Workshops and Events

The Office of Teaching and Learning offers workshops, webinars and other events designed to enhance and deepen pedagogical appreciation for instructional design, student learning, and scholarly inquiry.  Current events are listed below, please sign up using the register button.

Practical Tips to Make Teaching and Learning Accessible

This reflective virtual workshop will offer context and practical tools to enhance your understanding of accessibility and accommodations in your teaching practice. What helps or hampers accessibility? How can your awareness and curiosity be a great starting point to improve access for all of your students? Whether you feel hesitant or uncertain around accessibility or are someone who has succeeded in integrating accessible teaching, please join as we will share and learn together. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to...

Effective and Efficient Grading and Feedback

Grading and feedback are most effective when grounded in the philosophy that assessment is a tool for learning, not just evaluation. Thoughtful, timely, and constructive feedback helps students understand their progress, reflect on their learning, and take actionable steps toward improvement, thus making it an essential component of a supportive and learner-centered teaching practice. In this session, we will investigate strategies and tools to facilitate effective and efficient grading and feedback. We will also highlight how tools such as Dropbox, Rubrics, Gradescope, and FeedbackFruits...

Building Community and Starting the Semester Strong: Beginning and Ending in a Goodway

This session will explore teaching and learning pedagogies that help build “brave space” in a classroom community; using a Two-Eyed approach to equity, diversity and inclusion. We will explore decolonial teaching and learning pedagogies; and how non-Indigenous instructors can apply this to their practice. Also, we will look at other ways of creating positive spaces through framing classroom space beginning and ending in a Goodway. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Understand the Haudenosaunee...