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    • Lessons from Small Teaching: Connecting

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

    Educational research has suggested that a fundamental difference between novice learners' understanding and experts' understanding has to do with the complexity of connections among facts, skills, and concepts that they know. Experts have robust, flexible knowledge networks, while novice learners often do not. In Chapter 4 of James Lang's Small […]

    Inclusive Teaching in STEM: Creating a Sense of Belonging in Your Classroom

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

    “Do I belong here?” Oftentimes, this is the first question students ask themselves when they are in new and unfamiliar academic environments. Students’ answers to this question are critical because welcoming learning experiences in the classroom can encourage students to persist in their STEM majors and bolster their science identities. […]

    Creating Accessible and Interactive PDFs for Digital Reading

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

    Students read on screens all the time, but due to constraints in digital reading tools, they may not be engaging deeply with the new ideas, worlds, and people available at their fingertips. This virtual conversation introduces several ways to support digital reading, particularly when reading with PDFs, a common document […]

    Writing a Diversity and Inclusion Statement for the Job Market

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

    Increasingly, candidates for academic positions are asked to address their commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in the classroom in their job market materials. In this workshop, we will explore how to communicate this commitment effectively. Participants will examine the purpose of a DEI statement, identify generic expectations and […]

    Lessons from Small Teaching: Retrieving

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

    Asking students to recall information is a proven strategy to increase learning. In this virtual conversation, we’ll talk about retrieval practice basics and discuss creative techniques to incorporate retrieval practice into your teaching, drawing on the “Retrieving” chapter in James Lang’s book Small Teaching. As we’ll see, retrieval practice goes […]

    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 […]

    • Jump-Start to Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement Peer Writing Program Fall 2022

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

    If you are applying for an academic position, it is increasingly likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Yet, setting aside the time to write your statement and obtaining feedback from colleagues can be challenging with a busy schedule. The Jump-Start […]

    Jump-Start to Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement Peer Writing Program Fall 2022

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

    If you are applying for an academic position, it is increasingly likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Yet, setting aside the time to write your statement and obtaining feedback from colleagues can be challenging with a busy schedule. The Jump-Start […]

    Jump-Start to Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement Peer Writing Program Fall 2022

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

    If you are applying for an academic position, it is increasingly likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Yet, setting aside the time to write your statement and obtaining feedback from colleagues can be challenging with a busy schedule. The Jump-Start […]

    Jump-Start to Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement Peer Writing Program Fall 2022

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

    If you are applying for an academic position, it is increasingly likely that you will be asked to submit a teaching philosophy statement during the application process. Yet, setting aside the time to write your statement and obtaining feedback from colleagues can be challenging with a busy schedule. The Jump-Start […]

    • Course Design Institute: August 1 – August 5

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

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

    Course Design Institute: August 1 – August 5

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

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

    Course Design Institute: August 1 – August 5

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

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

    Course Design Institute: August 1 – August 5

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

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

    Course Design Institute: August 1 – August 5

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Faculty

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

    • Summer 2022 Graduate Student and Postdoc Reading Community

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join fellow graduate students, postdocs, and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning. The GSPD Reading Community discussion this summer will involve chapters from Kathryn C. Oleson’s recent book, Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education. In this book, Oleson draws on recent research […]

    Summer 2022 Faculty Reading Community

    • - 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 Faculty Reading Community discussion this summer will involve chapters from Kathryn C. Oleson’s recent book, Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education. In this book, Oleson draws on recent research in educational […]

    Summer 2022 Graduate Student and Postdoc Reading Community

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join fellow graduate students, postdocs, and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning. The GSPD Reading Community discussion this summer will involve chapters from Kathryn C. Oleson’s recent book, Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education. In this book, Oleson draws on recent research […]

    Summer 2022 Faculty Reading Community

    • - 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 Faculty Reading Community discussion this summer will involve chapters from Kathryn C. Oleson’s recent book, Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education. In this book, Oleson draws on recent research in educational […]

    Summer 2022 Graduate Student and Postdoc Reading Community

    • - Multiple Meetings
    Zoom
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Join fellow graduate students, postdocs, and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning. The GSPD Reading Community discussion this summer will involve chapters from Kathryn C. Oleson’s recent book, Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education. In this book, Oleson draws on recent research […]