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    • Dynamic Lectures: Plan and Deliver More Engaging Classes

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty

    Lectures can be an effective way to transmit new information, model problemsolving, and communicate enthusiam for the subject. Learn simple, research-based techniques to plan and deliver dynamic lectures and to boost student engagement. For questions about this faculty workshop, please contact Dr. Eric Fournier, Director of Educational Development. Registration

    Increasing Student Participation

    • - Foundations in Teaching (PDT)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Research demonstrates that active engagement in class activities improves student learning and performance. But what can you do as an AI to ensure that students participate? This workshop will focus on strategies that can be applied in varied classroom settings to foster student participation and engagement. For questions about this […]

    • Improving Access and Understanding when Teaching with Visuals

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    If you teach using images, graphs, diagrams, charts, or models, join this virtual conversation to examine how to better support your students in using them in your class. We will discuss how students and assistive technologies may struggle to parse and understand visuals as well as ways to help your […]

    Improving Access and Understanding when Teaching with Visuals

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    If you teach using images, graphs, diagrams, charts, or models, join this virtual conversation to examine how to better support your students in using them in your class. We will discuss how students and assistive technologies may struggle to parse and understand visuals as well as ways to help your […]

    Increasing Student Participation

    • - Foundations in Teaching (PDT)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Research demonstrates that active engagement in class activities improves student learning and performance. But what can you do as an AI to ensure that students participate? This workshop will focus on strategies that can be applied in varied classroom settings to foster student participation and engagement. For questions about this […]

    Spring 2023 Faculty Reading Community (FRC)

    • - Multiple Meetings
    TBD
    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 Spring 2023 will involve chapters from Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy's recent book, Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom. In this book, Hogan […]

    ChatGPT: Implications for Teaching and Learning

    • - Special Event
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join a panel of scholars and instructors across Washington University for a discussion of how teaching and learning will be affected by Chat GPT–a powerful language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate human-like text. These experts will dissect the history, ethics, technical constraints, teaching challenges, and future opportunities associated […]

    Incorporating ChatGPT into Your Assignments

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    In this virtual conversation we will explore ways to incorporate ChatGPT into assignments as a way to develop students' critical thinking and information literacy skills. For questions about this virtual conversation, please contact Dr. Eric Fournier, Director of Educational Development. Registration

    Spaced Practice with Canvas Quizzes

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Engage students in applying course content more regularly by implementing Canvas quizzes or surveys outside of class time. Providing space between your lecture and a quiz in Canvas can help students better process and review what they learned. We will discuss ways to implement spaced practice with tips on using […]

    Spaced Practice with Canvas Quizzes

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Engage students in applying course content more regularly by implementing Canvas quizzes or surveys outside of class time. Providing space between your lecture and a quiz in Canvas can help students better process and review what they learned. We will discuss ways to implement spaced practice with tips on using […]

    Incorporating ChatGPT into Your Assignments

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    In this virtual conversation we will explore ways to incorporate ChatGPT into assignments as a way to develop students' critical thinking and information literacy skills. For questions about this virtual conversation, contact Dr. Eric Fournier, Director of Educational Development.   Registration

    Help Students Help Themselves by Fostering Self-Regulation in Your Classes

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

    Help your students identify effective learning strategies and, importantly, follow through on using them. We will discuss self-regulation, which helps students plan, monitor, and assess how they learn, as they learn. Self-regulation can promote transparency about students' learning processes and outcomes as well as clarity around obstacles that may impede […]

    Fostering an Inclusive Classroom Climate

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    While the classroom can be a space for open, respectful dialogue, it can also feel isolating or even hostile for student learners. What can an instructor do to promote a space for positive, fruitful collaboration? What does it take to create a truly inclusive classroom climate? In this workshop, participants […]

    Fostering an Inclusive Classroom Climate

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    While the classroom can be a space for open, respectful dialogue, it can also feel isolating or even hostile for student learners. What can an instructor do to promote a space for positive, fruitful collaboration? What does it take to create a truly inclusive classroom climate? In this workshop, participants […]

    Writing Assignments in STEM

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - STEM (PDT)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Incorporating student writing into a course can be an effective way to engage students in science concepts and to enhance students’ critical-thinking skills. In this advanced-level workshop, participants will discuss best practices for incorporating formal and informal writing into a STEM course. Topics will include key components of an effective, […]

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

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    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 […]

    Pedagogy 101: Understanding Educational Terms and Practices

    • - Foundations in Teaching (PDT)
    Medical Campus
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    The first step to becoming involved in a new area of study is to understand the basics and learn the terminology. Through this workshop participants will learn both definitions of core concepts in pedagogical discourse and strategies to begin incorporating use of these concepts into their instruction. Participants will also […]

    Adopting Inclusive Language Practices in the Classroom

    • - Short Session (<30 minutes)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    In this virtual conversation, we will consider the importance of adopting inclusive language practices in the classroom. In particular, we will focus on best practices for addressing students, suggestions for adoption of gender inclusive alternatives to binary assumptive language, and suggestions for inclusive descriptive language practices. We will also consider […]

    Supporting Students in Distress

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

    As we pass the middle of the semester, we enter a time when students increasingly struggle to maintain their mental health and well-being. In this workshop, we will discuss signs that a student may be in distress and work through a variety of scenarios to consider strategies for how instructors […]

    • Helping Students Make the Most of Instructor Feedback

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

    Instructors dedicate many hours each semester to commenting on and evaluating student work, but is this feedback helping students to improve in the ways that we want it to? Are the students actually reading our feedback and are they interpreting it in the ways that we hope they are? In […]