […]

Teaching & Learning in the Age of Generative AI

  • Exploring Educational Excellence
Umrath Lounge Umrath Hall, St. Louis
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

With the advent of easy-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) text generation tools like ChatGPT, educators must grapple with what these technologies mean for their course and assignment designs. In this practical session with noted author and faculty developer Derek Bruff, we will briefly survey the landscape of AI tools for generating […]

The Enduring Power of the Minute Paper

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

In this virtual conversation we will explore the history and impact of minute papers—brief responses that ask students to reflect on what was most important in class and what questions they still have. We will explore how these can be employed in a variety of class settings as a low […]

Fall 2024 Faculty Reading Community (FRC)

  • Faculty Reading Community
Danforth Campus
Event For:
  • Faculty

Join fellow faculty and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning. The Faculty Reading Community discussions in Fall 2024 will involve chapters from Kevin Gannon's book Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. We are revisiting this popular 2020 book in order to facilitate conversations on […]

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 […]

Visual Thinking Strategies: Art for Learning and Well-Being

  • Teaching with Joy
Kemper Art Museum
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

How can engaging with art support learning and well-being in and outside of the classroom? During this Teaching with Joy session at the Kemper Art Museum, museum educator José Garza will introduce innovative strategies to explore art that can enrich and deepen your teaching. Participants will practice close looking, collaborative […]

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 […]

Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility

  • Co-Sponsored Event
  • Other
Holmes Lounge
Event For:
  • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

Dr. Melissa Osborne WashU is pleased to welcome Dr. Melissa Osborne, Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Washington University, to our campus to speak about first-generation and low-income students. A reception will follow Dr. Osborne's presentation. Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility For low-income and first-generation students […]

Supporting First Generation and Low Income Students in the Classroom

  • Co-Sponsored Event
  • Faculty Workshop
McDonnell 362
Event For:
  • Faculty

Dr. Melissa Osborne Please note the correct date for this event is Wednesday, October 2nd. An earlier email announcement contained an error.  Today, one quarter of WashU's current first-year class is low income and nearly one in five is first generation, which represents a dramatic three-fold increase over the last […]

Background Knowledge Probes as Classroom Assessment Technique

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

Join us for an interactive conversation on the use of Background Knowledge Probes (BKPs) as an effective classroom assessment technique. BKPs can be useful tools for quickly identifying students' familiarity with a specific concept—​helping teachers to make informed decisions about where they should focus their instruction. In this session, we'll […]

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 […]