The Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) is pleased to provide workshops, reading groups, and other programming and services designed to support graduate students in their teaching. 

CAT teaching workshops are interactive sessions (typically 1.5 to 2 hours) led by a CAT facilitator or other subject matter expert. In addition to providing opportunities to learn about effective approaches to teaching, they are also opportunities to discuss ideas with other graduate students across disciplines. The following are our current workshop offerings: 

Universal Design for Learning

Join us for our online workshop as we explore tools for learning content accessibility and strategies for incorporating universal design for learning into your teaching/course design practice.

• Facilitator: John Crow (Office of Distance Learning)
• Date/Time: 2:30-4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, 2024
• Location: Zoom
• Click here to register.

Motivation Workshop

Understanding students’ motivation isn’t just about being a cheerleader: motivation shapes the learner’s attention, their participation, and their behavior, so it’s an essential part of learning. (Lovett, et al., 2023). In this interactive workshop, we’ll identify factors that influence students’ motivation to learn. We will also generate strategies instructors and TAs can apply to keep students motivated.

• Facilitators: Leslie Richardson, Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
  Darcey Liang, Teaching Consultant, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
• Date/Time (Same workshop, two options):
  • 2-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
  • 2-3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024
• Location: Scholars Commons Instruction Room, Strozier Library
• Click here to register.

Exam Design Workshop

In this interactive workshop, we’ll share exam design resources and guide you through a process of designing exams that measure student learning more accurately. We also introduce how to write or improve exam items, as well as how to check the quality of the exam. Time will be set aside for Q&A towards the end of the workshop.

• Facilitators: Darcey Liang and Hannah Hiester (Teaching Consultants from CAT)
• Date/Time: 12:30-2 p.m. Friday, March 1, 2024
• Location: Scholars Commons Instruction Room, Strozier Library
• Click here to register.