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    • Pedagogy Picnic

    • - Special Event
    See event description
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is a fun, social 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! No registration needed – simply show up! The CTL […]

    Pedagogy Picnic

    • - Special Event
    See event description
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is a fun, social 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! No registration needed – simply show up! The CTL […]

    Course Design Institute: May 13 – 23

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Via Canvas Course and Synchronous Zoom Sessions
    Event For:
    • Faculty

    This intensive course design institute, spread out over 2 weeks, will guide participants in planning and preparing to teach a course that is supported by the latest research in teaching and learning. During the CDI, facilitators will model and discuss a range of tools and strategies that can enhance your […]

    Pedagogy Picnic

    • - Special Event
    See event description
    Event For:
    • Faculty, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join your fellow instructors for Pedagogy Picnic! This is a fun, social 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! No registration needed – simply show up! The CTL […]

    • Summer 2025 Faculty Reading Community (FRC)

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

    Join fellow faculty and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning. The featured book for the Summer 2025 Faculty Reading Community will be Elizabeth Norell’s recently published The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching. Amid the current crises of higher education, this timely book […]

    Collecting and Using Feedback Effectively

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    • - STEM (PDT)
    Hybrid (participate in person or via Zoom)
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Reflecting on feedback about your teaching provides you with the opportunity to recognize what is working well and to make plans to address what could be improved. In this workshop, we will start by discussing why feedback is important to your teaching beliefs and valuable for your students’ learning. Then […]

    • Crafting a Sample Syllabus for the Job Market

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Job Market (PDT)
    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 […]

    • Course Design Institute: August 5 – 14

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Via Canvas Course and Synchronous Zoom Sessions
    Event For:
    • Faculty

    This intensive course design institute, spread out over 2 weeks, will guide participants in planning and preparing to teach a course that is supported by the latest research in teaching and learning. During the CDI, facilitators will model and discuss a range of tools and strategies that can enhance your […]

    Introduction to Poll Everywhere

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

    Discover how Poll Everywhere  can breathe new life into your courses by increasing student interaction and providing real-time feedback. This session will equip you with tools to instantly gauge student understanding, create memorable learning moments that boost knowledge retention, and collect data to refine your teaching approach. Whether you're teaching […]

    Introduction to Padlet and AI Features

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

    Discover how Padlet can enhance active learning in your courses through its versatile collaboration tools and new AI-powered features. In this session, you'll explore the basics of Padlet, as well as Padlet AI and Padlet TA, which can help generate content, assist with feedback, and support student engagement. Perfect for […]

    “Too Much Reading”: Estimating Student Workload

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

    Many students have an acute sense of courses being "a ton of work" or "easy," but do we? This brief session shares a helpful tool and data to realistically assess the student workload in your classes. You'll learn about how much time students spend on their studies and how many […]

    Hypothesis: Activating Annotation

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

    Join us to see how collaborative annotation can help deepen student engagement with assigned readings. In this workshop, we'll explore Hypothes.is—a tool that creates an interactive layer over webpages, PDFs, and images. Fully integrated with Canvas, Hypothes.is allows for sentence-level annotation, collaborative discussion, and critical analysis directly on assigned texts. […]

    Introduction to Piazza

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

    Join us to see how Piazza creates an online learning environment for discussion and Q&A that allows students to collaborate with their peers and instructors at any time.  In this session, we'll cover how: wiki-style formatting enables collaboration in a single space anonymous posting encourages every student to participate instructors can endorse […]

    Demystifying the Edtech Landscape at WashU

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

    Did you know WashU has subscriptions to over a dozen educational technology tools you can use for free? Learn how to navigate WashU's educational technology ecosystem with confidence. In this practical 30-minute session designed for instructors and staff,, you'll discover the institutionally-supported tools available to you, learn the most efficient […]

    Introduction to Alternative Grading

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

    Are you frustrated with your current grading practices? Maybe you’ve heard of things like specifications grading, standards-based grading, or ungrading and you’re curious to learn more? If so, join us for this virtual conversation where we will briefly introduce some of the most well-known alternative grading systems and offer suggestions […]

    Equitable and Effective STEM Teaching: a Report from the National Academies

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

    In January 2025, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report that synthesized decades of research on effective and equitable STEM teaching. This session will provide an overview of the report and share some highlights. We will discuss ways to increase awareness of the findings as we […]

    Learning Student Names

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

    Learning student names is one of the most effective ways to create an inclusive, engaging, and effective classroom environment, but for many of us learning names and putting them to faces is hard. Drawing on insights from recently published book A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names by cognitive scientist […]

    Introduction to Teaching and AI

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

    Curious about how generative AI can enhance your teaching practice? Join us for an interactive workshop designed to demystify AI and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. We'll introduce key AI concepts, explore how LLMs work, and examine their capabilities and limitations in an educational context. You'll get hands-on experience […]

    Course AI Policies

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

    As generative AI tools become increasingly embedded in student workflows, clear and thoughtful syllabus policies are more important than ever. In this session, we’ll explore a range of options for addressing student use of AI in your course. Participants will review sample policy language, consider discipline-specific approaches, and discuss how […]

    2025-2026 Graduate Student Mentored Teaching Orientation

    • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHING (PDT)
    Brown 100 or Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students

    The Center for Teaching & Learning is pleased to host our annual university-wide Graduate Student Mentored Teaching Orientation for graduate students who will be serving as Assistants in Instruction during this academic year.  Our orientation program is a combination of asynchronous and synchronous sessions geared toward preparing you for your […]