Teaching Workshops
If a group or department would like to request a repeat workshop on any of these topics, please contact the Teaching Center.
Fall 2025 Teaching Workshop Series
Teaching Center offers 1-hour workshops designed to provide instructors with practical strategies and ready-to-implement tools. Our Fall 2025 teaching workshops series is held on Zoom Thursdays from 11:00 am to 12 noon and Fridays 12 noon to 1 p.m.
Transparent Assignment Design
Teaching Reflection – Fall 2025
Friday, December 5, 2025, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Reflecting on your teaching is an important part of being an effective instructor, and it is often challenging to find time to reflect amid the many demands at the end of the semester. Join your fellow instructors for an hour of guided reflection and sharing about the successes, surprises, and areas for improvement discovered during the Fall semester.
Spring 2026 Teaching Workshop Series
Teaching Center offers 1-hour workshops designed to provide instructors with practical strategies and ready-to-implement tools. Our Spring 2026 teaching workshops series is held on Zoom Thursdays from 11:00 am to 12 noon or 12 noon to 1 p.m. and Fridays 12 noon to 1 p.m.
Writing Course Learning Outcomes
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Friday, January 16, 2026, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Effective learning outcomes are actionable, measurable and speak directly to the essential learning in a course. Learn how to write student learning outcomes that are challenging, achievable, and directly measurable using backward design principles.
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Register Online for January 16
Mentoring and Managing TAs
Friday, January 30, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Teaching Assistants (TAs) play an important role in maintaining a strong and vibrant learning environment by supporting students in the construction of new knowledge, increasing overall comprehension, and facilitating skill acquisition and development. Learn strategies for mentoring, coordinating, and supervising teaching assistants.
Instructor Spotlight – Jennifer Marsella, Assistant Professor of Neurology
Effectively Scaling Journal Clubs
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Journal clubs are a valuable instructional tool that engage students in discussion and critical evaluation of published research. Learn best practices for designing and facilitating journal clubs within a course, and scaling that design to accommodate increased enrollment.
Effectively Scaling Courses Up and Down
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Instructional design choices, such as in-class learning activities, assignments, assessments, and course logistics, are impacted by course enrollment. Changes in enrollment, whether increasing or decreasing, require adjusting these design choices. Learn evidence-based and resource-efficient scaling strategies that maintain quality of learning.
Generative AI Educational Frameworks
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Generative AI has significantly impacted education, and many types of institutions have responded by developing educational frameworks to guide the thinking of educators. Learn about some of these conceptual models and their underlying goals and principles so that you can identify useful principles and approaches to your own teaching.
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Register Online for February 27
Teaching Effectively using Active Learning
Friday, March 27, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Active learning includes a wide range of instructional activities that engage students in learning, beyond listening, reading, and memorizing. Learn how to engage students in meaningful learning using active learning techniques and pedagogies that can be implemented in classes of any size or discipline.
Aligning Assessments with Learning Outcomes
Friday, April 10, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Student learning outcomes provide the framework for essential students learning in a course – assessments enable us to directly measure how effectively students are achieving that learning and developing those skills. Learn how to evaluate and align course assignments and assessments to measure the essential learning in your course.
Generative AI and Assignments
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 12:00 noon– 1:00 pm
Friday, April 17, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
As generative AI can now complete many types of assignments, learn about approaches to rethinking assignments that draw on the instructor’s role in facilitating and certifying learning.
Assessing Experiential Learning
Friday, April 24, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Experiential learning involves engaging learners through concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The essential learning that occurs as a result of these experiences often involves non-academic skills and competencies, such as learning about oneself and others, and/or developing new feelings, interests, and values. Learn how to assess experiential learning and design targeted reflection prompts to effectively evaluate student growth.
Teaching Reflection – Spring 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Reflecting on your teaching is an important part of being an effective instructor, and it is often challenging to find time to reflect amid the many demands at the end of the semester. Join your fellow instructors for an hour of guided reflection and sharing about the successes, surprises, and areas for improvement discovered during the Fall semester.