Spring 2026 Schedule
All are welcome to attend CAT's workshop series which empowers participants to expand their pedagogical knowledge, explore varied teaching strategies, and apply these methods effectively to enhance student learning and success.
When incorporating new instructional strategies into your teaching, you can collect feedback from students, peers, and engage in self-reflection to assess their impact on learning. This feedback can be part of your annual review and provide additional evidence of your professional growth and dedication to teaching excellence.
In an effort to accommodate your schedules, we offer identical sessions on different dates for most workshops and on-demand options that can be accessed at any time from anywhere!
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Designing Student Learning Outcomes That Drive Learning
Take your Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) to the next level. In this active workshop, you’ll transform existing objectives into clear, powerful outcomes that guide lesson design, assessment, and student learning. Leave with SLOs that make expectations transparent, strengthen alignment between teaching and assessment, and help students understand not just what they are learning, but how and why.Facilitated by Eric Simon, Associate Director of Hybrid & Faculty Development Support Programs, and Leanne Wells, Senior Director for Teaching Learning and Success, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: Backward Course Design
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AI-Powered Assessments and Rubrics for Non-Writing Courses
Learn to convert your existing SLOs into meaningful assessments with AI. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll use your outcomes to create a scaffolded task and a competency-based rubric. Learn how AI can help design clear, measurable activities—even in non-writing courses—that reveal student thinking. This workshop assumes you have already developed clear, performance-based Student Learning Outcomes that describe what students should be able to do and demonstrate.Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, and Leanne Wells, Senior Director for Teaching Learning and Success, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: Backward Course Design
Teaching in the Age of AI: Fundamentals Workshop
Tackle the practical application of integrating AI into your courses. Generative AI and Large Language Models have the power to redefine our teaching work in the classroom. In these three half-day workshops, participants will leverage them to enhance their teaching and learning practices. In particular, this workshop will address:- Redesigning our lessons using AI,
- Creating AI-enhanced assignments and assessments,
- Teaching students how to use AI ethically, and
- Addressing academic integrity concerns.
Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: Backward Course Design
*Prerequisite to Teaching in the Age of AI: Assignment and Assessment Design
Adopting a Learning-Centered Approach to Teaching
Learning-centered teaching strategies focus on instructors as facilitators of learning, rather than providers of knowledge. During this workshop participants will understand key research findings related to learning processes and their implications for classroom instruction and apply understanding of learning processes and forms of learning-centered teaching to course design.
Facilitated by Shenira Perez, CAT Consultant, and Leanne Wells, Senior Director for Teaching Learning and Success, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: Backward Course Design
Evidence-Based Teaching: Collecting & Using Data from Students to Inform Our Teaching
The Evidence-Based Teaching Workshop will provide faculty with the knowledge and tools they need to collect data from their students on their teaching and learning. Participants will also learn about ways to translate that data into actionable feedback they can use to improve their teaching and course design.
Facilitated by Shenira Perez, CAT Consultant, and Leanne Wells, Senior Director for Teaching Learning and Success, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Assessing Student Learning or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: Backward Course Design
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Writing Your Teaching Philosophy
Your teaching philosophy is a powerful way to show students, colleagues, and administrators who you are as an educator. Want to learn how to craft a compelling one? Join us for this interactive workshop! We'll explore what a teaching philosophy is, why it matters, and how to write an effective statement. The session will include real-life examples, practical tips, and time to begin developing -- or refining -- your own philosophy. If you already have a draft, feel free to bring it along for feedback and discussion.
Facilitated by Cayce Wicks, Associate Teaching Professor, English
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Elective
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Canvas: Elements of Teaching
This three-day pilot workshop introduces faculty to effective and flexible ways to use Canvas to support teaching, learning, and student success. Participants will explore practical strategies for communicating with students, organizing course content, designing assessments, and providing meaningful feedback using Canvas tools. Across the three days, the workshop will highlight approaches that promote clarity, engagement, accessibility, and transparency, while giving faculty time to reflect on and refine their own courses. Through guided demonstrations, hands-on activities, and collaborative discussions, faculty will leave with updated Canvas course components and ideas they can adapt and use right away.Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, and Eric Simon, Associate Director of Hybrid & Faculty Development Support Programs, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: Teaching with Canvas
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AI Communications 101: Prompt Engineering
To prompt or not to prompt, that is the question. Join us for an engaging workshop on prompting techniques and strategies to get the most out of Generative AI. Learn more about what constraints to use, how to provide samples, change formats, and produce templates for your own teaching and learning purposes or to distribute to your own students in the classroom.Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Jennifer Gebelein, Director of AI Integration and Faculty Success, Office of Faculty Leadership and Success
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Elective
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Creating an AI Agent
Have Generative AI work for you by creating AI agents that can automate processes and become indispensable tools in your day-to-day work. In this workshop, you will learn about what AI agents are, how they function, and how you can create them quickly. You will discover how to deploy them in the places where they make sense so that you can increase your productivity.Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Jennifer Gebelein, Director of AI Integration and Faculty Success, Office of Faculty Leadership and Success
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Elective
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Teaching in the Age of AI:
Assignments and Assessment Design
This workshop series is intended for faculty to better understand how to integrate AI into their teaching with the goals of improving student learning and engagement. Faculty participating in this workshop series will complete a draft assignment (or activity) revised using AI-aware practices. After finishing the workshop, faculty will receive a ready-to-use, student facing module that helps students improve their AI literacy, and they will earn the Teaching in the Age of AI micro-credential.
In particular, the following topics will be addressed:
- General and Discipline-Specific AI Literacy,
- Designing Writing Assignments that Integrate AI, and
- AI for Assessment Purposes.
Additional Information:
- Selected faculty participants are required to attend all sessions.
- Spaces are limited.
- Faculty selections will be based on completing the Teaching with AI: Fundamentals prerequisite, submitting an application, and WAC oversight.
Facilitated by Writing Across the Curriculum
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: How Learning Works
*Faculty who complete this workshop will earn the Teaching in the Age of AI Micro-Credential.
Fridays: March 13, 20, and 27, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., via Zoom
Designing Rubrics with AI
Rubrics are a great way to get you and your students on the same page when it comes time to evaluate assignments and assessments. They are able to streamline your grading process and provide your students insights on where they should focus their learning. But what if you could do more? In this workshop, we will leverage the power of the latest AI models to brainstorm, design, and modify actionable rubrics that we can use in our classroom and beyond.
Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: How Learning Works
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Groupwork That Works: Designing Tasks and Teams for Real Learning
Design groupwork that actually works. In this active workshop, you’ll create a group-worthy project or activity and learn simple strategies for forming, structuring, and coaching student groups. Leave with a ready-to-use task and tools to boost engagement, accountability, and learning.Facilitated by Eric Simon, Associate Director of Hybrid & Faculty Development Support Programs, and Leanne Wells, Senior Director for Teaching Learning and Success, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: How Learning Works
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Creating Assessments with AI
Discover how to design engaging, authentic assessments that leverage generative AI tools to enhance creativity and critical thinking. This workshop explores practical strategies for using AI to develop assignments, assessments, and feedback that promote deeper learning. Participants will examine examples of AI-supported assessment designs across disciplines and discuss ways to align them with course learning outcomes. You’ll leave with adaptable ideas and tools to thoughtfully integrate AI into your assessment practices.Facilitated by Gáramis Campusano, EdTech Specialist, Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and Jennifer Gebelein, Director of AI Integration and Faculty Success, Office of Faculty Leadership and Success
Fulfills TA Certificate Category: Syllabus and Course Design or Elective
Fulfills Foundations of Teaching Category: How Learning Works
On-Demand Workshops
in the Teaching Fundamentals & Innovation Hub!
The Hub provides self-paced trainings on high-impact, research-based skills and strategies for enhancing student learning and teaching effectiveness. With busy schedules in mind, this training hub allows you to select brief workshops of interest that can be accessed at any time from anywhere!
Current workshops in the Hub:
- Classroom Assessment Techniques: What are Students Really Understanding?
- The Science of Learning: Enhancing Student Learning and Motivation
- What is Learning, and How to Facilitate It
- From Challenges to Connection: An Introduction to Mindful Communication
- Obtaining Course Feedback Using Microsoft Forms
- Bigger Classes, Bigger Connection: Real Engagement in a World of Distractions
- Giving Meaningful Feedback in Large Classes
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