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    • Generative AI Roundtable: Share Your Assignments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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

    Join your peers to share or hear ideas for how they are tackling artificial intelligence in their course assignments. We will collect and organize your ideas by discipline, to add a library of ideas compiled by our team gathering cross-disciplinary AI assignments and resources from other universities. If you have […]

    Equitable Teaching in the Humanities: Empowering Student Voices – Assignments for Access and Opportunity

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

    In this Virtual Conversation, we'll explore how to design assignments that provide students access - the ability to participate in our academic field - and opportunity - the potential to contribute to and shape our field. We'll discuss the difference between these two approaches, and we'll brainstorm ways to incorporate […]

    Put Your Student Projects Online with WashU WebPubs

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

    Help your students build digital literacy skills with WashU WebPubs, a service offered by the library, a tool available to WashU students, faculty, and staff for building digital projects. Join us to explore how WebPubs and the library can support your teaching. If you have questions about this event, please […]

    How To Use Copyright Materials in Your Courses: A Deeper Dive into Fair Use

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

    Join your colleagues for an honest dialogue about balancing student needs while taking advantage of a powerful copyright exemption: fair use. We will dig into specific scenarios and make confident choices about what instructors can do in each scenario. This event is co-facilitated by Treasa Bane (WashU Libraries Copyright and […]

    Designing Writing Assignments

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

    Designing effective writing assignments that foster intellectual development and critical thinking among students can be a challenge for instructors. This is an even tougher challenge when students may be unaware of or unschooled in disciplinary expectations for writing. Participants in this workshop will discuss strategies for writing transparent, well-crafted assignment […]

    Applying Learning Science to Teaching: Metacognition

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

    Metacognition, or the process of being aware of your own thought processes, is a useful strategy to leverage in the classroom. Numerous learning science studies have indicated that incorporation of metacognitive strategies in the classroom increases student gains. Participants in this workshop will learn about the effects of metacognition on […]

    Asking Questions to Improve Learning

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

    Asking questions during class can promote student engagement, foster reflection, and serve as real-time feedback to both students and instructors about where students are at in their learning. However, not all questions are created equally, and not all questioning strategies are effective. This workshop will explore varied question types that […]

    Using Padlet to Bridge Between Classes, or the Group Project your Students Actually Enjoy

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

    Bridging is an important tool to keep students connected to your course content between classes. In this virtual conversation, we will talk about how to create group-based activities that encourage students to reflect on content in a way that is relevant to them, using Padlet as the content-organizing tool. These […]

    WashU ChatGPT Mini-Hackathon: Teaching and Learning Ideas

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

    In this virtual conversation, we will try out the new WashU ChatGPT and discuss specific ways you may use it in your classes. We will explore approaches that can support your teaching as well as enhance student learning. For questions about this Virtual Conversation, contact Dr. Sally Wu, Assistant Director […]

    Asking Questions to Improve Learning

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

    Asking questions during class can promote student engagement, foster reflection, and serve as real-time feedback to both students and instructors about where students are at in their learning. However, not all questions are created equally, and not all questioning strategies are effective. This workshop will explore varied question types that […]

    Equitable Teaching in the Humanities: Centering the Margins – Questioning the Canon

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

    In this Virtual Conversation, we’ll explore the role of and some alternatives to canonical works. We’ll discuss the assumptions underlying the concept of canon, and the pros and cons of teaching it to undergraduate students new to our field. Finally, we’ll work together to brainstorm some ways to incorporate classical […]

    Designing Collaborative Learning Materials

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

    Deciding to use collaborative learning in your classroom is one way to increase student participation and engagement. However, choosing to use collaborative learning brings with it a new challenge—designing collaborative learning activities and corresponding materials that are transparent, inclusive, and the right fit for the course. In this workshop, participants […]

    How To Use Copyright Materials in Your Courses

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

    Do you engage students with copyrighted material (such as literature, film, art) in your class? Learn how fair use empowers you to determine what copyrighted material you can share in digital spaces (like Canvas) while responsibly using digital and electronic resources. This event is co-facilitated by Treasa Bane (WashU Libraries […]

    • The Trouble with Visuals: Tips for PowerPoints

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

    If you teach using images, graphs, diagrams, charts, or models in your PowerPoints, join this interactive session to gain insights on how your students may struggle to parse and understand visuals. You'll learn specific ideas on how to help your students better “read” visuals and relate them to key concepts. […]

    Fostering an Inclusive Classroom Climate

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    Zoom
    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 […]

    Considering Religious Observances in Course Planning: A Conversation with the Office of Religious, Spiritual & Ethical Life

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

    In this virtual conversation with Rev. Callista Isabelle, Director for Religious, Spiritual & Ethical Life, faculty will learn about ways to support students' observances of religious holidays that overlap with the semester. We’ll share key information about the Religious Holiday Class Absence Policy and provide tips for helping all students […]

    • Introduction to Pedagogical Scholarship

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    • - STEM (PDT)
    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 […]

    Teaching What You Don’t Know

    • - Foundations in Teaching (PDT)
    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. […]

    Effective Student Evaluations and Question Personalization

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

    Applying Principles of Learning Sciences to Your Teaching

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - STEM (PDT)
    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 […]