Faculty Lounge, 135
Pedagogy in Progress
This interactive workshop offers students the opportunity to speak with a panel of graduate instructors and English professor Dr. Lilith Todd as they reflect on their pedagogy’s development across each stage of teaching. From grading and leading a recitation, to lecturing outside of the department, to teaching graduate students, attendees will gain a sense of […]
05-031
Teaching Methods to a Clinical Audience
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Epidemiology department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
CETLI Seminar Room, 134
Making Your Teaching Accessible to All Your Students
Welcoming teaching practices, intentional course design, and thoughtful communication can reduce barriers to learning and support student success. Through practical examples, personal reflection, and collaborative discussion, this workshop explores how to recognize when students may need additional support and how to respond in ways that promote learning without compromising academic rigor. Participants will leave with […]
108
What Should Assessment Assess? Good Practices, New Challenges
How can we design assessments that help students learn while giving us meaningful evidence of what they understand? Professors Jennifer Morton and Errol Lord will lead a conversation about the purposes and possibilities of assessment, including how different formats can support different kinds of learning. We’ll then consider how generative AI complicates assessment and how […]
204
Grading Translations
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Classical Studies department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
CETLI Seminar Room, 134
Encouraging Students to Talk about Political Topics
In the contentious climate of 2026, students often avoid discussing material which they perceive as controversial. Dennis Culhane of SP2 and Hannah Feldman of History of Art will start this conversation by sharing their own strategies for getting students to discuss topics on which students might disagree.
117
How to Find an Aspect of Your Discipline That You Enjoy Teaching
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Biology department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
301C
How to Facilitate Dialogues on Controversial Topics
This workshop will discuss ways to create the right conditions to encourage students from different backgrounds to have a voice in your classroom while they work together and learn from each other. We will discuss collaboration-oriented classrooms and the instructor's role as a facilitator, as well as how to navigate some of the controversial topics […]
356
Unplugging and Ungrading: Centering Classrooms as Contexts for Learning and Collaboration
How can unplugging and ungrading help us center our classrooms as contexts for learning and collaboration? Join Dr. Betsy Rymes for an interactive workshop in which graduate students and faculty will explore ways to rethink assignments and assessment, support students in setting and working toward shared and individual learning goals, and reflect on the role […]
Penn IUR Conference Room, G12
From Formal to Fluid: Unpacking Relationship Dynamics in Classrooms
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the City and Regional Planning department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
CETLI Seminar Room, 134
Giving Students Effective and Motivating Feedback on Their Writing
Feedback is crucial to improving student writing, but students often don’t seem to take advantage of it. Herman Beavers from English and Jessica Simon of Law will begin the discussion by talking about how they craft feedback so that students are motivated and able to improve.
1412 Kelley Research Building (formally known as Biomedical Research Building)
AI in Teaching: When to Integrate It, and When to Design Around It
Generative AI has transformed the landscape of teaching and learning. While AI use can create challenges for student engagement, learning, and assessment, it can also be a valuable educational tool when incorporated selectively and intentionally. In this interactive workshop, we will explore how generative AI is shaping student learning and how instructors can thoughtfully design […]
Penn IUR Conference Room, G12
I Have No Idea What I’m Doing: Learning To Teach As An Assistant Professor
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the City and Regional Planning department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
104
Multi-Session Group Projects that Encourage Students to Collaborate Across Differences
Encouraging students to work together across several class sessions can be challenging but, under the right conditions, allows students to learn from each other in ways that bring academic work to life. In this conversation, Fritz Breithaupt of FIGS and Heather Sharkey of MELC will begin by describing how they have structured and encouraged these multi-session projects to […]
04-031, Middleman Center
Building Efficiency and Effectiveness in Teaching
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Epidemiology department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
318
Eliciting Student Responses
All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Biology department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.
227, MEAM Conference Room
Teaching Python in the AI age: Teaching Syntax through Repeated Motifs
As AI-assisted coding tools become increasingly sophisticated, the need for an introductory Python class to focus exclusively on syntax has decreased. In this teaching workshop, Nathaniel Trask of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics will share a course design focused on minimal functional syntax followed by applied experimental units which reinforce concepts with increasing complexity as […]
301C
Some Thoughts on Teaching (Syntactic) Argumentation
Teaching students how to deconstruct (hypothetico-)deductive arguments and compose their own is a key component of instruction in the sciences. In this workshop, I’ll lay out some methods for doing this that I’ve had success with in teaching syntax, and we’ll discuss how you might adapt the methods for other (sub)fields. All graduate students are […]
CETLI Seminar Room, 134
AI, Ethics and Professional Education
In this session, Brian Berkey of Wharton and Lauren Starr of Nursing will discuss how AI has shaped their classes on ethics in professional schools. The conversation will reflect on a recent debate between Adam Grant and John Warner on ethics education’s value and the ways in which ethics education works.
Faculty Lounge, 135
Assessment Models in the Age of AI
Join the English Department’s Undergraduate Chair Dr. Emily Steinlight to discuss undergraduate AI usage. This workshop is an open forum for talking about how we can change our teaching and grading to accommodate the various ways that undergraduates may be using AI. With a particular focus on syllabus-building, assignment types, and assessment models, future and […]
204
Recovering, Transitioning, and Jumping Back In
This event grows out of concerns in the Classical Studies department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.